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EventJohn Lawrence, Winnie Mandela’s bodyguard, dies after a shoot
… to Nelson Mandela at the time, was unharmed. Although a political motive for the shooting was ruled out, the head of … Matthews Phosa, stated that plots to…
EventTruman Prince, the controversial ANC manager of the Central Karoo District Municipality, is suspended
… the Beaufort West Local Municipality. Since 2005, Prince's political career has been marked by controversy. On 16 … action against Prince came not only from…
Archive2014 - President Zuma, State of the Nation Address, 13 February 2014 (before National Elections)
… to all families who lost their loved ones, across the political spectrum. Honourable Speaker, Honourable … landmark National Development Plan, the country’s…
Chapter 3 - The Cigarette-Makers Strikes and the First Workers Co-operative Society in South Africa, Cape Town 1906 - 1907
… the result of spontaneous, syndicalist action centred on economic demands and demands for the betterment of working … unemployment and tightness of money…
Re-membering Krotoa and Autshumato by Deela Khan (poem)
… time. But when the Dutch had eventually grabbed all her political use-value declined. A sudden turn of the wheel of …
Grade 4 Term 2 Timeline: Mahatma Gandhi
… the Natal Indian Congress 1896 He becomes an established political leader in South Africa 1899 He organizes an Indian …
Glossary: Learning from Leaders
… plan of action or a set of principle used to do something. Political Of the state or government. Quality A thing that is …
ArticleCODESA 1 Timeline
… for the multi-party talks takes place, attended by 20 political organizations and administrations. End of November …
EventTwo rival movements merge in Zimbabwe
… Two rival political organisations in Zimbabwe, the Ndebele-dominated … merged following consensus reached in 1987 to form a new political party called the…
EventPresident Nelson Mandela announces his intentions to promote national unity
… national unity he was willing to bring into government political parties that were not part of the Government of … was his part of nation building and…
Oration by Oliver Tambo at the funeral of Moses Kotane, 26 May 1978, Moscow
… was in 1946, which was the beginning of a period of great political upheavals in our struggle, a period that was to prove most decisive in the general…
Oration at the Funeral of Moses Kotane by O. R. Tambo, Moscow, 26 May 1978
… was in 1946, which was the beginning of a period of great political upheavals in our struggle, a period that was to prove most decisive in the general…
Chapter 5
… of the All African Convention was a turning point in the political history of the African people. The period 1935-37 … development in organisation affecting…
EventMohammed Valli Moosa is born in Johannesburg
… Moosa, born in Johannesburg on 9 February 1957, was a political activist and served as Minister of Environmental … on the wrong side of apartheid laws for…
EventMugabe announces the merging of ZANU and ZAPU
… (ZANU) leader, Robert Mugabe announced that Rhodesia's political organisations, ZANU and ZAPU (the Zimbabwe African … Union), are to be merged under one…
EventFour Indian leaders are sentenced under Terrorism Act
… References: Kalley, J. A. et al (1999). Southern African Political History: A Chronology of Key Political Events from Independence to Mid-1997, Greenwood: …
Article1967 Terrorism Act, No. 83 of 1967
… endowed the Governor-General with the right to declare a political party unlawful at any time if they were found to be … (2.2.d). The Act also referred to…
SEME by Richard Rive and Tim Couzens
… speech `The Regeneration of Africa`, a seminal piece of political thinking for those years just prior to the founding … He saw the need for organisation and…
XII - Unanswered Questions
… to natural surroundings'. Biko's philosophy challenged the economic power of the whites, but white culture and white … existence diminished and cheapened. It…
71.The Group Areas Act
… When the Group Areas Act was passed in 1950, all Indian political organisations strongly opposed it. The N.I.C., … seeks to achieve is to destroy the Indian…
ArchiveThe United Democratic Front (UDF): a case study of democratic organisation, 1983-1987
… the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the Department of Political Science, University of Natal, Durban, 1998. … of the United Democratic Front, and the…
EventFifth banning order for Albertina Sisulu
… Schoeman, E. & Andor, L.E. (eds)(1999). Southern African Political History: a chronology of key political events from independence to mid-1997, Westport: …
EventCOMSA calls on SA to move towards election
… team, which consisted of police, military, legal and political experts, further concluded that South Africa's best … elections and a durable resolution of…
EventMandela and Tambo meet in Sweden
… on a mission to foreign countries to ask them to break political ties and tighten sanctions against South Africa in order to speed political change, African…
EventFelix Mounie, the Cameroon opposition leader is assassinated in Geneva.
… Felix Mounie was the leader of the political movement Union du Peuple Camerounnais (UPC). The UPC was a major political force demanding the end of UN…
‘Where Do Whites Fit in?’: The portrayal of Black Consciousness and its effects on white liberals in Burger’s Daughter by Rebecca Trout
… of the swimming-pool, stands for the underground maze of political activism’ (Dimitriu, 2000, p.47). Lionel’s headship … in the novel is that ‘whites, no…
EventWiehahn Commission Report tabled in parliament
… the report recommended reforms that would increase the political rights and political participation of Black South Africans in the … Black trade unions…
EventThe Constitution of the Republic of South Africa is approved by Parliament
… not an easy one. It began in 1990 with the unbanning of political parties and the release of political prisoners. The Convention for a Democratic South ……
EventSteven Biko is arrested.
… work undercover and created the Zimele Trust Fund to aid political prisoners and families. On 18 August 1977, he was arrested on his way home from a…
EventDraft laws are gazetted
… References: Kalley, J. A. et al (1999). Southern African Political History: A Chronology of Key Political Events from Independence to Mid-1997, Greenwood: …