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ArticleThe effects of WW2 in Africa
Africans resisted colonial rule from the outset, trying to hold on to their land, but were not strong enough to defend themselves against European conquest…
EventWW2 veteran Job Masego dies
Jacob (Job) Masego, World War 2 (WW2) veteran, who sunk a German supply boat, died in Springs, Transvaal (now in Ekurhuleni Municipality), after being struck…
EventWW2: Italy invades Ethiopia
In 1935, the League of Nations was faced with another crucial test. Benito Mussolini, the Fascist leader of Italy, had adopted Adolf Hitler's plans to expand…
WW2: Britain’s Eighth Army reaches Tunisian border.
WW2: A British Panzer division occupies Maus, Libya.
BiographyMichael Hathorn
Michael Hathorn was born in Pietermaritzburg, Natal in 1922. After schooling, he went to Wits University in Johannesburg, and qualified with a BSc in Mining…
BiographyLouis Washkansky
Of Lithuanian Jewish extraction, Louis Washkansky came to South Africa aged 9, and became a grocer in Cape Town’s Greenpoint area. Washkansky saw active…
EventWW2: British 8th army marches into Tripoli
On 23 January 1943 the British 8th army marched into Tripoli, later occupying the Libyan capital in this World War Two battle. This was part of a series of…
WW 2: The Allied forces land in southern France.
… WW 2: The Allied forces land in southern France. …
WW 2: The Allied forces land in southern France.
… WW 2: The Allied forces land in southern France. …
WW2: German and Italian forces take Benghazi, Libya.
WW1: South African troops occupy Swakopmund, German South-West Africa.
EventProposal made to stop sending Black troops to assist in WW1
C.W. Malan put forth a motion in parliament on this day: “That this House strongly disapproves of sending coloured men and natives from South Africa to Europe…
WW2: The 1st SA Division enters Abyssinia from the south.
WW2: Mega, the Italian headquarters in southern Abyssinia, falls to SA forces.
The SA parliament decides with 91 votes against twelve to enter into WW1.
The SA parliament decides with 91 votes against twelve to enter into WW1.
WW2: German Afrika Korps, commanded by General Erwin Rommel, take Agedabia and Zuetania, Libya.
WW1: Gen. Jan Smuts is appointed commander of the Allied forces in East Africa.
EventAfrikaner women march to the union buildings in protest of SA’s involvement in WW2
About 10 000 Afrikaner women, led by Mrs H.C. Steyn, wife of former President M.T. Steyn, marched to the Union Buildings to protest about the South African…
BiographyGeneral Jan Christiaan Smuts
General Jan Christiaan Smuts was born near Riebeeck West in the Cape Colony on 24 May 1870. His mother taught him the elements of reading and writing in…
EventAfrikaner women march to the union buildings in protest of SA's involvement in WW2
About 10 000 Afrikaner women, led by Mrs H.C. Steyn, wife of former President M.T. Steyn, marched to the Union Buildings to protest about the South African…
WW2: The United States drops the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima, to force Japan to surrender.
EventWW2: A German bomb fired off Algeria’s coast sinks British transport ship (HMT Rohna) carrying US soldiers.
Built in 1926, the aging steam ship was pressed into service as a troop transport by the Royal Navy and had already carried thousands allied of troops to…