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EventCleric and anti-apartheid activist, Mpilo Desmond Tutu is ordained as Archbishop of Cape Town
… unbanning of liberation organisations and the release of political prisoners. …
EventM.K. Gandhi is forcibly removed from a whites-only train carriage
… event proved a remarkable influence on the future of his political life. Gandhi was later instrumental in protesting …
EventPixley Seme, lawyer, journalist and co-founder of SANNC is born
… resulting in its closure. His effort to re-launch his political career with the 'All Africa Convention' was not …
EventAngolan government signs peace treaty with UNITA
… and integrate it into government forces, become a regular political party and help normalise governmental activities …
EventHastings Banda, former president of Malawi, is born.
… persuasion, Banda returned to Malawi and quickly became a political icon. He was appointed Prime Minister of Nyasaland …
EventPieter-Dirk Uys, SA activist, satirist, playwright and novelist, is born in Cape Town
… often using satire to address pressing social and political issues. …
Mapping Sites of Memory: The Sobukwe Letters
… written during his years of imprisonment. In them, the political figure often remembered through history books … across distance, family held together…
Exhibition Opening: Tales of History Retold
… AVA Archive spans roughly 25 years to either side of the political watershed of 1994 so its temporal arc offers a …
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1950s
… to adopt the draft resolution recommended by the Ad Hoc Political Committee. The vote is 42 to 8, with 10 … one of the few sources of information about non…
Speech by Oliver Tambo on behalf of the Liberation Movements, at the twenty-third session of the assembly of Heads of State and Government of the Organisation of African Unity, 27 July 1987, Addis Ababa
… once again, attending this premier event in the African political calendar, the OAU Summit Meeting of Heads of State … isolation of the apartheid regime and…
Address by President Nelson Mandela on receiving the freedom of the city of Bloemfontein 16 May 1997
… Party, organisations that largely came to determine the political landscape of our country. That they were founded … a crossroads of our history - a…
ArticleThe African Students Association (ASA)
… by underground ANC structures. In 1965 Mbeki drafted a political document outlining the imperatives of mobilising …
ArticleThe Inquest into Biko’s Death and his funeral
… on 12 September 1977. Biko's funeral was the first big political funeral in South Africa. As bus-loads of mourners …
ArticleCODESA 2 Timeline
… 4 p.m. It reports that Working Groups 1 (climate for free political activity), 3 (interim government), and 5 …
Communique of the Second National Consultative Conference of the ANC, presented by O. R. Tambo at a Press Conference, Lusaka 25 June, 1985
… representatives, commanders and other members of our army, political organisers, trade unionists, administration, … we fully share the view that the ANC has…
Address given by Ronald First, brother of Ruth First and brother in law of Joe Slovo, on the occasion of the tribute paid to Ruth and Joe by the African National Congress, in the holding of a Torchlight ceremony on the 21st of October 2012, at the Johanne
… existed in South Africa, and in basic terms had the same political convictions. Joe was more of a political animal than Ruth, but although involved in … The…
Second National Consultative Conference Communiqué, 25 June 1985
… representatives, commanders and other members of our army, political organisers, trade unionists, administration, … we fully share the view that the ANC has…
Chapter IV - A meaningful life
… so suddenly ”” I had been cut off from the mainstream of political resistance for so long. The Congress of Democrats … I could not join any organisation that…
Countdown to the elections July 1993 – April 1994
… and electrifying reaction. (See Fig. 20). Deaths in political violence for that month shot up to 605 from the … Natal, while also reflecting an immediate…
ArchiveObituary of Benita Parry (1931—2020) by Professor David Johnson
… cited extensively by historians, socials scientists, political theorists, cultural geographers and philosophers. … (SLL), discovering continuities with South…
ArticleGrade 11 Topic 3 – Source-Based Questions
… Germany’s defeat in WWI He blamed the Jews for Germany’s economic crisis after WWI He perceived the Jews as an …
Ernest Cole: Brave photographer who exposed horrors of apartheid from within by Teo Kermeliotis, (cnn.com), 5 January 2015
… under apartheid, opening a window into the oppression and economic inequality endured by his people during that brutal …
Address On World Aids Day, 1 December 1999
… other about the danger that HIV/AIDS poses to the socio-economic situation in our country. HIV/AIDS threatens to …
Address by President Nelson Mandela at the ANC’s manifesto launch 24 August 1995
… a sound footing. For the first time in years there is real economic growth. 2.5 We are proud of our achievements. But …
A Chronological look (1943 to 1986) at the Life and Times of Mr George Ponnen
… - SPEAKS OF HIS LIFE AND INVOLVEMENT IN THE TRADE UNION, POLITICAL AND NATIONAL LIBERATION MOVEMENTS IN HIS COUNTRY, … forward. This did not materialise…
EventThe fall of the Berlin wall
… post 1924, were repudiated. The beginnings of free political debate in the Soviet Union gathered momentum until … the currently East-West migration is about…
ADDRESS BY PRESIDENT NELSON MANDELA AT THE SA FREEDOM DAY CELEBRATIONS Upington, 27 April 1997
… In turn that will be made possible by the success of our economic policies. All the signs point to our being on track. … with the special needs and…
Address by President Nelson Mandela on Accepting the Deutscher Medienpreis Baden-Baden, 28 January 1999
… that it won the support and solidarity of virtually all political persuasions throughout the world. When we … But the leaders of the different communities…
Statement by President Mandela on receiving the report of the TRC Pretoria, 29 October 1998
… of Parliament Ministers and Deputy Ministers Leaders of Political Parties Commissioners of the TRC Distinguished … to the wheel to end crime and corruption,…
Address at the Opening of the 24th General Assembly of the World Veterans Federation, 1 December 2003
… If von Clausewitz was correct that “war is not merely a political act, but also a political instrument, a continuation of political relations, a carrying out…