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EventAt least 150 people die in clashes between the ANC and IFP
… (ANC) and Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) and resulted in the death of at least 150 people on 15 August 1990. A third force …
EventAngolan government signs peace treaty with UNITA
… processes by the UN, fighting only stopped at the death of Savimbi in battle in 2002. Since the beginning of …
EventValliamma Munuswamy Mudaliar, SA political activist dies from a fever
… her release from prison. Gandhi, who visited her at her death bed, designed the Indian flag with the colours …
ArticleThabo Mbeki (1942 - ) Timeline
… family records are destroyed in the process. This forces his father, Govan to migrate to Johannesburg in search of work opportunities in order to provide for…
ArticleFatima Meer Timeline 1928-2010
… protests after the Soweto student protests and the death of hundreds Fatima Meer worked closely with South … following a stroke she suffered two weeks before…
EventExtracts from one of South African President Thabo Mbeki's most stirring speeches
… eye and suffers the suffering of a simple peasant folk, death, concentration camps, destroyed homesteads, a dream in … annul the injunction that God created…
BiographyShaleen Surtie-Richards
… through her work. President Cyril Ramaphosa also expressed his sadness at the passing of the veteran educator-turned …
Speech by Oliver Tambo at Solomon Mahlangu Freedom College, 02 May 1984, Mazimbu, Tanzania
… that there are no leaders in South Africa? How genuine are his talks with Mozambique and everybody else? And therefore his bona fides, his honesty, is being…
We are a Force - Speech at Solomon Mahlangu Freedom College by O. R. Tambo, Mazimbu, Tanzania, May 1984
… that there are no leaders in South Africa? How genuine are his talks with Mozambique and everybody else? And therefore his bona fides, his honesty, is being…
Indian South Africans timeline 2000s
… was honoured by the House of Traditional Leaders for his role in the underground struggle. His son, Dr Daya Appavoo, received a scroll on his behalf at Kidds…
ArticleJohn Maxwell Coetzee timeline 1940-2003
… magistrate who begins to question the motives of his employers, and receives critical acclaim in Coetzee's country as well as his first recognition…
Yusuf Dadoo Timeline: 1910 - 1919
… , a Cambridge University graduate and a barrister and his companions are imprisoned for their opposition to … the Gandhi – Smuts Agreement , Gandhi…
Notes for address by President Nelson Mandela at a breakfast of the Raadzaal Rotary Club 17 September 1994
… land-owners and imperialists and every Bantu peasant and his family will be able to have as much land as they can use. … locusts, and these pests will no…
ArticleTimeline of the Bulhoek Massacre
… Mgijima, who had already gained quite a reputation in his region as a lay preacher and as an independent … evangelist, has a vision while hunting small game…
ArticleNapoleon Bonaparte
… Bonaparte rapidly in the ranks of the French army and his victories over France’s enemies soon made him a popular … a director from 1799 to 1815. Napoleon…
Chapter 5 - Basotho - Their Last Supper
… of the utter poverty in which she was nurtured. Receiving his money, he said that his dead child put more money into his hands at one time, … 11 December, it…
Briefing to organisation of African Unity Kampala, September 8, 1990
… similar to that of Renamo which had caused enormous death and destruction in Mozambique. They had incited … irrespective of tribal origins and political…
The diary of Maria Tholo - August 16 - 24 by Carol Hermer
… I saw in hospital Thursday night but they already knew of his whereabouts. I had quite a shock later. Arthur came to … shot at Langa was one of the Mosi…
46. The Gandhi-Smuts compromise explained
… and Bridglal Pachai On 28 January 1908, Gandhi and two of his colleagues, Leuing Quinn and Thambi Naidoo, wrote from … dialogue reproduced below, Gandhi…
ArticleDr Alfred Bitini Xuma Timeline 1893-1998
… Xuma arrives in the United States of America to further his studies at Tuskegee Institute in Alabama, specialising in … commencement ceremony. 13 July…
The armed struggle and state repression of the 1960s
… They were all sentenced to life imprisonment, and the death penalty was not handed out. Goldberg was sent to …
ArticleNational symbols such as the Coat of Arms and the National Anthem
… important documents which include: your birth certificate; death certificate, school and marriage certificates. It can …
ArticleDr G M 'Monty' Naicker - Timeline
… 1927 - Enrolled at Marine College and prepared for his Matric. 1928, March 10 - Left for Edinburgh to study … social and sporting activities as earnestly as…
ArticleMoses Kotane Timeline
… years Kotane moves from job to job but is dissatisfied by his low wages and the inability to get closer to his goals. 1928 During his employment at a bakery…
ArticleRobert Mangaliso Sobukwe Timeline 1924 - 1978
… Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe). He is influenced by one of his lecturers, Cecil Ntloko, a follower of the All-African … Congress Youth League (ANCYL) at Fort Hare…
Closing speech by Oliver Tambo at the ANC conference "Peoples of the world united against apartheid, for a democratic South Africa", 04 December 1987, Arusha
… a watershed in the history of our struggle. Apartheid is Death As we close our Conference, the dark clouds of war are … gathered over the people of Botswana…
Closing Speech at the ANC Conference "Peoples Of The World United Against Apartheid, For A Democratic South Africa" by O. R. Tambo, Arusha, 4 December 1987
… a watershed in the history of our struggle. Apartheid is Death As we close our Conference, the dark clouds of war are … gathered over the people of Botswana…
ArchiveChapter 10 Problems of imprisonment by Denis Goldberg
… after he was released from prison in 1965 at the end of his three year-sentence. He exposed the reality of the … information about prisons. That was an…
ArticleNelson Mandela Timeline 1940-1949
… boarding house food and a very low SRC poll, he followed his conscience and resigned. The head of the University gave … him to return to university after the…
ArticleZion Christian Church (ZCC)
… was initially a member of the ZAC following the healing of his eye ailment through the tri-baptismal the church … Lekganyane left ZAFM late 1924 or early…