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EventDulcie September is assassinated in Paris
… 1988, Dulcie September, the African National Congress (ANC) representative in France, Luxembourg and Switzerland was … an assassin just after collecting her…
EventCecil John Rhodes, South African statesman, is born
… and suffered bouts of asthma. His family sent him to Natal, South Africa, to live with his older brother in the …
EventPretoria receives city status
… Republic of the Orange Free State), the Cape Colony and Natal Colony. Thirty years later, in 1961, when the Union of …
EventPresident Jacob Zuma steps down as President of South Africa
… internal disputes. The ruling African National Congress (ANC) formally asked Zuma, 75, to resign but he initially … Zuma’s resignation followed an African…
ArticleThe Group Areas Act of 1950
… and Coloured populations (Marquard, 1969: 163). Trouble in Natal - Group Areas. October, 1959. The Drum Archive / … areas for Whites in provinces of the Cape…
ArticleBrenda Fassie’s 1997 hit song Vulindlela still raises questions about South Africa as a nation
In 1997, South Africa’s most famous music star had a huge hit. Brenda Fassie’s Vulindlela became a national pop anthem, played especially at weddings and…
Accredited Events
… to have approval support of the African National Congress (ANC) must be submitted to this sub committee. Individuals, … 54 Sauer Street Johannesburg 2001 or;…
ArchiveTribute to Anti-apartheid campaigner, Helen Suzman, by African National Congress, 1 January 2009
… The African National Congress (ANC) pays tribute to the late anti-apartheid campaigner Helen … of Parliament and a vocal critic against apartheid, the ANC…
GEAR and Neo-Liberalism (Part 1) by Thabo Mbeki, 21 March, 2016
… resources; • an expansionary infrastructure programme to address service deficiencies and backlogs; • an appropriately … the framework for policy represented…
EventPresident P. W. Botha offers Nelson Mandela conditional release from prison
… Mandela , leader of the banned African National Congress (ANC), conditional release from the prison sentence he had … a rally in Soweto on 10 February 1985…
EventCODESA II Talks end in deadlock
… movements including the African National Congress (ANC) fail to reach agreement on certain key issues. CODESA … CODESA, and consisted of all parties in the…
Document 24 - De Klerk’s reply to Nelson Mandela
… The Executive Committee noted the wording proposed by the ANC in an attempt to break the deadlock in the constitutional … rights contained in section 23 of…
ArticleTrevor Andrew Manuel and Economic Freedom Fighters - High Court of South Africa - Gauteng Local Division - Johannesburg
… to the Minister in this regard. The EFF was advised to address its questions to the Minister through Parliament, and … appoint a new SARS Commissioner in his…
The strangulation of activity
… Congress (PAC) and the African National Congress (ANC). On the 8 April 1960 these organisations were banned. … part of the Congress group, which consisted of…
WE HAVE THE KEY TO FREEDOM NOT THE OPPRESSOR, December 16, 1957
… Albert Luthuli's Presidential Address to the Forty-fifth Annual Conference of the African … voteless non-whites is too vast to describe in a brief address…
Chapter eight - Conclusion
… himself helped facilitate the Party penetration of the ANC, the organisation of the oppressed classes that remained … enslavement could only achieve this,…
We Shall Win. Joint Statement by Leaders of Liberation Movements at the fifth Session of the Assembly of Heads of State and Government of the Organisation of African Unity by O. R. Tambo, Algiers, 13 – 16 September 1968
… for African Unity for the opportunity afforded to us to address this august Assembly at this critical moment in the … and participation in the armed struggle…
A tribute to Sam Ramsamy and others who fought apartheid sport by E.S. Reddy
… Sewsunker "Papwa" Sewgolum, an Indian golf caddie, won the Natal Open Golf Championship (after winning the Dutch Open in … and secured close cooperation…
EventFirst Indian workers arrive in South Africa
… Sugar farming grew rapidly in the late 1800s in Natal as a result of very cheap “indentured labour” sourced … Shamim Marie. Divide and profit: Indian workers…
PlaceKitson the Steam Train, Krugersdorp
… to South Africa soon thereafter for service on the Natal Government Railway. It is the oldest working steam …
EventNational Heritage Day celebrates South African cultural diversity
… known as Shaka Day, and was celebrated in kwazulu/Natal. It was changed to National Heritage Day in 2004 when a …
EventPolitical activist, Dr Yusuf Dadoo is re-elected President of Transvaal Indian Congress
… Campaign, led by Yusuf Dadoo (TIC) and G.M Naicker (Natal Indian Congress), began in protest of the Asiatic Land …
EventMilner proposes conditional voting rights for ‘non-Whites’ in SA
… South Africa (Transvaal, the former ZAR, the Free State, Natal and the Cape) the latter was the only one where …
EventBuilding of Delagoa Bay railway line is completed
… independent of the harbours of the British Colonies, Natal and Cape. After discovery of the main gold reef on the …
EventThe South African government is to grant self-government to KaNgwane
… in June 1982, claiming to restore Ingwavuma, in then-named Natal, to South African jurisdiction, was null and void since …
EventThomas William Bowler, prolific painter at the Cape, is born
… mostly on events that were taking place in the Cape and Natal as well as landscapes. Bowler began teaching art to …
Book 3: Migration, Land and Minerals in the Making of South Africa commissioned by The Department of Education
… extension of British power in the Cape, Eastern Cape and Natal contributed to the pattern of state formations in South …
EventAngola becomes independent of Portuguese colonial rule
… bases in Angola. In 1976 the African National Congress (ANC) set up the Central Operations Headquarters of uMkonto … military training camps in Angola. That…
EventMK’s Luthuli Detachment and ZAPU in a joint operation
… military impetus to both the African National Congress's (ANC) and ZAPU's broad strategies for liberation. For the ANC this would achieve the immediate goal…
EventInkatha Freedom Party is formed
… caused by the banning of the African National Congress (ANC) and Pan Africanist Congress (PAC). It was the precursor … Party (IFP). Most of the founders of…