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EventNelson Mandela announces intentions on nationalisation policy
… Congress (ANC) Deputy President Nelson Mandela stated that his party was prepared to abandon its long-held policy of …
EventPresident Mbeki opens the second sitting of PAP
… scheduled for around 11am with the arrival of Mbeki and his visiting Indian counterpart Abdul Kalam. R7, 3 million …
EventUnited Nations World Summit starts
… South African President Thabo Mbeki, who delivered his five minute speech on 7 September. …
EventBafana Bafana wins over Ghana
… reduced to ten-men after midfielder Eric Tinkler was shown his second yellow card for a trip on Kwame Ayew, three …
EventCharles Taylor wins presidential election
… in 1989. He secured more than 70% of votes. In addition, his National Patriotic Party (NPP) won an overwhelming …
EventUnited Nations appoints Kofi Annan as secretary
… Ghali, whose term of office had expired. He assumed his duties on 1 January 1997. After accepting office, Annan, …
EventGifted writer and actor William Modisane is born
… left South Africa in 1959 and while in exile he published his only and much acclaimed book Blame Me on History, which …
EventLesotho’s deputy Prime Minister shot
… Mokhehle appeals for South African intervention, but his request is turned down. Despite South Africa's refusal of …
EventSamora Machel pledges solidarity with the people of South Africa
… to cooperate with apartheid security agencies and betray his comrades. …
EventZimbabwean politician and trade unionist Morgan Tsvangirai is born
… Mugabe’s policies and broke away from ZANU-PF to form his own party, the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC). The …
EventAlbertina Sisulu’s banning order is renewed
… by Nelson Mandela in March 1968 to organize a protest when his name was due to be struck off the roll of attorneys. As …
EventSir de Villiers Graaff and Theo Gerdener jointly express their agreement to form a new party
… On 5 October, 1977 Sir de Villiers Graaff announced his retirement from politics, having been leader of the … 14 February 2013]|SAHO, ‘Sir de Villiers Graaff…
EventThe prolonged hearing of the dispute over the constitutional position of South West Africa is resumed
… Germen colony. It was called German South West Africa. In his book, “Troubled Waters” Joseph Diescho refers to Namibia …
EventDr JT van der Kemp, controversial missionary and physician, dies
… and was interested in alleviating their economic plight. His advocacy for the Khoi Khoi to have equal opportunities …
EventBantu Holomisa deposes Stella Sigcau as President of the Transkei
… with General Holomisa as Chairperson. Holomisa and his accomplices later applied for amnesty to the Truth and …
”Apartheid Over Our Dead Bodies:” Speech, July 1948
… Speech at mass welcome meeting in Johannesburg organised in his honour by the Transvaal Passive Resistance Council on his release from prison] I am deeply…
Chapter V - South Africa belongs to all who live in it
… President General of the African National Congress. His dark face was softly etched in the lamplight, … Albert Luthuli had come into the political field late…
The National Arts Festival
… innovation across the arts. Tau performed by One Man and His Dog and The Market Theatre Photograph by Jan Potgieter …
ArticleHermanus Loots aka James Stuart Timeline
… Zuma delivers the eulogy. He hails Loots for sacrificing his tertiary education in order to join MK, thereby putting …
ArticleSouthern Methodist University Partnership Project - 2016 submissions
… in pursuing law school after graduation. Some of his hobbies include: cooking, debating, watching or going to …
IFP 2019 Election Manifesto
… Opening a national debate on the reinstatement of the death penalty as a means to deter violent crimes. The …
Address by President Nelson Mandela to the annual conference of the Methodist Church Umtata, 18 September 1994
… against the powers-that-be meant persecution and even death, you dared to stand up to the tyrants. In the founding …
Marikana and the New Politics of Grief, 20 August, 2012 - Jon Soske
… most of the workers faced a slow and excruciating death from silicosis if they returned to work. One trade …
Address at the Welcome Ceremony of the World Summit on Sustainable Development, 25 August 2002
… as the Rio Earth Summit took place ten years ago, the death of many caused by racial oppression and racial …
FREEDOM IN OUR LIFETIME, Durban, December 12-14, 1958
… apostle or apartheid determined "to keep the native in his place." He is not the type to hesitate when he deems it … the Union he regards as the preserve of…
PlaceClermont, a Township of Durban
… road and is named after Sir Clermont, a farmer who sold his land. It was the only place in Durban where black people … the mission station of…
Invitation to the TB Davie Memorial Lecture
… Science at Columbia University, New York. He received his PhD from Harvard University in 1974 and specialises in … violence in Darfur; the post-9/11 era; and…
ArchivePhotography pundit David Goldblatt takes ex-offender portrait series to British jails by Matsepo, 2 June 2017
… in West Bromwich to bring the project to the UK. His new subjects include Adellah Snape, a woman from … life on both sides of the racial divide, and the loss…
SAHO Commemorates 40 Years Since Soweto Uprising: Intergenerational Dialogue by Sindile Moya
… member of PAC provincially, and is still an activist in his community in Langa. He is also an executive member of the … arrest in Kimberley was also…
PlaceKuboes, Northern Cape
… Reverend Johan Hein, teacher and evangelist, began his work here in 1844. The local School, once situated under trees, still bears his name. Since most of…