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January 8th Statements - Statement of the National Executive Committee on the occasion of the 75th Anniversary of the ANC - 8 January 1987
Today, January 8th, 1987, your organisation, the African National Congress, is 75 years old. Con sequently, we are honour bound to do more than observe an…
January 8th Statements - Statement of the National Executive Committee on the occasion of the 74th Anniversary of the ANC - 8 January 1986
Compatriots, As the New Year begins, and on the occasion of the 74th anniversary of your vanguard movement, the African National Congress, we extend to you…
January 8th Statements - Statement of the National Executive Committee on the occasion of the 73th Anniversary of the ANC 8 January 1985
Compatriots A new year has begun, bringing with it fresh hopes and new challenges. I am sure that I express our collective conviction when I say that during…
January 8th Statements -Statement of the National Executive Committee on the occasion of the 72th Anniversary of the ANC - 8 January 1984
Dear Compatriots, Brothers and Sisters in the Struggle, Comrades Today, the 8th January, your organisation, the African National Congress, is 72 years…
Soweto school violence, 9 June 1976
Soweto pupils riot - six dead, 16 June 1976
Soweto pupils stone police van, 10 June 1976
Scrap Afrikaans call, 21 June 1976
Schools language dispute began in 1974
Reaping the whirlwind 18 June 1976
PRP and UP calss to scrap rule 17 June 1976
Ministers visit Soweto 24 June 1976
Looting, burning as riots continue 17 June 1976
Child’s moment of Agony 17 June 1976
Education chief faces - Who to Blame - storm 20 June 1976
Children in revolt - Soweto strikers reject Afrikaans 13 June 1976
Cape Time’s articles 18 June 1976
Afrikaans rule not rigid, Blacks told 21 June 1976
The Riots Special Report Illustration
Launch of May I have this Dance by Connie Ngcaba
Pondoland’s heroes to be honoured
The New Radicals: A generational memoir of the 1970’s
EventLindiwe Sisulu is detained
On 13 June 1976, Lindiwe Nonceba Sisulu was detained for her involvement in political activities. The police suspected her of being in possessions of the then…
EventFour ANC members killed in an ambush near Piet Retief, eastern Transvaal
On 8 June 1988, Surendra Lenny Naidu, Lindiwe Mthembu, Makhosi Nyoka and Nontsikelelo Cothoza, all African National Congress (ANC) members were shot dead when…
EventPresident. F.W. de Klerk lifts the state of emergency
On 7 June 1990, former South African President, F W de Klerk, announced the end of South Africa’s four year old state of emergency. Immediately after that, he…
Kaizer CHIEFS Legend passes away at the age of 43
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EventSir James Liege Hulett dies in Durban, South Africa
Sir James Liege Hulett was born on 17 May 1838 in South Yorkshire, England. In 1857, at the age of 19, he came to South Africa. Sir Hulett founded Tongaat…
EventWife of detained Nigerian president is killed
On 4 June 1996, Kudirat Abiola the wife of Moshood Abiola, the detained Nigerian President, was gunned down at close range by three unknown men while she was…
EventChurch bombing kills 15 people in Nigeria.
On 3 June 2012, a suicide bomber forced his car, filled with explosives, through a checkpoint and exploded, killing people at the Living Faith Church in Bauchi…