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ArticleA History of the South African Film Industry timeline 1895-2003
… people could see a moving image. The first Kinetescopes in South Africa were opened to the public on 19 April 1895 in … Africa was certainly one of the first…
ArticleSouth African Communist Party Timeline 1870-1996
… moments and events that have helped shape the course of South African Communist Party. Follow the links for more … to serve in the British army in the Second…
ArticleSouth African Communist Party (SACP)
… On 30 July 2011, the South African Communist Party (SACP) celebrated its 90th … were subsequently charged with conspiring to contravene War Measure 45 of…
General Jan Christian Smuts is appointed commander of UK and South African troops in the East African campaign of World War I.
… Jan Christian Smuts is appointed commander of UK and South African troops in the East African campaign of World War I. …
South Africa: Liberation and Reconciliation Role of International Solidarity, 8 April 2004
… The tenth anniversary of the democratic elections in South Africa, and the end of apartheid rule, is being … people of many other countries because people…
EventSouth Africa concludes an agreement with the Marconi Company for a high
… During the South African War in 1899, Marconi wireless equipment was … By 1912, there were Marconi stations all over the world, including South Africa, which…
PlaceScottish War Memorial, Johannesburg
… 1903. He served with the Transvaal Scottish in the First World War, attaining the rank of major. His partner A. Hamilton was … of some eminence in Aberdeen…
ArchiveThe world's only privately owned Catholic Church
… on top of the plateau, is the smallest, most charming-world renowned church in the Southern hemisphere. The … on the slopes of the Rift Valley by Italian…
“Peoples of the world united against apartheid, for a democratic South Africa”, Closing speech by Oliver Tambo at the ANC conference, Arusha, 4 December
… Peoples of the world united against apartheid, for a democratic South Africa The time has come for all of us to leave this … is Death As we close our…
EventSA War Memorial is opened at Delville Wood
… The South African National War Memorial was opened outside the … thousands of South Africans who fought during the First World War. The inscription was later…
BiographyJacob Sello (Jackie) Selebi
… Congress (ANC) representative to the Soviet Union's World Federation of Democratic Youth in Budapest, Hungary, … was responsible for the repatriation of ANC…
EventSouthern Rhodesia rejects joining the Union of South Africa
… Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) rejected joining the South African Union in a referendum. Voters had to choose … was postponed as a result of the outbreak…
ArticleNobel Prizes and South African Laureates
… For the full list of all the Nobel Laureates in Peace . South African laureates: Albert Luthuli , 1960 1960 Nobel … to rise up against a social system whose…
ArticleSouth African Congress of Trade Unions (SACTU)
… industrial unions merged to form one trade union called South African Trades and Labour Council (SATLC), popularly … class solidarity, and the experiences of…
"Racial Crisis in South Africa" . Address to meeting of Pakistan Institute of International Affairs, March 2, 1961
… South Africa has a population of 15 million, of which 12 … places as well. This massacre shook the conscience of the world. The matter was raised in the…
Eye of the Needle - Chapter 3 - South Africa: Culture and Conflict
… From the book: The Eye of the Needle by Richard Turner South Africa, everyone agrees, is a profoundly unequal … reasons advanced by them [the Hottentots]…
ArchiveThe Trotskyist Groups in South Africa - A Retrospective View by Baruch Hirson (Encyclopedia of Trotskyism On-Line: Revolutionary History: Volume 4, No. 4, 1993, South Africa)
… THE HISTORY of the South African Trotskyists during the 1930s and into the next … work that seemed so promising before and during the Second World War? The…
Chapter 23. How the United Party Betrayed South Africa - Garment Workers in Action by E. S. Sachs
… considerably. Towards the end of 1945, it seemed as if South Africa was at last entering a new era. Twelve thousand … of thousands who had volunteered for…
South Africa Communists Speak Documents from the history of the South African Communist Party 1915 - 1980
… Contents Introduction by Dr Yusuf M. Dadoo (South African Communists speak 1915 - 1980) Section 1 … th the S.A. Labour Party', pamphlet published by the War…
‘African Gandhi’: The South African War and the Limits of Imperial Identity by Goolam Vahed
… century. Yet the twenty-one years that Gandhi spent in South Africa were critical in the ‘Making of the Mahatma’. … technique of transforming society. The…
ArchiveConcentration camps in the South African War? Here are the real facts by Fransjohan Pretorius, (The Conversation), February 18, 2019
… concentration camps. Photographical Collection Anglo-Boer War Museum, Bloemfontein SA Image source More than a century … people died in concentration camps…
Indian passive resistance in South Africa: 1946 - 1948 by E. S. Reddy
… observance of the 1946 Indian passive resistance in South Africa. Speaking at the University of Natal in Durban, … relations with South Africa and became "a…
Indian South Africans timeline 1970-1979
… Indian South Africans Timeline: 1970-1979 1970 HA Naidoo passes away … by the Nazis during the occupation of Czechoslovakia in World War II. 1977 One of Dr…
A celebration of 70 years of ‘African Claims’ - ANC by Zizi Kodwa, 11 May 2015, South Africa
… AND DEFEAT OF FASCISM AND NAZISM We join the rest of the world in celebrating the memories of the decisive defeat of … moment to remember the role of African…
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1960s
… formerly "open universities" except the University of South Africa and Natal Medical School. 24 January, Rioting by … itself to be diverted from its proven…
The Indian People In South Africa: Facts: About The Ghetto Act
… The great majority of the South African Indians are descendants of the Indian … bearer of a tradition of civilisation as old as any in the world. Never,…
EventWinston Churchill, is captured by Boer forces during the Anglo-Boer War
… the British army in 1893 and developed a keen interest in war correspondence. Some of his early literary works were … he was to cover the occurrences of the…
BiographySindiso Mfenyana
… to the urbanisation taking place in the cities of South Africa at the time. Sindiso's grandparents, however, were … was based and the same university that…
Address of the President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki at the European Parliament, Strasbourg: 17 November 2004
… recently. Ivory Coast, having first taken a step away from war, may be edging back toward the precipice. Sudan is … Eritrea is holding. Is Africa rejoicing…
EventGen. Louis Botha, soldier, statesman and first prime minister of the Union of South Africa, is born.
… statesman and first prime minister of the Union of South Africa, is born near Greytown, Natal (now kwaZulu … was leader of the Transvaal army in the Second…