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EventThe ANC Youth League is re-established at Orlando stadium in Soweto
… in Soweto after an absence of thirty years from the political arena in South Africa. The Youth League was …
EventMike Gatting’s rebel cricket tour is curtailed
… to shorten the tour 'to show its support for the dramatic political changes' announced by President De Klerk on 2 …
EventLast remaining SA troops have been withdrawn from Namibia
… had been withdrawn during November. While the Namibian political parties and the South African Government were …
EventP. W. Botha refutes possibility of Black majority rule
… considered within the context of White politics. If Black political aspirations are to be accommodated, then some other …
EventNiger President Ibrahim Bare Mainassara is assassinated
… to dissolve the National Assembly and suspend all political activity. However, Mayaki's attempt was rejected by …
EventA few days after deciding to establish a Dutch newspaper in South Africa, the name De Burger is chosen
… Editor Ebbe Dommisse that it would no longer serve as a political mouthpiece. This disaffiliation continued in 1999 …
EventThe Draft South Africa Act is signed
… fierce debate. The different laws concerning non-White political rights in the colonies made the franchise question …
EventThe Neptune, with 288* convicts on board, enters Simon’s Bay, with strong resistance from Cape inhabitants
… and Australia. Many of these convicts were Irish political offenders. However, the residents of the Cape were …
EventJaramogi Oginga Odinga, Kenyan independence leader dies
… in 1947 and soon found himself a staunch supporter of then political leader, Jomo Kenyatta. When Kenya gained …
EventSouth African Communist Party leader, Dr. Yusuf Mahomed Dadoo dies
… A political activist and Chairman of the South African …
EventFormer SANNC President Sefako Mapogo Makgatho dies
… Makgatho chieftaincy at GaMphahlele. Before embarking on a political career, Makgato wa a teacher and a journalist. …
EventEugene Terre Blanche, controversial leader of the AWB ( Afrikaner Resistance Movement), is born in Ventersdorp.
… the World Trade Centre (where negotiations between various political parties for a new democratic constitution took …
EventThe Federation of South African Women (FEDSAW) is founded
… women's groups, African, Indian, Coloured and White political organisations and trade unions. During the founding …
PlaceShell House, Johannesburg
… making Shell House the ideal home. The ANC, the ruling Political Party in South Africa, now has its Headquarters at …
‘Ubuqaba’ and ‘UbuGqobhoka’: Reading Zakes Mda’s Heart of Redness through a Post-Developmental lens by Rachel Fenton
… to them and to more prosperous areas” (Truman, 1964). In response, he proposed a game-changing solution; “I believe … H., 2001. South Africa, Limits to…
We Shall Win - Statement at the Meeting of the United Nations Special Committee against Apartheid to launch the International Anti-Apartheid year by O. R. Tambo, New York, 21 March 1978
… pillars of support for the apartheid regime, which are political, economic, military and cultural. In turn, we, the … destiny, the multi-industrial complexes…
Document 120 - Draft Programme of the Communist Party of South Africa (c. 1940)41
… the absolute freedom of the Non-European peoples in the political, economic, and cultural spheres of South African … racial and colour discrimination and for…
Document 31 - S.O.Y.A. National Executive Committee, The Maritzburg Conferences and the Tasks of the Immediate Future, 31 May 1959
… have been a Conference, the highest deciding body of a political organisation, we thus found a degenerated … and the condition he thus lays down is only…
ArchiveWebinar Programme: Forward to Socialism/Socialist Futures (Panel 1). Convenor: Janet Cherry
… Lincoln Tali, PhD candidate, Department of History and Political Studies, Nelson Mandela University Gary Prevost, … and Honorary Professor, Department of…
Chapter 6
… In spite of all the forces ranged against the progress and political development of the African people, they could only … been persuaded to take a wrong turn…
ArticleA decade by decade events account of the women’s struggle in South Africa
… of the World Campaign for the Release of South African Political Prisoners. Dorothy Nyembe is detained and held for … into exile. She joins the ANC in…
Patric Tariq “de Goede” Mellet
… at the large windows of the laundry shop. Thus began my political education. It was in District Six as a child that I … at this trade-school in 1971 that I…
PlaceMqanduli
… The hometown of Bantu Holomisa, a Political leader in South Africa. Located in the OR Tambo … The hometown of Bantu Holomisa, a Political leader in South…
Excerpts from Priscilla Jana’s book 'Fighting for Mandela' that relate to Solomon Mahlangu
… decision to raise my fist in solidarity and shout the response: ‘Awetu’ – which means ‘To Us’. In doing so I was … and demanded that I make a choice between…
ArticleGrade 11 - Apartheid South Africa 1940s to 1960s
… about ending the apartheid system, the release of Political prisoners like the release of Nelson Mandela in … about ending the apartheid system, the…
ArticleTswana
… raising, and copper production. A period of warfare, political disruption, and migration commonly termed the … experienced varying degrees of suffering,…
ArticleThe Empty Land Myth
… translated roughly as ‘the crushing’, was a time of great political upheaval in the Zulu Kingdom in the first half of … fact, it is a convenient fiction that…
ArticleNelspruit Timeline 1815-1996
… by Theophilus Shepstone, annexes the Transvaal, but political wrangling forces them to restore the Republic to … and Boer republics are drawn together into a…
The Atlantic slave trade
… market days." Criminals and prisoners of war, as well as political prisoners were often sold in the marketplaces in … wealthy, it ultimately undermined local…
January 8th Statements - Statement of the National Executive Committee on the occasion of the 84th Anniversary of the ANC - 8 January 1996
… country from this colonial heritage. This posturing by our political opponents derives neither from mere vanity nor from … are some of the principal items…