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EventEgyptian President Anwar Sadat, Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin and President Carter begin a Middle East peace conference at Camp David, Maryland
… tactics. His overall strategy was to limit the place and time of these face-to-face negotiations and to involve only …
EventArthur Elias Letele, medical doctor and prominent ANC leader who went into exile in Basutoland, dies
… First State of Emergency, Letele was arrested for a third time. Upon his release, he was given 30 days to leave South …
EventTurkish newspapers criticise of ANC leader Nelson Mandela for refusing to accept Turkey’s peace award
… of Turkey. According to Mandela's spokesperson at the time, Mandela assumed this stance due to the human rights …
EventSACP is legally re-launched
… which was attended by approximately 45 000 people. At the time the SACP faced allegations of conspiring with the …
Event7 People are killed during a SATS strike
… and singing while waiting on the train. At that time there were no police at the station. The crowd started …
EventNelson Mandela meets President P.W. Botha to begin negotiating the end of apartheid
… Mandela met with President P.W. Botha at Tuynhuis. At the time, Mandela was still imprisoned at Victor Verster after he …
EventJulius Nyerere chairman of the Chama Cha Mapinduzi (CCM) addresses the ANC in Arusha
… and occasionally even the courageous retreated for a time into sullen resignation. But never was the flame of …
EventSlachter’s Nek rebels are hanged
… forced the prisoners to ascend the scaffold a second time and the sentence was carried out one by one, using a …
EventFirst air flight from London to South Africa
… personnel trained in their use and maintenance. At the time the British Empire was the largest in the world, and …
EventThe Dutch Reformed Church decides that Afrikaans may be used alongside Dutch during services
… has many influences, including French and Malay. At the time of the Great Trek in the 1830's, various dialects of …
EventWWI: battalion consisting of ‘Cape Coloured men’, called the Cape Corps, is established
… entirely by the Cape Corps squadron, as regulations at the time stated that coloureds could not fight against whites, …
EventMohandas K. Gandhi is arrested as he leads a march of Indian miners in South Africa
… who had no political rights under the dispensation of the time. In 1903, he founded a newspaper, the Indian Opinion, in …
EventSA colonies meet to consider and adopt the South Africa Act, which leads to the Union of South Africa
… in the 1908 National Convention, which met for the first time on 12 October 1908. By February 1909, a draft of the …
EventPolitical activist, Professor ZK Matthews is born
… to the National Executive Committee and at the same time he became a member of the Native Representative Council, …
EventKitchener succeeds Roberts as Commander-in-Chief
… He received the local rank of general around the same time. Kitchener was frustrated with the state of affairs and …
EventXhosa hero Maqoma dies on Robben Island
… in 1871 after being found guilty of incitement, this time without his wife. Opinions on Maqoma vary. According to …
EventDavid Livingstone “discovers” Lake Nyasa
… He continued crossed continent during three different time periods: 1852-56, 1858-64, and 1866-73, becoming the …
EventThe Native Land Act is passed
… territorial segregation into legislation for the first time since Union in 1910. The law created reserves for Blacks …
EventPAC’s leader, Potlako Leballo confirms that Poqo is the organisation’s military wing
… an uprising to be launched in South Africa in 1963. At the time of his claims, the PAC, African National Congress (ANC), …
PlaceFirst Raadsaal
… the equestrian statue of General Christiaan De Wet. At one time the Raadsaal housed almost all of the city's original …
Statement at the 2053rd meeting of the Security Council by Mfanafuthi Johnstone (Johnny) Makatini, 9 December 1977
… our struggle is well known, should assume this office at a time when the Council at long last appears to be poised for … on the other, we have reason to…
Umberto Eco on the Merits of Studying History (and the Terrors of Losing It) by Charles Chu (The Polymath Project), 24 September 2017
… atrocious you can think of, they did it. I spend a lot of time in Japan. My girlfriend is Japanese. Let me tell … beliefs and speculations that reach…
Congress of the People - I was there
… and hearts of every Congress member who was active at the time. They are the dates of the Congress of the People which … the Charter were held everywhere -…
Address of Nelson Mandela, President of the African National Congress on Receiving an Honorary LLD Degree at the University of Fort Hare 9 May 1992
… dedicated to the creation of peace This happens at a time of transformation, a time of change or prospective change in South Africa as a … that we will have…
Document 76 - The Speakers’ Notes - A Brief Course on the Training of Organisers [Document found by the police during the Rivonia raid of 11 July 1963]
… prepare the people for open warfare, instead of wasting time with guerilla warfare and sabotage? (Leballo and others … rights - franchise, land and freedom…
Bishop Tutu’s 1999 interview on NewsHour
… DESMOND TUTU : Thank you very much. RAY UAREZ : Well, some time has been able to pass since the final report has been … as quickly as they should. RAY UAREZ …
Memorial lecture on the 26th Anniversary of the Lowveld Massacre presented by Comrade Jackson Mthembu ANC National Spokesperson, 15 March 2012
… about the birth of the ANC. We should also at the same time, also ask ourselves why at the establishment point of a … behalf of all of us including those who…
Chapter X - Trial by detention
… to get out. He did ”” right out of South Africa ”” for a time. But he did return and now serves his life sentence in a … one another! Daily we asked to share…
Chapter IX - Return to my faith
… Side by Side by Helen Joseph Forty years is a very long time to be away from the faith into which you were born and … to church and very spasmodic in my own…
The Role of the Missionaries in conquest - Chapter V - Political role of the mission
… to have had no difficulty in being at one and the same time God's ambassadors and Government go betweens. Quite as a … information useful to the Government…