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Claremont Histories
… photographic exhibition stand in conjunction with South African History Online at the 2015 Harfield Village Carnival. … Celebrate history with Claremont…
EventThe MK and ZIPRA formally announce that they had formed a military alliance
… Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK), the military wing of the African National Congress (ANC) and the Zimbabwean People’s … Revolutionary Army (ZIPRA), military wing of…
EventSouth Africa and Mozambique sign a non-aggression pact
… would not allow the liberation movements such as the African National Congress (ANC) and Pan African Congress (PAC) to establish bases in Mozambique or to ……
EventSADF responds to allegations by FAPLA
… he declared that his forces had killed over 230 South African troops in the course of the offensive and had destroyed large numbers of vehicles, the South…
Ahmed Kathrada pays tribute to Nelson Mandela, 6 December 2013
… Party were invited to the Congress of the People in 1955. It is for these qualities that, in your illness and …
ArticleAbstracts presented for the 1973 Durban Strikes Conference
… Government, The Trade Union Congress, and Black South African Trade Unionism, 1973 to 1994 by Dan Feather … Factory by Sithembiso Bhengu The Changing Nature…
Address of the President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki at the European Parliament, Strasbourg: 17 November 2004
… own country in 1847. "How strange that Europe's one-time African colonies have made such a request even if it could … occupation of Liberia by once-hated…
EventEthiopia requests OAU to stop Somali intervention in the Ogaden Province
… Ethiopia requested the Organisation of African Unity (OAU), predecessor of the African Union to stop Somali intervention in the Ogaden … without any…
EventCOSATU intensifies campaign against apartheid
… Africa's largest labour federation, the Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU), held its third annual congress … Campaign. The mood was defiant and…
Document 57 - Lionel Forman, “Self-Determination in South Africa: A Contribution to Discussion”, Liberation, 37, July 1959
… many ways. Everyone has for example heard talk of a South African nation, a Zulu nation, and African nation. In each case something different must be meant,…
ANC to convene Provincial Memorial Services in honour of Madiba, 8 December 2013
… The African National Congress, South Africans and the world at … and Reflection today. From tomorrow, 9 December 2013, the African National Congress shall…
EventDr Abrahams to be returned to Bechuanaland
… The South African prime minister, Dr H.F. Verwoerd, announced in a … Protectorate. Dr. Abrahams and three other South West African People's Organisation …
EventSecurity Council examines violence in South Africa
… parties, the Security Council invited the Organisation of African Unity now the African Union, Forty-Eight Member States as well as the African National…
Joint Statement by Chief Albert Lutuli, Dr. G.M. Naicker and Peter Brown appealing to the British People to Boycott South Africa, 5 December 1959
… internal pressures to be able to influence the South African Government. They look for assistance abroad and … year it is proposed to conduct a limited…
EventGermany invades Poland, starting World War II
… on Germany two days later. On September 4, 1939, the South African parliament refused to accept Hertzog's stance of … the most divisive issues to have…
EventBafana Bafana play 2-2 draw with Cameroon
… into the international fold, the newly formed South African soccer team, Bafana Bafana, came up against one of the African soccer giants, Cameroon, in three…
EventCelebrated nurse, Constance Nothard, is born
… Cape. Nothard rendered outstanding service in the South African Military Service in Western Europe during the First … in France. She received the first Gold…
University of York Student Submissions 2015
… Trauma: Inarticulacy as Social Disability in South African Literature Rhiain Moses I am a third year … transformation on the position of women within South…
ArticlePoverty and development
… Department of Labour is still sometimes ignored. The South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC), the Commission on Gender Equality (CGE) and the South…
ArticleTowards a people’s culture - Art and Resistance under Apartheid
… or Resistance Art? Peter Magubane / The Drum Archive / african.pictures Sharpeville Massacre 1960. Two … of references to other works of art like Dumile Feni…
ArticleTimeline of the Marikana Massacre 2012 - 2013
… The build-up to the killing of 34 mineworkers by the South African Police was marked by incidents of intimidation and … in the Rustenburg area, North West…
ArticlePopular resistance and police brutality in democratic South Africa
… Marikana protest by mine workers. On 16 August 2012, South African Police Service (SAPS) officers shot and killed at … killing of Andries Tatane, a 33 year…
ArchiveAlliance paper: the alliance in the Western Cape
… Assessment on the alliance in the Western Cape between the African National Congress, the South African Communist Party and the Congress of South African…
Dunbar, Thibedi, Sigamoney: Three figures in the IWW in South Africa by Red Jack (libcom.org), 08 January 2012
… in the early twentieth century. But who were the South African Wobblies? This article looks at three key figures. … Union, and fought against the oppressive…
”Policy of the Congress Youth League.” Article by A. M. Lembede, in May 1946
… are noticeable on the far-off horizon. A new spirit of African nationalism, or Africanism, is pervading through and stirring the African society. A young…
ArchiveReport of meeting with HM
… Report from H. Makgothi to the African National Congress National Executive Committee on a meeting with Ntatho Motlana, regarding the South African political…
EventFEDSAW Western Cape Region launched
… The Federation of South African Women (FEDSAW) was one of the women’s rights … launched in the Western Cape. Leading women in the South African struggle were…
EventSAP fighting in Zimbabwe
… It was officially disclosed that the South African Police (SAP) were in Rhodesia (later renamed … urging of the Liberation Committee of the Organisation of…
EventNico Basson says that SADF had supplied weapons and covert assistance to IFP in order to weaken the ANC
… a retired army major, Mr. Nico Basson, said that the South African Defence Force (SADF) had supplied weapons (such as … to Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) in…
EventProposal for a new constitution
… on 27 August 1990 said that negotiations for a new South African constitution should begin in 1991 and be completed within two years. The African National…