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Side By Side: The Autobiography of Helen Joseph
… Helen Joseph is one of the most well-known South African women to campaign against apartheid. Her … of her 30 years involvement in the struggle of the South…
EventArchibald Campbell Mzoliza Jordan, Xhosa writer and linguist, dies
… he taught for ten years and was elected president of the African Teachers' Association. Jordan went on to study at the … Town. In 1945 Jordan began teaching…
Book 1: Ancient Civilizations and Global Trade - Introduction
… became apparent. The first is the complexity of the South African pre-colonial past. The second is the length of time … identify. The final chapter - “Some…
Memorandum To The United Nations Special Committee Against Apartheid, April 1964
… On behalf of the South African Indian Congress I express my appreciation for this … role in placing the question of the treatment of South African Indians on…
Statement by Oliver Tambo on ANC`s seventieth anniversary: Appeal to the world, 02 December 1981
… The African National Congress invites friends and supporters of our liberation struggle to join with the South African people in commemorating the 70th…
Constitution of the AAC, December 1937
… and Parliament of the Union of South Africa that the African races of South Africa as a national entity and unit … that a Central Organisation shall be…
EventSADF raid Southern Angola
… The South African government has released details of a South African Defence Force (SADF) raid into Southern Angola. Between two and three hundred South West…
EventReginald (Reg) September, prominent trade unionist and anti-apartheid activist, is born
… was a prominent trade unionist, the leader of the South African Coloured People's Organization and an executive member of the South African Communist Party…
Address by Comrade President Nelson R Mandela to the International Federation of Newspaper Publishers Conference Prague, 26 May 1992
… I know you take very seriously. Three outstanding South African journalists, the late Percy Gqoboza, Donald woods, … Press. We remain in your debt for that…
Address to the Joint Sitting of the National Assembly and the National Council on the New Partnership for Africa’s Development, 31 October 2001
… historians cast their eyes back over this the 21st and African century, what will they see! They should see that … and backwardness. They should see the…
Journal of Black Theology
… is a scholarly publication dedicated to the exploration of African and Black theology and its growth and identity in … Africa. Issues such as social class…
EventSA is blamed for Harare bombing
… in which several people are injured. Unlike other Southern African Development Community (SADC) countries, Zimbabwe had had a longer relationship with the…
EventOlivia Forsyth takes refuge in British embassy in Luanda
… was a self-confessed SA spy of the security police in the African National Congress who was held prisoner at the ANC … fifteen months under ANC guard in…
Message from President Jacob Zuma
… but for all liberation movements in the continent and the African peoples in general. The ANC, which is the oldest … we share the passion for achieving the…
The Broederbond by Norman Levy
… Famine and rural drift into the towns after the South African War had left many Afrikaners indigent and politically … Party under General J.B.M. Hertzog…
EventThe SA Constitutional Court abolishes the death penalty
… of judicial executions in the world. Recently, a South African citizen, Muziwokuthula "Muzi" Madondo, 33, was … Mexico. Reports also claim that Madondo…
EventFather Michael Lapsley, an Anglican priest, is injured by a letter-bomb
… exiled Father Lapsley for his affiliation to the African National Congress (ANC) as well as for the support of … Lapsley moved from Lesotho to Zimbabwe, …
The Lusaka Years: The ANC in Exile in Zambia, 1963 to 1994
… 1963 to 1994. Speaker: Hugh Macmillan, research associate, African Studies Centre, Oxford University Venues in Pretoria, … provides a vivid account of this…
PlaceConstitutional Court of South Africa, Johannesburg
… concern, of the Constitutional Court of South Africa! The African continent has demonstrated commitment to promoting … Discrimination against Women. Other…
EventThe consortium Midi Television is awarded the first privately owned free
… Enshrined in the South African Bill of rights, is the right to free access to … year. This effectively created competition for the South African Broadcasting…
EventSABC TV News Editor, Joe Thloloe resigns
… The South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) was plunged into a … in April. This is after the broadcaster and the South African Press Association (SAPA)…
EventThe NCCR is dissolved
… Coordinating Committee for the Repatriation of South African Exiles (NCCR) was dissolved due to fraud and … amounting to substantial amounts of money. South…
EventTripartite Alliance plans mass action
… The Tripartite Alliance, consisting of the African National Congress (ANC), South African Communist Party (SACP) and Congress of South African Trade Union …
EventNelson Mandela was issued with his first passport after being released from prison
… Nelson Mandela was issued with his first South African passport on 19 February 1990, 8 days after he was … that he used to embark on a tour of some of the…
EventThe National Party wins Western Cape local elections
… were closely contested between the National Party and the African National Congress at the opening stage. However, as … results showed National Party leading…
EventPolitical activist and lawyer A. P. Mda is born
… Political activist, teacher and lawyer, co-founder of the African National Youth League (ANCYL) and its president in … 1949. He was also part of the…
EventTrade union federation, COSATU, celebrates its 26th anniversary
… The Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU), a federation of various labour … union and 21 years in the Tripartite Alliance with the African National…
EventGovernment bans 20 Black leaders
… a crowd. Shortly afterwards it was reported that the South African government has banned twenty leaders of Black organisations, including the South African…
ArticleGayle: The Language of Apartheid South Africa’s Gay Underground
… is an argot or pseudo-language that arose in the South African LGBTQI+ community somewhere in the mid-60s. … to be appropriated in various ways in mainstream…
Present Stage of the Struggle against Apartheid in South Africa. Paper prepared at the request of the United Nations Special Committee against Apartheid by O. R. Tambo, Stockholm, 1 June 1968
… and racial discrimination permeates every sphere of South African life. Basic freedoms, few and far between in 1948, … Assembly and underscore the historic…