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EventAfrican delegates urge U Thant to enter Nelson Mandela fray
… was held under the Sabotage Act, which carried a possible death penalty. They also believed he was unlikely to receive …
EventMagoo’s Bar is bombed
… and convicted, and later granted both a reprieve from death row, and amnesty by the Truth and Reconciliation …
EventSuspect in US embassies bomb blasts denies charges
… bombings. If convicted Mohamed could be handed down a death penalty or life imprisonment sentence without …
EventCellist and music teacher Betty Pack is born
… her astonishing career was cut short due to her untimely death in 1977. …
Speech by Oliver Tambo at the funeral of Joe Gqabi, Harare, 9 August 1981
… the late Comrade Herbert Chitepo, was struck down outside his house, so was Joe Gqabi, in Chitepo`s Zimbabwe. Heroes` … the most exploited, the ones who…
Address of the President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki, at the General Assembly of the African Ombudsman Association (AOA): Misty Hills Conference Centre, Muldersdrift, Johannesburg: 11 April 2005.
… I. In 1849, Dostoevsky was arrested and sentenced to death. As he was facing an open grave in front of a firing squad, an order arrived commuting his…
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
… islands in the Indian Ocean. Yes, there is a life and death struggle against United States imperialism and its … guns and homemade bombs let us go on showing…
PlaceDutch Reformed Church, Johannesburg
… first as minister and later as retired minister. Since his unfortunate death in October 2010, the congregation was operating without …
Labour Struggles in South Africa The Forgotten Pages 1903 - 1921 - Introduction
… stimulating and well-written), are locked into a death-cell of an international journal ("contribution to … the social systems of Athens, Rome and Sparata in…
ArticleSimon van der Stel Timeline
… aboard le Cappel on route to Mauritius. 25 May 1646 : His father, Adrian van der Stel dies in the line of duty and … 1679 : Van der Stel arrives at the Cape,…
Indian Community
… worship was experienced, communal births, marriages and death ceremonies were observed and festivals carried out. … Sherwood (1905), and Sea Cow Lake (1906)…
Statement at the 2735th meeting of the Security Council by Mfanafuthi Johnstone (Johnny) Makatini, 19 February 1987
… Award, an illustrious award that our colleague shares with His Majesty King Carlos of Spain. The African National … made open threats to Samora Machel three…
ArticleThe Contentious Relationship Between Ngqika And Ndlambe
… by lineage. The King’s first son would be the next to take his father’s place. When the sons of the royal bloodline … from that ceremony who he would then…
The small matter of a horse: The life of 'Nongoloza' Mathebula, 1867-1948 by Charles van Onselen, 04 January 2012 (libcom.org)
… of the Amazizi clan — named Numisimani Mathebula and his wife, Nompopo, celebrated the birth of a son.9 Evidently … of Cetshwayo to the Zulu throne,…
EventAnsuyah Ratipul Singh, medical doctor and community worker, poet, dramatist and novelist, is born in Durban.
… Indian community. She continued her medical work until her death in 1979. …
EventHelen Zille, former leader of the Democratic Alliance, is born in Johannesburg
… after she exposed the real circumstances behind the death of Black Consciousness Movement leader Steve Biko. In …
Selfless Biko 40 Years On by Barney Pityana (City Press), 10 September 2017
… Barney Pityana read in a newspaper about Stephen Biko’s death. Forty years later, he recalls the shock and grief he … I had of speaking to Steve Biko. He was…
ArticleThe Jacob Zuma Presidency - 2009 to 2017 (March)
… In 2005, then vice-president, Zuma had been stripped of his rank following allegations of rape and corruption. [1] Yet his popularity endured. Zuma’s…
Doing Oral History
… to protest threatened removal. These actions resulted in his banning in 1964. The Liberal Party supported him by … him up in a fish and chip shop but the…
Freedom In Our Life Time - Religion and Churches
… thesis in Philosophy at the University of South Africa. His fifty-two page thesis, accepted in 1945, traced the … Hegel, and William James. We have excerpted…
ArticleThe Bambatha Rebellion begins
… a white farmer from Camperdown was murdered after he took his labourers to Pietermaritzburg to pay their taxes. Another … to pay the tax but held back when…
ArticleIndia, Mughal Empire, 16-19th Century
… horsemen and expert musketmen and artillerymen. He faced his ememy' army of 100 000 men and 1000 elephants. Before the battle, Babur place his light field…
Keynote address on the launch of Mafika Gwala’s Collected Poems Howard College, UKZN, 6 October 2016 by Mandla Langa
… The emotion that would have most likely dominated his mind, body and his psyche, would be that which could be compared to the … was living in Hammarsdale,…
EventMiriam Makeba returns to South Africa
… to perform and serve as a goodwill ambassador until her death on 9 November 2008. …
EventElisabeth Eybers, South African poet, is born
… She moved to Amsterdam in 1966, and lived there until her death in 2007. Her poetry was mainly written in Afrikaans, …
Tribute by Comrade David Makhura delivered at the funeral service of Comrade Chilly Magagula, 16 October 2010
… Chilly was not a coward. Like many fearless youth of his time, he responded to the clarion call of President … camp. Comrade Chilly was feared by the enemy…
PlaceLiliesleaf Farm, Rivonia- Johannesburg
… The prisoners who did receive a trial were sentenced to death, banished or imprisoned for life. As the situation … increased forming a vicious cycle of…
ArchiveChapter 11 The escape by Denis Goldberg
… brown hair, innocent face and more strongly built than his friend. They had both joined the illegal ANC while in … for them for their unwavering support they…
Our Greatest Indian Leader since Gandhiji -Tribute to Dr. Gangathura Mohambry Naicker (From: Sechaba, second quarter), 1978
… the Congress of the People in 1955 bear ample testimony to his fruitful labour in this direction. Monty was born in … age of 17 he was sent to Edinburgh in…
“Our Greatest Leader since Gandhiji”, By Dr Yusuf Dadoo
… the Congress of the People in 1955 bear ample testimony to his fruitful labour in this direction. Monty was born in … age of 17 he was sent to Edinburgh in…