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EventIndustrial and Commercial Workers Union is founded under Clements Kadalie
… Clements Kadalie, a young Nyassalander who spoke no Black South African language but used English to spread the message of worker unity. Formed in the stormy…
EventJournalist and anti-apartheid activist M.P. Naicker dies
… friends and family gathered from all parts of the world at the Golders Green Crematorium in London on May 8 to … President of the ANC, Oliver Tambo, the…
SAHO Commemorates 40 Years Since Soweto Uprising: Intergenerational Dialogue by Olehile Bada Pharasi
… and the foreign observer would be forgiven for thinking South Africa was experiencing its own “Arab Spring”. And, just as … and Shangaan – while the Zulu…
EventThe trial of Dr Allan Boesak on charges of theft and fraud starts
… he would earn a doctorate in ethics. Upon his return to South Africa shortly after the 1976 Soweto uprisings, he increased … included some two million white,…
EventFormer SANNC President Sefako Mapogo Makgatho dies
… Makgato wa a teacher and a journalist. Makgatho joined the South African Native National Congress (SANNC) later renamed … Congress (ANC). He became its…
EventFive power stations are blown up as tensions rise during WWII
… to destabilise the Rand gold mines. During the Second World War supporters of the Axis powers (Germany, Japan) came into conflict with the South African…
Interview: The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Navanethem (Navi) Pillay
… to start a law practice in her home province of Natal in South Africa in 1967. She acted as a defence attorney for … apartheid, Ms Pillay was appointed as…
EventGerard Bhengu SA artist, is born in Natal
… Pioneer South African artist Gerard Bhengu was born at an outstation … paintings have been part of the art collections of Museum Africa, the University of…
PlaceSutherland, Northern Cape
… for stargazing, though! "The small town of Sutherland in South Africa’s Northern Cape province is famous for its frigid … ttps://newsday.co.za/south-africa…
Chapter 14
… following: "All men and women of goodwill of all races in South Africa must organise public opinion in order to attain common … He, however, agreed to make a…
Mobilise Our Black Power - Statement to the People of South Africa on the Tenth Anniversary of Umkhonto we Sizwe by O. R. Tambo, 16 December 1971
… Now let us talk of Freedom,. Everywhere in the world today, the oppressed and exploited masses of people are … the Latin American continent. And in our…
PHOTOGRAPHY REVIEW; Apartheid, Reflected in an Inventory of Simple Objects by Sarah Boxer (The New York Times), 24 July 1998
… David Goldblatt sold his family's menswear business in South Africa to become a photographer in 1962. But the pictures he … The exhibition ''David Goldblatt:…
ArticlePeople involved in Rivonia Trial 1963-1964
… it was too dangerous for those still on trial or active in South Africa for me to allow its distribution even on a limited …
Chapter 18. Disrupting the Trade Unions
… agents". Even the conservative former president of the South African Trades and Labour Council, Mr. A. J. Downes, … vigour. Although very few trade union…
EventP.W. Botha announces that all South Africans will take part in a constitutional conference
… the announcement by the future president in 1980 that all South African races would take part in a constitutional … any provision for equal representation…
ArchiveHugh Lewin, 1939–2019, RIP by Jennifer Malec, 17 January 2019
… the full term of his sentence in Pretoria, before leaving South Africa on a ‘permanent departure permit’ in December 1971. … published in London in 1974 as…
EventThe first ‘Bantustans’ or ‘homelands’ comes into existence when the Transkei Regional Authority is instituted
… several other departments remained under control of the South African government. The homelands: After South Africa became a Union, the government wanted…
In memory of Archbishop Dennis Hurley by Phyllis Naidoo, 16 September 2009, Durban
… We needed R100. He replied soon saying he had asked The South African Council of Churches (SACC) and they had no … as my brother Paul had to seek permission…
Remarks by the President of the African National Congress Comrade JG Zuma to Worker`s Day Durban, 1 May 2015
… Freedom Charter, sixty years since the formation of the South African Congress of Trade Unions (SACTU) and thirty … Movement can take great pride in the fact…
Chapter 8
… of a full discussion on the present political situation in South Africa, the disastrous effects of the policy of "divide and … out that, while false promises…
EventNotorious role of Ferdi Barnard is disclosed
… first disclosure of the complicity of elements of the South African Defence Force (SADF) in violence in South Africa on 16 October 1992, they released a…
Document 59 - Letter from the Workers’ Party of South Africa to N. J. Barclay, 21 February 1936
… From: South Africa's Radical Tradition, a documentary history, Volume One … Drew Document 59 - Letter from the Workers' Party of South Africa to N. J…
Document 27 - Letter from E. R. Roux to Douglas Wolton, 5 September 1928
… From: South Africa's Radical Tradition, a documentary history, Volume One … from slavery." The demands of the democratic revolution in Africa (the franchise…
PlaceCape Town's Art Museum of Illusions-Kloof Street, Cape Town
… in Zagreb, Croatia in 2015 and achieved overnight success. South Africa has around 327 Museums. However this new Museum … having welcomed more than 12…
PlaceFree State Stadium
… Stadium in Bloemfontein was originally built for the Rugby World Cup of 1995. Then, it was revamped to host a number of … Considered to be one of the most…
EventZulu King Cetshwayo address his warriors at the great military kraal of Nodwengu
… Drift and drive it back into Natal." During the Zulu War, on 20 January 1879, British and Natal colonial troops … Drift. References: Reader's Digest…
Document 3 - Letter from F. A. W. Lucas to James Ramsay MacDonald,
… From: South Africa's Radical Tradition, a documentary history, Volume One … Mr. Creswell's "see it through" policy in regard to the war." Ever since the…
Chapter 11 - Negotiating the final constitution
… and labour. Over 15 and 16 April, representatives of the South African Chamber of Business, Business South Africa, Die Afrikaanse Handelsinstituut, the…
EventThe Japanese government announces that South Africans will no longer be granted visas to enter Japan
… Due to South Africa’s Apartheid regime in the 1970s and 1980s, many … On 5 June 1974, the Japanese government announced that South Africans would no longer…
EventBishop Zulu refused passport by the state
… On 22 June 1966 South African Bishop Alphaeus Hamilton Zulu, is refused a … African government. Zulu had been elected President of the World Council of…