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EventAbdullah Abdurahman, medical doctor and Cape community leader, dies in Cape Town
… to become a member of the Cape Town City Council (from 1905-1940). His death raised concern within the Black, … communities. Some tributes to Abdurahman also…
EventLucas Mangope leaves Mmabatho due to uprising
… leader of the apartheid homeland Bophuthatswana, retreated from the capital, Mmabatho, in the face of a popular uprising … and 2 television stations. He then…
EventGlaxoSmithKline to reduce AIDS drugs price
… Combivir, a leading AIDS combination therapy, will drop from $1.70 to 90 cents a day. Epivir, also called 3TC, will drop from 64 cents to 35 cents a day, and…
EventFrance tests an atomic bomb in Algeria
… would be the first of many by France. Despite protests from the international community and several African states, … nuclear tests in the Pacific Ocean…
Chapter II - Partners in protest
… From the book: Side by Side by Helen Joseph Soon after my … government was intent on removing all coloured voters from the common voters' roll. The common…
Passive Resistance 1946 - A Selection of Documents compiled by E.S. Reddy & Fatima Meer - Racism against Indians
… From the book: Passive Resistance 1946 - A Selection of … Town Council in evicting Indian and coloured residents from the Benoni town. Mr. Trichardt, who…
Chapter 5 - The Freedom Charter
… From: Lessons of the 1950s By Richard Monroe, March-May 1984 … Freedom Charter, reported O. R. Tambo, was "being compiled from thousands of written…
ArchiveAll That Glitters - What is industrialisation? by Emilia Potenza
… From the book: All That Glitters by Emilia Potenza During … In the late 19th Century, South Africa changed rapidly from an agricultural society, where most…
Tribute by Comrade David Makhura delivered at the funeral service of Comrade Chilly Magagula, 16 October 2010
… of Magagula and Mashile; Members of the PEC, many RECs from different regions, Zonal and Branch leaders; The many … such a productive life committed comrade…
Nelson Mandela by Oliver Tambo
… in Johannesburg in a shabby building across the street from the Magistrates' Court. Chancellor House in Fox Street … I ran the gauntlet of patient queues of…
ANC NEC meets (30th November, - 2 December 2001), 29 November 2001
… take place at an undisclosed venue around Johannesburg from Friday, the 30th November until Sunday, the 2nd of … 2001. The meeting will be opened by a…
EventArthur Robert Ashe Jr, prominent African American tennis player and vocal protester of apartheid, dies
… Virginia died on 6 February 1993. He died of complications from AIDS after contracting HIV from a blood transfusion during heart surgery. Ashe, a vocal ……
Introduction
… From the book: A Documentary History of Indian South … available to those in positions of authority. It would be from similar sentiments that the…
Introduction - Garment Workers in Action by E. S. Sachs
… in national affairs, and Europe is not altogether free from it. Even in Asia, which has suffered from racial oppression and discrimination for so long, … of…
Address at The Official Opening of The Cape Town International Convention Centre, Cape Town, 28 June 2003
… splendour of the Western Cape has drawn visitors from across the globe. As they continue to come they will … and a symbol of future prosperity. It draws its…
Closing Speech at the ANC Conference "Peoples Of The World United Against Apartheid, For A Democratic South Africa" by O. R. Tambo, Arusha, 4 December 1987
… the apartheid enemy of all humankind on all fronts and from all corners of the globe. We shall conduct a concerted offensive because we will be proceeding…
EventNational Party unveils its policy plan focusing on anti-poverty strategies
… Party (NP)'s first federal congress since its withdrawal from the Government of National Unity (GNU), its policy plan … its name to New National Party (NNP)…
EventPhotographer, Abdul Shariff, is murdered in Katlehong
… Impact Visuals co-operative said Shariff was hit by fire from a hostel occupied by Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) … in Verulam, Natal and began fighting against…
EventNamibians vote for a Constituent Assembly
… which involved the phased withdrawal of Cuban troops from Angola and of South African troops from Angola and Namibia. The agreement also entailed the removal…
EventMilton Obote (81), Uganda’s former dictator, dies in a South African hospital
… Obote, a member of the legislative council of Uganda from 1957, founded the Uganda People's Congress in 1960. … Uganda's Prime Minister after independence…
EventRwandan and Burundian presidents J Habyarimana and C Ntayamira are killed in an air crash
… continent took place in Kigali, Rwanda when two presidents from two countries were assassinated. Juvenal Habyarimana of … by rocket fire. Habyarimana and…
PlacePaarl
… colonised in 1687 when land was allocated to 23 families from Stellenbosch. The district was initially known as … Paarl. The name in Dutch means "a pearl",…
ANC National Conference, 13 July 1991
… From the 2nd to the 7th July 1991, 2,244 delegates … leading fighters against minority rule and apartheid from ANC branches throughout the country, from the…
PlaceDwarsvlei, near Pretoria
… been no Battle of Britain'. Today, only a short drive from Johannesburg, the tarred road to Hekpoort passes over … Krugersdorp for Hekpoort in order to…
Statement on Human Rights Year by Oliver Tambo, 01 June 1968
… Human Rights is not based on any complicated ideas derived from political philosophy or ideology. The simple fact is … Africa (passed in 1961) specifically…
Address to the National Assembly of the Republic of Hungary Budapest, 3 May 1999
… the fact that you have made this possible by exempting me from the provisions of a law that would prohibit me from addressing this hallowed institution of…
Statement by Oliver Tambo on the occasion of the eighth anniversary of the Triumph of the Sandinista Revolution, 01 July 1987, Managua
… directly to you fraternal and revolutionary greetings from the African National Congress and the entire mass democratic movement in South Africa: from our…
Burundi: The ambiguous coup by Simon Allison (Daily Maverick), 14 May 2015
… celebrating in the streets of Bujumbura, but it’s far from clear who (if anyone) actually controls Burundi – or … Confusion reigns in Burundi, which is still…
Document 105 - John Gomas, “Cape Town: Liberation League Activities”, South African Worker, 17 April 1937
… From: South Africa's Radical Tradition, a documentary … evil intentions "to rob, filch and debar Non-Europeans from their rights." The Government is passing…
"Our struggle is for progress": Statement by Albert Luthuli, 15 June 1962
… began with our forefathers. They must draw inspiration from the great battles and the sacrifices of Tshaka and … of Gandhi and Hintsa. They must also draw…