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EventThe ANC calls for a day of protest and observes this day as 'South Africa Freedom Day' for the first time
In 1950 the apartheid government introduced the Unlawful Organisations Act and the Suppression of Communism Act. In March 1950 the African National Congress …
From Amsterdam with euphoria
… a non-racial society. In the spirit of the United Nations Declaration of Human Rights and of the Freedom Charter … the Freedom Charter' (preamble and…
PlaceUniversity of Pretoria
The foundational Years of the University of Pretoria were welcomed with great turmoil. In 1889, the Zuid Afrikaansche Republiek (ZAR) proposed that a…
Justice Arthur Chaskalson: President of Constitutional Court interviewed by Rupert Taylor, 2 February 2000, The Braamfontein, Johannesburg
… and jurisprudence… - it didn’t just pop out of the sky in 1948. In 1948 it was formalized, institutionalized… Taylor: … is… you know, showing how these were…
ArchiveThe Arthur Chaskalson I knew by George Bizos, 5 December 2012
… of freedom, their dedication to the struggle, and their declaration that they were prepared, if needs be, to die for …
January 8th Statements - Statement of the National Executive Committee on the occasion of the 80th Anniversary of the ANC - 8 January 1992
… we celebrate our 80th anniversary after the adoption of a Declaration of Intent containing constitutional principles … ANC and all other forces who subscribe…
Chapter 7 - Defining the process
… Committee recommended an addendum be attached to the Declaration of Intent adopted at CODESA I. According to the … Pravin Gordhan, There was general…
ArticleThe Natal Workers Theatre Movement Timeline
Acronyms BAWU, Black and Allied Workers Union COSAS, Congress of South African Students COSATU, Congress of South African Trade Unions COSAW,…
ArticleMangosuthu Buthelezi was a man of immense political talent and contradictions
Mangosuthu Gatsha Buthelezi, who has died, was a history maker. He was born on 27 August 1928 into a tumultuous global century, and into the local conditions…
ArticleHistory Grade 10 - Topic 2 Essay Questions
Impact of Slave Trade and Colonisation on Indigenous Societies at the Cape Based on the 2012 Grade 10 NSC Exemplar Paper: Grade 10 Past Exam Paper …
ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 2000 -2010
… Ekurhuleni Alliance Summit. To read the Alliance summit’s declaration click here . 2 June, Schabir Shaik is found … as from the SACP, COSATU and SANCO. The…
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1920s
… British Empire and its activities result in the Balfour Declaration. 19 November, Following the Imperial Conference … the former British Prime Minister,…
The African Resistance Movement (ARM): An Organisational History
… not spared the suppression of political activity after the declaration of the state of emergency in March 1960. The …
ArticleOrganisation of African Unity (OAU)
… due regard to the Charter of the United Nations and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. This was to be achieved by …
ArticleApartheid and reactions to it
… In 1948, the National Party (NP), representing Afrikaners, won … unrest too was in evidence during this period. After the 1948 elections, as the liberation…
PlaceUniversity of Pretoria Museums
COLLABORATION OF PLACES WITH MUSEUMS AND GALLERIES. SOUTH AFRICAN HISTORY ONLINE (SAHO) UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA MUSEUMS (UP MUSEUMS)"The University of…
PlaceThe Company Gardens, Cape Town.
When the Dutch first settled in the Cape in 1652, Governor van Riebeeck's brief included the construction of a fort and the setting out of gardens where…
PlaceBethal
Established in 1880, Bethal is a small farming town, in Mpumalanga. Farming in potatoes, maize, sunflower seeds, sorghum and rye. There is also a large amount…
PlaceNelson Mandela University, in Gqeberha
Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University (NMMU) opened on 1 January 2005, the result of the merging of the PE Technikon the University of Port Elizabeth (UPE)…
PlaceFordsburg and the Oriental Plaza, Johannesburg
Named after Lewis Peter Ford of the Jeppe and Ford Estate Company, Fordsburg was built on the outskirts of the Johannesburg gold reef to house miners. The…
Women’s Resistance Against the Pass Laws
… Indeed, when the Nationalist Party took power in 1948, one of the many harsh laws the regime added to the … which they were governed. We believe in the words…
ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 2011 - 2020
… to assume its top leadership. 25 - 28 October The final declaration of the Third International Solidarity Conference … human rights monitoring in occupied…
ArchiveThe Trotskyist Groups in South Africa - A Retrospective View by Baruch Hirson (Encyclopedia of Trotskyism On-Line: Revolutionary History: Volume 4, No. 4, 1993, South Africa)
… empty, but that belongs to a different study. In 1947 or 1948 the FIOSA group decided to disband. Jaffe and some …
A.I. Kajee His Work for the Southern African Indian Community - Chapter 6
… black and white in church or state" and the Victorian declaration "all men shall be considered equal before the … out that "It wished it to be clearly…
Message by Oliver Tambo to the Soweto rally to welcome released leaders, 29 October 1989
… the way forward has been clearly spelt out in the Harare Declaration which you, the people of our country, and your …
Chronology
… Dr. Y.M. Dadoo) begin passive resistance campaign (1946-1948) June 23 , Second National Anti-Pass August 12-15 , … by trial of communist for sedition,…
Address by the President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki, at the Opening Ceremony of the Second Festival of the Cultures and Civilisations of World Deserts, Dubai: 16 April 2005.
… into account. This meeting needs to send a clear declaration to the UN Convention to Combat Desertification …
Chapter 12 - Certification of the final constitution
… as important to the ANC, who had proposed it in the Harare Declaration, as it was to the NP and other minority political …
PlaceCape Town International Airport
Cape Town International Airport opened in 1954, replacing Wingfield Aerodrome, originally named D.F. Malan after the then, South African Prime Minister. With…
PlaceWelkom
… its name after the Farm; 'Welkom'. Welkom was founded in 1948 by Sir Earnest Oppenheimer, (who was the De Beers mining … the North Western Free State. It was…