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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 …
Freedom In Our Life Time - Debates and Relations with Other Organizations
… its loins," so history teaches. We cannot acquiesce in the political confusion occasioned by some white men who start or run some African political…
EventSA Prime Minister P. W. Botha warns the country that confrontation will be inevitable if his proposed President's Council fails
… people in parliament but which still excluded direct political representation for African people. …
Archive2011 - President Zuma, State of the Nation Address, 10 February 2011
… progress as we work towards a more prosperous society. The political foundation is solid. We have built a vibrant, fully … key example is the work done by…
Address by Mandela to the CBI conference London, 10 July 1996
… with urgency precisely because, beyond the profound political changes, the iniquitous system that we set out … non-sexist society and ensure that our…
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…
Archive2020 - President Ramaphosa, State of the Nation Address, 13 February 2020
… police stations are our priorities. I have prioritised our response to the growing problem of criminal groups that … of our country. It has been a truly…
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…
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…
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…
January 8th Statements -Statement of the National Executive Committee on the occasion of the 95th Anniversary of the ANC - 8 January 2007
… and economic potential. As we have consistently said, our response to crime must be based on a clear understanding of … prosecution, but also through the…
EventThe SA government grants 'Independent' status to Venda
Following South Africa's policies of racial segregation and the promulgation of the Promotion Bantu Self-Government Act,46 of 1959, the South African…
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…
Extraordinary ministerial meeting of The Co-ordinating Bereau Of The Non-aligned Countries on the question of Namibia -1985
… Africa. The association with this campaign of eminent political and other personalities and the public at large, … statesmanship displayed by it over the…
Exploring Student-Worker Alliance: the role of COSAS in trade unions, 1979-1985 by Noor Nieftagodien
This paper was submitted to the 1973 Durban Strikes Celebrating 50 Years Conference Abstract Exploring Student-Worker Alliance: the role of COSAS…
Archive"Racism, Apartheid and a New World Order": Speech in Acceptance of the Third World Prize on Behalf of Nelson and Winnie Mandela by O. R. Tambo, Kuala Lampur, Malaysia, 5 May 1986
… They are different not only in colour but in minds and in political capacity..." More than 40 years later, when these … accomplishment of this objective…
Document 121 - A. Mon (M. N. Averbach), “The Colour Bar and the National Struggle for Full Democratic Rights”, Workers’ Voice, 1, 2, November 1944
… the desire of the non-European masses, awakening to-day to political consciousness. The real desire of the … and the White ruling class. There is economic,…
PlaceZambezi River, Zambia and Zimbabwe
The river has supported villagers for thousands of years and 'Mosi-oa-Tunya', or known as the Victoria Falls, was considered a sacred site on the Zambezi. The…
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…