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EventAZAPO’s first contest in SA democratic elections
… managing to secure only 0,2 % of the vote which gave them one seat in the National Assembly. This was AZAPO's first …
EventAnge-Félix Patassé, President of the Central African Republic is born
… the new “democratic star” of CAR, despite him having been one of the key figures during former president, Jean-Bédel …
2002 ANC National Policy Conference: Statement of the President of the ANC, Thabo Mbeki, Kempton Park, 27 September 2002
… the Volunteer, to prepare for our 51st National Congress. One of our tasks is critically to review our policies, to … regularly resort to the falsification…
ANC statement on the death of Adelaide Tambo, 31 January 2007
… Tambo fought to ensure that women were an integral part of the liberation struggle and should assume their …
ArchiveThe Mission by Denis Goldberg - Foreword by Dr Z. Pallo Jordan
… in Platinum Class II by the President in 2012 for his part in the armed struggle for liberation. He has received …
’Under Investigation’ video material going live on facebook
… local people on film and these interviews will form part of the evolving local archive. • The deaths occurred …
PlaceSt George’s Grammar School, 1 Queen Victoria Street, Cape Town
… the Liesbeek River, in the Area where St George's and part of the Suburb of Mowbray are now situated. Gradually, …
EventHerero people of South West Africa, now Namibia, begin uprising
… Present-day Namibia was once a part of the imperial German empire. As was common during the …
Document 47 - “Answer to Government’s Apartheid Unions”, The Citizen. 1 3, 30 April 1956
… 1956 "THE LABOUR MOVEMENT MUST FIGHT ALL ATTEMPTS ON THE PART OF THE GOVERNMENT TO CONTROL THE FREE ASSOCIATION OF …
An evaluation of South African novelist Nadine Gordimer (1923-2014) by Sandy English (World Socialist Website), 30 September 2014
… gag on stinking meat, children refuse to go to school. No one knows where the end of suffering will begin.” – Burger’s …
EventThe UN sets up Commission on Apartheid
… Thirty-five delegates voted in favour of the commission, one voted against it, with twenty-three abstentions. …
EventInternational Day for the Abolition of Slavery
… Others (resolution 317 (IV) of 2 December 1949. This was one of the early resolutions of the UN, adopted during the …
EventFormer Colonial Prime Minister John Merriman dies
… died in Stellenbosch at the age of 85. Merriman was one of only a few members of Parliament who opposed the …
EventEgypt Establishes Diplomatic Relations With Israel
… Egypt's military forces, the fifth largest in Africa, is one of the best in the region. The new diplomatic …
EventF.W. de Klerk marries Marike Willemse
… graduated with a law degree in 1958. They had two sons and one daughter. Their marriage ended in 1998 in a divorce, …
EventThe Population Registration Act of 1950 is repealed
… It required people to register from birth as belonging to one of four different racial groups, White, Black, Coloured …
EventSA architect Gerard Moerdijk is born
… district, Transvaal (now Limpopo Province). He was one of the first Afrikaans architects and pioneered new …
EventGambia becomes a republic
… Gambia is one of the smallest countries in West Africa. It gained its …
EventGhana imposes a total ban on exports to South Africa and South West Africa
… West Africa, as a protest against apartheid. Ghana was one of the first African states to call on South African …
Analysis: Is South Africa doing enough to prevent heritage flight? by Rebecca Davis (Daily Maverick), 07 March 2017, South Africa
… David Goldblatt was the first South African to be granted one of the art world’s major benchmarks for international … shed in public on the specific catalyst…
PlaceFort Cox
… various historical sites. Fort Cox was built in 1897 as one of the military post which was established during the … Colledge; Fort Cox College of Agriculture…
Baroness Castle of Blackburn opened an exhibition on the history of the Anti-Apartheid Movement at the opening session of the Symposium
… band of people inside and outside South Africa, overthrew one of the most powerful regimes in the world. We are all … we managed to get into this succession…
PlaceHlobane, Zululand District Municipality
… and a local school. Like much of the countryside in this part of KwaZulu-Natal, the area is home to a Battlefield that … royal homestead, abaQulusi (loyal to…
PlaceMapungubwe Collection at the University of Pretoria
… bangles as well as earthenware ceramic vessels also form part of the collection. The museum is situated in the … symbol of leadership. Textual and…
2007 ANC National Policy Conference: Report of the Commission on International Relations, 27-30 June 2007, Gallagher Estate
… of the idea of United States of Africa is welcomed as one of the goals that inspired the African leaders of the … Developmental Aid 18. The idea of a…
Address of the President of South Africa and Commander-in-Chief of the SANDF, Thabo Mbeki, on the occasion of the Presidential Fleet Review, 5 September 2008, Simonstown
… ago. All of us are saddened because death has taken away one of the bright stars in our Defence architecture, a … the use of force." The same Constitution…
James Stewart - the ANC fighter who spoke truth to power by Martin Plaut, 1 February 2016
… investigations into human rights abuses in the camps, one in 1992 by Judge Thembile Skweyiya, and another in 1993 … alongside Tambo, Thabo Mbeki and other…
ArchiveChapter 11 - SACTU in the Congress Alliance
… of the proletarian elements were stronger and sometimes one in fact had to be careful that this tendency did not become hegemonic [i.e. dominant - Editor]…
Robert Sobukwe Speech at the University of Fort Hare as President of the Students’ Representative Council, 21 October 1949
… years the ratio of European to African staff is four to one. And we are told that in ten years’ time we might become … trouble at the hospital, then, I say,…
Chapter 6. A Daughter of the Free State - Garment Workers in Action by E. S. Sachs
… I could work an electric machine although I had never used one before, nor had I handled high-class garments. It did not … not to contribute 6d. a week, so I…