The UN terminates South Africa’s mandate over South West Africa

Gurindji workers and their families left Wave Hill cattle station under Vincent Lingiari’s leadership. Their struggle challenged unequal wages and living conditions and developed into a sustained...

South African forces attacked a SWAPO guerrilla camp at Omugulugwombashe. The confrontation became a landmark in Namibia’s armed liberation struggle against South African rule. Political organizing,...

Botswana gained independence from Britain, replacing the Bechuanaland Protectorate with a sovereign state under Seretse Khama. The change ended external political administration. Its location beside...

Lesotho became independent after British rule over Basutoland. The new state gained formal political sovereignty while remaining geographically surrounded by apartheid South Africa. This setting...

The programme associated with the party’s founding set out demands for community power, employment, housing, education and an end to police brutality. The archival record dates the programme to 15...

Resolution 232 required states to restrict specified trade with Southern Rhodesia following the white-minority regime’s unilateral declaration. The decision used international economic pressure...

The election broke the white oligarchy’s hold on government and enabled Lynden Pindling’s Progressive Liberal Party to form a government with supporting members. The change followed organizing against...

At Riverside Church in New York, King publicly challenged the Vietnam War and connected militarism with racial and economic injustice. He argued that struggles for justice at home could not be...

Ali refused induction into the United States armed forces during the Vietnam War, invoking religious conviction and opposition to the war. Boxing authorities stripped him of his title and suspended...

Following sustained campaigning, voters approved removing the exclusion of Aboriginal people from constitutional population reckoning and enabling the Commonwealth to legislate for them. The result...