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Opening Statement at the Second National Consultative Conference of the ANC by O. R. Tambo, Kabwe, Zambia, 16 June, 1985
… these excellent conditions, thanks to a decision taken by His Excellency Comrade President Kenneth Kaunda and the … moment we should extend our heartfelt…
Book 6: Negotiation, Transition and Freedom - Chapter 2 - Explaining the Miracle by Max du Preez
… first president. The same aircraft which had bombed his followers in neighbouring states did a fly-past to honour … And next to the new president stood one…
ArticleArmed Struggle, the anti-apartheid struggle accelerates 1984-1990
… of Mr. Mandela’s freedom. It is he himself. The choice is his.’ Although Mandela refused to change his stand and remained in prison, this incident…
ArticleThe Information Scandal
… Prime Minister. However, the Muldergate scandal would ruin his political career. The central figures in the scandal … an unknown source that trusted that…
ArticleThe Zulu kingdom and the colony of Natal
… the few journalists to denounce the system of indenture, his work provides us with a dynamic account of the miseries of the indentured Indian in Natal, to…
Mission Stations - A-F
… this with fortitude. He took the precaution to cover in his house with a terrace, instead of an ordinary roof, in order to be safe from fire, and to secure a…
PlaceTranskei
… " cattle killing " led to the starvation, and ultimate death of some 70 000 Xhosa people. In a brief period of 6 … politics of the homeland. Although chief…
Chapter 8- Gumede walks the ANC and SACP tightrope, 1930–46‘
… areas. Yet it is striking that Gumede was allowed to voice his protests at numerous political rallies. This phenomenon … on the historical developments and…
The Role of the Missionaries in conquest - Chapter I - The Missionary Movement where it came from
… Missionary Society in Southern Africa, in building up his reputation as the "defender" first of the Khoikhoin and … Acts was imprisonment without trial, or…
ArticleSouth African General Timeline 1976
… in a large plane to Moscow. February, Siphiwe Nyanda tells his parents about his plan to leave the country. February, Jacob Zuma came back … titled ‘The…
ArticleSouthern Methodist University Partnership Project - 2012 submissions
… He is from Lost Altos Hills, California and likes spending his time with his dogs or playing sports. Project: PEBCO 3 and the TRC … watching soccer,…
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1600s
… India Company fleet of England , rounds the Cape again on his way to the East. 1602 20 March , The Vereenigde Landsche … (Herry) asks passing sailors to…
ArchiveBiography of Dulcie September by Claire Albin
… of September’s activist work and influence, her tragic death in 1988 was never fully investigated, and remains one … life, career as an anti-apartheid…
Address to the 21st Session of the Assembly of Heads of State and Government of the OAU by O.R. Tambo, Addis Ababa, 19 July 1985
… fathers of our continental organisation. Prior to that his vision of a liberated Africa had led him to establish … PAFMECSA - the forerunner to the present…
EventInkatha Freedom Party is concerned about stability
… All were members of the African National Congress. The death of Xolo came after a series of killings and arson. …
Event523 people die in the Black concentration camps of the Second Anglo Boer War
… typhoid fever, diphtheria and dysentery resulted in the death of 1 in every 5 people. 26 370 Boer women and children …
EventMore than 400 miners killed in what was the worst mining disaster in South Africa
… miners were suffocated by methane gas and crushed to death by rockfall. No machine capable of drilling holes large …
EventMultiparty negotiating forum meets for the first time since December 1993
… hypocrisy and no more than cheap politicking on life-and-death issues. Buthelezi's statement came out despite the four …
ArticleMahatma Karamchand Gandhi Timeline 1869-1948
… if the events. This timeline covers the major events of his life and his struggle. …
The Legal Veneer
… a State of Emergency in part or all of South Africa, if in his opinion 'it appears that circumstances have arisen which … in the country was by no means…
A new total strategy emerges July 1990 -June 1991
… the HRC has become aware of 2 major effects. Firstly, death and injury caused to the community primarily in the … in activities falling outside the…
ArticleKey sites
… was one of Nelson Mandela’s favourite restaurants before his incarceration in jail. Kapitan Balcony Hotel closed in … W. MacDonald was paid a salary of 25…
Grade 12 - Topic 4 - The end of the Cold War and a new global world order 1989 to present
… Leopold ideas reflected the racist ideas of most of his European counterparts at the time. He thought that Africa was "stagnant, primitive and dark", and…
ArticleAn Introduction to Sophiatown
… acres of land, laid out the streets, and named them after his children and family - Edith, Gerty, Bertha, Toby, Sol - and called the suburb-to-be Sophiatown…
Chapter 9 - People’s Education and People’s Power: Mobilisation and Collective Action
… bantustan. Buthelezi was intensely disliked by SANSCO for his participation in the bantustan system and his use of bantustan institutions to engage in ethnic…
EventSandra Smith is the last woman to be executed in South Africa
… executions. Under the democratic dispensation, the death penalty was completely abolished, bringing an end to a …
EventQueen Elizabeth ascends to the throne
… Queen Elizabeth I ascended to the throne following the death of her half-sister, Mary. The Queen of England, who was …
EventUN report accuses Katangan President and Congo President of conspiracy to murder Patrice Lumumba
… ties with Moscow. In the entire discourse on the death of Lumumba, the role of the United Nations is seldom …
EventFatima Meer is banned for a second time
… of African National Congress(ANC) members sentenced to death, and mobilised support for their families, as well as …
EventJonas de la Guerre leaves the Cape in an expedition to the north
… was then forced to eat their oxen and walk back, or face death. They eventually returned to the Cape on 22 January …