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Chapter 7. An Afrikaner Working Mother
… the family went to live in Thaba 'Nchu. During the Boer War, my father joined the Free State forces under the late … well-to-do farmers near Thaba 'Nchu…
BiographyJacob Gedleyihlekisa Zuma
… Zuma. His brother had been a soldier in World War II and later became a trade union activist and a member …
Beerhalls in Soweto from Soweto Heritage Survey Final Report compiled by Steven Lebelo and Elsabe Brink for the National Monuments Council, Northern Region
… beerhalls experienced mixed fortunes. First the price war started by private shebeens undermined the JCCs beerhalls. In 1964 the JCC joined the price war and…
ArchiveThabo Mbeki, Jacob Zuma, Cyril Ramaphosa: The people who killed Eskom over 25 years by Ferreira, Harper and Saba (Mail and Guardain), 20 January 2023
… the South African Post Office and SAA. Ramaphosa led “the war room”. Neither SAA not the Post Office have survived the government’s ineptitude. The war room…
ArticleTransition to Armed Struggle by Norman Levy
… use of weapons and learning the lessons of the Algerian war. He was then able to spend three days in Oujda in … inmate of Van den Bergh’s at Koffiefontein,…
Passive Resistance in South Africa by O. R. Tambo - Extract from "Southern Africa in Transition by Davis, John A. and James K. Baker"(Pall Mall Press), London, 1966
… and the Boers, despite the bitterness of a hard-fought war, could come together in a united front against the … from pillar to post by the police. …
Chapter eight - Conclusion
… This alliance took form of the Congress Alliance after the war. As an organic intellectual of the working class, one … work. Trade unions were to him by far…
PlaceVereeniging, a City in Gauteng
… where the Treaty of Vereeniging ending the Second Boer War (1899-1902) was negotiated. During this conflict, a …
PlacePinelands
… schedule of non-stop site-seeing. The suburb is post-war, hence the English influence, and local businessmen …
PlaceKleinmond, Western Cape
… to have been abandoned by a British garrison after World War II and roam the flats and river estuary as they please. A …
PlaceKroondal, Rustenburg
… the river was too low to power the wheel. Sadly, the Boer war interrupted this steady, prosperous progress and Georg …
Chapter 1 - Introduction
… of negotiations between political parties that were at war with each other not long before. It is also a political …
EventThe recommendations of the Riekert Commission (to investigate the employment conditions of Black workers) are tabled
… been facing its deepest recession since the Second World War. Consequently, the regime was trying to find ways of …
EventB.J Vorster steps down as Prime Minster
… group that supported pro-Nazi activities during World War II. He was also a member of the Nederduitse Gereformeerde …
EventDaniel Toroitich arap Moi arap Moi wins the first multi
… Moi was reelected unopposed in 1983 and 1988. As the Cold War wound down in the late 1980s, Western powers were no …
History Wars, Wars in history & other Southern African histories
… of southern Africa: The outbreak of the First World War; the Rebellion of 1914; the protests against the Natives …
PlaceThembuland
… From 1871 the Thembu became engaged in a protracted war against an alliance of neighbouring Xhosa-speaking …
ArticleThe Politics Behind Water
… during the 1940’s did not receive enough water. World War 2 caused a disruption with the social welfare services, …
Post-detention weapons
… (for all hangings) 3. Political trials 4. Prisoner of war status 5. List of political executions 1. Introduction … handed down a total of 43 death sentences…
ArticleNelson Mandela Timeline 1960-1969
… 16 June, The ANC issues a pamphlet entitled ‘ We are at War! ’ 18 June, Oliver Tambo delivers a speech, entitled ‘ … reforms had to be adopted in order to…
Liberation organisations
… region Against fellow South Africans to quell civil war in the black townships To repress anti-apartheid … during the 1980s, the world was embroiled in the…
PlaceSt. Andrews College, Grahamstown now Makhanda
… to those: Old Andreans who had died in the first World War. The foundation stone was laid in 1921 and the tower was …
PlaceFort Beaufort/KwaMaqoma- Amatola District, Eastern Cape
Fort Beaufort (Xhosa: iBhofolo). Fort Beaufort is situated in the Eastern Cape Province. The town is surrounded by magnificent Mountain Ranges and it is known…
From Segregation to Apartheid
… had started in the 1920s and 1930s continued after World War II and into the 1950s and 1960s. What was seen as …
ArticleGangsterism in Sophiatown
… rates were extremely high. After the Second World War in the late 1940s, there was a large increase in the …
ArticleLesotho Timeline
… against the will of the people. 1881 Basuto chiefs go to war against the Cape Colony over the right of Africans to …
ArticleRobert Mcbride timeline
… from the city centre of Durban. Converted from a World War 2 military transit camp, Wentworth is flanked by the …
ArticleBecoming human in southern Africa
… sheep and cattle for food. This situation resulted in a war that lasted for hundreds of years. The fighting and other …
ArticleTransformation in Southern Africa Timeline 1700-1800
… and water between various indigenous tribes resulting in war and eventually contributing to the Mfecane 1812 …
Article”People’s Power!”, 1986
… highlighted the way forward though two streams- 'people's war' and negotiation. It wanted the UDF to increase pressure …