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ArchiveSummary notes of a meeting between Mr D W Auret and Mr Marx of the Department of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Minister, Silvino da Luz, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Cape Verde: Praia, Cape Verde, 19 March 1986
Report from a meeting between representatives of the South African Foreign Affairs Department and the Foreign Minister of Cape Verde to discuss the situation…
Speech by Oliver Tambo on behalf of the Liberation Movements, at the twenty-third session of the assembly of Heads of State and Government of the Organisation of African Unity, Addis Ababa, 27 July 1987
BiographyMohandas Karamchand Gandhi
*Note: The focus of this biography is on Gandhi's life and times in South Africa. Early life and education Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was born to a…
EventAs part of a defiance campaign against the apartheid Government, SA is hit by a nationwide wave of protests
… On 6 September 1989, the majority of South Africans witnessed the election … on a defiance campaign launched at the beginning of August 1989. The campaign…
EventOlivia Forsyth takes refuge in British embassy in Luanda
… Institute of Race Relations. (1990). Race Relations Survey 1989/90, Johannesburg: South African Institute of Race Relations, p. 144. http://www.anc.org.za…
ArchiveRenewed fighting in April
… On April 1 1989, the start of the implementation of Resolution 435, … and 23 security force members were killed . On April 10 1989, South Africa, Angola and…
EventPresident P.W. Botha suffers a stroke.
… On 18 January 1989, P W Botha suffered a mild stroke at the age of 73. He … to meet with Namibian political leaders on 20 January 1989, but could not attend…
PlaceRwanda
… by the sudden and devastating plunge in coffee prices in 1989 [clvii] . This caused the Rwandan GDP to fall by 5.9%, …
BiographyRonald Vernie Dellums
Ronald Vernie Dellums was born on 24 November 1935 in Oakland, California. Dellums’ parents were Willa Terry Dellums (mother) and Vernie Dellums (father). His…
BiographyRonald Vernie Dellums
Ronald Vernie Dellums was born on 24 November 1935 in Oakland, California. Dellums’ parents were Willa Terry Dellums (mother) and Vernie Dellums (father). His…
‘African Gandhi’: The South African War and the Limits of Imperial Identity by Goolam Vahed
… Gandhi. Prisoner of Hope, (London: Yale University Press, 1989), 23 ↵ [8] F Meer ed. The South African Gandhi. An … Subaltern Studies 6, (Delhi: Oxford…
EventP.W. Botha becomes SA's first Executive President
… over them. Botha held the position until he resigned in 1989. Blacks were not happy with these new developments, they …
ArchiveBiography of Florence Mkhize by Rachel Manak
Florence Mkhize was an active member and leader in some of the most prominent organizations that worked to end apartheid in South Africa, including the…
Article50 Facts on Africa
In the modern-day world the view people are given of Africa is often a narrow one. In this piece we present 50 facts about this continent that people may not…
‘Wash Me Black Again’: African Nationalism, the Indian Diaspora, and Kwa-Zulu Natal, 1944-1960 by Jon Soske
… Cato Manor Farm” (PhD diss., University of Natal, Durban, 1989), 21. 72Tunya Dlamini interviewed by B.T.C. Mkhize, 14 … and Resurgent Africa (New Delhi:…
The Convention for a Democratic South Africa (CODESA): CODESA 1
… Events Prior to CODESA Harare Declaration ↵ On 21 August 1989 the Organisation of African Unity (OAU) published the ‘ … and eventual fall of the Soviet Union…
ArticleThe Union of South Africa: Movement towards Republic
The Afrikaner ideal of a republic South Africa only became a Republic on the 31st May 1961, but the formation of a Republic had been the dream of many…
EventSouth African artist Gerard Sekoto is born
… exhibiting his art work regularly. On 13 December 1989 he received an honorary doctorate from the University of …
Address of the President of the Republic of South Africa, Nelson Mandela, at the Inaugural session of the Twelth Conference of Heads of State or Government of the Movement of Non-Aligned Countries Durban, 2 September 1998
Chairperson Your Majesties and Your royal Highnesses Distinguished Secretaries General of the OAU and the United Nations Honourable Ministers and…
Excerpts from discussions between a South African delegation led by Minister R F Botha and a United States delegation led by Deputy Secretary of State, Frank Wisner, on questions affecting South West Africa and Angola: Cape Town, 13 March 1986
Minutes of a meeting between a South African delegation and a United States delegation to discuss issues around Namibia and Angola
ArchiveMeeting between a South African delegation led by the Minister of Foreign Affairs, the Honourable R F Botha and a United States delegation led by Dr C Crocker, Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs: Santa Maria, Sal Island, 1 November 1984
Minutes of a meeting between a South African delegation and a United States delegation to discuss the situation in Mozambique and Angola
EventWinnie Mandela's Soweto home reported burnt down
… Source: South African Institute of Race Relations. (1989). Race Relations Survey 1988/89, Johannesburg: South …
BiographyNowongile Cynthia Molo
Nowongile Cynthia Molo was born in 1949 in the former Transkei (now Eastern Cape). She completed the Junior Certificate (Form 3) at Bethel College. She has…
BiographyWinston Field
Winston Field was born on 6 June 1904, in Bromsgrove, Worcestershire in the United Kingdom, where he was brought up. He moved to Southern Rhodesia in 1921. He…
BiographyIshmael Mkhabela
Ishmael Mkhabela began his political activism in the Black Consciousness Movement (BCM). After the BCM was banned, he served as a member of the Soweto Action…
BiographyJeremiah Rakoko Mabe
There had been periodic unrest at Mabieskraal (Pilansberg), Rustenburg District, Transvaal (now North West Province) from the 1930s onwards. During the 1950s,…
Ruth Alexander
Ruth Alexander was the daughter of a well-known Hebrew scholar, Solomon Schechter. She was educated at schools in Cambridge, England and New York, United…
BiographyAlcott Skei Gwentshe
Alcott Skei Gwentshe was born in 1920 in Tsomo in the Transkei. A shopkeeper in (Duncan Village township)East London, Alcott Skei Gwentshe played a key role in…
BiographySuliman Moosa Esakjee
Suliman Moosa Esakjee was born in 1928. He worked as a clerk, and was an active member of the Transvaal Indian Congress (TIC) from its inception. He served as…
BiographyWilhelmina Louisa Freund
Wilhelmina Louisa Ida (Minna) Freund was born on 17 March 1890 in Holstein, Germany. She was the youngest child of John Freund and Metha Mentzel, German…