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Passive Resistance in South Africa by O. R. Tambo - Extract from "Southern Africa in Transition by Davis, John A. and James K. Baker"(Pall Mall Press), London, 1966
… Oppressed people in South Africa have always associated the history of the United … and the Boers, despite the bitterness of a hard-fought war, could…
Some remarkable women who helped Gandhiji in South Africa by E. S. Reddy
… Gandhiji led a seven-year long struggle in South Africa from 1907 to 1914 for the security and dignity … their outlook. They had courageously opposed the…
BiographySolomon Kerzner
… They Shaped our Century: The Most Influential South Africans of the Twentieth Century. Published by Human and Rousseau. Pp275-278. South africa, 1979…
BiographyLucas Radebe
… moving clubs. In 1992 he made his first appearance for the South African national team, Bafana Bafana. Two years later, … captain of the team. In the same…
Robert Sobukwe: What a sense of mission! By Sibonginkosi Mazibuko, 19 February 2015, South Africa
… Sobukwe remains a source of inspiration to many people in South Africa in particularand around the pan-African world. Sobukwe was arrested in Soweto,…
General South African History Timeline: 1970s
… up his current post to become Secretary-General of the South African Council of Churches (SACC) which is taking an … that it does not need any arms from the…
Message to the People of South Africa by O. R. Tambo, 26 June 1974
… fellow countrymen... On this, the eve of June 26th, South Africa Freedom Day, which we all observe annually, I … cadres. We salute our brothers, comrades-in…
BiographyGeorge Hallett
… in Silvertown, Athlone, with his parents. Hallett attended South Peninsula High School. His early inspiration to become … of Europe and the USA. Before…
EventFirst celebration of May Day in South Africa
… On 1 May, South Africa will enjoy Worker's Day (effectively a May Day … uproar was carried out against the backdrop of the Civil War, which marked the…
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1980s
… was repealed (Bendix 1989: 305). 1980 Republic of South African Constitution Fifth Amendment Act No 101: … others are given prison sentences. The ANC calls…
Document 7 - ‘White South Africa.’ Two Voices.” The International, 27 January 1922
… From: South Africa's Radical Tradition, a documentary history, … as the prime "motif in this strike, just as "making the world free for democracy" was…
ArticleIndian South Africans timeline 1920-1929
… final report. The Commission rejects the grievances of the South African League and proposes a system of voluntary … country illegally (mostly at the time of…
EventThe Flag of the Union of South Africa is hoisted on Prince Edward Island
… On 4 January 1948, the National Flag of the Union of South Africa was hoisted on Prince Edward Island. Prince … of Marion Island covering an area of 47…
ArchiveRemembering French Investments In Apartheid South Africa, 17 December 2013
… Mandela, there has been unanimous praise in France for the South African leader and the struggle against apartheid he … from CCFD) and documentation centres…
BiographySunny Girja Singh
… to a working-class family. His father, Girjabaksh, came to South Africa as an indentured labourer from Bihar, India. His … the news, he always knew what was…
ArticleGrade 8 - Term 1: The Industrial Revolution in Britain and Southern Africa from 1860
… agricultural nation into the manufacturing workshop of the world. It was the result of the changes in economic and … Image source Beginning of the Industrial…
EventThe prolonged hearing of the dispute over the constitutional position of South West Africa is resumed
… hearing of the dispute over the constitutional position of South West Africa (now known as Namibia) was resumed by the … occupation of Namibia dates back to…
ArchivePhotography and the Liberation Struggle in South Africa
… to better understand how photographs have been used in South Africa as ideological and consequently political … is illustrated by photography in South Africa…
Address at the Opening of the ICC Cricket World Cup 2003 February 8, 2003
… Speed, CEO of the ICC, Minister of Sport and Recreation of South Africa, Mr Ngconde Balfour, and representatives of … Distinguished Guests, Volunteers,…
Document 120 - Draft Programme of the Communist Party of South Africa (c. 1940)41
… From: South Africa's Radical Tradition, a documentary history, … more than the Non-Europeans. The frightful cost of this war, leading to the impoverishment…
Crucial Stage in the Struggle for Liberation of Southern Africa - Statement at the World Conference for Action against Apartheid by O. R. Tambo, Lagos, Nigeria, 23 August 1977
… opened by the hands of crazed assassins. Neither did the world know then that five months later the blood of South African youth, men, women and children…
The role of Cecil John Rhodes' British South African Company in the Conquest of Matabeleland
… the pioneer of the conquest of Zimbabwe, with his British South African Company (BSAC), bought a written concession for … He arrived accompanied by an army…
Racism in Isolation by O. R. Tambo, World Marxist Review, March 1980
… South Africa has for decades been the only country in the … all but banished, when the Vietnamese have won a heroic war against French colonialism and United…
EventSA signs treaty with Great Britain on the supply of military equipment to South Africa
… followed by the banning of the ANC and PAC cast the South African government in a bad light in most of the western world. This led to the expulsion of South…
BiographyJunaid Ahmed
… Ahmed was born in Durban , Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal ) South Africa in 1959. He attended Southlands Secondary School in … , was acquired by Sony Pictures…
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1950s
… Congress Youth League (ANCYL) . Walter Sisulu 's book ' South Africa Behind Bars' is handed out among the … M. Dadoo and Michael Harmel 1951 Sonia Bunting…
BiographySathima Bea Benjamin
… third pianists. From the early 1960s, Benjamin toured the world, becoming well known in jazz circles and a regular … and jazz vocalization, and her…
Address of the President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki, on the occasion of the 100th Anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi’s Satyagraha, Durban
… of the Diplomatic Corps, Distinguished guests, Fellow South Africans, Ladies and gentlemen, I am truly honoured and … needs no introduction to anybody here…
EventUS Secretary of State Cyrus Vance travels to South Africa to promote transition to black rule in Namibia
… South Africa had seized the German territory (then known as South-West Africa) during World War I and retained it after the war under a League of Nations ……
Deployment of Racism in South Africa by Rooha Variava
… Forrester. But the subject, the deployment of racism in South Africa, requires the student to go beyond traditional … wrote that ‘In South Africa the laws of…