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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
Renewed 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…
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…
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 …
PlaceRwanda
… by the sudden and devastating plunge in coffee prices in 1989 [clvii] . This caused the Rwandan GDP to fall by 5.9%, …
‘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…
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…
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…
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…
‘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:…
Apartheid power in crisis
… of the Apartheid State edited by Max Coleman The year 1989 will go down as a watershed year in the struggle for a … was the detainees' hunger strike…
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
Meeting 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 …
EventSA artist Sfiso Mkame is born
Justice Sfiso Mkame , South African artist, was born in Durban. As a child he drew on sand walls. He received formal art training at the Open School and the…
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…
PlaceOld Post Office, Fleming Street, Port Elizabeth
This building is today commonly referred to as the ‘(old) Post Office Complex’ but contains 4 conjoined buildings. The complex is situated on erf 3787 but…
BiographyDora Taylor
Dora Taylor was born in Aberdeen, Scotland in 1899. At the age of six her mother died of tuberculosis. She was rejected by her father who regarded her as an…
BiographyJohn O’ Malley
John O'Malley was born on 6 October 1922 in what was then called Robert Heights, later Voortrekkerhoogte, in Pretoria. His father was a colonel in the army and…
BiographyEpainette Nomaka Mbeki
Epainette Nomaka Mbeki (née Moerane), known as MaMbeki, was born in February 1916 in Mangoloaneng, in the Sotho-speaking section of the Mount Fletcher district…
Nicholaas Frederic de Waal
Born in Rotterdam in 1853, De Waal was the son of a banker who received a commercial education in Brussels and studied law. He travelled to Europe and America…
BiographySelaelo Charles 'Dan' Ramusi
Selaelo Charles "Dan" Ramusi was born 14 November 1954 in Dube Village, Soweto, Transvaal (now Gauteng). He was the first born son of the late Collins…