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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 …
Event18 mineworkers die in Carletonville
… Another corpse was found later, bringing the total death toll to nineteen. The explosion did not disrupt mining, …
EventGeneral De la Rey protests British mistreatment of women and children
… conditions, malnutrition, diseases and in many instances, death. The scorched earth policy had been implemented by …
EventBritish establish first ‘refugee’ camps during the South African War
… children and 1 676 elderly men, died in these camps. The death toll in Black concentration camps, housing Africans who …
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…
ArticlePaul Kruger Timeline 1825-1904
… wife, Maria du Plessis dies. 1847 Paul Kruger marries his first wife's cousin, Gezina Susanna Frederika Wilhelmina … by the volksraad. 1851 Paul Kruger…
ArticleA timeline of Zuma-Gupta issues from Nenegate to the firing of Pravin Gordhan
… Thabo Mbeki is ousted as president of the ANC after his attempt to secure a third term as ANC president fails. He … recalled by the ANC. Zuma extends an…
Passive Resistance 1946 - A Selection of Documents compiled by E.S. Reddy & Fatima Meer - Foreword
… same result followed a year later when Dr Y.M. Dadoo and his group took over the leadership of the Transvaal Indian … and placed its resources at the…
The Broederbond by Norman Levy
… whose soul an inferiority complex has been created by the death and burial of its local cultural originality, finds … and sever the “golden chains of…
To All Fathers and Mothers, Brothers and Sisters, Friends and Workers, in All Cities, Towns and Villages in the Republic of South Africa. Flyer in English and Sesotho by the Soweto Students’ Representative Council, 15 October 1976
… is your own son and daughter that we bury every week-end. Death has become a common thing to us all in the townships. … dealers to obey this call. We cannot…
ArticleHigh Farce in the House
… butchery at a state-subsidised rental; that he had misused his office to improperly grant the rights to service stations to his friends; among others…
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…
ArticlePixley ka Isaka Seme Timeline 1881-1951
… Pixley ka Isaka Seme is born in Natal. 1906 Seme presents his speech at Columbia University on “The Regeneration of … Seme obtains a Bachelor's degree in…
PlaceSuurbraak, a Settlement in the Overberg Municipality
… oldest Mission Stations in the country. Following Helm’s death in 1848, his son, Daniel Helm, continued the mission work. Seidenfaden …
‘Where Do Whites Fit in?’: The portrayal of Black Consciousness and its effects on white liberals in Burger’s Daughter by Rebecca Trout
… by the black man of the need to rally together with his brothers around the cause of their operation – the … depicted between the position of Lionel Burger…
Bitter Battles to Come - Message to the Meeting of the Council of the Afro-Asian Peoples' Solidarity Organisation by O. R. Tambo, Tripoli, January 1971
… here it is appropriate to recall the tragic and ill-timed death of one of Africa's political giants and an unequalled leader of his people, the late…
Statement In Court By Dr. Dadoo And Dr. G. M. Naicker, When Charged With Aiding And Abetting Under The Immigrants Regulation Act Of 1913, February 26, 1948
… reasonable to presume that the then Minister exceeded his powers in deeming the whole Indian community to be … of the greatest men of all time, Mahatma…
Address by President Mandela on receiving the freedom of Boksburg Boksburg, 26 June 1997
… Hani when he returned from exile, and the tragic scene of his death. Today this place of historic conflicts is in many ways …
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1900s
… on the Delagoa line to Machadodorp, where he lives on his train carriage. 11 September, Accompanied by his private secretary, Paul Kruger crosses the…
ArchiveThe Man Before Mandela by Steven Gish
… missionary schools as a boy. He wanted to continue his education overseas in an era when higher education was … led by Booker T. Washington. He would…
Speech by Oliver Tambo on the occasion of the award of an honorary Doctorate to Nelson Mandela by the Karl Marx University of the German Democratic Republic, 11 November 1987, Leipzig
… and to receive this prestigious award in his name and on his behalf. I know that he in turn regards this great honour … forces are being aided by State…
Speech on the Occasion of the Award of an Honorary Doctorate to Nelson Mandela by The Karl Marx University of the German Democratic Republic by O. R. Tambo, Leipzig, 11 November 1987
… and to receive this prestigious award in his name and on his behalf. I know that he in turn regards this great honour … forces are being aided by State…
EventAmy Johnson, a female aviator, lands in Cape Town in record time
… body was never recovered. The events leading to Johnson's death are still a mystery. There is no doubt, however, of the …
EventForces of the White Rhodesian regime (UDI) attack a nationalist guerrilla base in Mozambique
… out in Mozambique on 18 October 1978, resulting in the death of over 200 people. Soon after this event, however, a …
PlaceMooivallei, Dairy Farm
… previously farmed in the interior. He was accompanied by his second wife, Lilian Isabel Elizabeth Moon of the … in 1911 and died at the age of seven…
Forward to Mass Action for People's Power! Message of the National Executive Committee of the ANC on the 77th Anniversary of the ANC by O. R. Tambo, 8 January 1989
… year of struggle. Whatever its capacity for repression and death, the apartheid regime continued to suffer reverses both … apartheid regime. Whatever the…
January 8th Statements - Statement of the National Executive Committee on the occasion of the 77th Anniversary of the ANC - 8 January 1989
… year of struggle. Whatever its capacity for repression and death, the apartheid regime continued to suffer reverses both … apartheid regime. Whatever the…
ArticleResponses in South Africa to the outbreak of WWI: The Formation of the International Socialist League (ISL)
… he wrote, "it is the right and duty of every man to use his own intelligence in deciding whether or not the terrible … duty of every man, whether he up…
Ethnicity in Post-Apartheid Discourse: Deconstructing South Africa’s Racial Narrative by Joshua Richman
… “has grown complacent with success”, this paper answers his call to specify “how ethnicity is constructed” (2002: … where, out of 2000 entries, “at least 70%…