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Say It out Loud - The 1929 Presidential Address, Cape Town, 1st April, 1929
… leaders, should endeavour to divest themselves of that party-political prejudice which warps the intellect, and when … for the purpose of supporting the…
ArchiveAfrica South Vol.3 No.4 Jul-Sept 1959
… Mboya. A South African in Nigeria, Ezekiel Mphahlele. The United States at U.N.O., Winifred F. Courtney. Towards an …
EventThe first Prime Minister of the DRC, Patrice Lumumba, declares martial law in Katanga
… DRC government. Lumumba called for the assistance of the United Nations Organisation (UNO) to restore order and expel …
EventMembers of the AAM hand over a memorandum to Verwoerd's private secretary about Apartheid policies
… Indian Congress and J. Kozonguisi of the South African United Front. The AAM was one of Britain's most triumphant …
EventLondon hosts an international conference on the protection of the African elephant and rhinoceros
… including the Union of South Africa, Belgium, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, Egypt, …
EventThe 4th Pan-African Congress is held in New York City, USA
… of birth, race or color." The participants condemned the United States' control of Haiti and White minority rule in …
EventPW Botha states that the Soviets will not prevent South Africa from attacking ANC bases in Mozambique
… counting on the support of the West and in particular the United States, issued a statement on the 23 February 1981 …
EventWinnie Mandela is found guilty
… committed by her thuggish' bodyguards dubbed the Mandela United Football Club' (MUFC) . In 1997 the Truth and …
EventUN passes resolutions on South Africa
… The United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) passed resolutions …
EventPercy Qoboza, influential anti-Apartheid journalist, dies
… The National Association of Black Journalists in the United States named in Percy Qoboza's honour. They state that …
EventPolice detain Valli Moosa and Murphy Morobe in Port Elizabeth
… Police arrested United Democratic Front national secretary-general Mohammed …
EventThe General Assembly of the League of Nations meets in Geneva for the first time
… met in San Francisco where they adopted the Charter of the United Nations(UN). Three months later the UN was officially … (2011). ‘ History: from the League…
EventJameson Raid starts
… - and to further the ambition of Cecil John Rhodes for a united South Africa under British rule. Jameson was under the …
EventPrime Minister Verwoerd’s assassin transferred from prison to a mental asylum
… was institutionalised in other Germany, England and the United States of America and twice escaped from mental …
EventForced removals at the Crossroads informal settlement
… the bloody fights that were prevalent in 1983, between United Democratic Front (UDF) supporters and the ‘witdoeke’ …
EventOlaudah Equiano, enslaved person and writer dies
… He later managed to buy his freedom and settled in the United Kingdom. One of his slave masters had taught Equaino …
EventMazisi Kunene, Zulu poet and ANC activist, is born
… He became a representative of the ANC in the United Nations (UN). At the end of his studies he was …
EventDutch East Indian Company, pioneer in the expansion of European settlement in South Africa is formed
… when seventy-three directors of smaller trading companies united at the encouragement of Prince Maurice of Orange in …
EventSA Prime Minister, P.W. Botha calls for unity against Marxism
… At a National Party (NP) Congress in Bloemfontein, the South African Prime …
EventPrime Minister P.W. Botha announces Ciskei will become independent on 4 December 1981
… was created between 1961 and 1982 by the then Nationalist Party Government.. This was done as part of the Government's …
EventJournalist and anti-apartheid activist M.P. Naicker dies
… Oliver Tambo, the Chairman of the South African Communist Party (SACP), Dr. Yusuf Dadoo and Comrade Brian Bunting. The …
EventANC calls for the dismissal of Adriaan Vlok and Magnus Malan
… already fragile peace process between the Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) and ANC. The ANC further warned that state …
EventEleven people are killed at Donnybrook, Kwazulu
… ongoing rivalry between supporters of the Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) and the African National Congress (ANC). This …
EventRestitution of Land Rights Act is signed
… from the right-wing Freedom Front (FF), Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) and the South African Agricultural Union (SAAU). …
EventUnion of South Africa officially ceases to exist
… the first time in 12 years of government that the National Party (NP) was able to gain a majority in parliament. South …
EventEthnic violence in Rwandan capital Kigali is spreads throughout the country
… a widespread belief was that it was the Tutsi dominated party Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF). By the end of the … United Human Rights Council Genocide in…
ArticleGrade 5 - Term 4: A Heritage trail through the provinces of South Africa
… site is a place that has been officially recognised by the United Nations as having special value to all human beings. The United Nations Organisation (UNO)…
ArchiveHugh Lewin obituary by Peter Hain (www.theguardian.com), 21 January 2019
… who has died aged 79, joined the South African Liberal party: shortly afterwards it became the only legal non-racial political party in the country, with the…
PlaceKwazulu Natal Province
… Chief Mangosuthu Buthelez i, leader of the Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) , who established a good relationship with the ruling National Party. He also…
Extract from a speech made in the House of Assembly on 15 September 1970 during the Prime Minister’s Vote
… in South Africa. Let none of us, whether we are National Party or United Party supporters or whether we are one or two … Coast: It has happened in the past…