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EventThe birth of the Treatment Action Campaign
… Action Campaign (TAC) was born. The launch of TAC opened a new chapter in AIDS politics in South Africa. It came at a … and fast would be held on 10 December…
PlaceScottish War Memorial, Johannesburg
… The City needed the space to provide facilities for the new use and agreed to move the Memorial to another Site. On … and handed over to the City of…
ArchiveThe Soul of a Nation
… On 10 December 1996, the signatures on the country's new and final Constitution fixed a milestone beside the road of South African history, and marked the…
PlaceCrossroads Township
… and was ousted in 1990 by a former ‘witdoeke’ member and new convert to the African National Congress (ANC), Jeffrey … Today, the township of Crossroads…
EventMbongeni Ngema was born on this day
… Albert, Township Fever and Mama. He was inducted in the New York “Walk of Fame” in 1998, as one of the most revered …
On Post Colonial African Liberation Movements
… event will take place at the University of Cape Town's New Lecture Theatre Building. The lecture seeks to speak into …
The Struggle Continues and Grows More Intense - Statement by O. R. Tambo, 23 August 1984
… are confident of a total rejection of the so-called new constitution in a total boycott of the election by our …
ArchiveAfrica South Vol.4 No.1 Oct-Dec 1959
… Bunting. The African on the Farm, Ben Turok M.P.C. The new Serfdom, James Fairburn. Universities in Ethnasia, Prof. …
PlaceRiebeeck Square, Cape Town.
… the annexation of the Cape by the British in 1806, when a new market was established immediately east of the Castle in …
Foreword, By Nelson Mandela
… Indian Congress, founded by Mahatma Gandhi in 1894, a new lease of life when he assumed its presidency in 1945 and …
EventEgypt is placed under martial law in response to widespread riots against the British
… Ali Mahir, an independent conservative, to form a new government. Mahir failed to bring peace to Egypt and …
EventSA joins World War II
… of justice, Gen. J.C. Smuts, took over and formed a new cabinet and South Africa joined the war against Germany. …
EventFifth Constitution Amendment Bill is introduced
… members. The Council was charged with formulating a new Constitution that would give expression to Coloured and …
EventBlack People Convention is formed
… Congress (ANC) and Pan Africanist Congress (PAC), a new political movement, the Black People Convention (BPC) was …
EventMangope calls out troops as unrest flares in Bophuthatswana
… state and therefore resisted efforts to integrate into the new South Africa. His attempt to prolong the sham authority …
EventAbolition of Racially Based Land Measures Act is adopted
… laws relating to the use and occupation of land. The new act made provision to repeal and amend laws to abolish …
EventWorld Refugee Day
… to share their stories about life of living in a new country. It will also allow the public to view refugee …
EventDesmond Tutu is appointed TRC chairperson
… apartheid and has continued to voice his criticism of the new government. He is passionate about the realisation of a …
EventFormer Prime Minister H.F. Verwoerd is born
… was elected by the caucus of the National Party as its new leader and prime minister on 2 September 1958, following …
EventMoses Kottler, A leading South African sculptor of his time, is born
… for himself as a sculptor. Kottler was a member of the New Group. The organisation's aim was, among other things, to …
EventNatal Football Union founded
… subsequent war with the South African Republics brought a new influx of Whites to South Africa, many of whom were …
EventDr Max Theiler, first South African to receive the Nobel Prize, is born in Pretoria
… foundation in 1964 and joined Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut, as professor of epidemiology and …
EventLouis Hayward, South African–American Actor dies.
… He starred in a few British films before he left for New York and Broadway and later Hollywood. After several …
EventNRP leader, Vause Raw announces that his party is ready to give the President’s Council a chance
… The leader of the New Republic Party (NRP), Vause Raw announced that his party …
EventFrederik Willem de Klerk is elected President of South Africa
… it "closed the book on apartheid" and paved the way to a new dispensation for all the people of South Africa. He …
EventUgandan President Idi Amin releases political prisoners
… government. He wasted no time announcing names of 17 new cabinet Ministers. Amin overthrew his long time ally …
EventAhmadou Kourouma, Ivorian novelist dies in France
… to his home country. Unhappy with his post- colonial new reality, Kourouma expressed his grievances through …
ArchiveSurvey shows ignorance about big moments in South Africa’s history – like the Sharpeville massacre (TheConversation.com)
… awareness. Table 1: Awareness of Sharpeville Massacre by age, education and geographic location (row %) The influence …
Call for papers: 100 years of the SACP
… the history of the SACP and other left formations; promote new research on the party and other left traditions by new generations of scholars; and reflect on…
ArchiveCHAPTER FIVE: The Politics Of Collaboration: The Campaign for Participation In The Tricameral Parliament by Kumi Naidoo
This chapter comes from the book