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A Brief History of Mali by US Department of State updated 01 October 2015
… Malian-Mauritanian frontier, was a powerful trading state from about A.D. 700 to 1075. The Malinké Kingdom of Mali had … and Timbuktu : The Songhai Empire…
Document 38 - Certification of the Constitution; a summary of the judgment of the Constitutional Court
… for freedom. The membership of the A.N.C. increased from 7,000 to 100,000 during the campaign and it became a … the Campaign that the late Chief Albert…
Chapter 4 - The Township Uprising, September-November 1984
… The insurrection of the 1980s was fundamentally different from previous struggles against white minority rule, both in … Although important strides were made…
BiographyJustice Gizenga Mpanza
… After finding work he attended evening classes on politics from Monday to Friday and mass meetings that were held at … Gregory H. (Editor), Justice "Gizenga"…
BiographyJohn O’ Malley
… after became assistant editor at the Bulawayo Chronicle . From Bulawayo Chronicle he became editor of the short-lived …
BiographyJames Madhlope Phillips
… of solidarity organisations, representatives of choirs from Holland, Germany and the United States, artists and …
BiographyRichard Msimang
… Msimang handled numerous cases involving the organization from 1917 onward. During the strike by a sanitary workers … Gibbs, J. (2019). Email from James…
EventDonald James Wood journalist and Anti apartheid activists is born
… police surveillance. After the student uprising of 1976, the Black Consciousness Movement (BCM) was banned and … Activists - Famous South Africans - Donald…
EventJack Penn, sculptor and one of the world’s best plastic surgeon is born
… 1996, at the age of 87. References: Feldberg Leon (1976), South African Jewry, (Fiedhill Publishing Company), …
ArchiveBiography of Buchi Emecheta by Alphonce Baraza
… Nwabundinke and Alice Okuekwuhe Emecheta. Her parents were from Umuezeokolo Odeanta village in Ibusa, Delta State. [1] … she is a black African. The Bride…
ArticleTransition to Armed Struggle by Norman Levy
… Transition to Armed Struggle The brief respite from the Treason Trial which ended on 29 March 1961 and the … With some exceptions1 we endured those times,…
ArchiveSurvey shows ignorance about big moments in South Africa’s history – like the Sharpeville massacre (TheConversation.com)
… to knowledge of both the 1955 Freedom Charter and the 1976 Soweto Uprising. The Freedom Charter is the statement of … “Congress of the People” in Kliptown,…
ArticleRemembering and Celebrating South Africa’s Iconic LGBTQI+ Women
… the LGBTQI+ community and conservative religious leaders. From this project, the conceptualization of a public event as … became a member of the ANC. Feeling…
O. R. Tambo Interviewed to New Times, Moscow, January 1980
… power, the South African regime, which must be dislodged from Namibia and crushed in South Africa. Attention will … African troops were required to save the…
Speech on the Sixtieth Anniversary of the ANC, Lusaka by O. R. Tambo, 8 January 1972
… which led to the formation of the ANC were representatives from as far afield as Zambia, Zimbabwe and further. They … the workers and peasants, chiefs and…
PlaceSteadville, Ladysmith
… KwaZulu-Natal . The name Steadville comes from the Stead family, particularly Frederick Stead. It is … Chief John Ndlovu, Henry Khumalo and Simon Nkosi. View…
The Life and Politics of Steve Biko by Yunus Momoniat, November 2014
… life and struggles, with the two often inextricable from each other. But the focus will be primarily on Biko. … dock at the Pretoria Supreme Court from 3 May…
Biography of Mandla Langa by Carol Sale
… African of the time with the having a very different view from most schools of apartheid. It was well-known for its … to the ANC and the struggle led to…
Johannesburg Timeline 1800-1991
… Mining Commissioner Von Brandis requests clarification from Pretoria as to the allocation of dwelling stands to … between Britain and the ZAR. Timeline:…
Chapter 4 - Poor, yet generous Lesotho
… From the book: Le Rona Re Batho (An account of the 1982 … its total repression of human rights activists, after June 1976, arrived in Lesotho in droves. By…
PlaceHellenic Football Club, Pretoria/Cape Town
… the Cup competition. (then widely known as Castle Cup) in 1976. They lost 2–0 to 'Cape Town City'. In 1994, Hellenic … a number of German Internationals who…
ArticleIndian South Africans timeline 1960-1969
… the prayer meeting a portrait of Dr Monty Naicker hung from a flagpole as he was on the run and despite their best … Gumede and Omar Essack were imprisoned…
Book 5: People, Places and Apartheid - Chapter 3 - Politics and Consciousness in Cape Town Communities, 1980-1985 by Sean Field
… From the book: Book 5: People, Places and Apartheid … introduction of Afrikaans as a medium of instruction, July 1976.© Mike Mzileni / BAHA This chapter…
ArticleMangosuthu Buthelezi: the Zulu nationalist who left his mark on South Africa’s history
… black South African leaders who influenced the transition from the white minority apartheid regime to a society under a … and “independence”, along ethnic…
Baleka Mbete: In The Centre Of The Maelstrom by Greg Nicolson (Daily Maverick), 17 February 2015, South Africa
… child” – Baleka Kgositsile The poet left South Africa in 1976. She was a teacher, linked to activities of the Black … charges of treason. When it was her…
Chapter 3 - Politics and Consciousness in Cape Town Communities, 1980-1985
… Note: All oral history quotations in this chapter are from interviews the author conducted in 1988 with activists … introduction of Afrikaans as a medium of…
BiographyShanthivathie (Shanthie) Naidoo
… permit to leave South Africa and was happy to receive it from the Minister of the Interior in March 1971. Since she … district of Johannesburg, she needed…
A Matter of ‘Principle’: Corporate America and the South African Worker in the Early 1970s by Mattie C. Webb
… 50 Years Conference While much scholarship considers the 1976 Soweto uprising as the pivotal moment that bolstered the …
EventThe Azanian People's Organisation (AZAPO) is founded after the government banned a host of BCM organisations in October 1977.
… In the aftermath of the 16 June 1976 Uprising, in Soweto, Johannesburg, the apartheid …
Statement at the International Conference on the EEC and South Africa by O. R. Tambo, Dublin, 27 January 1979
… the Chairmanship of the Council of Ministers of the EEC from July onwards. In this role the Irish Government can … expression in the pronouncements and…