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EventUN concerned about Fischer’s arrest
… permission and was released on bail of R10 000. On his return, he was again arrested and the case against him and his co-accused, thirteen other persons also…
EventPercy Qoboza, editor of the Post, states that it is difficult to see how a credible newspaper for Blacks can be created in South Africa
… to challenge the apartheid system. Re-assuming his role as editor of the World, he showed open support for … a charge until March 1978. International…
EventSouth African Parliament votes to restore citizenship to residents of so-called independent states
… of Bophutatswana, Mr Lucas Mangope. He announced that his homeland would never participate in South Africa's first … scheduled for April 1994. He further…
EventNotorious role of Ferdi Barnard is disclosed
… would ensure that they would be "criminally compromised". His plan was submitted to senior Military Intelligence (MI) … De Klerk dismissed several high…
EventRenewal of land acquisition programme in Zimbabwe
… President Robert Mugabe renewed his pledge to persist with his government's controversial land acquisition programme in …
EventKitchener succeeds Roberts as Commander-in-Chief
… frustrated with the state of affairs and was extreme in his views of what it would take to end the war. He thought a … was necessary to counter-act to the…
EventKing Moshoeshoe II is reinstated as King of Lesotho
… whose Section 2 (1) stated that "upon the abdication of His Majesty King Letsie III from the office of king of Lesotho, His Majesty Moshoeshoe II shall…
PlaceMaphikela House
… built in 1926 and was Maphikela’s second house, following his forced removal from Waaihoek. Thomas Mtobi Maphikela was … built in 1926 and was Maphikela’s…
The Role of the Missionaries in conquest - Chapter XII - End and Beginning
… period, too, has required its special agents, each with his specific function to perform. It has required a ruthless … and politician like Rhodes; a Viscount…
Chapter 4
… from feudalism;it demanded a wage-labourer who would sell his labour instead of a serf or slave who was tied to the … precarious one. While he suffers the…
Document 52 - LA. Jordaan, “A Critique of Mr. W. P. van Schoor’s.The Origin and Development of Segregation in South Africa” Discussion, 1, 3, June 1951
… of one of its members, that Mr. W.P. van Schoor propounded his ideas on a subject which was finally published in booklet … of historiography in the first and…
Message from President Jacob Zuma
… Sefako Makgatho from 1917 to 1924, ZR Mahabane served his first term from 1924 to 1927, Josiah Gumede from 1927 to … of the continent for many decades. As…
Chapter 20. Malan’s Road to a New South Africa - Garment Workers in Action by E. S. Sachs
… who had spent many years in Germany and openly proclaimed his sympathies with Nazi ideas, explained his party's policy in a speech in Parliament. "On the one…
ArchiveCHAPTER 8 - Leading from behind Virtue and necessity, April 1984-June 1985 by Howard Barrell
… South Africa,’ ANC president Oliver Tambo told members of his organisation two months after the Nkomati Accord, ‘have … of violence that had, by the end of…
EventDurban Declaration is published denouncing Thabo Mbeki’s AIDS denialism
… Mbeki’s AIDS denialism has become synonymous with his presidency and in 2008 it was determined that his influence on policy resulted in thousands of…
EventP.W. Botha becomes Prime Minister
… the Cape Province as new Prime Minister and Party leader. His elevation to the new position was boosted by the … Party (NP) since 1948. The new prime…
EventYoweri Kaguta Moseveni becomes president of Uganda
… time. Yoweri Moseveni from the UPM refused to recognise his government and with Yusuf Lule, the former President of … and ousted him. Obote was forced to…
EventSomerset concludes a treaty with Ngqika (aka Gaika)
… stealing cattle. Gaika thus received British help when his uncle, Ndlambe, attacked him at Grahamstown in 1819. … trying to escape. Ndlambe eluded capture,…
EventProf. James Smith, who identified the first coelacanth found in South Africa, is born
… chemistry at the University of Stellenbosch, and completed his PhD at Oxford. After he returned from Oxford, he began to … 22 December 1938. The fish was…
EventIan Smith announced that he is ready to yield to majority rule in Rhodesia
… known as Zimbabwe). This represented an about turn from his announcement of the Unilateral Declaration of … on 11 November 1965. On this occasion, Smith led…
Introduction
… no overt dishonour to either side. Gandhi conceded before his departure that the quest for future improvements rested squarely with South Africa's Indians…
ArchiveThe Original Chris Hani Memorandum
… with others and it is extremely doubtful that with his attention so divided he can do justice to the armed struggle in South Africa which should be his…
ArticleThe Judicial Commission of Inquiry into Allegations of State Capture, Corruption and Fraud in the Public Sector including Organs of State (The Zondo Commission)
… only released after former President Jacob Zuma withdrew his application to interdict the release of this report. The … the eve of a meeting of the ANC's NEC…
Africa’s photojournalists: The wars are not over by Greg Marinovich (Daily Maverick), 25 June 2013
… plain is a boy dressed in rags and staring into infinity, his face marked by the trauma of war. He is sitting on an … warfare in a non-industrial society; he…
Tell no Lies, Claim no easy Victories by Thabo Mbeki, 4 April 2016
… that were and have been made over the years concerning his own personal conduct in Government.” He continued and … from the President”. Then, Mr Makhanya…
Chapter 25. A Reichstag Fire Trial Replete With A Van Der Lubbe
… martyr, who was being victimised by the "Sachs clique". His photograph, accomÂpanied by long stories of how he and his family had been deprived of a living,…
The flight of the Gwala-Gwala bird: Essays by Ari Sitas, review essay by Linda Cooper
… Africa’s leading sociologists, as well as being a poet in his own right, a respected labour commentator and cultural … working class leadership of the…
New Generation Sculpture
… to the resolution of the base indicates a consciousness on his part of a fine art context. This can be contrasted to the … conceived to be displayed in…
New tactics in the revolt
… Kruger told a Nationalist audience on 21 August: 'He knows his place and, if not, I'll tell him. The Blacks always say, … against political action'. The…
Albert Luthuli’s Acceptance Speech, on the occasion of the award of the Nobel Peace Prize, Oslo, December 10, 1961
… of peace the price of many lives. It was in the cause of his activities in the interest of peace that the late Dag HammarskjÁ¶ld lost his life. Of his work a…