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EventSouth African artist, Gerard Sekoto, dies
… a trendy nightclub/bar reopened for business after the war. Between 1956 and 1960, several of Sekoto's compositions …
EventBoutros Boutros Ghali, former UN Secretary General, is born
… to muster support for UN intervention in the Angolan Civil War and became the face of the UN's inaction during …
EventThe last French troops pull out of Rwanda
… Genocide, took place against the backdrop of a civil war, in which the Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF) sought to …
EventUnited Nations lifts arms embargo on South Africa
… that abused human rights or were divided by civil war. In November, a commission of inquiry appointed by the …
ArchiveThe Final Prize by Norman Levy
… Prize: Family - Chapter 1 The Final Prize: The Politics of War - Chapter 2 The Final Prize: The Broederbond - Chapter 3 …
EventFormer Ivorian president is extradited to the ICC
… and externally displaced in the four month civil war due to clashes between pro-Gbagbo and pro-Ouattara … Available: https://www.responsibilitytoprotect.org…
PlaceThe Queen’s Fort Military Museum, Bloemfontein
… served as quarters for the Royal Engineers, After the War, it was occupied by a division of the South African …
PlaceMokopane also known as Potgieterus
Mokopane is also known as Potgietersrus. This is a Town in the Limpopo Province, of South Africa. The Town was established in 1852 by the Voortrekkers who…
PlaceMokopane- also known as Potgietersrus
Mokopane is also known as Potgietersrus. This is a Town in the Limpopo Province, of South Africa. The Town was established in 1852 by the Voortrekkers who…
Biography: Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, Liberia's 'Iron Lady' by Alistair Boddy-Evans updated 08 August 2016
… of West African peacekeepers created a lull in the civil war, and elections were held. A First Attempt at the … Taylor and was charged with treason.) By 1999…
African National Congress Press Statement by O. R. Tambo, 5 November 1979
… cannot win us our liberation. Armed struggle and people's war therefore remain key elements in our strategy. The very … clearly that ours will have to be a…
Burundi: The ambiguous coup by Simon Allison (Daily Maverick), 14 May 2015
… Arusha peace accord which ended the country’s long civil war, and his declaration was welcomed by anti-Nkurunziza … the country back to the dark days of its…
Mission Stations - T-Z
… from whom also it received its name. "During the Caffre war this settlement was attacked three times by thousands of … witness to the poverty of the mission;…
Document 38 - “How to Build o Revolutionary Mass Party in South Africa: A letter from the Executive Committee of the Communist International, “Umsebenzi, 12 December 1930
… on the nationalist party (the slave- owner Party ofthe Boer farmers) and by the South African Party . which … is inevitably doomed to defeat, as is every…
PlaceSlangkop Lighthouse, Kommetjie- Cape Town
… to 1914 when it was scheduled to be completed. When World War 1 broke out, the completion of the lighthouse was pushed …
EventSir Benjamin D'Urban accepts the Mfengu as British subjects
The Mfengu (or Fingo in the colonial lexicon) were defeated and left landless by King Shaka's Zulu army, and slowly arrived in Xhosa territory over a period of…
ArchiveThe romantic rewriting of Haile Selassie’s legacy must stop by Dr Yohannes Woldemariam, 4 February 2019
… Adwa in 1896 by gathering crucial intelligence on Italian war strategy. Emperor Menelik II returned the favour by savagely amputating the arms and legs of…
PlaceWynberg Park, Southern Suburbs
… the Guild of Loyal Women (formed during the South Africa War ) planted commemorative trees, still visible today near …
PlaceCote D’Ivoire or Ivory Coast
… of military coup were economic breakdown and civil war splitting the country into two halves, north and south. …
EventSA signs treaty with Great Britain on the supply of military equipment to South Africa
… considered a strategic partner at the height of the Cold War. With the spectre of Marxist-backed Nationalist Movements …
EventRhodesian Prime Minister Ian Smith visits the United States, challenging officials to support his plan for the transition of government in the country.
… with moderate black leaders on condition that they eschew war. But exiled leaders, Robert Mugabe and Joshua Nkomo, …
EventLord Charles Henry Somerset, governor of the Cape Colony, is born in Badminton, England
… in 1822. During his term as governor the Fifth Cape Xhosa War (1818-1819) broke out because of increasing friction …
EventPresident Robert Mugabe defends land reform programme
… to levels last experienced by the German Mark after World War 1, that the Zimbabwean economy, once among the most …
EventA United Nations team finally arrives in Mbandaka, Congo, to investigate alleged massacres of refugees
… The rebellion escalated, leading to the outbreak of war in the eastern part of the Congo, where thousands of Hutu …
EventKen Saro-Wiwa, Nigerian author and environmental activist, is executed
… a post as a Civil Administrator during the Nigerian Civil War and wrote a novel based on his experiences. In 1973, …
EventFormer South African Prime Minister and State President John Vorster is born
… of and involvement the activities of the OB during World War II. He became a member of the NP cabinet in the 1950s. In …
EventThe National Party (Transvaal) is founded
… over the issue of South Africa's involvement in World War Two, with many Afrikaans party members breaking away and …
EventFawcett Commission into Concentration Camps in South Africa
… Afrikaners in concentration camps during the South African War. A British woman, Emily Hobhouse became the champion of …
PlaceFort Wiltshire
… was erected by the British military during the frontier war of 1818-19, and was named in honour of Lt-Col Thomas …
EventF.W. de Klerk announces the release of Nelson Mandela and unbans political parties
… have argued that de Klerk narrowly avoided a civil war that would have been disasterous to the country and the …