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Document 58 - Robert Mangaliso Sobukwe, “The Opening Address at the Africanist Inaugural Convention”, 4 April 1959 [….]
… that was a legacy of the Anglo-Boer War. Sachs (1952:209-16), who had organised Afrikaner women garment workers, makes … President-General on the pro-boycott…
PlaceCameroon
… founders were trade unionists [lvi] . After a failed uprising in 1955, the party began an armed struggle against …
Freedom Charter sold out the dispossessed by Motsoko Pheko (The Sowetan), 2 Feb 2012
… black majority. In 1943, 1944, 1948 and 1949, the Congress Youth League had formulated four freedom documents. The … the economy, the 1944 document…
Appendix 1: Freedom Fighters On The March: A Message From Dr. Y. M. Dadoo To The Indian People
… To the call of the Umkhonto We Sizwe, our militant youth respondedwithout hesitation and with determination; … Group Areas Actand against every aspect of…
ArchiveCHAPTER EIGHT: Indian Resistance Politics In Transition, 1990-1996 by Kumi Naidoo
This chapter comes from the book
ArchiveCourt Transcript of statement from the Dock of Nelson Mandela, Pretoria Supreme Court, 20 April 1964
… not because of what any outsider might have said. In my youth in the Transkei I listened to the elders of my tribe … now know that this was still so in 1963…
PlaceHumansdorp
… Port Elizabeth, off the N2 highway. Jeffreys Bay is just 16 km away, with St Francis Bay 20 km and Cape St Francis 2 … is 87 km West of Port Elizabeth , 3 km…
EventMaxwell Mlilo, South African actor, dies of diabetes
… and longtime diabetes sufferer Maxwell Mlilo died on 22 June 2006. The veteran actor had been on South African …
EventThami Mnyele, SA artist and member of MK, is killed in Gaborone
… Congress’ (ANC) military wing Umkhonto We Sizwe (MK). On June 14, 1985, Thami Mnyele was shot dead by South African …
EventAbdullah Abdurahman, medical doctor and Cape community leader, dies in Cape Town
… as from General J.B.M. Hertzog and General J.C. Smuts . In June 1999, President Nelson Mandela posthumously honoured …
EventSouth Africa signs a multilateral treaty prohibiting the development of biological weapons
… treaty to ban an entire class of weapons, and by June 2000, the treaty had been signed by 144 states parties, …
EventNOCSA announces SA participation in Olympic games
… to participate in the Olympic Games in Barcelona in June, 1992. He further announced that the South African team …
EventTrevor Manuel predicts SA economic growth
… the Reserve Bank has cut interest rates six times since June 2003, boosting consumer demand and helping the economy …
EventWorld Refugee Day
… The General Assembly decided that 20 June would be celebrated as World Refugee Day. This day is … The UN Refugees Agency, World Refugee Day-20 June , from…
EventSouth Africa approves the Constitution of the African Civil Aviation Commission
… Ratification on 8 March 1996. AFCAC was established on 15 June 1947 and its constitution, signed on 17 January 1969, …
EventMoses Kottler, A leading South African sculptor of his time, is born
… differ as to the date of his birth; some give it as 11 June 1892, others as 1896. Kottler studied art in Jerusalem … [online] Available at: sahistory.org.za …
EventJoseph Kasavubu, first president of the Democratic Republic of Congo dies
… when the Congo became independent from Belgium on 30 June, 1960. Kasavubu was born in the village of Kuma-Dizi in …
EventFirst Women Anti-Pass Campaign starts
… The June 1913 anti-pass campaign was probably the first recorded …
Chapter 1 - The Promise of the Impossible Revolution: The Cape Town Industrial Socialist League, 1918 - 1921
… the evil of Bolshevism "growing seriously in the Union". 16 The league acquired premises in the heart of District Six … what came to be known as the Young…
PlaceNiger
… the severe drought and famine of 1913–15 and the Tuareg uprising of 1916–17 , that the French felt safe enough to …
PlaceHeidelberg, Gauteng
… without interference from the military. On the 16 December 1880 ( Dingaan's Day or now known as: the 'Day of …
EventNelson Mandela is inaugurated as South Africa's first democratic President
… 18 of his 27 years in jail at the Robben Island Prison. In June 1990 he retired from politics at the age of 80. …
ArticleHeritage and identity of Provinces
… Voortrekkers, and also attacked the village of D’Urban. On 16 December 1838 the impis attacked a Voortrekker laager at … them in the battle against the impis…
46. The Gandhi-Smuts compromise explained
… we could not have held out against the Government for 16 months as we have done. Afraid of our power ”” the power … after nine months struggle, we had…
29. Removal to locations: the people are terrified
… they may be, would mean almost certain ruin for them. 16.It is respectfully submitted that if Her Majesty's … your family will be allowed to reside on your…
PlaceKwaDukuza
… by the Zulu nation and declared a national monument on 29 June 1938. The Town of Stanger was established on the old …
EventJan Christoffel Greyling Kemp, general during South African War, is born
… On 10 June 1872 Jan Christoffel Greyling Kemp, general during the …
EventNational Party unveils its policy plan focusing on anti-poverty strategies
… NP withdrew from the Government of National Unity on 30 June 1996 following an announcement by South African Deputy …
EventWalter Sisulu and others are arrested for attending a party
… were charged for treason in October 1963 and convicted. In June 1964 he was among 8 of the accused sentenced to life …
EventNP set to withdraw from GNU
… was to withdraw from the Government of National Unity on June 30. This came after the African National Congress (ANC) …