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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 …
PlaceShell House, Johannesburg
… making Shell House the ideal home. The ANC, the ruling Political Party in South Africa, now has its Headquarters at …
Address by President Nelson Mandela at the snap debate on the Shell House incident National Assembly, Cape Town, 7 June 1995
… are understood not from the narrow perspective of party political interest. Certainly, it is in the nature of … right to self-defence, given, in part, the…
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…
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…
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…
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…
ArchiveBiography of Joyce Sikhakhane-Rankin by Victoria Sedeno
… in Nylstroom and Pretoria Central Prisons as a female political activist who was detained for her work in the … ANC, and her time spent in deadly South…
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 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…
EventRhodes statue removed at UCT
… Following Chumani Maxwele’s radical protest through a political performance of throwing human excrement at the …
ArchiveBlack Sash / Sash
… their well documented and researched reporting on current political situations, State legislation and the effects …
EventNational Arts Festival celebrates 37 years in Grahamstown
… Grahamstown, the Festival served as an important forum for political and protest theatre during the height of the …
EventBanned PAC Leader, Robert Sobukwe, is refused an exit permit to leave SA
… the Minister of Justice to extend the imprisonment of any political prisoner indefinitely. Subsequently, Sobukwe was …
Imijondolo
… of Badsha's sustained presence in the settlement, as a political activist and community organizer between 1980 and …
EventUN Security Council urges SA government to end Rivonia Trial
… progress and grant amnesty to the defendants and all other political prisoners already sentenced to death. Britain, …
EventDetectives testify against members of the ANC and the Congress Alliance in the infamous Treason Trial
… and the Congress of Democrats (COD). Apart from these political organisations, some of the accused were members of …
EventThe African National Congress (ANC) calls a meeting to chart a way forward for the Defiance Campaign
… which carried on into 1953, attracted thousands into political activity. Sources: South African History Online …