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… conference organised by COSATU and restricts its organisers for ten days. …

… The Goldstone Commission issues its report on the Bisho massacre, in which it describes the …

… in Namibia, the Democratic Turnhalle Alliance (DTA), fires its leader, Mishake Muyongo, because h …

… conference organised by COSATU and restricts its organisers for ten days. …

… from the controversial “Native Club” and criticise its racial exclusivity …

… (Ras Tafari) announces that Abyssinia wants peace with its neighbours. (Haile Selassie means "Power …

… warns Botswana to take action against ANC operations in its country. …

… The ANC in exile in Lusaka calls on its supporters to take the struggle into White areas. …

… The National Party adopts a five-year programme of its objectives, including a political "reform" plan to give …

… protesting against the Executive Council contravening its …

… The SA rugby team wins its fifteenth consecutive test match by beating Wales 28-20 …

… United States closes its mission in Angola because of the violent struggle between …

… commission to investigate the allegations of corruption. Its three members, Justice R.P. …

… Zambia holds its first multiparty elections, with Frederick Chiluba …

… to uphold the rights of conscientious objectors, expresses its pertur …

… banns the opposition United Progressive Party and arrests its leader, Simon Kapepwe, together …

… operations in Sokoto and Kano Britain adds 260,000 km2 to its Nigerian territory. …

… he travelled so extensively that from 1945 until the early 1970s he was probably the most well-known Afrikaans … of the practices of the Afrikaner establishment. This too, would remain with him his whole life. By August 1930 … spoke and wrote about the conflict, daring to interpret its cause, and the dangers of Fascism, publically. In 1937, …

… in 1961. The National Committee for Liberation launched its sabotage activities, in which Eddie Daniels participated, … visits by Judge Jan Steyn. The judge was keen to secure an early release for Eddie. He offered to take up the matter on …

… white because of his dire financial circumstances. Page’s early life was unsettled. He lost his mother when he was ten, … Chirico (1888–1978). The bleak, harshly-lit landscape with its row of low-economic houses, however, is not of the old …

… from old Sophiatown the curious and diverse heritage of its heyday. Art classes in the Catholic school, "Sof' town" … jazz, the vibrant street culture and growing defiance of its population of various races who were gradually forced out … areas. So it was that these various aspects of his early life created for Kumalo a cultural mix of a Zulu family …

… were thus free until Parliament closed the loophole in early 1954. Ngwevela, whose occupations at various times … was a secretary and interpreter for  Sam Kahn  and in the early 1950s served as a campaign manager for several white …

… he was a Msotho and became a qualified bookkeeper. In the early 1920s, he became financial secretary of the  Industrial …  (CPSA). In late 1926 he was expelled from the ICU when its national conference voted to exclude Communists from the …

… twice he jumped years and he matriculated at 15. He was too young to go to university, so he did an extra year at … Liberal Party of South Africa (LPSA) and a close friend of its chair, Peter Brown , who had also attended UCT as an … the Defence and Aid Fund and after the banning of two of its chairpersons. he occupied the chair. This was considered …

… exclusion of black students from the Wits Great Hall. From its formation in 1955, Hepple devoted himself to building up … who “got away.”  At the time, he decided  that it was too dangerous for those still on trial or active in South Africa for him to allow its distribution even on a limited scale.  Nothing Hepple …

… Africa's first operatic prima donna."Prima donna", in its true sense, properly indicates the chief female vocalist … colleagues, but always adored b the public. That was Mimi, too. That she became a celebrated operatic artist, a prima … others. South Africa has always been a country rich in its crop of good singers. We fondly remember the legendary …

… Anti-Apartheid Movement on the twenty-fifth anniversary of its founding and wishes you ever greater successes in your … pride look back at a record of great achievements. From its small beginnings in London twenty-five years ago, the … Movement has spread to every corner of the world. Its ideas are today deeply implanted in the social …

… this solemn occasion. The Pretoria regime has stepped up its brutal repression against all opponents apartheid inside the country. It has stepped up its acts of aggression against neighbouring independent … Washington, which aids and abets apartheid South Africa in its campaign of destabilisation in the whole region of …

… was very much involved in political activity in the early 1900s. Despite being radical, Rubusana and his … minister of the Congregational Church, participating in its councils and actively involved in proselytising its message to the African people. He translated a number of …

… Early Life Henry Burton was born on 2 June 1866 in Cape Town, … the minister who presided over the economic crisis of the early 1920s. According to his obituary he took over an ‘empty … to the electors. His temperamental defect was that he was too little accommodating and conciliatory … Members [of …