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EventGovernment bans 20 Black leaders
… In 1973 massive strikes occurred throughout South Africa, culminating in September 1973 at the Western Deep … African Students' Organisation (SASO), the…
ArticleThe Conflict between the AZAPO and the UDF - popular violence in the 1980s and 1990s
… Black Consciousness (BC) philosophy of the Black People’s Convention (BPC). In the first four years of its existence … The UDF: A History of the United…
Community histories of Rustenburg
… schools but the coming of the war put an end to all of his noble ideas. With the advent of war Rustenburg had … the Reformed Church in the Transvaal and…
BiographyDikobe Ben Martins
… the chief coordinator of the visual art committee in South Africa for assisting artists to attend the Culture and … since the First Democratic Elections held…
BiographyJan van Eck
… 1943, the first born of five children. He came to South Africa when he was five years old with his mother and father, … Among a group of South African …
BiographyJohannes (Joe) Modise
… full-time basis. In 1963 MK ordered Modise to leave South Africa because the police wanted to detain him. This … April 1994 President Nelson Mandela…
BiographyRoger Meintjes
… to highlight the socio-political environment in South Africa at the time but more particularly to illustrate … about popular resistance and state brutality…
ArticleQuotations by Oliver Tambo
… and non-racial society. We have a vision of South Africa in which black and white shall live and work together … our part of the world into a corner of the…
V - The Funeral
… book: No.46 - Steve Biko by Hilda Bernstein, 1978, South Africa Thirteen Western nations sent diplomats to the funeral … uniforms and security policemen…
ArticleAhmed Mohamed Kathrada Timeline: 1929 - 2017
… of 12, Kathrada joins the Young Communist League of South Africa. It is at the Young Communist League’s meetings that … in the trial of twenty leaders of…
BiographySir Patrick Duncan
… secretary to Sir Alfred Milner , who brought him to South Africa in March 1901. Duncan was the senior member of …
James Hamakwayo
… early records that were kept by the Black Sash and South Africa Institute of Race Relations (SAIRR),Mr JH was detained …
ArticleAfrican Resistance Movement (ARM)
… moments in the struggle against apartheid in South Africa was the Sharpeville Massacre and its aftermath. The … National Liberation Committee, which the…
Statement by Oliver Tambo at the meeting of the Special Committee against Apartheid, 12 January 1982
… Year of Mobilisation for Sanctions against South Africa. This is a meeting which the ANC and the people of … 1958, a call on the international community to…
Statement by Oliver Tambo at the meeting of the United Nations Special Committee against apartheid, 12 January 1982
… Year of Mobilisation for Sanctions against South Africa. This is a meeting which the ANC and the people of … 1958, a call on the international community to…
Reply by the President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki, to the Toast Remarks by His Excellency, the President of the Republic of Congo, Denis Sassou-Nguesso, on the Occasion of the State Banquet, Palais Du Peuple, Brazzaville, Republic of Congo, 30 November
… Reply by the President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki, to the Toast Remarks by His Excellency, …
BiographyChristopher “Dali” Daluxolo Mpofu
… Duncan Village, East London, Eastern Cape Province, South Africa, where he spent his childhood. [1] In an interview … Eastern Cape, which was later succeeded…
ArticleOliver Reginald Tambo Timeline 1917 - 2011
… Writes his Junior Certificate (JC) examination, along with all black and white students in the then Transvaal (now … Commission 1960s 1960 Tambo is detained…
BiographyYvonne Bryceland
… actor's dream'. In 1971, Bryceland performed outside South Africa for the first time in Boesman and Lena at the Royal … artist who defied racial segregation…
BiographySathima Bea Benjamin
… jazz vocalization, and her contribution to music in South Africa and the world is truly superlative. She therefore … as a jazz artist in the development of…
BiographyMartha Helena Cillie
… to the development of fruit cultivation in South Africa. Cillié grew up on the farm Rhebokskloof and initially … one of the most reputable schools for girls…
BiographyTheo Mthembu
… Achievement Award presented to him by Boxing South Africa, the King Kong Meritorious Award, and the Special … writer, and to the struggle for non-racial…
BiographyWinston Churchill Masakeng Saoli
… artists selected to design for the Graphic Club of South Africa, and was asked to design the cover of the music album, … with exhibitions of his paintings…
ArticleNelson Mandela Timeline 1960-1969
… massacre “signalled the start of armed resistance in South Africa.” 28 March, The ANC calls for a nation-wide strike in … front organisations to hide behind…
Draft Report of the National Executive Committee of the ANC, submitted to the Annual Conference, December 15-17, 1950
… people are competent to solve their own problems. SOUTH AFRICA: 5. The policy of the white rulers in South Africa has … and other oppressed people and is…
BiographyStanley Silwana
… first African recruits to the Communist Party of South Africa (CPSA), he joined the Young Communist League in 1923 … A documentary History of African…
EventMulti-party delegates endorses the Interim constitution
… Delegates at the multiparty Convention for a Democratic South Africa (CODESA) negotiation endorsed the Interim Constitution … Information Constitution of the…
EventANC and government to surge ahead with reforms
… In spite of Inkatha's rejection of the Convention for a Democratic South Africa (CODESA), the African National Congress (ANC) and …
ArchiveBlack consciousness: a reactionary tendency
… the formation of the Black Consciousness Movement in South Africa. This was in collaboration with the South African … Students' Organisation (SASO) and the…
ArticleSouth African Constitution: The Bill of Rights
… On 21 March, South Africa celebrates Human Rights Day. This day is a … of democracy in South Africa. It enshrines the rights of all people in the country and…