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EventNP demands apology from TRC
… claims that the pre-1994 governments ordered the murder of anti-apartheid activists. Because the State Security Council …
EventDesmond Tutu is appointed TRC chairperson
… Anti-apartheid activist and Nobel laureate Archbishop Mpilo …
EventNRP leader, Vause Raw announces that his party is ready to give the President’s Council a chance
… started splintering after 1959 when MPs, including veteran anti-apartheid fighter Helen Suzman. …
EventMark Thatcher arrested
… 25 August 2004. Thatcher was charged under South Africa's anti-mercenary laws in connection with an alleged coup …
PlaceNatures Valley, Garden Route
… Valley is flanked by an escarpment on one side and the Indian ocean on the other side and it forms part of the …
EventRocklands Community Hall declared a heritage site
On 20 August 2019, the 36th anniversary of the founding of the United Democratic Front (UDF), the Rocklands Community Hall, located in Mitchell’s Plain,Cape…
EventWWI: battalion consisting of 'Cape Coloured men', called the Cape Corps, is established
… War One, and fewer than 4 000 were black, coloured or Indian. The most well-known battle that was fought entirely …
PlaceoThongathi, previously Tongaat
… FURTHER READING) Tongaat is considered home to the oldest Indian community in South Africa, established with the … An Indian family in Tongaat, Natal circa…
PlaceFietas Museum, Johannesburg
… was once the city’s "Malay location" and home to a large Indian community. In the first half of the 20th century … was once the city’s "Malay location" and…
EventSlavery abolished in the Cape
… Africa Indenture: A new system of slavery? Ship list of Indian Indentured Labourers Slave Resistance The Early Cape …
Address by Executive Deputy President Thabo Mbeki, to Corporate Council on Africa’s “Attracting Capital to Africa” Summit, 19-22 April 1997; Chantilly Virgiana, USA
… "Trade and Investment Initiative for Sub-Saharan Africa" legislation that seeks to create a more coherent trade and … the leaders of this country to ensure…
Fourthly, as to the NATIVE QUESTION
… fundamental rights contained in the Constitution and to legislation dealing specifically therewith. 2. Provisions in … shall empower the national government…
Apdusa Views
… forms; the unity of all the oppressed African Coloured and Indian people; the policy of Numbern-collaboration which …
EventNelson Mandela is appointed the Secretary of the National Action Council
… to oppose oppression and win freedom. * We call on the Indian and Coloured communities and all democratic Europeans …
EventCongress of the People starts in Kliptown
… convention was co-sponsored by the ANC, the South African Indian Congress (SAIC), the Coloured People's Organisation …
EventWorld Food Program warns the UN that a record 38 million people are at risk of starvation in Africa
… the world are greatly affected as well, for example, the Indian subcontinent, which alone contains half of the world's …
EventThe Cape Agulhas lighthouse begins operating
… the light house are rewarded with a panoramic view of the Indian Ocean. …
16. Advice to a son about coming to Natal
… From the book: A Documentary History of Indian South Africans edited by Surendra Bhana and Bridglal …
Labour Struggles in South Africa The Forgotten Pages 1903 - 1921 by Evangelos A. Mantzaris
… The 1918 Cape Town Musicians' Strike Chapter 5 - The Indian Tobacco Workers Strike of 1920: A Socio-Historical …
A chronology of meetings between South Africans and the ANC in exile 1983-2000 by Michael Savage
… or persons involved from the draconian SA security legislation then existing. As the pace of these meetings sped … a fuller list of those present.) October…
PlaceGouritsmond
… Gouritsrivier , winding through the Valley and meeting the Indian Ocean . Thus, it serves as a popular spot for- … warmer Months. Created where the Gourits…
PlaceTsitsikamma National Park, Eastern Cape
… Cape. The Tsitsikamma’s spectacular scenery includes the Indian Ocean breakers, pounding rocky shores beneath 180 m … fish at tidal pools or in the rivers…
Links & Partnerships
… Stories and People General South African History Websites Anti-Apartheid and Southern Africa - Background . For those … to the international solidarity…
Message by Oliver Tambo to Nelson Mandela an International Tribute for a Free South Africa, 16 April 1990, Wembley Stadium, London
… political trials continue, and a battery of repressive legislation remains on the Statute Book. Even if a process of …
PlaceKoopmans de Wet House, 35 Strand Street, Cape Town
… Town. It was declared a National Monument under old NMC legislation on 1 November 1944. This historic house, situated …
PlaceWonderboom Nature Reserve, Pretoria
… reserve was declared a National Monument under old NMC legislation on 23 September 1988. The tree, now a National …
PlacePilrig House, 1 Rockridge Road, Parktown, Johannesburg
… ". It was declared a National Monument under old NMC legislation on 27 May 1988. …
January 8th Statements - Statement of the National Executive Committee on the occasion of the 84th Anniversary of the ANC - 8 January 1996
… of the historic Passive Resistance Campaign waged by the Indian people in 1946; the 40th anniversary of the adoption … Among other things, this will require…
Speech by President Nelson Mandela at a banquet in honour of her majesty Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands Pretoria, 30 September 1996
… and days before the start of the Pan Africanist Congress' Anti Pass campaign. PAC Campaign will be test Contact 19 … Extract from Robert Sobukwe's speech on…
EventNelson Mandela appeals for calm after the assassination of Communist Party chief, Chris Hani
… the murder was carefully orchestrated by Janusz Walus, an anti-Communist Polish immigrant who was later sentenced after …