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EventZulu King Dingane orders the execution of Piet Retief’s men
… of Dingane and Retief's treaty, Piet Retief and his party were treated to a farewell dance by the Zulu impis at … of Dingane and Retief's treaty, Piet…
EventNP demands apology from TRC
… Reconciliation Commission (TRC), lawyers for the National Party (NP) demand an unconditional apology from chairman …
EventFormer Prime Minister H.F. Verwoerd is born
… 1903. Verwoerd was elected by the caucus of the National Party as its new leader and prime minister on 2 September …
EventFrederik Willem de Klerk is elected President of South Africa
… Pan Africanist Congress (PAC), the South African Communist Party (SACP) and other liberation movements was received with …
EventProfessor Bob Hepple is born
… His father, Alex Hepple, was a trade unionist, Labour Party member and Chairman of the Treason Trial Defence Fund. …
EventThe Young Communist League (YCLSA) is officially formed
… League (YCL) were laid in 1921 when the Communist Party of South Africa (CPSA) was established. Youth groups …
EventThe trial of Fred Carneson, a listed communist begins at the Supreme Court in Cape Town
… communist, member of the banned South African Communist Party (SACP) and former editor of the New Age began at the …
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)…
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…
ArchiveSpeech by President Nelson Mandela to the Angolan National Assembly Luanda, 29 April 1998
… in a peaceful manner. South Africa, as a member of the United Nations, The Southern African Development Community, … but unending conflict. Instead South…
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 …
International Boycott of Apartheid Sport by Mary Corrigall
… by the Anti-Apartheid Movement Paper prepared for the United Nations Unit on Apartheid in 1971 1 The system of … Britain, President of FIFA, and Mr. James…
EventWinnie Madikizela-Mandela's bodyguards arrested in connection with the death of Stompie Seipei
… Jerry Richardson and Jabu Sithole (coach of the Mandela United Football Club) were arrested at her home. The 4 were … Seipei, after rumors in mid-February…
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…