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Founding of the Industrial and Commercial Workers’ Union of South Africa. Leader: Clements Kadalie.
Thelma Gutsche, author, biographer and film critic, is born in Somerset West, Cape Province.
Yunus Ismail Mahomed, attorney, businessman and chair of Kagiso Trust, is born in Johannesburg.
The Six-day War between Mali and Algeria over the disputed Agacher strip starts.
Johann Gotfried Mocke, field-cornet and Voortrekker commandant, is born in Graaff-Reinet district.
EventApartheid minister of Law and Order opposes White radicalism in the South African police force
The minister of Law and Order, Adriaan Vlok, announced in the House of Assembly that no member of the Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging (AWB) would be tolerated in…
ArchiveLetter from JG Adendorff, Director of Labour, East Rand Administration Board addressed to the Secretary of the Ciskei Commission
Letter from the East Rand Administration Board to the Ciskei Commission, supplying requested population statistics of the Xhosa people residing in the East…
EventSir de Villiers Graaff and Theo Gerdener jointly express their agreement to form a new party
In a joint declaration the leaders of the United Party (UP), Sir de Villiers Graaff and the Democratic Party (DP), Theo Gerdener, expressed their agreement to…
ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 1930-1939
… of Natives Bill and the Native Trust and the Land Bill. Rev. Z. R. Mahabane ’s national convention … him for voting against the Bill. May, The Native Trust…
ArticleThe Khoisan
… settlers in the mid 17th century. As the Dutch took over land for farms, the Khoikhoi were dispossessed, exterminated, … and sheep and had to move around to…
Address of the President of South Africa and the current Chairperson of the G77 and China, Thabo Mbeki at the 61st Session of United Nations General Assembly 19 September 2006, New York
Your Excellency, the President of the General Assembly, Sheikha Haya Rashed Al Khalifa, Your Excellency, the Secretary-General Kofi Annan, Your Excellencies,…
From the 1973 Durban strikes to the Marikana massacre and De Doorns conflict: How trade unions acquired their power and what has gone wrong with employment relations in South Africa subsequently by Johann Maree
Forty years ago during January and February 1973 mass strikes by African workers in Durban broke out in protest against low wages. In total 61,000 workers went…
Comments and Observations on Proposals for a United Nations Security Council Resolution on Apartheid by O. R. Tambo, 1963
A. General (1) The Security Council is at present seized of the question of apartheid, following its resolution of August 7th.[1] (2) The Secretary…
ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 2011 - 2020
… said, among other things, that “we must take the (whites’) land without paying. Once we agree that they stole our land, we can agree they are criminals and…
Kora: A Lost Khoisan Language of the early Cape and the Gariep by Menán du Plessis - Introduction
From: Kora: A Lost Khoisan Language of the early Cape and the Gariep by Menán du Plessis Introduction Background to the project This book had its origins in…
Address at the SANEF Conference on the Media, the AU, NEPAD and Democracy ,12 April 2003
Chairperson of SANEF, Mathatha Tsedu, Convenor of the Media Freedom Committee, Henry Jeffreys, Distinguished Delegates, Ladies and Gentlemen: I am pleased…
ArticleLife in Sophiatown
… South African urban areas where blacks were allowed to own land. This was land that never belonged to the Johannesburg municipality, …
PlaceDistrict Six, Cape Town
… prevented Private Development and for many years . The Land remained vacant, until in the 1980s Housing for Police …
Apartheid power in crisis
… if lasting peace is to become a reality. The Native Land Act of 1913 and the Development Trust and Land Act of 1936 strictly limit access to land by the…
Speech by Oliver Tambo on behalf of the Liberation Movements, at the twenty-third session of the assembly of Heads of State and Government of the Organisation of African Unity, 27 July 1987, Addis Ababa
… rather, it enhances our conviction that in this ancient land, we have a second home which we can truly call home. …
ArchiveExcerpts from meeting between a South African delegation led by Minister R F Botha and a United States delegation led by Mr Robert MacFarlane, National Security Advisor, on queries affecting South West Africa and Angola: Vienna, 8 August 1985
Minutes of a meeting between a South African delegation and a United States delegation to discuss the deteriorating situation with regard to negotiations in a…
Address to the Joint Sitting of the National Assembly and the National Council on the New Partnership for Africa’s Development, 31 October 2001
… who are bound together by the oldest and most enduring land-mass, who breath the same air, till the same soil, dream …
ArchiveApartheid Super Spy, Craig Williamson’s Trails of Death and Destruction: The Scandinavian Connection, (Responses to recent exposures in Jyllands Posten) by Prithiraj Dullay
… Biko to Pretoria over 1000 km away in the back of a Land Rover. He was naked, chained and in a comatose state …
PlaceBonteheuwel
… This was a result of the Group Areas Act of 1950, were the land was divided into: blacks and whites distinct residential … This was a result of the Group…
PlaceThe Company Gardens, Cape Town.
… Parade. By 1660, its area occupied some 18 hectares of land and it extended from Tuyn Street, now Church Street, … when Government House was enlarged, and a…
”Bridging the Gap Between White and Black in South Africa”. Address by Dr. A. B. Xuma at the Conference of European and Bantu Christian Student Associations at Fort Hare, June 27-July 3, 1930 [Extracts]
A chronology of meetings between South Africans and the ANC in exile 1983-2000 by Michael Savage
Preface In the decade preceding the dramatic February 1990 unbanning of South Africa’s black liberatory movements, many hundreds of concerned South Africans…
A new class struggle
… as imaginary complaints: The withdrawal of grants of Crown Land (Act 25 of 1891) was meant to prevent Indians from … a small percentage purchased farms, the…
BiographyAdrian Leftwich
Adrian Leftwich grew up in Cape Town, Western Province (now Western Cape), in 1940 in a liberal Jewish family. His father was a doctor, and his mother gave…
History of the Labour Movements in South Africa
… on labour will be regularly updated alongside features on Land, Migrant Indenture, Slavery and the Liberation Struggle. …