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Event33 American airmen arrive in Durban on a mission to launch a long-range missile
… for a mission to launch a long-range rocket which the United States hoped would be accomplished within a week. The …
EventUN Special Committee on Apartheid urges a boycott of all SA racist sporting organizations
… The United Nations Special Committee on Apartheid urged a boycott …
EventAbram Fischer fails to arrive in court
… being a member of the banned organisation, the Communist Party of South Africa. He was served with life imprisonment. …
EventThe ‘Afrikaner Volksfront’ is founded
… as result of mounting right wing resistance to the multi party negotiation process held at Kempton Park. …
EventChris Hani is elected SACP Secretary
… as secretary-general of the South African Communist Party (SACP) at its first legal congress in four decades …
EventANC members meet with Adriaan Vlok and Gen. Magnus Malan
… violence in the townships between ANC and Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) supporters. …
EventCOSATU withdraws from parliamentary session on budget
… parties also raised their discontent. The Democratic Party claimed that the budget made provision for high taxes, …
EventNatoo Babenia is born
… National Congress (ANC), South African Communist Party (SACP) and Umkhonto We Sizwe (MK) and served sixteen … of a Saboteur (REVIEW) , from South African…
EventEli Weinberg, trade unionist and photographer, is born
… Libau, Latvia. Weinberg was a trade unionist and communist party member. He co-founded the African Garment Workers' …
EventJB Marks is born
… and was a staunch member of the South African Communist Party (SACP) and the African national Congress (ANC). …
EventIFP makes election threat
… Officials of the Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) announced that they would not present their list …
ArticlePass Laws and Sharpeville Massacre
… campaigns were organised in the 1930s by the Communist Party of South Africa (CPSA) and various trade unions. The … to discrimination became necessary after…
Extract from a speech at the conclusion of the Republic Festival on 31 May 1971 at Goodwood, Cape
… so. Ten years ago the Republican issue was a contentious party political matter. Now, today, it is the accepted belief … and financial difficulties and…
EventThe International Labour Organisation calls for South Africa’s withdrawal at the Geneva Conference
… labour standards. It is the only 'tripartite' United Nations agency that brings together representatives of …
EventThe Luanda International Jazz Festival is launched in Luanda, Angola
… brought together jazz artists from Angola, Brazil, United States, South Africa and many other countries. Amongst …
EventCourt commutes James Mange’s sentence
… campaign led by international bodies such as the United Nations, Organisation of African Unity (now AU), …
EventSA tenor Johan Botha is born
… in Roodepoort. He travels extensively in Europe and the United States and is a popular performer at the world's major …
EventUN warns Africa of the scourge of HIV
… The United Nations states in Addis Adaba that more than eighty … he people History," UN 2005 United Nations Africa and Aids March 4th, 2005 ",From: The …
EventPresent UN headquarters is opened
… The international peace keeping body, the United Nations (UN), which had replaced the League of Nations … The Star, 09 th Jan 2004, Milestones,| United…
Zonal Centenary Memorial Lecture on the Life and Times of David Bopape, presented by David Makhura, ANC Gauteng Provincial Secretary, 21 June 2012, Tsakane
… afford to buy decent clothes. Bopape joins the Communist Party and becomes a leading African Communist Through his … Bopape came into contact with the…
ANC NGC – The Good, The Bad And The Ugly by Marius Strydom (News24 Voices), 12 October 2015
… political competition is needed to galvanise the ruling party to perform better . It appears as if the increased … will change anytime soon, there is a…
Women’s Food Committees in Cape Town during the 1940s
… of food during the Second World War . The Communist Party of South Africa (CPSA, now SACP) was quick to become …
NUSAS talks to the ANC
… relationship of the ANC with the South African Communist Party and socialist countries. …
EventTunisia gains independence from France
… the French and the Neo-Destour (“New Constitution”) party, which was backed by the trade unions. Tunisia, located …
EventZambia gains independence from Britain
… Kaunda, the country’s first president, proclaimed one-party rule at independence. . Their independence came four …
EventKwame Nkrumah orders release of political prisoners
… which had rejected multiparty rule in favour of one party rule and scientific socialism. …
EventMinister Kobie Coetsee on meeting between Botha and Mandela
… Congress (ANC) ties with the South African Communist Party (SACP). …
EventNelson Mandela is inaugurated as South Africa’s first democratic President
… on 10 May 1994.. He replaced the outgoing National Party leader F.W. de Klerk as President. Mandela spent the …
EventNigerian President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua is inaugurated
… rivals were MuhammadBuhari of the All Nigeria People's Party (ANPP) and Vice President Atiku Abubakar. …
ArticleThe Seriti Commission
… in their home countries [xxxix] . Authorities in the United Kingdom accused BAE Systems of paying R2.1 billion in …