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EventMaude Francis Eyston Sumner, SA painter, is born
… On 16 September 1902 Maude Francis Eyston Sumner, SA painter, …
EventStandard Bank becomes the first bank to opens its doors on the Witwatersrand
… The bank has grown to span 17 African countries and 16 countries across South East Asia, Latin America and …
EventEdenburg is founded
The church village Edenburg in the Orange Free State was established when the farm Rietfontein was purchased to build a church. The initial application for…
EventProfessor Roland Levinsky, world leading researcher in biomedicine dies
… in South Africa to a British mother and Jewish father on 16 October 1943. His father was born in the Lethuania/Poland …
Founding members of friends of United Democratic Front
… forum for 8 years, Nadine Gordimer is the author of 16 novels and short story collections, Richard Luyt was a …
EventDRC President Laurent Kabila is assassinated
… On 16 January 2001, Laurent Kabila President of the Democratic …
ArticleUrban Removals - the Destruction of Sophiatown
… of Sophiatown and the resettlement of the community in Soweto was defeated during voting. To realise its objective … to Meadowlands and later to Diepkloof…
PlaceKuGompo was called East London, Eastern Cape
… turned further East. The need became more pressing after 16 June 1835 when Governor Sir Benjamin D'Urban proclaimed a …
EventThe Natal Legislature plans to introduce the Indian Franchise Bill
… On 28 June 1894 the Natal Legislature planned to introduce the … for disenfranchising Indians. On the previous day (27 June 1894) Indian and civil rights…
EventSA signs multilateral treaty on the civil liability for oil pollution damage
… On 19 June 1975, South Africa signed a multilateral treaty on the … most publicized oil spill in recent history took place in June 1994, when the Apollo Sea,…
Christmas and New Year Message by O. R. Tambo, Distributed Illegally in South Africa, December 1973
… year which has passed our people - the workers, peasants, youth and professional groups - have begun to show a renewed …
EventANC launches mass boycott of Bantu Education
… handed over leadership to the Women's League and Congress Youth League. Some learners returned to school and those who …
EventAdelaide Tambo returns to South Africa after 30 years
… Congress (ANC). At the age of 18, she joined the ANC Youth League, where she met Oliver Tambo. The Tambos' were …
Dawn
… sectors of the oppressed population, including women and youth and demands were made for the release of ANC leaders …
ArticleSouth Africa and the United Nations, 1946-1990
… and the Security Council echoed this call in 1974. On 16 December 1974 the General assembly recommended that South … General. The transitional government…
ArticleUniversity of Witwatersrand Student Protests 2015 Timeline
… meet before their access cards were shut off on Monday 1 June. It was during the course of this office sit-in wherein … to assist with regulating student…
Dare you Ponder the Obvious: Of course Mbeki is Aloof by Thabo Mbeki, 1 February 2016
… a pro-democracy think tank in Johannesburg.” In June 2013, the Daily Maverick published an article by Ranjeni … and the Chairs and Secretaries of the Women’s…
Biography of Johnny ‘Mbizo’ Dyani by Brandon Norman
… biographer suggests that Johnny was actually born in on 4 June 1947 in Zeleni Location near King Williams Town. [1] The … the Dudu Pakwana and Mongezi Feza…
PlaceAlbasini Dam, Limpopo
… his Residence, on the Western Bank of the Phabenspruit are 16 km North-West of Pretoriuskop, has been declared a …
EventThe Rev. Allan Hendrickse steps down as a leader of the Labour Party
… 2004. Hendrickse died of a heart attack at the age 77 on 16 March 2005. …
EventSudanese-born basketball player and political activist, Manute Bol is born
… Manute Bol was born in Turalei, Sudan on 16 October 1965. He came from a family of tall people; both …
Event270 workers charged with Marikana Massacre
… connected with the fateful event that took place on the 16 August 2012,whereby the South African police services …
ArticleSocialism
Socialism is a political and economic ideology aiming to create a society where all members distribute resources and wealth equally. It is based on the belief…
ArchiveCHAPTER SEVEN: Resistance Politics In Retreat: Cablism, The ANC Underground And Gandhi, 1985-1989 by Kumi Naidoo
This chapter comes from the book
January 8th Statements -Statement of the National Executive Committee on the occasion of the 91th Anniversary of the ANC - 8 January 2003
… religious bodies, business organisations, women and youth structures as well as other organisations to ensure … The programme must involve especially the…
Statement at the meeting of the Special Committee against Apartheid in observance of the International Day of Solidarity with the Struggle of Women in South Africa and Namibia, 11 August 1981
… At the commemoration of South African Freedom Day, on 26 June 1959 - the last semi-legal national conference before … and to unequal educational facilities,…
EventLabour Party Colonel Creswell’s move to support the war wins majority
… Mayibuye Books. Available at www.sacp.org.za [Accessed: 30 June 2011] Wentzel E. ‘Major General Sir Henry Timson Lukin … [online] Available at www.schola.sun…
EventPatrice Lumumba, former Prime Minister of the Democratic Republic of Congo, is shot
… with 33 of the 137 seats. Lumumba became Prime Minister in June with an uncomfortable coalition with his rival, Joseph … The independent Republic of the…
EventLuthuli Combat Detachment crosses the Zambezi
… [online] Available at www.anc.org.za [Accessed: 17 June 2011] SAHO, (n.d.), ‘Umkhonto we Sizwe’ from South … [online] Available at www.sahistory.org.za …
Event11 die when the South African Defence Force (SADF) opens fire on negotiators in Sebokeng
… the country. Figures states that between July 1990 and June 1991, over 2000 violent incidences occurred, which were … attacks, such as those that later…