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EventThe ANC Youth League is re-established at Orlando stadium in Soweto
… in Soweto after an absence of thirty years from the political arena in South Africa. The Youth League was …
EventMike Gatting’s rebel cricket tour is curtailed
… to shorten the tour 'to show its support for the dramatic political changes' announced by President De Klerk on 2 …
EventLast remaining SA troops have been withdrawn from Namibia
… had been withdrawn during November. While the Namibian political parties and the South African Government were …
EventP. W. Botha refutes possibility of Black majority rule
… considered within the context of White politics. If Black political aspirations are to be accommodated, then some other …
EventNiger President Ibrahim Bare Mainassara is assassinated
… to dissolve the National Assembly and suspend all political activity. However, Mayaki's attempt was rejected by …
EventA few days after deciding to establish a Dutch newspaper in South Africa, the name De Burger is chosen
… Editor Ebbe Dommisse that it would no longer serve as a political mouthpiece. This disaffiliation continued in 1999 …
EventThe Draft South Africa Act is signed
… fierce debate. The different laws concerning non-White political rights in the colonies made the franchise question …
EventThe Neptune, with 288* convicts on board, enters Simon’s Bay, with strong resistance from Cape inhabitants
… and Australia. Many of these convicts were Irish political offenders. However, the residents of the Cape were …
EventJaramogi Oginga Odinga, Kenyan independence leader dies
… in 1947 and soon found himself a staunch supporter of then political leader, Jomo Kenyatta. When Kenya gained …
EventSouth African Communist Party leader, Dr. Yusuf Mahomed Dadoo dies
… A political activist and Chairman of the South African …
EventFormer SANNC President Sefako Mapogo Makgatho dies
… Makgatho chieftaincy at GaMphahlele. Before embarking on a political career, Makgato wa a teacher and a journalist. …
EventEugene Terre Blanche, controversial leader of the AWB ( Afrikaner Resistance Movement), is born in Ventersdorp.
… the World Trade Centre (where negotiations between various political parties for a new democratic constitution took …
EventThe Federation of South African Women (FEDSAW) is founded
… women's groups, African, Indian, Coloured and White political organisations and trade unions. During the founding …
ArchiveThe Anti-Apartheid Movement Abroad by Max Rossiter
… Secret Thing “helped the Mozambican Government sever its economic ties with Africa, simultaneously lessening South … were some Russians). Initially they…
PlaceMqanduli
… The hometown of Bantu Holomisa, a Political leader in South Africa. Located in the OR Tambo … The hometown of Bantu Holomisa, a Political leader in South…
Document 31 - S.O.Y.A. National Executive Committee, The Maritzburg Conferences and the Tasks of the Immediate Future, 31 May 1959
… have been a Conference, the highest deciding body of a political organisation, we thus found a degenerated … and the condition he thus lays down is only…
From Amsterdam with euphoria
… the CASA Preamble and Constitution sometimes had a clearer political composition the general formulations of human … in all frankness. Frequently the view…
ArticleA decade by decade events account of the women’s struggle in South Africa
… of the World Campaign for the Release of South African Political Prisoners. Dorothy Nyembe is detained and held for … into exile. She joins the ANC in…
ArticleAfrapix Chronology 1981-1991
… a renewed national and international pressure to initiate political reform. The Apartheid government accelerated its … of an initiative led by veteran…
ArticleGrade 11 - Apartheid South Africa 1940s to 1960s
… about ending the apartheid system, the release of Political prisoners like the release of Nelson Mandela in … about ending the apartheid system, the…
ArticleThe Empty Land Myth
… translated roughly as ‘the crushing’, was a time of great political upheaval in the Zulu Kingdom in the first half of … fact, it is a convenient fiction that…
ArticleNelspruit Timeline 1815-1996
… by Theophilus Shepstone, annexes the Transvaal, but political wrangling forces them to restore the Republic to … and Boer republics are drawn together into a…
Chapter Seven - Re-examining the Past
… From the book: Johnny Gomas Voice of the working class: A political Biography by Doreen Musson Although out of active … and is otherwise in safe hands and…
ArchiveHistory for the Future by Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Mpilo Tutu
… Reconciliation hearing took place... The TRC was a unique political compromise forged during the years of negotiations …
EventAllan Boesak's plea for the acquittal on fraud charges is rejected and the case is postponed to the following year
… praised for his role in the liberation struggle, Boesak's political career has been marred by controversy. This first … Boesak has since written a book on…
Address by Selby Msimang, President, Industrial and Commercial Workers’ Union of South Africa, July 23, 1921
… tempted, or was it mere force of circumstances and of economic difficulties, to force the issues when peaceful … purpose of reducing non-Europeans to a…
Address on Freedom Day, 27 April 2003
… that is a preferred investment destination and provides economic opportunities for all, develops our people to their … intensifying work towards poverty…
Chapter 8 - ‘Creative Organisers’ rather than ‘Powerful Speakers’: Education as a Site of Struggle
… on the part of the apartheid state and by an upsurge in political opposition and mass action on the part of the … by states of emergency and extremely…
Address by President Nelson Mandela at the commemoration of the twentieth anniversary of Steve Biko’s death East London, 12 September 1997, South Africa
… the walls of Robben Island and other prisons along our political grapevine, has stood the test of time. That he was … History called upon Steve Biko at a…
From the 1973 Durban strikes to the Marikana massacre and De Doorns conflict: How trade unions acquired their power and what has gone wrong with employment relations in South Africa subsequently by Johann Maree
… was established. The formation of COSATU led to a complete political realignment of the trade union movement in South … of Unions of South Africa (CUSA) was…