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Letter from Cape Town Branch of the South African Communist Party to Moses Kotane
Letter from the Cape Town branch of the South African Communist Party (SACP) to Moses Kotane, outlining the state of the organisation and report on activities…
Facts about the current situation in South Africa and what is to be done
African National Congress report on the current situation in South Africa and how to respond. Examines the South African regime, the Black Consciousness…
BiographyJames Steven Mzilikazi Khumalo
A colossal figure amongst South African choral music composers and directors, Professor James Steven* Mzilikazi Khumalo was born on 20 June 1932 on the…
BiographyFranco Frescura
Franco Frescura was born in Trieste, Italy, on 28 September 1946. Both his parents originally came from Fiume, today known as Rijeka, in present-day Croatia…
ArchiveConscripts to their age: African National Congress operational strategy, 1976-1986 by Howard Barrell
Introduction Acknowledgements CHAPTER 1 - Old Battle-Cries and Borrowed Language CHAPTER 2 - You only win once CHAPTER 3 - Unprepared CHAPTER 4 …
The President’s Council, mandated to consider South Africa’s constitutional future, releases its final report.
The President's Council, mandated to consider South Africa's constitutional future, releases its final report. Central items of its plan include establishment…
EventM K Gandhi, pioneer of the SA Passive Resistance movement and leader who led India to Independence, is born
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was born into a Hindu Modh family in Porbandar, India. In 1893 he accepted a year-long contract from an Indian law firm work in…
BiographyMagnus Malan
Magnus Malan was born in Pretoria on 30 January 1930. His father, Avril Ire de Merindol, was a professor of biochemistry at the university of Pretoria, and…
Event3 students from Johannesburg are the first to climb ‘Devil’s Tooth’ in the Drakensberg Range
Location: back to this day in history search archive The Drakensberg is the highest mountain range in South Africa, with Thabana Ntlenyana the highest peak in…
EventAhmed Ben Bella is moved to a French hospital after 11 days of hunger strike
Ahmed Ben Bella is moved to a French hospital after 11 days of hunger strike in Algiers, Algeria. Bella became Algeria’s Prime Minister in 1962 and was elected…
EventEllen Johnson-Sirleaf, becomes the first woman to be Head of State in Africa
Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf became the first elected woman as Head of State in Africa. Johnson-Sirleaf’s historic inauguration as President of Liberia was on 16…
Dutch Ships in Tropical Waters: The development of the Dutch East India Company (VOC) shipping network in Asia by Robert Parthesius
The Citizen reports on details of Mr Justice Tom van Reenen’s report on alleged irregularities in the awarding of housing contr
Congo ends a more than twenty years’ break in top-level relations with its old colonial ruler by welcoming Belgian Prime Minist
The SA rugby team loses the second test against the British Lions 15-18, after having lost the first one too.
Adriaan Vlok, former minister of Law and Order and Gen. Johan van der Merwe, former police commissioner, tells the TRC former P
In an attack described by Mukesh Kapila, top official of the UN in Sudan, government-allied militia (known as Janjawiet), rape
Gunmen storm the military compound of President Eyadema in Loma, Togo, and kill his top military aide, then flee from governmen
Jozua Francois (Tom) Naudé, first president of the senate of the Republic of South Africa in 1961 and acting state presi
Anglo-Boer War 2: The ZAR’s fourth and last Creusot ‘Long Tom’ is dynamited before falling into British hands, only 200 metres
Anglo-Boer War 2: The ZAR’s fourth and last Creusot ‘Long Tom’ is dynamited before falling into British hands, only 200 metres
Pandemonium breaks out inside the Big Top Arena at Carnival City when angry boxing fans protest the dubious verdict, which favo
Top finance officials from seven of the world’s richest countries (the G7 countries), open a two-day meeting in London that, wh
"Racial Crisis in South Africa" . Address to meeting of Pakistan Institute of International Affairs, March 2, 1961
South Africa has a population of 15 million, of which 12 million are non-whites and 3 million are whites. The white people of South Africa are a settled…
Presidential Address to the Eleventh Annual Conference of the Natal Indian Congress, Durban, November 21, 1958
Presidential Address To The Eleventh Annual Conference Of The Natal Indian Congress, Durban, November 21, 195864 Mr Chairman, Ladies and Gentlemen, The…
'We Go To Action': Statement on the Launching In Natal of the Defiance Campaign, August 30, 1952
Natal through its accredited delegates whose stand was fully endorsed at the Conference of the African National Congress, Natal Branch, held in Durban on March…
Nelson Mandela Letter to Mrs. Manorama Bhalla, secretary of the Indian Council for Cultural Relations, 3 August 1980
Robben Island, 7400 Republic of South Africa 3 August 1980 Dear Mrs. Bhalla, I am writing to express my sincere thanks and appreciation to the Indian…
Challenge to the church: A Theological Comment on the Political Crisis in South Africa | The Kairos Document, 1985
The Kairos document preface The KAIROS document is a Christian, biblical and theological comment on the political crisis in South Africa today. It is an…
Address to the Summit of the International Conference on Financing for Development, 21 March 2002
Monterrey, Mexico Honourable Chairman, President Vicente Fox, Your Excellencies, Heads of State and Government, Your Excellency, Mr Kofi Annan, Secretary…
ArchiveAfrican Women`s Resistance to the Pass Laws in South Africa 1950-1960, by Elizabeth S. Schmidt
Introduction The decade of the 1950s was a decade of turmoil in South Africa. In the urban areas, a strong alliance was being forged between racially…