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January 8th Statements - Statement of the National Executive Committee on the occasion of the 87th Anniversary of the ANC - 8 January 1999
Today, we mark the 87th Anniversary of the birth of the African National Congress. Since its birth, this organisation of the people of South Africa has…
EventCOSATU conference prohibited and organisers restricted
… were detained during the period 1988 to the end of 1989, particularly because of protests against the Labour … South African Institute of Race Relations. …
Twentieth Anniversary of the United Nations Sanctions Resolution: Statement by Oliver Tambo at the plenary meeting of the United Nations General Assembly, 05 November 1982, New York
Over the past three decades the apartheid regime has emerged as a vicious oppressor and a ferocious exploiter of the peoples under its domination, an aggressor…
ArticleThe History of LGBT legislation
Introduction Discriminatory, separate and oppressive, these are words that were used to explain South Africa’s Apartheid regime, which officially lasted from…
BiographyDag Hjalmar Agne Carl Hammarskjöld
Dag Hjalmar Agne Carl Hammarskjöld was a Swedish citizen born 29th July, 1905 in Jönköping City, Southern Sweden. He was the youngest of the four sons of Agnes…
Statement at the 50th Session of the OAU Coordinating Committee for the Liberation Of Africa by O. R. Tambo, Harare, 13 May 1988
Comrade Chairman, Your Excellencies, Honourable Ministers, Distinguished delegates to this historic session of the OAU Liberation Committee, Your…
Speech by Oliver Tambo at dinner hosted in his honour by the Minister of External Affairs of India, Mr. P.V. Narasimha, 21 January 1983, Rao, New Delhi
Honourable Ministers and Members of Parliament, Your Excellencies, Members of the Diplomatic Corps, Distinguished Guests, Representatives of the National…
BiographyDiamond Bozas
Diamond Bozas was born at Isipingo. He studied at the Chelsea School of Art, London. He was a founder member and Chairperson of the Zululand Society of Arts…
BiographyBhekisani Manyoni
Bhekisani Manyoni was born on 6 September 1945 in Greytown, Natal. After Manyoni completed three years of study at Rorke\'s Drift in 1963 he was employed at…
Hangula Shonyeka
In 1967 the minister of justice announced that a detainee had died in detention in 1966,but did not mention the detainee's name.In 1970,in parliament the…
BiographySam P. Sesedi
Sam P. Sesedi was born in 1895 in Kimberley and qualified as a teacher in 1916. He later obtained a B.A. degree by private study at the age of 50. After…
BiographyJohn Xavier Merriman
John Xavier Merriman was a politician, businessman, and the last Prime Minister of the Cape Colony before the four provinces became the Union of South Africa…
BiographyJames Edward April
James Edward April was born on 20th of March in 1940, in Bokmakeri Athlone, Cape Town, Western Province (now Western Cape).He is the youngest of seven children…
BiographyJames Kantor
James Kantor was born on 26 February 1927 in Johannesburg to Abraham Kantor, a lawyer and Pauline ‘Polly’ (Braude) Kantor. James Kantor was one of Johannesburg…
EventMass Democratic Movement (MDM) begins their Defiance Campaign
… Trade Unions (COSATU), and formalised their association in 1989 with the launch of the Mass Democratic Movement (MDM). On 2 August 1989, the MDM organised…
EventUpington 14 are sentenced
… References: South African Institute of Race Relations. (1989). Race Relations Survey 1988/89, Johannesburg: South …
BiographyDorothy Cleminshaw
Dorothy Cleminshaw (nee Mullany) was born in Cape Town on the 15th of September 1922. She went to Ellersie College in Sea Point and matriculated with a full…
Book 6: Negotiation, Transition and Freedom - Chapter 2 - Explaining the Miracle by Max du Preez
… respectable for Afrikaners to talk to the ANC 10 (Leach: 1989,163). …
Margaret Thatcher's role in SA's transformation by FW de Klerk, 5 December 2016
… the withdrawal of 50 000 Cuban troops from Angola. - In 1989 we were able to implement the UN independence plan for … of all its people and all its…
BiographyBonginhlanhla Plummer Mbokazi
He then started work in order to support his family. Plummer was never a full time artist. He studied art informally at the Community Arts Workshop, Durban,…
BiographySir Winston Spencer Churchill
Winston Spencer Churchill was born in Blenheim Palace, Oxford, in 1874. He came to South Africa as a correspondent to the Morning Post during the South African…
BiographyChristian Malcolm
He was born in Durban. He studied at the Natal Technical College, Durban, the Croydon College of Design, Surrey, England, and at the UN(P) where he lectured in…
BiographySuliman (Solly) Mahomed Nathie
Born in 1918, he was a businessman in Evaton and played an active role in the Evaton bus boycott of 1955 to 1956. He had earlier been jailed for participation…
BiographyA. J. Sililo
A. J. Sililo was a leader of the Location Advisory Boards Congress in Durban, and prominent in the All African Convention, he was elected to the Natives'…
BiographyHoward S. Ngcobo
Howard S. Ngcobo was born in 1923 in Natal, he studied law for one year at the University of Natal and by correspondence with the University of London. He…
BiographyBransby Ndobe
Born 1927. With Elliot Tonjeni, Bransby Ndobe did much to organise African National Congress (ANC) branches between Cape Town and Port Elizabeth and also to…
BiographyNoni Jabavu
Helen Nontando (Noni) Jabavu was born in 1919 in the Eastern Cape into a literary family. From the age of thirteen, she was schooled in England, and continued…
BiographyIsaac Lesiba ‘Bra Ike’ Maphotho
Isaac Lesiba Maphotho (Bra Ike) was born in Ga-Makgato (Blouberg Municipality) on 26 February 1931. He completed his Standard 6 (Grade Eight) at Uitkyk…
EventSADF mounts raids on ANC targets in neighbouring states
Troops of the South African Defence Force (SADF) carry out raids on alleged ANC targets in Botswana, Zambia and Zimbabwe. Several people are left dead or…
BiographyRaphael Magwaza
He was born at Eshowe, KZN. He trained at Rorke’s Drift as a sculptor in 1972. He was a member of the Thupelo Art Workshop in 1990. At present he works mainly…