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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 …
ArchiveIsisebenzi December 1972 (English Translation)
… were not organized they met as Bosses and established a new company. This new company bought all employment opportunities and sold a …
The Changing Nature of the African Working Class: Migrant Workers, Identity and Struggles by Sithembiso Bhengu
… on the changing nature of the African working class, new constructions of rural-urban linkages and new terrains of struggle for a changing African worker. …
PlaceSahara Desert, in North Africa.
… have been extensively restored, to make them look new!". There are long narrow defiles- (A defile is a narrow … Construction began around 1550 BCE during…
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
THE POLITICS OF COLLABORATION: THE CAMPAIGN FOR PARTICIPATION IN THE TRICAMERAL PARLIAMENT
… president, Oliver Tambo, claimed that by supporting the new dispensation Indians would “be selling [their] birthright … the more the ruling order is able to…
Political Overview By The ANC Gauteng Provincial Chairperson, Comrade Paul Mashatile On The Occasion Of The Special Provincial General Council, Turffontein Racecourse, Johannesburg, 24 February 2013
… to unite existing opposition parties as well as to create new anti-ANC and anti-Alliance political voices as part of … this political onslaught. The ANC…
Address on the Occasion of the Budget Vote of the Presidency, 18 June 2002
… our provinces covering such areas as education and health. New interventions in this regard are necessary and will be … faced by their predecessors. The…
Book 5: People, Places and Apartheid - Chapter 1 - People, Politics and Ideology by Malegapuru William Makgoba
… to the apartheid state should come from an entirely new set of forces. homelands ”” those territories reserved … and their employers. The official formation…
Speech at Meeting to Commemorate South Africa Freedom Day and to Condemn the 600-year Alliance between Britain and Portugal by O. R. Tambo, London, 20 June 1973
… the tenth Summit of the Organisation of African Unity, a new and growing force for progressive change in the world; … This region of the world, this part of…
Chapter 13 - The public participation process
… an organised fashion, on specific issues in order for the new law to be sensitive to and shaped by their realities, and … process, the ConstiÂtutional…
Statement by Oliver Tambo on the struggle continues and grows more intense, 23 August 1984
… are confident of a total rejection of the so-called new constitution in a total boycott of the election by our …
Lionel Davis, SA artist, is born in Cape Town. He was a political prisoner on Robben Island between 1964 and 1971, where he c
… at CAP. He also participated in the Triangle Workshop in New York and the Thupelo Workshop in Johannesburg. In 1988 he …
EventNational Party unveils its policy plan focusing on anti-poverty strategies
… discussed. Subsequently, the party changed its name to New National Party (NNP). The NP withdrew from the Government …
EventThe launch of the Progressive Women’s Movement of SA
… hundreds of women gathered in Bloemfontein to launch a new national women’s movement, a non-profit organisation …
EventLibya becomes independent
… national assembly in drawing up a constitution for the new state. …
EventNovelist and historian Bessie Head is born
… recognition. Source: Verwey, E.J. (ed)(1995). New Dictionary of South African Biography, v.1, Pretoria: …
EventMac Maharaj is born
… was born in Newcastle, Natal. As minister he formulated a new policy and restructured the Department of Transport …
EventSharpeville Deputy Mayor killed
… and was due to go into effect later in September. The new constitution made provision for the tri-cameral system of …
EventThe Conservative Party is formed
… to the reforms and the idea of racial integration. The new party outlined fifteen guiding principles, of which the …
EventDr Chris Barnard performs second heart transplant at Groote Schuur Hospital
… three years. Forty-year-old Mrs Dorothy Fisher was given a new heart in 1969 and became the longest surviving patient. …
EventNamibians vote for a Constituent Assembly
… Africa/Namibia. The Constituent Assembly was to draw up a new constitution for the territory as a sovereign state. More …
EventThe Democratic Party, now the Democratic Alliance, is formed
… Alliance (DA) in 2000, when the Democratic Party and the New National Party signed an agreement to form the party. The …
EventSpringboks wallop their Australian counterparts
… they, however, only equaled. The record was then held by New Zealand's All Blacks with 17 consecutive wins from 1965 …
EventThree cases of Buboinic plague are reported in Cape Town
… forced black people to reside in designated areas such as New Brighton. Bubonic plague is a potentially fatal bacterial …
EventThe SA government presents a promotion of Constitutional Development Bill
… negotiations which would end apartheid and bring about a new Constitutional dispensation for South Africa, based on …
EventOldest part of Johannesburg, Marshalltown, is planned
… Brown Marshall asked Kidger Tucker to draw up a plan for a new residential area for Johannesburg. The plan was laid out …