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EventPrime Minister Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa is killed in Nigeria’s first military coup
… of Nigeria after it gained independence. He served his term as Prime Minister from 1957 until he died in 1966 … in the area eventually led to the coup in…
Oliver Tambo, 1 October 1987 - Reproduced in Oliver Tambo and the Struggle against Apartheid, edited by E. S. Reddy
… international solidarity for a quarter century but his political life is inseparable from that of his two closest colleagues. The three men began their ……
Oliver Tambo, October 1987
… international solidarity for a quarter century but his political life is inseparable from that of his two closest colleagues. The three men began their ……
Chapter Five - The Fighter for Black Unity: 1935 - 1945
… Gomas set out to record, in the most explicit way, his own views on the question. Using as a point of departure, … to the non-Europeans than on economic…
PlaceOld Fort and Cemetery, Durban
… when the Colonial Office in London refused to ratify his actions, Napier was forced to recall his men. Delighted with this turn of events, the Dutch now ……
EventSABC personality Nic Swanepoel dies
… of thirty-three years before he retired in 1995. During his flourishing career, Swanepoel was awarded numerous prizes for his outstanding radio drama scripts…
OR Tambo Memorial Lecture delivered by President Jacob Zuma, 25 October 2015, Port Elizabeth
… anti-apartheid struggle. He was to set foot on the land of his birth again only three decades later. During October each … human rights and equality, who…
ArticleYouth and the National Liberation Struggle
… fitted, and whether he will have a chance in life to use his knowledge ”¦ What is the use of teaching the Bantu child … punish students. The parent was…
EventDerek Hanekom is born
… president Nelson Mandela after 1994 general elections. His appointment to the ministry could best be explained as a compensation for his contribution to the…
ArticleHerero Revolt 1904-1907
… T. Leutwein was prepared to negotiate a settlement, but his government was determined to suppress the revolt with … von Trotha, from Germany. In August 1904,…
ArticleBatavian Republic 1803-1806
… the Netherlands to develop agriculture in the colony. But his rule was too short for his plans to be put into action. Evaluation Although some …
In summary: Factors resulting in the crisis
… of Nelson Mandela was reinvigorated from the time of his 60th birthday in 1978 until his release in February 1990. The Nelson Mandela 70th …
ArticleThe Society of Young Africa (SOYA)
… and class exploitation’. Probably thinking ahead of his time, he told delegates that ‘it is generally recognised … SOYA, was suspended for allegedly using…
ArchiveOne hundred years of an air force inspired by General Smuts, by John Kane-Berman (PoliticsWeb), 18 July 2018
… the "Smuts report". "My father's conclusion," wrote one of his sons, was that "we can only defend this island … attack by offensive measures and by attacking…
ArchiveThe Legacy Of The Jazz Epistles, South Africa's Short-Lived But Historic Group by Simon Rentner, 27 April 2017
… like the Epistles in South Africa," Masekela writes in his 2004 biography, Still Grazing: The Musical Journey of … some of the traditional, dance music and…
ArchiveBiography of Bavumile Herbert Vilakazi
… 1955 in Evaton, the fifth son of a family of five boys, his politisation began at an early age he was living in … at the time of the Sharpville shooting in…
EventThe Voortrekkers are united for the first time and only for a short period of time
… time and only for a short period, when Gert Maritz moved his own laager and several small laagers scattered over a … Retief's main laager, after the murder…
ArchiveLong live Ruth First by Gavin Williams, 17 August 2019
… at a screening of the film on the 20th anniversary of her death, 2012, at the University of London School of Advanced … the ANC from African nationalism…
Nelson Mandela, The Rivonia Trial Court statement, 1964 (Video)
… BEAT, Nelson Mandela's famous declaration to the court in his 1964 terrorism trial, expressing his readiness face execution. In fact the sentence was …
EventSA artist Vuminkosi Zulu is born
… . He left school at standard VII to concentrate on his calling that was to be an artist. Zulu became a world-renowned artist and his depiction of the 'The…
EventSir Julius Jeppe, founder of the Witwatersrand Township Estate and Finance Corporation, dies in London
… He was a mining and property magnate who was knighted for his pioneering role in the development of Johannesburg. He … was born in Rostock, Germany in July…
Document 20 - F. Carneson, “The Franchise Action Committee”, Discussion, 1, 3, June 1951
… Discussion, 1, 3, June 1951 The lecturer prefaced his address by stating that the views he would express were … of F.R.A.C., though many of its members…
Tribute to DR Nthatho Motlana by ANC President Jacob Zuma, 6 December 2008, University of The Witwatersrand, Johannesburg
… who was principled to the end, and never shifted from his loyalty to his country and his people and his organisation, the ANC. The passing on of …
PlaceEersteling Monument, Polokwane
… sure that the deeply weathered quartz vein that traversed his farm was indeed auriferous, he was not certain of the richness of his discovery. So, having…
A Tale of Political Conspiracy and Incomprehensible Judicial Imaginings by Thabo Mbeki, 15 February 2016
… by President of the ANC, Cde Jacob Zuma, to have his case, once more, struck off the roll…The judgement … wrote: “It is a surprise…that Mbeki did not employ…
‘Wash Me Black Again’: African Nationalism, the Indian Diaspora, and Kwa-Zulu Natal, 1944-1960 by Jon Soske
… and lively. I would also like to thank Ted Chamberlin for his limitless support, dependable council, and sagacious good … not have agreed with much that I…
Mines of the beloved country: Through the mind of a photographer and essayist by J Brooks Spector (Daily Maverick), 5 November 2012
… Back in the mid-1970s, when the writer was still feeling his way along the dark moral landscape that was South Africa, … and who wrote Move Your Shadow, an…
PlaceWelkom
An Industrial and Commercial heartland, the City derived its name after the Farm; 'Welkom'. Welkom was founded in 1948 by Sir Earnest Oppenheimer, (who was the…
EventThe Trial of strength between the Conservative Party and the National Party begins as three Members of Parliament resign
… Waterkloof respectively, after which he would relinquish his seat in Soutpansberg. Botha together with Langley and … of this electoral challenge was that PW…
EventSouth African Prime Minister, John Vorster resigns
… 1966, John Vorster , shocked the nation by announcing his resignation from office, at the request of his colleagues, on the grounds of ill health…