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EventNames of 303 banned people are published
… 235 were not. Amongst this last group have been Liberal Party members. The strict security legislation aroused huge …
EventDr Louis Luyt is born
… of SARFU in May 1998. Luyt founded the Federal Alliance Party (FA) in 1998, which he personally bankrolled. The FA …
EventHarold Strachan is served with restriction order
… Air Force pilot in World War 2 and member of the Communist Party of South Africa (CPSA) and Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK), the …
EventNP Secretary-General Stoffel Van der Merwe resigns
… F.W. de Klerk to take up the appointment of National Party (NP) secretary-general, a post which he held for only …
EventNelson Mandela announces intentions on nationalisation policy
… (ANC) Deputy President Nelson Mandela stated that his party was prepared to abandon its long-held policy of …
EventANC stage marches in major cities
… the political prisoners, responded by re-assuring the party that the due processes had to be followed in releasing …
EventThe Santo Alberto is wrecked
… considerable contact with the Bantu in the area. Another party was not so fortunate - of a group of twenty-eight who …
EventZimbabwean politician and trade unionist Morgan Tsvangirai is born
… policies and broke away from ZANU-PF to form his own party, the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC). The MDC …
EventHelen Zille, former leader of the Democratic Alliance, is born in Johannesburg
… the Black Sash . In the 1990s Zille joined the Democratic Party (now the Democratic Alliance). She became a member of …
Book 6: Negotiation, Transition and Freedom commissioned by The Department of Education
… is the 1994 transfer of political power from the National Party (NP) to the African National Congress (ANC). Contrary …
ArticleSignificance of the Congress of the People and the Freedom Charter
… Congress of Trade Unions and the South African Communist Party. This remarkable organisational development and growth …
Statement by Reverend Gabriel Seteloane at the special meeting of the Special Committee against Apartheid in Atlanta to pay tribute to the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., on the 50th anniversary of his birth, 16 January 1979
… Looking back on the words of the Ambassador of the United States of America to the United Nations when he spoke here; he knows better than … it is an…
Statement on Human Rights Year by Oliver Tambo, 01 June 1968
… people therefore, the adoption of the Declaration by the United Nations General Assembly in 1948 had a special … history. This occurred in open and direct…
Address at a Public Rally Dar Es Salaam Dar Es Salaam, 17 November 1998
… to meeting the basic need of Africa's children. As we had united for the liberation of Africa, in this new era we are … people can have. We are proud that…
Address by President Nelson Mandela North West stadium Welkom, 27 August 1995
… your communities. Now, more than ever, communities must be united. Unity is vital for the implementation of the RDP in … and weaken communities. We brought…
Opening Address to the ANC National Consultative Conference by O. R. Tambo, Johannesburg, 14 December 1990
… the Harare Declaration which has since been adopted by the United Nations, albeit with some modifications, should not be … has triumphed in the country. Even…
Address by the President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki, on the occasion of the unveiling of the FIFA Soccer World Cup South Africa 2010 emblem, Tempodrom, Berlin 7 July 2006
… to the changing fortunes of Germany from a divided to a re-united nation in a spirit of reconciliation, togetherness and … Lisbon and the Heracles Clubs…
ArticleThe banning of the South African Students Organisation (SASO) and student politics in the 1980s
… believed to have been supporters of the Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP). In 1982 university management at Ngoye attempted … be management’s puppet. The…
ArchiveThe South African Choir’s pathbreaking tour: 1891 – 1893 by Martin Plaut, 6 January 2017
… South Africans and the African American community in the United States played an important part in the development of … successful tour through Canada the…
"What I think of Macmillan`s speech": Article by Albert Luthuli, 1 March 1960
… disappointed by the stand of the representatives of the United Kingdom at the United Nations, when most nations, lately including the USA, …
Hastings Banda, the early years by Angela Thompsell updated 01 March 2016
… on foot – in search of work in the mining sector. Doctor : United States, Britain, and Ghana However, he came to be … who helped secure him entry to college…
PlaceSenegal
… transition of power, and its first from one political party to another. It was also a move from one party state towards multiparty democracy. Senegal has a…
Steve Biko: Gone but not forgotten by Robin Comley and Claire Keeton (Times Live), 12 September 2017
… those days we used to jol all the time, any excuse for a party after the hard work! “Steve had such a light-hearted … we came across a group of students…
Address to CODESA by comrade Nelson R. Mandela, President of the ANC 20 December 1991
… CODESA is most appropriate. We welcome the guests from the United Nations Organisations;the Organisation of African … will also hinge on the confidence by…
A new total strategy emerges July 1990 -June 1991
… their transformation from underground movements into open party political structures, organising their constituencies … did not materialise and the creation…
PlaceTogo
… and French governments placed the territories under United Nations. Ten years later British Togoland was …
EventDutch Foreign Minister Luns is asked by the Johannesburg
… what the Dutch would do if South Africa was to get up in United Nations and condemned Holland for repressing the …
EventCheryl Carolus is born
… (SASO). She was one of the founding members of the United Democratic Front (UDF) in 1983 and served as the …
EventHosni Mubarak, President of Egypt is born
… Arab leader in the Middle East and is a close ally of the United States. Among his most prominent accomplishments is …
EventPrime Minister Vorster holds talks with Dr. Kissinger
… Balthazar Johannes (B.J) Vorster held talks with the United States Secretary of State, Dr. Henry Kissinger, on 23 …