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EventThousands are killed after terrorists crashed hijacked airliners into the World Trade Centre in New York and the Pentagon in Washington
… crashed hijacked airliners into the World Trade Centre in New York and the Pentagon in Washington. Four planes were hijacked in total, two were flown into…
EventDiplomatic office of the ANC in Stockholm is bombed
… A bomb exploded in the office of the African National Congress (ANC) on the third floor of a block of offices in Stockholm Sweden. The office was severely…
EventAfrikaans is used for the first time in an international document with the signing of the Convention of Mozambique in Pretoria
… Afrikaans is one of the eleven official languages spoken in South Africa. It is a derivative of the Dutch, language spoken by settlers who arrived in the…
EventSADF mounts raids on ANC targets in neighbouring states
… Force (SADF) carry out raids on alleged ANC targets in Botswana, Zambia and Zimbabwe. Several people are left … The targets include the ANC's operational…
Soweto: urban politics, poverty and race in apartheid society
… presented to the Faculty of Princeton University in candidacy for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy, in the Department of Politics. Abstract: The thesis is …
Observatory - Steeped in History and Heritage by Patric Mallet
… the renovated premises of my once favourite shop as a kid in Salt River just around the corner from where I once lived in lower Rochester Road as a kid. The…
Chapter 1 - The Victory of the Nationalist Party in 1948
… 1984 Chapter 1 - The Victory of the Nationalist Party in 1948 The African National Congress (ANC) arose as a mass organisation in the 1950s as the black…
In the name of art - A reflection on fine art
… necessity be understood within a specific social context, in this instance that of the apartheid political structure. … painful and slow birth, and has…
FREEDOM IN OUR LIFETIME, Durban, December 12-14, 1958
… when the fury of the Nationalist Party Government in its implementation of apartheid shows no signs of … Party was returned with an overwhelming majority in…
EventBeginning of the Waterberg Battle in the Herero Revolt
… of Namibia, then German South West Africa, took place in 1884. The Herero, a pastoral and nomadic group, had begun to move into Namibia in the 17th century…
EventGrammy Award winner Miriam Makeba is born in Johannesburg
… Miriam Zenzile Makeba was born in Johannesburg on 4 March 1932 to a Swati mother and a Xhosa … father worked as a clerk for Shell. Makeba began singing in…
EventDemonstrators close down businesses and government offices in Lesotho
… closed down businesses and government offices in Lesotho as protests against the outcome of the 23 May 1998 … cited electoral irregularities which they…
Press Conference in Lusaka: Oliver Tambo, 25 June 1985
… for united action. We have called on our people in the various organisational formations, in different political units, to fight on their own fronts; but…
Deployment of Racism in South Africa by Rooha Variava
… John Forrester. But the subject, the deployment of racism in South Africa, requires the student to go beyond traditional philosophy, in which I had my…
ArticleAbout Nkosi Albert Luthuli Oral History Project
… year it is open to secondary school teachers and learners in Grades 8 to 11. The aim of the competition is to increase the interest in history and to…
EventThe Rembrandt Tobacco Corporation was founded in South Africa
… In 1948 the Rembrandt Tobacco Corporation was established by Anton Rupert. The first cigarettes were manufactured in an old flour mill in Paarl on 12 June…
Press Conference In London by O. R. Tambo, 21 March 1984
… conference. We owe this day to a massacre that took place in Sharpeville, South Africa, many years ago now. It shocked … world because although there had…
Chapter 5. A Rebel’s Daughter - Garment Workers in Action by E. S. Sachs
… (Translated from the Afrikaans) I was born and brought up in the Lichtenburg District, Transvaal. Both my father and my grandfather fought in the Boer War…
EventThe first 1820 British Settlers arrive in South Africa
… to the Cape colony, the first 1820 settlers arrived in Table Bay on board the Nautilus and the Chapman on 17 … as Port Elizabeth. Lord Somerset, the British…
Chapter 8 - The politics of Congress in the late 1950s
… March-May 1984 Chapter 8 - The politics of Congress in the late 1950s Writing in Liberation (June 1956), Nelson Mandela stated that the … scale”¦The most…
ArchiveEducation is the key to change in South Africa
… In this paper, at the the very outset, Bozolli, has expectations of change in the educational pattern as well as change in attitudes. The effects of…
EventRioting and destruction in Cato Manor and Durban continues
… White landowners, who were often absentee landlords living in Britain. During the Second World War, increased work … and African Congress, the outbreak of…
EventDutch Reformed Church in Africa talks with the ANC
… A delegation of four members of the Dutch Reformed Church in Africa, led by Dr Nico Smith, talked with the African National Congress (ANC) in Lusaka, Zambia…
Regional Formation Schools.” Report in SASO Newsletter, September 1970
… I AM DIRECTED by the All-In African National Action Council to address your Government in the following terms: The All-In African National Action Council was…
EventEban Abba, Israeli statesman is born in Cape Town
… Eban Abba, Israeli statesman was born in Cape Town South Africa, on 2 February 1915. He is the son … still a child. After graduating at Cambridge University…
Freedom In Our Life Time - Foreword by Walter Sisulu
… From the book: Freedom In Our Life Time by Anton Muziwakhe Lembede I knew Anton … From the first time when he came into my offices in Diagonal Street in…
Freedom In Our Life Time - African National Congress Activities
… From the book: Freedom In Our Life Time by Anton Muziwakhe Lembede 11. A. M. … National Congress is a fundamental feature of a stage in the evolutionary…
EventFive American nuns are shot to death in Liberia
… was 'founded' by the American Colonisation Society (ACS) in 1822 and was to serve as the home of freed slaves from the … to as Americo-Liberians emerged as…
EventAll African People Conference is held in Accra, Ghana
… Kwame Nkrumah the All African People Conference was held in the capital city Accra in December 1958. Nkrumah felt that Ghana independence would … African…
EventFourth Nuclear bomb test by France in the Sahara
… April 1961, France conducted its fourth nuclear bomb test in the Sahara Desert. Adding to the tension of the time, was … to lead Europe and potentially…