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EventFollowing the infamous Treason Trial, ANC leader Chief Albert Luthuli is banished by the Apartheid Government for five years
… 1952 to 1967 and Nobel Peace Prize winner in 1961, was one of South Africa's greatest leaders. In 1952, the …
EventThe Algerian War of Independence begins
… began in 1954 and lasted until 1962. During the war over one million Algerians lost their lives. When the war started …
EventANC adopts the Programme of Action
… National Congress (ANC) at the December conference marked one of the most important turning points in the history of …
EventThe Berlin Airlift, which delivered food and fuel to West Berliners during a Soviet blockade, and in which the SAA took part, comes to an end
… The Soviet blockade of Berlin was finally lifted at one minute after midnight, on 12 May 1949, and the first …
EventDate set for start of Passive Resistance Campaign
… pay their fines, their property would be confiscated. No one, however, paid the fine. The 'Riotous Assemblies Act' was …
A.G. Visser, SA physician and poet, dies in Heidelberg, Transvaal
… to his first wife, the love of his life and the subject of one of his most famous poems titled 'Laetitia" …
EventArchbishop Desmond Tutu is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize
… as South Africa's second Nobel Peace Prize laureate. One of Tutu's earliest acts against apartheid was when he …
EventThe South African security police bombed two houses in Manzini, Swaziland
… Nkosi, the son of an active ANC member, Mr Mawick Nkosi. One of the fatal raids conducted by South African police was …
EventIdi Amin, Ugandan dictator, flees after a seven year reign
… campaigns in Burma, Kenya, and Somalia. He was also one of two 'Black' Ugandan soldiers to be promoted to the …
EventMadagascar adopts its second constitution
… were made from the 1980s. Ratsiraka tried to maintain a one party state but local and international power forced him …
EventSir Patrick Manson, Scottish doctor and founder of tropical medicine is born
… therefore lead to an important medicinal breakthrough, one that would be very valuable in treating malaria in South …
EventThe first missionary in Southern Africa, Gonçalo da Silveira, is murdered
… had begun to defame the missionary - a plot instigated by one of their priests. Due to this slander, da Silveira was …
EventGrant Baker, SA surfer, wins the Mavericks Surf Contest at Santa Cruz
… the US $30 000 (approx R195 000) winner's pay-cheque and a one of a kind Reactor watch. He finished in front of Santa …
EventThe consortium Midi Television is awarded the first privately owned free
… and media freedom, thereby avoiding the utilisation of one public broadcaster as a means to disseminate propaganda, …
EventThe first Comrades Marathon takes place
… Comrades Marathon was run by Vic Clapham, ex World War One veteran and other 34 runners, who initiated it as a … Human & Rousseau.Encounter, 'One of the…
EventGerman South West Africa is put under South African administration
… After the completion of World War One's Treaty of Versailles, German South West Africa was …
EventFrederick Lugard, British colonial administrator, occupies Kano, West Africa
… colonial administrator of West Africa from 1895. He was one of the foremost practitioners of the colonial system of …
Event15 000 applications for gold mining permits received per week in Johannesburg
… also saw the emergence of a new working class, one that was deeply divided along both colour and social …
EventGermany declares South West Africa a German protectorate
… South Africa. This German colonial occupation in 1884 was one of the first incidents in "Scramble for Africa," when the …
EventSir Percy Fitzpatrick, author of ‘Jock of the Bushveld’, is born
… to two years imprisonment of which he only served one year. At the outbreak of the Second Anglo-Boer War in …
Cutting Through The Mountain
… individual interviews cross-reference, complement and fill one another out, sometimes validating others' recollection of …
EventAugustine Makalakalane, former SA National soccer team player is born
… international teams like FC Zurich and FC Baden. He was one of the first few players to play for the national team, …
EventPrime Minister Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa is killed in Nigeria’s first military coup
… the Federal Government and other regional leaders. When one of the leaders in the western region Obafemi Owolowo was …
The African Women`s Demonstration in Natal: Report by Albert Luthuli to the Natal People`s Conference, 6 September 1959
… a firm and stable multi-racial democracy in the future. One point does deserve mention. By and large even where … the strains and stresses of life. The…
Oration by the ANC Gauteng Chairperson Paul Mashatile at the funeral service of the late Ephraim Motlalepula Nkoe, 11 May 2013, Walter Sisulu Square of Dedication, Kliptown, Soweto
… Sisulu Square of Dedication, to pay our last respects to one of the greatest revolutionaries of our time, Comrade … friends and relatives; Gomotsegang…
Document 134 - The Impending Strike of African Miners: A statement by the African Mineworkers’ Union, 7 August 1946
… Africa's Radical Tradition, a documentary history, Volume One 1907 - 1950, by Allison Drew Rosenberg Arcade, 58, Market … on Sunday August 4, 1946, and…
Presidential Address to the Eleventh Annual Conference of the Natal Indian Congress, Durban, November 21, 1958
… caused grave concern in every Indian home in the Union for one of the avowed aims of this diabolical legislation is to … means. We are totally against all…
Address by President Nelson Mandela at the opening ceremony of Telecom 95, the 7th World Telecommunications Forum and Exhibition Geneva, 3 October 1995
… to the information revolution sweeping the globe. No one can roll it back. It has the potential to open … all geographical and cultural divides. Nevertheless…
Address by President Nelson Mandela at a Luncheon of the conference of editors 6 September 1994
… of epic proportions by a nation almost written off as one of civil warriors and, therefore, a nation of failures. … of reconstruction and development. To…
Acceptance speech of the President of the ANC, Nelson Mandela, at the Nobel Peace Prize Award Ceremony Oslo, Norway, 10 December 1993
… seeking selfish gain. They recognised that an injury to one is an injury to all and therefore acted together in … dates when all humanity will join together…