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… Potgieter, D.J. et al. (eds)(1970). Standard Encyclopaedia of Southern Africa, Cape Town: NASOU, v. 2, p. 494. … William John Cormack Brebner, senator of the Union of South Africa and life-long chairman of the Afrikaner …

… The Treaty on the Prohibition of the Emplacement of Nuclear Weapons and Other Weapons of Mass Destruction on the Sea-bed and th …

… Potgieter, D.J. et al. (eds)(1970). Standard Encyclopaedia of Southern Africa, Cape Town: NASOU, v. 11, p. 567 … The Council of Policy resolves to settle Sheik Yusuf, brother of the sultan of Macassar, who was banished to the Cape and …

… Dr Stephanus Johannes du Toit, teacher, chief inspector of schools in the OFS and author, is born in the district of Boshof, OF …

… The National Library of South Africa Act, 1998 (Act 92 of 1998), comes into effect and creates the National Library of South Af …

… Southern African Political History: a chronology of key political events from independence to mid-1997, … Action Committee is formed to back the plan for the future of Soweto proposed by the ‘Committee of 10’, most of whose …

… Governor Willem Adriaan van der Stel lays the first bricks of an octagonal church, the tower of which still forms part of the G …

… A convoy of the British 80th Regt. is over-run at Ntombe River, northern Zululand by a force of 2 000 Zulus.   Of the sixty m …

… Heads of thirty or thirty-two African states sign the Charter of the Organisation of African Unity (OAU) in Addis Ababa on Afri …

… Thousands of Namibians welcome the head of the UN task force, General Prem Chand, in Windhoek. Chand is in charge of the milita …

… Horrell, M. (ed)(1982). Survey of Race Relations in South Africa 1981 , Johannesburg: South African Bureau of Race Relations, pp. 59 & 63 … Hansard reports that on this date 289 servicemen of the SADF are in detention, of which 137 are being punished for reasons of c …

… Smuts is elected as premier in the fourth general election of the Union of South Africa. Burne: Chronicle of the Wo …

… Summary of notes of a meeting between a South African and a United States delegation on the question of South West Africa: Geneva, 21 April 1986 …

… Following the assassination of the  former Secretary-General of the South African Communist Party (SACP) and chief … weSizwe (MK), the armed wing of the African National Congress (ANC),  serious tensions emerged as South Africans … ‘Chris Hani's Assassination Put South Africa On The  Brink of  Civil War’ , from the Vice News , [online], Available at: …

… Comrade Thabo Mbeki; My leaders: the Officials, members of the NEC, PEC's, and BEC's; Colleagues and comrades; Dear … millennium. You delegates have spoken, in the true spirit of the ANC. But you have spoken in more than just your own … lives - it continues to lead! Issued by: African National Congress Department of Information and Publicity Saturday 20 …

… Verbatim transcript of comments made by a representative of the Cuban Government at a meeting with Dr Crocker and Dr … Verbatim transcript of comments made by Mr Carlos Aldana Escalante, a member of the Central Committee of the Cuban Government, during a …

… Programme Director, Minister of Arts and Culture, Pallo Jordan, Minister of Provincial and Local Government, Sydney Mufamadi, Premier of the North West, Edna Molewa, Mayors, Members of Parliament … Address of the President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki, on the …

… - the South Africa-Mali Project for the preservation of the Timbuktu Manuscripts. As you know, that joint project was initiated by the governments of South Africa and Mali as part of our contribution to the renaissance of Africa. This dinner … Address of the President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki, at the SA-Mali …

… Sheik Hamad Bin Khalifa Al Thani, Chairman of the 9th Islamic Summit Conference Your Majesties Your Highnesses Your Excellencies Heads of State and Government Dr. M. Laraki, Secretary General of the OIC Mr. Kofi Annan, Secretary General of the UN Dr. … Address as Chair of the Non-Aligned Movement at the 9th Session of the Islamic …

… for the young Mbuli.  After experiencing the death of his fellow students, Mbuli’s school went on strike and he … performance group, Khuyhangano, Mbuli performed for the Congress of South African Students (COSAS) in 1979, a group … of 1990, Mbuli experienced a rift with African National Congress  (ANC) leaders.  In February, Albie Sachs  was …

… Dr. James Sebe Moroka was the great grandson of Chief Moroka I of the Barolong, from Thaba Nchu  in the … if frustrated attention to the detailed matters of Congress organisation'. Walshe also notes that Moroka's new … Party of South Africa (CPSA) and the South African Indian Congress (SAIC). However, Moroka’s distance from the centre …

… From the book:  Passive Resistance 1946 - A Selection of Documents compiled by E.S. Reddy & Fatima Meer Report on … Indian People The present leadership of the Natal Indian Congress took over in October 1945. The Indian people of … by a policy of weak-kneed appeasement. When the present Congress leaders assumed office, the first question they …

… born in Pretoria on 10 July in 1956. He was the second son of Martha Mahlangu. His father left him in 1962, and from … due to ongoing riots. He joined the  African National Congress (ANC)  in September 1976, and left the country to be … Mahlangu left the country to join the African National Congress (ANC), to be trained as an Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK) …

… We are gathered here today to commemorate sixty years of the formation and existence of the African National Congress of South Africa. And, let there be no mistake, it … among the oppressed people. The African National Congress came two years after the 1910 Act of Union which …

… On the night of 12 January, 1991, more than 30 people were killed while … and community leader, Chris Nangalembe who was a member of the African National Congress (ANC). Nangalembe died on 5 January 1991 after he … District Municipality, (2011), The 20th Anniversary of the Sebokeng Night Vigil Massacre’ , 31 January, [online], …

… Govindasamy Krishnasamy Thambi Naidoo*was born of indentured stock in 1875 in Mauritius. His family, … to protest. He was elected President of Transvaal Indian Congress (TIC) in 1932, and denounced the Transvaal Asiatic … the decision of the leaders of the South African Indian Congress to join the Colonisation Enquiry Committee, set up …

… Speech by Oliver Tambo at the meeting of Representatives of the parties and movements participating in the celebration of the 70th anniversary of the “Great October Socialist …

… ’The spirit of Bandung’, Statement by Oliver Tambo to the International Conference in support of the liberation movements of Southern Africa and in Support of the Frontline States, …

… Toast Remarks of the President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki, at the Official Dinner in Honour of HE Kofi Annan, Secretary General of the United Nations, …

… Toast Remarks by the President of South Africa, T Mbeki, at the Official Banquet in Honour of President Abdelaziz Bouteflika of the People’s Democratic Republic of Algeria: Presidential …