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EventSA cross-border raid in Maputo kills several
… identified" by the South African forces as Joe Slovo, one of the raid's main targets, and was shot at a roadblock. …
EventWinnie Mandela speaks out against Terrorism Act
… in the Pretoria Central Prison and allowed only one visitor at time. The only thing that kept her going was …
EventTrade Unionists convicted of kidnapping and assault
… for five hours on 28 August 1990. A fine of R2 000 each or one year in prison with a year suspended for three years was …
EventWinnie Mandela’s Soweto home reported burnt down
… of schoolchildren. Among the explanations that emerged was one that the attack had been aimed not at the Mandela family …
EventAlan Paton, author of “Cry, the Beloved Country” and founder member of the Liberal Party, dies
… Alan Paton is one of South Africa's most celebrated authors. His most …
EventBarclays Bank changes its name to First National Bank
… to pull out of the South African market was a commercial one, the pressure exerted against the bank by anti-apartheid …
EventFirst formal school opens at the Cape
… school, attended by 12 White children, four slaves and one Khoi-Khoi, was opened in 1661. …
EventDr Manto Tshabalala-Msimang’s advice is criticised
… alike. A new study published this month by Aids, one of the world's leading HIV journals, said that the …
EventCardoso’s murderers convicted in Mozambique
… were convicted and sentenced to lengthy prison terms. One of the suspects, Anibal dos Santos Junior, popularly …
EventFirst victim of the land invasions in Zimbabwe, David Stevens, is murdered
… also abducted - they were later released badly beaten. One of them, John Osborne, witnessed Stevens' murder. …
EventLabour pioneer Samuel Long is arrested
… Samuel Alfred (Taffy) Long, heralded as one of South Africa's greatest working-class martyrs, was …
EventDr. E. Rhoodie is arrested at the French Riviera resort Juan les Pins
… documents from the South African government. Rhoodie was one of the key players in the 1978-79 ‘Information Scandal’. …
EventThe University of South Africa is officially opened, replacing the University of the Cape of Good Hope.
… Good Hope since it was established in 1873.Today,Unisa is one of the mega universities of the world, with over 300 000 …
EventSA’s gold-panning team returns victorious from the World Gold Panning Championships held in Slovakia
… South Africa’s gold-panning team returned with one gold and two bronze medals from the World Gold …
East Cape Update
… successful strategies of resistance. Yet, being one of the poorest regions of the country, lacking in …
EventTryna du Toit, Afrikaans novelist, is born in De Aar, Karoo
… her writing career, she produced about 40 novels. One of her novels, Groen koring, was made into a film in …
EventThe UDF launches the Million Signatures Campaign and by October collect just under 400 000 signatures.
… Front (UDF) embarked on an ambitious campaign to collect one million signatures from the public, declaring opposition …
EventKwame Nkrumah, the first President of independent Ghana escapes 5th assassination attempt
… attempt. Shortly thereafter, he declared Ghana a one party state. During the same year Nkrumah forced a … 2011]|Ghana History, ‘Introducing authoritarian…
PlaceBrandvlei, Karoo
… from sheep Farming, Brandvlei is also the home of SALTCOR, one of the Country's largest private salt producers, …
EventGert Maritz (41), Voortrekker leader, dies.
… British control. Gert Maritz, along with Piet Retief was one of the leaders that advocated a migration as early as …
Document 24 - “Wreckers at Work”, (Editorial), Liberation. 18, April 1956
… the Nationalists, in which the movement has gone through one hard struggle after another, in which scores of the most … a policy of its own and a distinctly…
The Great Trek Was Not Over Abolition by Ron (Republican Trekker Volk), 30 October 2008
… as their ancestors had done from the VOC power back almost one century & a half earlier. The British Imperialism in the … over 2 generations. Piet Retief’s…
ADDRESS AT THE OPENING CEREMONY OF THE 24TH REGULAR MEETING OF THE CARICOM CONFERENCE, Montego Bay, Jamaica, 2 July 2003
… up without bootstraps? I am certain that we are of one mind that one of the prerequisites for the victory we seek is our … we have the task to decide what we…
Chapter 11. Court Cases - Garment Workers in Action by E. S. Sachs
… of a number of workers. The workers were divided and about one-third refused to strike. The strikers, with the help of … same time, I became involved in two…
ArticleRand Rebellion 1922
… supplies, and then returned to bomb the rebels. During one of these sorties Colonel Sir Pierre van Ryneveld's … (Taffy) Long , heralded by subsequent labour…
ArticleAfrican National Congress Youth League (ANCYL)
… become the basis of a democratic constitution hailed as one of the most progressive in the world. Members of the … the firebrand political styles of Mokaba…
Constructing the Union of South Africa; negotiations & contestations, 1902-10
… franchise qualifications and the Cape Colony was the only one which permitted voting by (property owning) non-whites. … in creating a unified country within…
Statement by Oliver Tambo to the Press, 16 November 1984, Addis Ababa
… meeting of the OAU which in our view, will go down as one of the most successful in the history of our continental … and timely. The combined offensive of…
Statement to the Press by O. R. Tambo, Addis Ababa, 16 November 1984
… meeting of the OAU which in our view, will go down as one of the most successful in the history of our continental … and timely. The combined offensive of…
PlaceSouth Sudan
… celebrated its independence, Abyei's uncertainty was only one obstacle that awaits the fledgling State. South Sudan then became one of the poorest countries…