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EventJosiah Mutabuzi Isaya Kibira is the first African to be elected president of the LWF
At the Lutheran World Federation (LWF) General Assembly held in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, Josiah Mutabuzi Isaya Kibira became the first African to be elected…
EventThe U.S. vetoes Angola’s application for membership of the United Nations Security
Council For the fifteenth time the United Sates (US) vetoed Angola’s application for membership of the United Nations Security Council. The move to prohibit…
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’Unite! Mobilise! Fight On! 1976 ANC document
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Address by Nelson Mandela on behalf of the ANC delegation to the Conference of the Pan-African Freedom Movement of East and Central Africa Addis Ababa, January 1962
The delegation of the African National Congress, and I particularly, feel specially honoured by the invitation addressed to our organisation by the PAFMECA to…
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’The struggle is my life’ Press Statement Issued on 26 June 19611
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Nelson Mandela’s Testimony at the Treason Trial 1956-1960
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”I am Prepared to Die” Nelson Mandela’s statement from the dock at the opening of the defence case in the Rivonia Trial Pretoria Supreme Court, 20 April 1964
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’General Strike’ Statement by Nelson Mandela on behalf of the National Action Council following the stay-at-home in May 19611
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’Black man in a white court’ Nelson Mandela’s First Court Statement - 1962
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Somalia’s foreign minister and a representative of the faction that controls the country’s capital sign an agreement that calls
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Well-known Emzini Wezinsizwa actor Maxwell Mlilo (Ngconde), dies of diabetes in Helen Joseph Hospital, Johannesburg. (2006). Ml
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President Mbeki appoints Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, minister of minerals and energy and wife of former head of national prosecutin
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A US Marine is killed and eight other service members are injured by errant bombs dropped by a US B-52 Stratofortress in Djibou
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A political storm breaks loose when Ndaweni Mahlangu, premier of Mpumalanga, is confronted with his statement that it is accept
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Former president P.W. Botha (82) marries Barbara Robertson (52) in his home in Wilderness.
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It is alleged that Pres. Mandela concluded a transaction of R2,7 billion with Col. Muammar Gaddafi, promising weapons from SA i
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In another shark attack on the Eastern Cape coast, a White killer shark at Gonubie Point mutilates the 20-year old Anton de Vos
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Eighteen people, mostly children, die in an attack on a school bus in Rwanda.
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European Union members meeting in Florence, Italy, fail to agree on a plan to fight high unemployment in Europe and oppose US e
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Violence continued in Kwazulu-Natal. Thirty-seven murdered are reported on 22-23 June and fourteen on 24 June. The victims incl
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South Africa signs agreement upgrading existing diplomatic relations with Botswana.
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The UN resumes food distribution in Mogadishu, Somalia, ten days after fighting between UN troops and those of warlord Mohammed
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George Gwala disappears since dropped off at a taxi rank by police after taken from place of employment by them in order to hel
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Nelson Mandela addresses the United Nations Special Committee against Apartheid in New York, saying that nothing, which has hap
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Offices of the Minister of National (Black) Education, Stoffel van der Merwe, and that of Deputy Constitutional Development Min
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União Nacional para a Independência Total de Angola (UNITA, National Union for the Total Independence of Angola) rebels and A
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Business Day reports that SA is about to test an intermediate range ballistic missile capable of carrying nuclear warheads.
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A bomb blast in a Johannesburg video-game arcade kills an unborn baby and injures ten people.
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The International Labour Organisation, meeting for its annual conference in Geneva, calls for international sanctions against S
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