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… Mandela and State President F.W. de Klerk held discussions in Pretoria on the progress which has been made in the implementation of the Groote Schuur Minutes and on the … mechanisms to reduce the level of police violence in the country. … Mandela meet De Klerk in Pretoria …

… 350 years of the establishment of the first formal school in South Africa …

… Movement." Questions and Answers Y R. M. Sobukwe, in The Africanist, January 1959 …

… "The Programme of the 4th International in South Africa", Workers Voice, 1 July (19437} …

… "People's Front and the Cry for Unity in South Africa", The Spark, 2, 4, April 1936 …

… The collapse of apartheid in South Africa - coming together of internal and external …

… Moment - Revisiting Politics, Labour, Youth and Resistance in the 1970s …

… of Labour and Indian Immigration, wrote to the Protector in Natal on 7 November 1903 to enquire if his services could be employed in the Colony. Source: I.I.61/123, 2693/03 Natal Archives. M. … state that I have got an experience of nearly four years in the clerical and account branch and now I am the …

… Description of event: The District Six Museum, in partnership with the Steve Biko Foundation, is hosting a symposium entitled, "‘Memory in a time of freedom". The 2 day event invites all those … and those who are merely interested to participate in its workshops and talks which aim to "explore the status …

… cities to a standstill when they abandoned their trucks in the city centres, in the process blocking traffic and creating chaos. Blood flowed in the streets of Johannesburg as striking truck drivers turn … Truck drivers strike in major cities …

… The State theatre in Pretoria opened in 1981 as a non-profit government funded company. The … At the time of construction, it was the first of its kind in Southern Africa.  The theatre consists of five arenas, a … The State Theatre in Pretoria opens …

… political ties and tighten sanctions against South Africa in order to speed political change, African National Congress … old friend, ANC President Oliver Tambo, for the first time in twenty-eight years. The meeting took place in Sweden, where Tambo was recuperating from a stroke that …

… siblings, she accompanied her father on diplomatic trips in Europe and Africa, and developed an avid interest in … and British communities were going to unite in excluding Black Africans from the region’s future. In the early 1900s … Gandhi disagreed fundamentally on many issues. Betty saw Black South Africans as being the main victims of ongoing …

… a freelance journalist and photographer living and working in Cape Town, South Africa. In 1998 he embarked on a four-year journalism BTech degree at … in photography included a short course in the theory of black and white photography at the Cape Technikon and …

… President Samuel Kanyon Doe became virtually a prisoner in the presidential mansion as rebels besieged Monrovia and … end of the Doe regime only continued the ethnic warfare in Liberia. Click here to read more about the devastating civil war in Liberia from 1989-1996. …

… SASO came under increasing attack from the Government. In March 1973, eight Black Consciousness leaders were banned. In 1977, nine SASO members …

… South African Indian Congress (SAIC) Executive met in Cape Town and pledged full support to the Passive … also decided to send a delegation to New York to assist in the preparation of the Indian case before the United … of the PRC's of Natal and Transvaal, had already arrived in New York to enlist support of the American people. …

… Announcement of a meeting in London on Revolutionary perspectives in Southern Africa on 7th July 1978. Speaker to be I B Tabata. … Meeting: Revolutionary perspectives in Southern Africa …

… at the National Launch of the United Democratic Front held in Cape Town "nothing's positive in apartheid". … Nothing's positive in apartheid, says Boe …

… Fifteen coffins were carried in a mass procession of over 30 000 people to the graveyard in the Springs township of KwaThema on July 23. … 30 000 in KwaThema funeral march …

… graduation ceremony of the Federal Theological Seminary in Edendale, Pietermaritzburg in 1977. … Christian ministry in a times of crisis …

… Article by the United Democratic Front in which the Front looks at the crisis facing the ruling party as a result of contradictions in South African capitalism. … The struggle in perspective: some ideas …

… Samuel E. K. Mqhayi was born near Alice in the Cape in 1875. Mqhayi studied at Lovedale, worked as a teacher and … the song in 1934,  D. D. T. Jabavu  said, "Of late the Black races of the Union and the Protectorates have somehow …

… is the eightieth anniversary of his first imprisonment in South Africa in January 1908, which was a turning point in … campaign against the Asiatic Registration Act (the Black Act) designed to humiliate, harass and eventually expel … most of the Indians refused to take out permits under the Black Act. Gandhiji found that "passive resistance" was seen …

… Following a change of policy in the United States of America (USA), US Secretary of State … met African National Congress (ANC) leader Oliver Tambo in Washington, D.C. … Tambo meets US representative in Washington …

… For the first time in the history of the pulp and paper industrial council, … to refer the wage negotiations back to factory level in an attempt to break their deadlock with the unions. … Factory wage talks in paper industry …

… An illegal demonstration in Kenya becomes known as the “Saba Saba” (Seven Seven the date in Swahili). The government sends in p …

… Veteran French war journalist Jean Helene is shot dead in cold blood in Abidjan in the Ivory Coast by a police officer. …

… Three of the six protesters leave the British Consulate in protest against South Africa’s action in linking their sit-in with t …

… In one of the largest demonstrations staged in this country’s history, women marched to the Union Buildings in Pretoria to pres …