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EventJohn “Shoes” Moshoeu was born on this day
… International soccer player was born in Diepkloof, Soweto. One of the most successful players to have ever played the …
ArchiveAPDUSA Bulletin 9: The Kennedy visit, the truth
… the visit by Senator Edward Kennedy to South Africa, and one question which stands out and that is, Why was he …
The African Element in Gandhi by Anil Nauriya
… Many books have been written on Gandhi’s twenty-one years in South Africa, the birth of Satyagraha and the …
EventDr Ernst Gideon Malherbe, SA educationist, is born in Luckhoff, OFS.
… principal of the the University of Natal. He is considered one of the great educators to emerge from South Africa. He …
EventDaryll Cullinan, SA cricket player, is born in Kimberley.
… is a former cricket player who played test cricket and One Day Internationals. He was an all-rounder with a …
EventZambia gains independence from Britain
… Kenneth Kaunda, the country’s first president, proclaimed one-party rule at independence. . Their independence came …
EventKwame Nkrumah orders release of political prisoners
… which had rejected multiparty rule in favour of one party rule and scientific socialism. …
EventCOMSA calls on SA to move towards election
… that based on its homicide rate, this country was one of the most violent in the world. COMSA, a fifteen-member …
EventThe People’s Progressive Party (PPP) is banned
… The one-year-old parliamentary opposition People Progressive …
EventAmnesty application of Gideon Nieuwoudt fails
… for his actions, a requirement for amnesty. Nieuwoudt was one of five former security policemen who applied for amnesty …
EventChoirmaster, educator and singer Mary Eveline Fincken is born
… to South Africa in 1908 for health reasons. Fincken was one of the first staff members at the South African College …
EventSA is readmitted to the IOC
… One month prior to the establishment of the democratic …
EventWinnie Mandela’s jail sentence is suspended by the Appeal Court
… five years' imprisonment for kidnapping four youths and a one year sentence related to a charge of being an accessory …
EventThe name of the military base, Voortrekkerhoogte is officially changed to Thaba Tshwane
… Robert Heights after Lord Roberts, a British soldier and one of the best commanders of the 19th century. …
EventSt. John Broderick claims concentration camps are improving
… camps in South Africa. The camps were set up during one of the toughest and bleakest phases in the history of …
Twenty-four people are killed in Operation Beanbag in Maputo, Mozambique.
… Jose Ramos, is "mistakenly identified" as Joe Slovo, one of the raid's main targets, by the South African forces …
ArchiveHow colonial violence came home: the ugly truth of the first world war by Pankaj Mishra (The Guardian), 10 November 2018
… to ask, as Du Bois did in 1910: “What is whiteness that one should so desire it?” As we remember the first global … the background of a project of western…
What the lives of two South African music giants tell us about culture under apartheid by Gwen Ansell (The Conversation), 13 July 2017
… observation. The Cannibals morphed into what became one of South Africa’s greatest bands, Stimela, joined by … on a policy of “retribalisation” and black…
If we want to understand African history, we need to understand the Battle of Adwa by Hannah Giorgis (Pambazuka News), 02 Mar 2016
… pride and reverence, sometimes slipping into Tigrigna (one of the languages spoken in Tigray) as he recalled … sacrificing only a handful of regions under…
Speech by President Mandela at the Funeral of Nokukhanya Luthuli, 22 December 1996, Groutville
… to bring about peace and democracy. Mama Nokukhanya was one of those leaders who contributed to our struggle away … woman of rare and distinct qualities…
PlaceMkhambathi Nature Reserve
… Wild Coast will find the scenic Mkambati Nature Reserve one of the highlights of their trip. Situated close to the … a swamp forest and splashing waterfalls …
Document 64 - Letter from the Workers’ Party of South Africa to the International Secretariat of the International Communist League (B-L), 1 July 1936
… Africa's Radical Tradition, a documentary history, Volume One 1907 - 1950, by Allison Drew Document 64 - Letter from … at Cape Town and at Johannesburg. As a…
Document 54 - Letter from the International Secretariat of the International Communist League (B-L) to the Communist League of South Africa and the Workers Party of South Africa, 24 July 1935
… Africa's Radical Tradition, a documentary history, Volume One 1907 - 1950, by Allison Drew Document 54 - Letter from … futile; this capitalism is PRESENTLY…
“Peoples of the world united against apartheid, for a democratic South Africa”, Closing speech by Oliver Tambo at the ANC conference, Arusha, 4 December
… and unrelenting tyranny as brutally violent as the one we face, we have the duty to raise the armed struggle to … inconvenience because of inadequate…
Statement at the Eighth Conference of Heads of State or Government of Non-Aligned Countries by O. R. Tambo, Harare, 1 - 6 September 1986
… of all other people. Accordingly, we feel completely at one with the Non-Aligned Movement in its resolve vigorously … limitation on the very possibility of…
The 1994 South African Election by Phyllis Jordan
… African men in the Cape Province had a limited franchise. One of them, Dr. W.B. Rhubusana, represented the Wodehouse … parties receiving a thresh-hold 5…
Salim Essop takes centre stage during first day of Ahmed Timol inquest by Amanda Khoza (News24.com), 27 June 2017
… While at school his teacher praised him for being one of the brightest in his class and it came as no surprise … into a vault where he endured several…
PlaceThe Durban Centre for Photography
… as well as training and workshop opportunities. One workshop, which runs over two months and includes a month … of photographers embarking on a photo-based…
The Treason Trial: Foreword by Chief Albert Luthuli to a book by Helen Joseph, 1963
… of the governing clique to stifle all opposition, made one hundred and fifty-six of us, belonging to all the races of our land, into a group of accused…
David Goldblatt’s Portraits of Ex-Convicts at the Scenes of their Crimes by Max Campbell, 6 October 2016
… In one image from “Ex-Offenders at the Scene of the Crime,” a … of ex-offenders in South Africa, which has long ranked as one of the most crime-ridden…