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EventArmscor’s Chairman announces the production of a record breaking South African artillery system
… of the arms embargo imposed on South Africa due to its Apartheid policies and due to the performance of the South … The initial design was strongly…
Closing speech by ANC President Jacob Zuma by ANC, 20 December 2007, 52nd National Conference, Polokwane
… society: Advance in unity towards 2012, underscores the work that needs to be undertaken in preparation for what will … before. If we were able to defeat…
ArticleMohandas Karamchand Gandhi (Mahatma Gandhi) - Timeline: 1890-1899
… June, Passed the London Matriculation examination on his second attempt. Later in the year, he met two … it impressed him immensely. Later, it became the…
Robert Sobukwe: What a sense of mission! By Sibonginkosi Mazibuko, 19 February 2015, South Africa
… marks 37 years since the passing away in the hands of the apartheid regime of the great pan-Africanist leader. His radical dedication to the total freedom,…
EventMacmillan’s 'winds of change’ speech in Parliament
… Macmillan, British Conservative prime minister, delivered his 'winds of change' speech, condemning apartheid, to members of both Houses of Parliament in Cape…
Statement by Albert Luthuli on the "Sabotage Act", 6 June 1962
… through the United Nations Organisation, is pledged to work actively to ensure respect for basic human rights as … freedom lovers - "life is more than meat"…
ArchiveThe Way History is taught in South Africa is ahistorical, – and that’s a problem by Natasha Robinson (theconversation.com), 7 June 2018
… It explores some of the turning points in the history of apartheid: the Sharpeville massacre, the Langa march, … accurate events. For example, one teacher…
Extracts from Mandela’s speeches by Sapa, 6 December 2013
… speeches. Here are extracts from some of them FROM HIS ADDRESS to the conference of the Pan-African Freedom … house to house, beating up Africans and driving…
ArticleSan hunter-gatherer society in the Later Stone Age
… whole skin of an antelope. San children were not forced to work when they were young and mostly played and copied the … A young person's first wedding was…
Chapter 5 - Who would deliver us from oppression? Gumede and African politics in South Africa,1921-1927
… the incremental transformation of Gumede’s philosophy. As his faith in the British sense of justice and fair play had … in any shape or form deserving to be…
A call to the people of South Africa: Oliver Tambo, 02 May 1987
… brutal suppression and external aggression. Botha and his generals saw this exercise as a means of consolidating … find puppets from among the black masses…
ArticleStates of Emergency in South Africa: the 1960s and 1980s
… One of the key instruments used by the apartheid government to neutralise political dissent was the … rate. The revolt threatened to derail plans to…
EventUN report accuses Katangan President and Congo President of conspiracy to murder Patrice Lumumba
… Many argue that it was in the interests of the CIA and the American Government that Lumumba be neutralised to ensure …
EventTurkish newspapers criticise of ANC leader Nelson Mandela for refusing to accept Turkey’s peace award
… given by the largely Kurdish Northern Alliance to the American led invasion of Iraq improves their situation. …
Statement by Oliver Tambo to the ordinary Congress of the Socialist International, 20 June 1989, Stockholm
… an anxiety based on our knowledge of the dishonesty of the apartheid regime. Regrettably, subsequent events have … P.W. Botha declared that he would not…
Statement to the Ordinary Congress of the Socialist International, Stockholm by O. R. Tambo, 20 June 1989
… an anxiety based on our knowledge of the dishonesty of the apartheid regime. Regrettably, subsequent events have … P.W. Botha declared that he would not…
Book 4: Industrialisation, Rural Change and Nationalism - Chapter 2 - Industrialisation and the Revitalisation of Black Politics in the1940s by Mohamed Adhikari
… schemes for African businessmen, himself included. During his presidency the ANC's membership fell to below 1 000 … pointing out the many good things on…
PlaceThe Space
… performed in various venues. [ii] He was inspired by the work they did and felt the desire to open up a theatre space … which was previously used for chrome…
Mafika Gwala speaks to Andrea Meeson about not living in the shadows
… a coherent explanation for the patronising reference to his inclusion on this year’s Poetry Africa bill. I suggest … only now am I being asked to participate…
ArticleExample of a local history: Pretoria
… Africa. He called the new town Pretoria, in honour of his father. The city of Pretoria is 60 km from Johannesburg, … bought some Jacaranda trees from Rio de…
January 8th Statements -Statement of the National Executive Committee on the occasion of the 83th Anniversary of the ANC - 8 January 1995
… of overcoming the political, social and economic legacy of apartheid colonialism, of racism, sexism and class … ANC separate from the people of South Africa…
EventVuyisile Mini, Trade unionist and uMkhonto we Sizwe (MK) activist is hanged
… and uMkhonto we Sizwe (MK) activist was hanged for his role in the MK and anti-apartheid resistance. As a member of the South African … (ANC) member to be…
EventMazisi Kunene, Zulu poet and ANC activist, is born
… University of Natal and later won a scholarship to further his studies at the School of Oriental and African Studies … was a member of the African National…
Umbrella Contemporary Dance Festival
… to any form of dance as long as it was a new contemporary work. The first edition of the festival opened in February 1989 with fourteen choreographers…
ArticleLand Restitution in South Africa since 1994
… 6.8-million hectares of land to people dispossessed under apartheid, which represents 27% of the government's target of … the willing buyer, willing seller…
PlaceRainbow Restaurant and Jazz Club, Durban
… a full liquor license in 1983. In those dark days of Apartheid, the Rainbow played an important role in the … night before was banned. By 1994 Billy Mthembu…
EventWinston Churchill, is captured by Boer forces during the Anglo-Boer War
… developed a keen interest in war correspondence. Some of his early literary works were reports on various military campaigns. This led Churchill to work as a…
EventSir John Frederick William Herschel dies
… and re-observed the many double stars discovered during his father's survey of the northern sky from 1783-1803. With his father he cast, ground and polished…
Address by President Nelson Mandela at the SA freedom day celebrations Pretoria, 27 April 1996
… world leaders, UN General-Secretary Boutros Boutros-Ghali, His majesty King Hussein bin Talal of Jordan, Presidents Jose … of struggle;those who helped break…
Address of the President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki at the European Parliament, Strasbourg: 17 November 2004
… the Elder, Roman naturalist and philosopher, wrote in his multivolume "Natural History": "Ex Africa semper aliquid … to bring peace to Liberia? Pleading, if…