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ANC leader Nelson Mandela arrives in Brunei on the last leg of a six-nation Asia-Pacific tour. Mandela has already received ple
Soldiers assault a crowd demonstrating for political opposition in Zaire’s capital, Kinshasa. Dozens of people are wounded and
The mutilated body of Themba Myapi, a church fieldworker, is found.
Ndiko Marume dies inside a police van while being transported to Sasolburg police station.
Oliver Tambo, who arrived in Moscow at head of a delegation of ANC, meets Michael Gorbachev, General Secretary of the CPSU Cent
Susanna Helena Kok, medical missionary of the Dutch Reformed Church and authority on leprosy who worked mainly in Nigeria, dies
In a cabinet reshuffle, Louis le Grange, Minister of Law and Order, is replaced by Adriaan Vlok, Deputy Minister of Defence and
The first elections to the South African Indian Council are held. Of the SAIC’s forty-five members, forty are up for election,
Egypt’s President Anwar Sadat refuses to see delegation of Arab group opposed to Camp David peace talks.
The United Nations (UN) imposes a mandatory ban on arms supplies to South Africa in an effort to force the country out of Namib
Britain proposes Rhodesian independence under Black majority rule by March 1, 1978.
United States closes its mission in Angola because of the violent struggle between three rival liberation groups.
Lennox Sebe again becomes Chief Minister of the Ciskei, having won a by-election on 24 October 1975.
President Houphouet-Boigny of the Ivory Coast announces he is planning an African Summit Conference to urge a dialogue with Sou
Industrial Conciliation Further Amendment Act No 61, prohibiting strikes and lockouts for any purpose unconnected with the empl
Chapter Five: The Luthuli Detachment In Popular History And Memory
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Chapter Two: A Brief History Of The Context Of The Zapu Guerrillas
Presidential Address by I. B. Tabata, African People’s Democratic Union of Southern Africa, April 1962 [Extracts]
Chapter 1 - Introduction
From: The South African Communist Party In Exile 1963 - 1990 On 10 December 1996, the signatures on the country's new and final Constitution fixed a milestone…
Conclusion
First Conference Centre of Documentary Photography 8-10 July 1988.
Photograph of participants of the first conference hosted by the University of Cape Town's Centre for Documentary Photography, July 8th -10th, 1988. First…
Culture and Resistance - Cynthia Kross
This article by Cynthia Kross was published in 1982 in the South African magazine Staffrider. (Vol. 5.2) The articles describes the recent 'Culture and…
The Wankie Campaign by Nicole Van Driel
Bringing The Struggle Into Focus
"Bringing the struggle into focus" by Peter McKenzie was also published in the 1982 Staffrider. (Vol. 5.2) and addresses the idea of "committed photography" as…
List of Appendices
Letter to Farzanah
Omar Badsha's first book of photographs, Letter to Farzanah was published in 1979 in commemoration of the United Nations declared International Year of the…
PlaceGqeberha was Port Elizabeth, Nelson Mandela Bay
Port Elizabeth is now known as Gqeberha. The name change was approved by the South African government in 2021 and is an Xhosa name, the language of the local…
PlaceNelspruit
A quaint little town, near the Kruger National Park. Known now as Mbombela, which has a World Cup Stadium. This stadium which was built for some of the 2010…
PlaceRustenburg
The Magaliesberg range of Mountains dominates the Landscape that is now known as the Northwest Province. Rustenburg, the largest City in this Province, has…