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EventArchbishop Desmond Tutu is arrested
… movements and government led to the release of all political prisoners. Sources: Wallis, F. (2000). Nuusdagboek: …
EventTutu and Mkhatshwa join solidarity fast
… State of Emergency be lifted throughout the country, all political prisoners be released, and the South African …
EventFormer Cabinet Minister Dullah Omar dies
… for a BA LLB degree and later became a lawyer, taking on political trials. He joined the United Democratic Front (UDF) …
EventAlfred Milner becomes High Commissioner and Governor of the Cape Province
… Governor of the Cape Province in 1897. His efforts to gain political rights for the "Uitlanders" (foreigners who flocked …
EventSouth Africa’s first multiracial elections start
… the unbanning of the liberation movements and release of political prisoners, SA held its first multi-racial …
EventThirteen residents are gunned down in Mamelodi by South African police
… six months of the Emergency, 575 people were killed in political violence – more than half killed by the police. …
EventNelson Mandela arrives on Robben Island to serve his five-year sentence
… at Pretoria Central Prison where he met his old friend and political opponent Robert Sobukwe, the leader of the …
EventDr. Neville Alexander and four others are found guilty of sabotage
… to the ‘overthrow of the state, irrespective of their political ideology’. In 1974, Alexander was released from …
EventThe Esso Oil Company closes its business in South Africa
… on 31 December 1986. The country was at the height of political conflict and violence that made it hard for most …
EventMore than 2,250 people are arrested in the township of Sebokeng
… the end of the year almost 150 people had been killed in political violence, which increased to 600 by September 1985 …
EventSouth Africa’s TRC begins its formal hearings into Human Rights Violations
… from all members of South African society about political crimes, violence and human rights abuses that had …
EventChief Albert Luthuli is banned for a further five years
… the banning orders Luthuli decisively continued with his political activities until his latter days. Additionally … Schoeman, E. & Andor, L.E. (Eds) (1999)…
EventANC’s Walter Sisulu and Duma Nokwe rally support against Urban Bantu Councils Act
… Act in April 1960, were forced to conduct their political activities underground. …
Address of the President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki, on the occasion of Women’’s Day: Ga-Motlatla, Ditsobotla Local Municipality, North-West Province, 9 August 2008
… includes giving priority to women in terms of services and economic opportunities provided by government. Today I will … new South Africa, and real…
ADDRESS AT THE SCOTTISH PARLIAMENT, 13 June 2001
… of colonies in South Africa to move towards a non-racial political order, until the qualified non-racial franchise and … In more recent years, the Scottish…
The Story of PR Pather, the grand old man of Indian politics in South Africa: Chapter Three - By Riashnee Pather
… in 1945, PR Pather continued to be involved in public and political affairs. This chapter will trace the path that he … about the role that women were…
Say It out Loud - The 1913 Presidential Address, Kimberley, Cape, 11th October, 1913
… address by Dr. A Abdurahman, President of the African Political Organization (APO), Kimberley , 29 September 1913, … one bond of loyality, and we believe…
ArticleThe missionaries
… their education from mission schools. As the socio-political history of the Pondos changed, land became the …
ArticlePan-Africanism
… Pan-Africanism has often taken the shape of a political or cultural movement. There are many varieties of …
ArticleCommemoration, remembering and memorialising June 16 Soweto uprising
… memory and commemoration making of June 16. In the 1990s, political prisoners were released, liberation movements were …
European Societies in the Middle Ages
… Read this paper by Walter S. Zapotoczny titled ‘The Political and Social Consequences of the Black Death, 1348 – …
ArticleAfrica Timeline
… emerge into one. 3100 BC Egypt is consolidated into one political entity under the pharaoh, Narmer, who is the … of the nation’s most powerful pre-modern…
Address at the AGM of the SADC Electoral Commissions Forum Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania 27 September, 1999
… Throughout the post-colonial period, the so-called political class and the intelligentsia of our Continent have … one-party system, the mere fact of the…
Nelson Mandela Letter to F.W. de Klerk, 9 July 1992
… by the factual inaccuracies, distortions and blatant party political propaganda involved in the manner in which you … to say nothing about its gross…
A.I. Kajee His Work for the Southern African Indian Community - Chapter 1
… land where the disabilities of the Indian in an alien political environment intensify his natural ambitions and … by Indians of material success. It is…
Neville Alexander interviewed by Rupert Taylor and Adam Habib,25 April 1998, Cape Town
… to be, you know, purposeful - and it was always linked to political education, sowing doubt in people’s minds, for me … organizations - really in order to…
EventClarence Makwetu Passes Away
… five children of Minah and Gqongo Makwetu. He served as a political activist from 1954-1996 and was a Pan-Africanist …
PlacePollsmoor Prison
… Plain, but the facility has housed some prominent political prisoners in the past. Former President Nelson …
EventMafika Gwala born
… of Zululand, he chose to rather devote his time to political activities firstly joining National Union of South …
EventSouth African artist Fikile Magadledla is born
… eighties, Magadlela was hardy active in the arts due to political unrest and exploitation of black artists by …