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EventAlan Paton is born
… came to power in the Union of South Africa and instituted apartheid. The publication of Cry, the Beloved Country, which … as principal of the reformatory to…
Address by President Nelson Mandela at the Investment Against Crime Seminar 19 August 1998
… on human dignity, helped exposed the twisted logic of apartheid;and which made its contribution to passive … police, the prisons and the court system who…
EventDulcie September's 's life commemorated at Athlone High School
… of activism she chose the path of resistance against the apartheid regime. She was a member of the Cape Peninsula … heating and transport. In 1981 Dulcie was…
ArchiveRootedness and Openness in The Life and Works of Véronique Tadjo (b. 1955) by Tim Steckler
… to earn her doctorate at The Sorbonne in France in African American Literature and Civilization, and her knowledge of … particularly from other West African…
Address by President Nelson Mandela at the 5th National Congress of COSATU 7 September 1994
… of those who hae all alongeefited from the system of apartheid. This, however, cannot subtract from the strategic … Combined with issues such as the…
EventScottish missionary, Robert Moffat arrives in Northern Cape
… ten km from present day Kuruman, to assist with missionary work, which the LMS started in 1816 under the Bechuana … society of Chief Mothibi. Moffat was…
EventSir Alfred Milner arrives as Governor of the Cape
… 1897. Milner arrived in Cape Town on 5 May 1897 to assume his new position. Soon after taking up the position, he … the grievances of the Uitlanders with the…
PlaceThembuland
… severe military pressure from the combined armies of his enemies, Chief Ngangelizwe and his Ministers approached the nominally-independent Cape … lead up to…
EventAmy Biehl’s murderers receive amnesty from TRC
… The four murderers of Amy Biehl, American Fullbright exchange student, are granted amnesty by …
The Story of PR Pather, the grand old man of Indian politics in South Africa: Chapter One - By Riashnee Pather
… were the indentured labourers, the people contracted to work on the sugar plantations because the Natal … As a teenager he followed a path that many others…
ArticleThe Tricameral Parliament, 1983-1984
… assembly that presided over the last decade of Apartheid, was inaugurated to allow for parliamentary … separate chambers, a supposed reform and improvement…
ArticleDefiance Campaign 1952
… programme, which included the enactment of new apartheid laws, as well as the stricter application of … to remove Coloureds from the common roll was enacted…
EventCurnick Ndlovu, Trade Unionist, is arrested.
… in exposing agents sent by the government to disrupt anti-apartheid activities in the trade union movement and this led to his arrest in June 1963. Ndlovu…
EventKhotso House is bombed
… based in Johannesburg, was bombed for harbouring anti-apartheid groups a year after a blast at Congress of South … chief Johan Van der Merwe who was applying…
"Should we get rid of the whites?" - Albert Luthuli answer to a question, 5 March 1959
… where he is, and the aim should be to get him to repent of his wrongdoings rather than to work for his forceful removal out of the country. The white man…
PlaceLutheran Church, New Germany
… Lord of the Church for giving them the grace to proclaim His word, and for granting this oldest Evangelical Lutheran … which he agreed on condition that he…
EventTatamkhulu Afrika South African poet, writer and struggle activist dies
… to an Arab father and a Turkish mother on 7 December 1920. His parents relocated to South Africa in 1923 where they died … renamed him John Charlton. After…
Address at The Official Opening of The Cape Town International Convention Centre, Cape Town, 28 June 2003
… a bustling cosmopolitan port, Percy Bysshe Shelley said in his poem, Hellas: "The world's great age begins anew, The … East India Company is no more. The…
EventLady Diana Spencer, Princess of Wales, is killed in a car accident in Paris
… time. Princess Diana was, best known for her charitable work - notably publicising work on behalf of people with HIV/Aids, the plight of the … leprosy, or…
The Great Trek Was Not Over Abolition by Ron (Republican Trekker Volk), 30 October 2008
… own slaves. Canadian professor Wallace Mills noted this in his course on the Great Trek & the Encyclopedia Britannica … Piet Retief only mentioned the…
PlaceSouth End Museum, Port Elizabeth
… resulted from Forced Removals, the Group Areas Act and Apartheid legislation that oppressed so many people for so long. Local Museum devoted to the History &…
EventGriffiths Mxenge is buried
… political activist murdered on 19 November, was buried at his home village of Rayi, near King William's Town. More than … Supreme Court, was also brutally…
ArticleIndian South Africans
… which stated that the indentured Indians were to work for the Natal colonial government on Natal's sugar … immigration policy restrictions, imposed by the…
EventFilm producer, Jamie Uys passes away
… South African film director who made 24 films. Prizes for his work included the 1981 Grand Prix at the Festival …
PlaceNamibia
… forces, and had been given a gun in recognition of his services. The Bondelswarts were ordered to hand him over. … riots broke out in Windhoek over the…
Chapter VI - A strange kind of goal bird
… at noon at which Helen Suzman, Bishop Desmond Tutu and I were to address the students. I was to address the … set alight with petrol and the crosses were…
January 8th Statements - Statement of the National Executive Committee on the Occasion of the 108th Anniversary of the African National Congress by Cyril Ramaphosa, 8 January 2020
… organiser, Harry Gwala worked for the people throughout his life. - Vuyisile Mini. A dedicated freedom fighter, … Mini was among the first ANC members to…
Address at the Opening Ceremony of the 16 Days of Activism Campaign, Motherwell, 25 November 2004.
… incidence of violence against women and children we must work simultaneously to improve the material lives of our … mobilisation we undertook during the…
EventCharles Robberts (Blackie) Swart, first state president of South Africa, is born
… of the Orange Free State (OFS) on 5 December 1894. Part of his childhood was spent in a concentration camp during the … he was also involved in the 1914…
Remarks by the President of the African National Congress Comrade JG Zuma to Worker`s Day Durban, 1 May 2015
… organisations engaged in this struggle." There shall be Work and Security The Peoples` Movement can take great pride … These are all rights that were gained…