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Message from the President, South African Society of Artists
… mounted by Iziko Museums of Cape Town at the South African National Gallery. We are grateful to the Director of Art … art, including its involvement in the…
Chapter 25. A Reichstag Fire Trial Replete With A Van Der Lubbe
… In the general election of May 1948, the Nationalist Party polled 400,453 votes and its ally, the Afrikaner Party, 41,885, a total of 442,338 votes. On the…
EventClarence Makwetu Passes Away
… from the Pan-African Congress, Makwetu had represented the party in parliament and served as president in 1996. To the …
EventUnion leader, Moses Mayekiso is reported to be under arrest on his return from Sweden.
… and became a member of the South African Communist Party (SACP). Mayekiso was first detained in February 1986 …
EventNames of 303 banned people are published
… 235 were not. Amongst this last group have been Liberal Party members. The strict security legislation aroused huge …
EventDr Louis Luyt is born
… of SARFU in May 1998. Luyt founded the Federal Alliance Party (FA) in 1998, which he personally bankrolled. The FA …
EventThe Santo Alberto is wrecked
… considerable contact with the Bantu in the area. Another party was not so fortunate - of a group of twenty-eight who …
EventHelen Zille, former leader of the Democratic Alliance, is born in Johannesburg
… the Black Sash . In the 1990s Zille joined the Democratic Party (now the Democratic Alliance). She became a member of …
ArticleEnd Conscription Campaign (ECC)
… 1983, 13 objectors had been jailed. In 1977, compulsory national service had been increased from one to two years, … provided stringent sentences for those…
ArticleDavid Goldblatt Timeline
… and virulent anti-Semitism. I can remember vividly Nat party posters outside my father's shop with the … , Murray Crawford Johannesburg Exhibited at the…
Address by ANC Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa at Freedom Charter Forum, 29 September 2015, Pietermaritzburg City Hall
… League has returned to the source. Under its newly-elected national leadership, it is getting back to the basics. Now that its 25th National Congress has…
Black consciousness and the land question by Pandelani Nefolovhodwe, 17 March 2015, South Africa
… Rural Development and Land Reform put adverts in the main national newspapers, stating their commitments to uplifting … 25.4 (a) and( b ) states "the public…
Address by President of the Republic of South Africa, Nelson Mandela, at the World Economic Forum, Southern Africa summit Cape Town, 9 June 1994
… But we are confident that we have entered it with a new national spirit. The first democratic elections which we have … by the progress already made by the…
ArchiveThe 1957 Alexandra Bus Boycott and its unsung heroes by Roseinnes Phahle, June 2019
… in South Africa. These were the years when the Nationalist Party government was preparing to implement the Group Areas … opposition to the impending forced…
Freedom In Our Life Time - African Nationalism
… Youth League working under the auspices of the African National Congress, was held. Among several brilliant and … of the audience upon the sterling qualities…
Chapter 14 - Epilogue: lessons from the negotiating table
… with the greatest possible public participation. To each party the negotiations were as much about constitutional … for strong provincial and local…
EventWalter Sisulu celebrates 90th birthday
… together in Bloemfontein to form the South African Native National Congress (later renamed the African National Congress). In 1902 the South African Native…
ArticleEnuga Sreenivasulu Reddy Timeline 1924 - 2020
… Consulate. 8 November, Reddy meets a delegation of African National Congress (ANC) President-General Dr. A. B. Xuma, … Africa. 2000 March, Reddy is awarded…
EventZulu King Dingane orders the execution of Piet Retief’s men
… of Dingane and Retief's treaty, Piet Retief and his party were treated to a farewell dance by the Zulu impis at … of Dingane and Retief's treaty, Piet…
EventProfessor Bob Hepple is born
… His father, Alex Hepple, was a trade unionist, Labour Party member and Chairman of the Treason Trial Defence Fund. …
ArchiveLong live Ruth First by Gavin Williams, 17 August 2019
… African workers at the night schools run by the Communist Party of South Africa (CPSA). In 1946, during the strike of … by the reconstituted underground…
ArticleAfrican Heritage Sites
… Drakensberg Park - ( KwaZulu-Natal ), Mapungubwe National Park - ( Limpopo ), Cape Floral Region - ( Western … to be between 3.6 to 3.25 billion years old…
South African and World leaders
… responsible for framing the organizational units of the National High Command, Regional Commands, Local Commands and … In 1959 she was chosen as the leader…
ArchiveThe 16th of December in South Africa by Wolfram Kistner
… by Africans. This happened at a conference of the African National Congress (ANC). Dr A.B. Xuma praised the Zulu … Nationalistic thinking should be…
Working Life - Factories, Township and Popular Culture 1886 - 1940 - Protest and Resistence
… Smuts, and his government was swept from power. The Labour Party, which represented most of the English-speaking craft workers, and the National Party, which…
Apartheid - A Crime Against Humanity: The Unfolding of Total Strategy 1948-1989
… orders gave rise to the creation and implementation of a national intelligence gathering capability directed at … with the heads of the Security Forces, the…
EventPrime Minister P.W. Botha announces Ciskei will become independent on 4 December 1981
… was created between 1961 and 1982 by the then Nationalist Party Government.. This was done as part of the Government's …
EventRestitution of Land Rights Act is signed
… from the right-wing Freedom Front (FF), Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) and the South African Agricultural Union (SAAU). …
EventEthnic violence in Rwandan capital Kigali is spreads throughout the country
… a widespread belief was that it was the Tutsi dominated party Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF). By the end of the …
ArticleFietas: Pageview timeline 1880-1988
… itself felt within the internal politics of Fietas. The National Party wins the ‘white’ elections. The ‘non-white’ population …