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Event5,580 Egyptian prisoners of war are exchanged for four Israelis held by Egyptian troops
… even reached the canal. This War (Tripartite Invasion) was one of the most important events in the history of African …
EventAhmed Helmy, Egyptian actor, is born
… that he has replaced his wedding ring and now wears one adorned with the colours of the Egyptian flag. It has …
![Freddie Mercury [Bulsara], singer and songwriter, is born in Zanzibar, Africa.](/sites/default/files/styles/saho_medium/public/event_pics/Freddie%20Mercury.jpg?itok=Vuq6ADKe)
EventFreddie Mercury [Bulsara], singer and songwriter, is born in Zanzibar, Africa.
… guitarist Brian May and drummer Roger Taylor. Queen was one of the most successful bands of the 1970s and 1980s. …
EventA booby-trapped TV kills Tsitsi Chiliza, wife of an ANC official in Harare, Zimbabwe
… denied they were behind it. The booby trapped TV was just one of many attacks aimed at ANC officials in Zimbabwe. In …
EventDr Hendrik Johannes van der Bijl, SA industrialist who laid the foundation for the establishment of Escom and Iscor, is born in Pretoria
… (Iscor). Van der Bijl died in 1948 and is regarded as one of the greatest South Africans for his contribution to …
EventEx-mutineers consider resigning from the ANC
… by Chris Hani and Stanley Mabizela on 24 December 1989. In one of the meetings at Dakawa, Tanzanian Field Force had to …
EventWomen’s Memorial is unveiled in Bloemfontein
… has not been erected here in order to cause pain to any one, or to be an eternal reproach; but it is placed here out …
Address by ANC President Jacob Zuma to Kwazulu-Natal Black Management Forum Gala Dinner in his Honour Inkosi Albert Luthuli, 11 July 2008, International Convention Centre Durban
… beginning of the historic transformation of the economy. One of the key instruments of achieving transformation is an … ebandla. All opinions count. A…
PlaceOude Molen, Alexandra Care and Rehabilitation Centre, Maitland
… Outside each of the two entrances lies embedded one of the “granite jaws” - heavy millstones, 1,5m in … grind all the grain harvested. In the stone lintel…
II - The Life of Steve Biko
… others. Friends could come to visit him, provided only one person came at a time, and provided they themselves were … black militants by taking many into…
Speech by Oliver Tambo on the occasion of the award of an honorary Doctorate to Nelson Mandela by the Karl Marx University of the German Democratic Republic, 11 November 1987, Leipzig
… the control of people who create wrong expectations on the part of the native himself. "If such people believe in the … or is not. It cannot be made…
Speech on the Occasion of the Award of an Honorary Doctorate to Nelson Mandela by The Karl Marx University of the German Democratic Republic by O. R. Tambo, Leipzig, 11 November 1987
… the control of people who create wrong expectations on the part of the native himself. "If such people believe in the … or is not. It cannot be made…
ArchiveEFF 2019 Election Manifesto
… of our people from economic apartheid. We are not part of the 1994 elite pact. We are a completely new … now evident that apartheid did not end in 1994. We…
ArchiveDiana Mitchell obituary by Julia Gallagher (The Guardian), 08 February 2016
… by the government. What began as a campaign to save one school led Mitchell to establish a national drive for … cause exposed her to intransigent government…
Address at a Public Rally Dar Es Salaam Dar Es Salaam, 17 November 1998
… yours as it was ours. The struggle for our liberation was one that you made your own, not in any distant way but as … democracy and regional stability…
Christmas message of the Deputy President of the ANC, Nelson Mandela December 1990
… all of us to be driven by the spirit of goodwill towards one another as we work together for the rebirth of South … to its close, the message we wish to…
Document 36 - Letter from E. R. Roux to the Executive Bureau, Communist Party of South Africa, 18 November 1930
… Africa's Radical Tradition, a documentary history, Volume One 1907 - 1950, by Allison Drew Document 36 - Letter from E. … now have two agents in the…
Chapter 3 - Historical Lesotho
… Prime minister - leabua Jonathan Chief Jonathan was one of the first Black African leaders to sup with Vorster, … Development Coordination Conference, …
Address of the Deputy President of the African National Congress, Nelson Mandela, to the Parliament of Canada Ottawa, 18 June 1990
… the hypocrisy of a degenerate system which claimed to be part of western civilisation, while its very existence was … of all the people of our country. We…
Statement at the International Conference on the EEC and South Africa by O. R. Tambo, Dublin, 27 January 1979
… - either "a protracted war of national liberation, on the one hand, and capitulation to the forces of fascism, racism … has been heard with increasing…
An evolution of Worker Education in South Africa since 1973 and its impact on Worker Movement by John Mhandu
… and trade union movement in South Africa. The initial part of the proposed article traces the expanse of trade … (Economy, education, income, status). The…
EventSA Special Forces accused of train violence
… of Pietersburg and Five Reconnaissance Regiment (5RR), part of the SA Special Forces, together with members of … Party (IFP) supporters who applied for…
ArchiveDemocracy and the Left in Post-Apartheid South Africa, Ben Turok interviewed by Carilee Osborne
… current affairs, on immediate issues, on populism. Also, one has to say that there is a strong suspicion of corruption … under Zuma when one became rather…
Hastings Banda, the early years by Angela Thompsell updated 01 March 2016
… Hastings Banda was one of the more enigmatic “Big Men” of the post-independence … man himself seemed a mass of contradictions. He was at one and the same…
Interview with Oliver Tambo by Zimbabwe Television (ZTV), 05 August 1983, Harare
… would always be harassing African independent States "on one pretext or another." Speaking in a televised interview on … knees". But the ANC President said: …
ArchivePostscript Ante by Howard Barrell
… military training to township militants. The way in which one breakthrough now led quickly to another gave police no … a member of the ANC's national…
PlaceTokai Manor House, Tokai Road, Tokai.
… by Thibault. The gable is generally considered to be one of the earliest usages in the Cape of a rectangular … continued, with his brothers who took over the…
PlacePaul Kruger’s House, 60 Church Street West, Pretoria
… was deemed to be of a poor quality. Paul Kruger’s home was one of the first in the city to use electricity , and he had one of the first telephones installed…
PlaceDonkin Mount, Port Elizabeth
… life of Sir Rufane Donkin is a remarkable and honourable one. Sir Rufane Donkin was born in 1773 and died in … and served wherever they required him. His…