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EventHugh Masekela, South African musician, is born
… Harry Belafonte, who helped him to settle in the United States as a student. While in New York, Masekela …
EventFour South Africans and a British national charged with illegally exporting military equipment to South Africa
… industry. South Africa recalled its ambassador to the United Kingdom to consult on the case. The four South …
EventSix PAC members are sentenced for the killing of PAC leader David Sibeko
… countries, and was the PAC's permanent observer at the United Nations. Sibeko was closely involved with the removal …
EventMike Gatting’s rebel cricket tour is curtailed
… Sports Council (NSC), which was the sports wing of the United Democratic Front (UDF). The date of Bacher's …
EventMagnus Malan and Constand Viljoen deny knowledge of mass graves
… and South African governments to seek answers from the United Nations, who was in command of Namibia at the time. …
EventJ.M. Coetzee wins the Booker Prize
… Britain's Booker Prize, Coetzee taught extensively in the United States, while also holding a number of prominent …
EventTerror strikes the Olympics Games in Atlanta
… by Eric Robert Rudolph, a former explosives expert for the United States Army. It is said to have been the largest pipe …
ANC welcomes Cde Mac Maharaj appointment as President Zuma`s spokesperson, 7 July 2011
… Committee (NEC) member and the South African Communist Party (SACP) Central Committee member. He is currently …
EventEdgar Whitehead succeeds Garfield Todd as premier of South Rhodesia.
… This state unfortunately did not last very long as his own party rejected him as leader. Many people, both Black and …
EventThe Convention on the International Maritime Satellite Organisation, plus Operating Agreement, is adopted in London.
… Sources state that since its inception, South Africa was party to this convention; however other sources state that …
EventThe death in police custody of Ahmed Timol, political activist and underground operative, is confirmed
… He was a member of the banned South African Communist Party (SACP). Following calls from the opposition and others …
EventANC Constitutional proposals are disclosed
… preparation before elections could be held. The Democratic Party (DP), the Pan-Africanist Congress (PAC) and the South …
EventThirteen residents of Mofolo die in IFP attack
… in an attack on Soweto residents after an Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) rally at Jabulani Stadium. In the ensuing battle …
EventMayor of Welkom, in the Free State, is tarred and feathered
… marathon event. According to sources, the National Party mayor, ran foul of his White constituency when he …
EventOrganisations forward applicants for amnesty to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission
… Army (APLA), had applied. No high-ranking Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) members were known to have applied at the time. …
EventLocal government elections thrown in disarray
… scheduled for November into disarray. The National Party's (NP) provincial government of Western Cape was …
Dawn
… and set up in conjunction with the South African Communist Party in order to strengthen the struggle by using armed …
Interview with Ari Sitas, Of Socialism and Dentures by Jonathan Mandel, 10-11 April 2015
… how to influence without having to rule, since Jan Smuts’s United Party lost the plot to Afrikaner Nationalists. It found … the decline of Jan Smuts’ prowess…
Chris Hani Memorial Lecture delivered by President Jacob Zuma, 26 April 2013, Queenstown
… that the working class of this country can only be truly united in a non-racial society. He appreciated that the chief … we have said in him we saw an…
Chapter 10 - Sharpeville and its aftermath
… Campaign of 1952, which led to the birth of the Liberal Party. It happened again at the time of the bus boycotts, the … Coloured vote, when the Progressives…
ArticleGrade 7 - Term 2: The Transatlantic slave trade
… 13 colonies from British West Indies. However, after the United States purchased the Louisiana Territory from France … movement. The mutineers were captured…
87. Today’s lessons are tomorrow’s weapons for students
… boycott are, however, less well known. Students were not united over the boycott. During the boycott the university … theSRC opposed a boycott because…
ArticleSouth Africa in the 1970s
… National Congress (ANC) and South African Communist Party (SACP) stepped up their underground activities. … were no incidents reported. “the cries of: We…
Oliver Tambo, Southern Africa, South Africa and the ANC replies to questions by Sechaba, 01 April 1968
… of the Smith and Vorster regimes, and on the other the united guerrillas of the ANC and ZAPU. It can be said that … of attack by the enemy. Question : In…
ArchiveAddress on the Occasion of the 107th Anniversary of the ANC by Cyril Ramaphosa, Ohlange Institute, Ethkwini, 8 January 2019
… formed more than a century ago. It is this vision – of a united, non-racial, non-sexist and democratic society – that … despair, emerged a dream of a better…
68. Passive resistance 1946-1947
… The Coloured people The Coloured people, although not so united on their feeling for unity, nevertheless are eager to … struggle to make a reality of the war…
EventKaunda calls for Thatcher's exclusion from talks on South African sanctions
… government to end its policy of segregation. In 1962, the United Nations established their Special Committee against … Africa were concerned. A disinvestment…
ArchiveSecret Histories | South African Photographer David Goldblatt Reveals the Effects of Apartheid on His Native Land by Miss Rosen, 29 September 2016
… Dutch colonial rule and took shape under the National Party, which came to power following the demise of the Nazi party in the aftermath of World War II…
Milton Obote by Angela Thompsell updated 28 February 2016
… political fray and by 1959 was leader of a new political party, the Uganda People’s Congress. After independence, Obote aligned with the royalist Bugandan…
O. R. Tambo Interview with Mayibuye on the Current Situation in South Africa and Southern Africa in General 1984
… for mobilisation of our entire forces. We called for united action. We called for Unity in Action, 1982 and 1983. … that we should meet this new offensive by…