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ArticleYouth Politics in South Africa in the 1970s
The 1970s period was a watershed for youth politics in South Africa. The South African Student Organisation (SASO) was gathering support from campus to campus…
EventSADF mounts raids on ANC targets in neighbouring states
Troops of the South African Defence Force (SADF) carry out raids on alleged ANC targets in Botswana, Zambia and Zimbabwe. Several people are left dead or…
EventWorld Food Program warns the UN that a record 38 million people are at risk of starvation in Africa
The World Food Program (WFP) was started in 1962 and is concerned with 'providing enough food for every child, woman and man to live an active life'. It is…
EventSouth Africa signs SADC treaty
The Southern African Development Community (SADC) was originally known as the Southern African Development Co-ordination Conference (SADCC). It was formed in 1…
Freedom In Our Life Time - Introduction
… in learning languages. At Adams he picked up Afrikaans, Sesotho and Xhosa as well as German from German nuns residing … where he occasionally translated…
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1980s
1980 is declared the Year of the Charter, marking the 25th anniversary of the adoption of the Freedom charter in 1955. 1980 SACTU declares the year as…
PlaceMoletzie Bird Sanctuary
Polokwane means:'place of safety' and is quite appropriate as it protects the Cape Vulture! Endemic to Southern Africa, but a few individuals have been…
EventSANNC (ANC) meeting is attended by a large number of people
A meeting in Johannesburg, called by the South African Native National Congress, now African National Congress (ANC), is attended by a large number of people,…
EventPAC’s leader, Potlako Leballo confirms that Poqo is the organisation’s military wing
Potlako Leballo, the leader of the Pan Africanist Congress (PAC), confirmed in Maseru, Basutoland (now Lesotho), that Poqo and the PAC are one and the same…
The Struggle Over Land, The Basotho lose out
This section looks at the rise of the Basotho kingdom in the 19th Century. The people involved in this were the Basotho, the Boers and the British. Of these,…
ArticleAzanian People’s Organization (AZAPO)
In aftermath of the June 16 Uprising, the government cracked down on student activists and organisations alike. On 19 October 1977 the Black Consciousness…
ArticleBloemfontein Timeline 1824-2010
1824 The Matabele, underChief Mzilikazi, settle on Thaba Bosiu. 1833 The Baralong under Chief Moroka II settle at what was later known as ThabaNchu. …
EventP.W. Botha launches CONSAS at the Carlton Conference to eliminate “Marxist threat”
On 22 November 1979 South African prime minister P. W. Botha gathered business leaders together in a conference at the Carlton Hotel in Johannesburg. Here he…
EventProfessional soccer is introduced in SA when the National Football League is founded
In 1958, Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) officially recognised the White body of the Football Association of South Africa (FASA) as…
Speech on the Sixtieth Anniversary of the ANC, Lusaka by O. R. Tambo, 8 January 1972
We are gathered here today to commemorate sixty years of the formation and existence of the African National Congress of South Africa. And, let there be no…
Armed struggle & the advancement of the student and labour movements, 1967-1976
Introduction MK Sabotage. This photograph was part of a sequence shot by a Rand Daily Mail photographer, two of which were published in the and Daily Mail of…
Document 22 - Report of the first National Conference of Women held in the Trades Hall, Johannesburg, South Africa, 17 April 1954
… at a National Conference. Speaking in Zulu, Xhosa, Sesotho, English and Afrikaans, delegates from all parts of …
PlaceBram Fischer International Airport, Bloemfontein
Bram Fischer International Airport is an important Gateway to the Free State, a land-locked Province. The Airport was opened in November 1961 and the Runways…
EventThe South African Football Association (SAFA) is founded
The South African Football Association (SAFA) was founded on 8 December 1991 after a long period of racial segregation. Mluleki George was elected to serve as…
Bush Radio mourns, Professor William T. McClain (1923-2011)
One of Bush Radio’s board members and a strong anti-apartheid activist Professor William Tilden McClain passed away on Sunday the 02nd of October 2011. We at…
EventSoweto students march against government’s language policy
It all began as a peaceful protest march, but ended with violence, tears, blood and death of a 13 year old boy, Hector Peterson. The Soweto uprising began when…
PlaceGhwarrie Poort
The Ghwarrie Poort is located on the tarred N9 between the Karoo towns of Uniondale in the south and Willowmore in the north. The Poort is 14 kms long and…
EventDonald James Wood journalist and Anti apartheid activists is born
Donald James Woods was born in Elliotdale, Transkei on 15 December 1933. He was educated at Christian Brothers College in Kimberley. After completing his…
EventChief Mhlonthlo revolts against the British
Paramount Chief of the Mpondomise, Mhlonthlo, lured Hamilton Hope, the third resident magistrate at Tsolo in the Eastern Cape, and his staff to Sulenkama where…
PlaceFouriesburg
A small Town in the Eastern Free State, close to the Border to Lesotho. The start of the Town was made by a number of enterprising inhabitants who felt that a…
In summary: Factors resulting in the crisis
The emergence of South Africa's democracy in the 1990s The crisis of apartheid in the 1980s Factors contributing to the crisis: * A global economic crisis:…
Address by President Mandela at ECOWAS Abuja, 30 October 1998
Your Excellency, the Chair of ECOWAS Heads of State Excellencies Distinguished delegates Ladies and Gentlemen It is indeed an honour for me as the Chair…
Address at Conference on Southern Africa of the Socialist International and the Socialist Group of the European Parliament with the Frontline States, ANC and SWAPO by O. R. Tambo, Arusha, 4 September 1984
We bring to the distinguished participants of this conference greetings of the African National Congress and those of our membership as a whole. We cannot omit…
ArchiveStaffrider Vol.2 No.1 March 1979
Content and Contributors Soweto Speaking,Nhlanhla Paul Maake's Conversation Piece, Joe Masinga's, Bogus Cripple, Modase Mogotse, (Rustenburg)fNoorie…
The Construction of Whiteness/Blackness And The Invention of Miscegenation In South African Literary Texts of the 1920s and 1930 by Itala Vivan
… by the Paris Evangelical Missionary Society (PEMS) in the Sesotho language, and Mhudi by Solomon Tsikisho Plaatje, … of telling a story. Mofolo, who was…