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ArticleTimeline: Father Trevor Huddleston
… of Selly Oak, Birmingham. Huddleston is awarded the United Nations Gold Medal. 1984 The Zambian government awards …
PlaceEswatini (formerly Swaziland)
… The Public Order Act was also passed and forbids party politics in the kingdom and stipulates police … the spread of AIDS. Another drought struck in 2002 and…
EventAhmad Mahir Pasha, the Egyptian Prime Minister, is assassinated
… most important figures in the early history of the Wafd party in Egypt. The Wafd party came to prominence in Egyptian politics after World War …
EventHendrik Jacobus Coetsee is born
… Free State. Both his parents were members of the National Party in the Ladybrand local branch. He became actively … general elections. Coetsee was a member…
EventJournalist and political activist Selby Msimang dies
… numerous articles. He was a founder member of the Liberal Party of South Africa (LPSA), a multiracial party formed in 1953. Msimang was married twice and…
EventManuel Pinto da Costa becomes the president
… and the MLSTP became the nations' sole legal political party. Dr Manuel held the position until 1991, when his party suffered defeat in the first democratic…
EventNico Basson says that SADF had supplied weapons and covert assistance to IFP in order to weaken the ANC
… assault rifles) and covert assistance to Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) in order to weaken the African National Congress … the largest ethnic groups in South…
PlaceHammarsdale, KZN
… particularly strong in KwaZulu-Natal. The Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) , formed in 1975 by former ANC Youth League … and currently the Country’s fourth…
EventBafana Bafana legend Philimon Raul Masinga dies
… in 1994. He also played for international teams:Leeds United in England, St Gallen in Switzerland, Salernitana Bari in Italy and Al Wahda in the United Arab …
EventFourth Nuclear bomb test by France in the Sahara
… Organisation and the position occupied by Britain and the United States in this military alliance. This situation was … and American allies to defend French…
EventThe Balfour Declaration is accepted
… within the British Empire. The Declaration stated that the United Kingdom and the Dominions were "autonomous Communities … any aspect of their domestic or…
EventThe first regional committee of the UDF is established in Natal
… Anti-apartheid organisations united under the umbrella of the United Democratic Front. One of the first steps in creating … at: www.nelsonmandela.org …
EventScientists find the virus that may cause Aids.
… The development was announced in Washington by the United States of America Health Secretary, Margaret Heckler … Africa leaving large numbers of children…
EventSouth African writer J.M. Coetzee is born in Cape Town.
… Mathematics the following year. In 1962, he left for the United Kingdom where he worked as a computer programmer for … he received his PhD from the…
EventEduardo Mondlane, president of FRELIMO, dies
… to study at Lisbon University in Portugal and later in the United States, earning an MA and a PHD. In 1957 Mondlane was a research officer in the Trustee…
Gertrude Fester Biography by Nehal Patel
… each race. The Afrikaner Nationalism of Malan’s National Party posited that each race has their own biological skills, … still lecturing, traveling to other…
Community histories of Rustenburg
… Reformed or Gereformeerde Church) also known as the United Church. Members of the ex-Reformed (Hervormde) Church … he arrived in Rustenburg. The Hervormde…
ArticleInanda Seminary and its Influence on Education in South Africa by Claire Wilt
… of closure and it had to be supported and managed by the United Congregational Church of South Africa. This gave the … the ANC, the Natal Organisation of…
EventThe possessions of Piet Retief are auctioned
… Dingane appeared ready to grant land to Retief and his party, but had one condition: that they retrieve cattle … token of his appreciation, Dingane invited…
Chapter eight - Conclusion
… during its "golden age" shifted the interest of Gomas and Party to black workers. Within the ICU, it was Gomas, the … by Gomas. Individuals himself helped…
Political Overview by the Gauteng ANC Chairperson, Paul Mashatile, at the Provincial General Council, 8 June 2012, St George`s Hotel, Tshwane
… tasks of our National Democratic Revolution; to build a united, non-racial, non-sexist, democratic and prosperous … to unite the people of South Africa…
EventBlack People Convention is formed
… of racial segregation and apartheid policies. When the party assumed a radical anti apartheid political agenda the government began to restrict its…
ArticleThe Tricameral Parliament, 1983-1984
… for from the 1976/7 provincial congress of the National Party (NP), and once it became a reality in 1984, it … vote. Parties to both the left and right of…
ArticleSlave Resistance
… over all their slaves into the hands of the 'military' party, give them food and a place to sleep. The next morning the party proceeded from farm to farm,…
ArticleThe Johanna
… Cape of Good Hope at the time, Simon van der Stel , sent a party, under the instruction of Olaf Bergh, a Dutch East …
ArticleA History of Official Government HIV/AIDS Policy in South Africa
… man who contracted the virus while in California, United States. Later that year, 250 random blood samples were … hierarchy and discipline that were…
Coetzee as Contractarian: Disgrace as Political Theory by Joshua Richman
… and property, with Ntsebeza emphasising the National Party’s success in “ensuring that the property of existing … of property” (sec. 25, subsec. 1) assuaged…
African National Congress Press Statement by O. R. Tambo, 5 November 1979
… power by the people and the use of that power to build a united democratic, nonracial and peace-loving South Africa as … reiterate its appreciation of the…
Document 49 - Lenin Club, Draft Thesis: Introduction (Minority) (1934)
… from this point of view can we conclude that the Labour Party talk of segregation - the Communist Party talk of a Native Republic is Utopian as an idea ……
PlaceMajuba Power Station, Volksrust-Mpumalanga
This 4 110 megawatt Station, constructed at a cost of R 11.9 Billion, is one of the five biggest Power Stations in the World and the first to have been…