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EventThe National Party (Transvaal) is founded
… (ANC). The NP attempted to re-invent itself as the New National Party, which acted as the opposition in the 1999 …
EventSouth African artist Gerard Sekoto is born
… He was the son of Andreas Sekoto, a leading member of the new Christian converts. Sekoto was schooled at Wonderhoek, …
EventFighting breaks out on the Johannesburg market square
… the miners on the Reef. In May 1913, the miners at the New Kleinfontein mine on the East Rand went on strike. Mine … Skyscrapericity.com, ‘Johannesburg,…
EventMarcus Garvey, Jamaican-born Black nationalist who advocated the departure of African-Americans back to Africa, is born.
… the United States, Garvey held his first public lecture in New York City. By May 1917, he had established the first UNIA …
EventPower Struggle in Zulu hierarchy
… reports that the King was planning to replace him with a new advisor, Prince Mcwayizeni Israel Zulu, a member of the …
PlaceRaadsaal, 95 St George’s Street, Bloemfontein
… In 1856 the Volksraad and Executive Committee moved to a new building, and the old structure continued to be used as a …
educating African youth and provision of large scale scholarships tenable in various
… legislation • termination of all political trials 5. Consequently the regime has failed and/or neglected to … create a climate conducive to peaceful…
65. Letter from the Natal Indian Congress to Smuts, 1945
… Africans edited by Surendra Bhana and Bridglal Pachai A new and younger set of persons, impatient with old methods of …
Introduction
… indelibly linked with the name of one man had ended. The new era had of necessity to plot its politics, draw up its …
EventC. Lindenberg Letty, botanical artist, is born
… artist. Three of her publications featured in the new national monetary coin series in 1961. In 1973 Letty … E.J. Verwey (ed), New dictionary of South…
EventSA national soccer team, Bafana Bafana, win the SA’s first ever FIFA sanctioned match.
… Mark Anderson and a mix that itself embodied the new non-racial South Africa. When the penalty was awarded in …
PlaceWalter Sisulu University, Mthatha- Eastern Cape
… Transkei; Border Technikon and Eastern Cape Technikon. The new University was named in honour of an icon of the South … The new University was named in…
EventThe National Union of Mineworkers start South Africa's longest wage strike
… was negotiated with the Chamber of Mines outlining new working conditions and wage increases for mineworkers. …
PlaceBloemhof, North West
… 1869, the South African Republic's Volksraad created a new district, called Bloemhof named after the Town itself. …
Archive2011 - President Zuma, State of the Nation Address, 10 February 2011
… transformation and inclusive growth. We have introduced a New Growth Path that will guide our work in achieving these … has significant mining assets,…
Chapter Seven - Re-examining the Past
… guarantees to be made to the "white minority group", in a new dispensation. "It is interesting," Gomas noted, "...to … 2 138!... By 1963 ... only ± 10 000…
Vasco da Gama’s Voyage of ‘Discovery’ 1497
… some gold; established trading rights, and forced the new Sultan of Mozambique to pay homage to the King of …
ArticleThe Sedition Trial 1946 - 1948
… gave evidence. One compound manager working for the New Kleinfontein Mine testified that while African workers …
Defining the term 'Bantu'
… to the ‘separate development’ policy was cemented. [5] The Preliminary Survey of the Bantu Tribes of South Africa … and official use of the terms African and…
The Dutch and the Khoisan
… Jan van Riebeeck left the Cape to become commander at the new post at Malacca in 1662 there were 40 free burghers with …
Article2014 South African platinum strike: longest wage strike in South Africa
… of their annual income, and it would take them roughly 2.5 years to recoup it through the recently negotiated wage … In a joint statement, the platinum…
Reports of the Passive Resistance Councils: Natal and Transvaal 1946 - 1947 by E.S. Reddy & Fatima Meer
… 1945. The Indian people of Natal had decided to give the new policy advocated by the Progressives a trial because they … and developed their political…
Document 91. ‘April 6: People’s Protest Day’. Flyer issued by the ANC (Transvaal) and the Transvaal Indian Congress
… of colour or creed. Document 93. Statement on violence in New Brighton, Port Elizabeth on October 18, by local ANC … National Congress (Natal), I have joined…
Chapter I - Learning to live a half life
… despite the setbacks along the road. Now we came into a new decade ”” the decade of the worst legal oppression yet known. As the years dragged by, each new…
Apartheid stakeholders - where are they now?
… the National Party to play a role of power sharing for a 5-year period (even though, for tactical reasons, they have … forces and assets have had to be…
Chapter 3 - Exploring the feasibility of negotiation
… of all parties could sit down to negotiate a new constitutional dispensation, which would have to be based … on basic constitutional principles to underpin…
Chapter VIII - Treason - South African style 1
… was now standing empty, it was central, spacious, it had a gallery ”” it would do for us! It was still unmistakably a … left of any social life. For several…
Statement by Oliver Tambo on 16 June 1984
… motherland have risen to meet the demands of the struggle. New leaders have emerged from among the people; old leaders … the centrepiece and the bedrock on…
Statement on June 16 by O. R. Tambo, 1984
… motherland have risen to meet the demands of the struggle. New leaders have emerged from among the people; old leaders … the centrepiece and the bedrock on…
Speech on the Occasion of the Celebration of the Twenty-First Anniversary of the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa by O. R. Tambo, Lusaka, 21 April 1979
… Africa. It must also be a struggle for the birth of a new international economic order in which development … His Excellency President Kaunda a few days ago…