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Gamel Abdel Nasser is formally nominated to become the first president of the new United Arab Republic.
At a mass gathering in Johannesburg during the Rand Revolt, a proposal to establish a provisional republican government is acce
President Samora Machel of Mozambique decrees an end to private ownership, and Lourenço Marques is renamed Maputo.
Louis van Assenburgh is appointed as successor to Governor Willem Adriaan van der Stel at the Cape.
In an address to the Foreign Correspondents Association, minister of cooperation and development, Dr Gerrit Viljoen , announces
The Truth and Reconciliation Commission confirms newspaper reports that five former security police officers have confessed to
King Farouk removes Prime Minister Mustafa Nahhas for failing to keep the peace. Ali Mahir replaces him.
Anglo-Boer War 2: Mafeking siege: Barolong chief Wessel Montshiwa advises his people not to assist the British.
Security police raid English-language newspapers, seizing documents related to an advertisement calling for the legalising of t
Draft legislation is published giving owners and managers of hotels and restaurants the right to admit Blacks.
South Africa’s foreign minister ‘Pik’ Botha warns Botswana to take action against ANC operations in its country.
The ANC in exile in Lusaka calls on its supporters to take the struggle into White areas.
Thousands of Commonwealth citizens resident in South Africa, mostly Britons, become technically aliens through failing to apply
The government’s attitude to Rhodesia’s unilateral declaration of independence is defined by the Prime Minister, Dr. Verwoerd,
Robert Mugabe succeeds Canaan Banana and becomes Zimbabwe’s first executive president after reforming the constitution to usher
The Lesotho government announces it will deport eight South Africans, whom it describes as a danger to peace.
SA signs agreement with Botswana relating to the establishment of a Botswana government labour representative in South Africa.
Address by the President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki, to The Joint Sitting of Parliament, Palais Du Parliament, Brazzaville, Republic of Congo, 1 December 2005
Your Excellency, Speaker of the National Assembly, Jean-Pierre Thystere-Tchicaya,Your Excellency, Speaker of the Senate, Ambroise NoumazalayeHonourable…
ArchiveLeadership and conflict in Bushbuckridge: struggles to define moral economics with the context of rapidly transforming political economies (1978-1990)
Thesis has been submitted for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy at the University of the Witswatersrand. This thesis analyses the effects of state…
Address by President Nelson Mandela to the Constitutional Assembly on the occasion of the adoption of the new constitution Cape Town, 8 May 1996
Honourable Deputy Chairperson of the Constitutional Assembly Members; Distinguished Guests. The brief seconds when the majority of Honourable Members quietly…
ArchiveFrom the margins to the mainstream: the anti-apartheid movement and the politics of agenda-setting in the United States
A dissertation submitted to the Graduate School, New Brunswick, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey in partial fulfillment of requirements for the…
EventAt an international summit in SA leaders pledge to push for a new global trade deal that will help poor countries
On 12 of February 2006, the Progressive Governance Network held a summit in Hammanskraal South Africa. The aim of this gathering was to strategize ways in…
BiographyMary Maria Burton
Mary Burton was born on 19 January 1940 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. One of three children of Molly and Peter Ingouville, Burton and her family moved around in…
Document 119 - Non-European United Front of South Africa, Minutes of Conference held in City Hall, Cape Town, 8 to 10 April 1939
From: South Africa's Radical Tradition, a documentary history, Volume One 1907 - 1950, by Allison Drew The Conference was formally opened in the City Hall, on…
BiographyTim Bruwer
Odd one out Over the years many people have asked me how it came about that I, amongst all the Afrikaners that I grew up with or knew, as a young man in the…
BiographyDr Essop Essak Jassat
Dr Essop Essak Jassat, the second of three children, was born on 5 October 1932 in 11th Street Vrededorp, Johannesburg. Both of his parents came from India…
Capture the Citadel. Broadcast to South Africa on the eighth Anniversary of the Formation of Umkhonto we Sizwe by O. R. Tambo, 16 December 1969
Comrades-in-arms and fellow fighters in the struggle for freedom: On December 16, 1961, a national army - Umkhonto we Sizwe - was born to resume the armed…
ArticleWomen, employment and the changing economic scene, 1920s
In the 1920s, with the First World War (1914-1918) over, the pattern of female employment began to change. The war and the protectionist policy of the Pact…
ArchiveA statement of the African National Congress of South Africa to the 5th Summit Conference of the non-aligned countries
Statement of the African National Congress of South Africa to the 5th Summit Conference of the non-aligned countries.
Henry Reed Ngcayiya
He trained as a teacher at Healdtown Institution, a Methodist boarding school near Fort Beaufort in the Eastern Cape. Ngcayiya left the teaching profession…