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BiographyAbdul Khalek Mohamed Docrat
… was a pioneering businessman who traded in Burma and South Africa. Upon arrival in South Africa in 1930, he was prohibited from entering the country, … India…
BiographyAchmad Cassiem
… with the purpose of defending and promoting Islam in South Africa. Cassiem was arrested for breaking the conditions of … would come down to Harare and…
EventThe last conventional battle of the South African War ends
The last conventional battle of the South African War (1899-1902), the battle of Dalmanutha (Bergendal) ended. The battle ended six days after it broke out on…
BiographyEve Hall
… World War broke out, her father was on a visit to South Africa, leaving her mother to cope with a half-Jewish child … surviving the war, Hall and her mother…
BiographyS. Mac Lepolesa
… Claims committee. In the late 1950s he left South Africa and settled in Basutoland (now Lesotho ), where he … A documentary History of African Politics in…
BiographyPauline Podbrey
… to Durban , Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal – KZN), South Africa, to join her father, who had been there since 1929. Her father was a Bundist, and once in South…
EventDr Joshua Nkomo African nationalist and guerrilla leader is born.
Dr Joshua Mqabuko Nyongolo Nkomo was born on 19 June 1917 at a place called Bukalanga/ Bulilima later known as Semokwe Reserve.He started his primary…
EventA two-day All-in African Conference starts in Pietermaritzburg, Natal
The two-day All-in African Conference - with 1,400 delegates from 145 religious, cultural, peasant, intellectual and political bodies was hosted in…
Address by President Nelson Mandela at the opening of the African Cup of Nations Tournament Johannesburg, 13 January 1996
… over. For the next three weeks leading soccer nations in Africa will bless liberated South Africa with the best display of skills our continent can ……
Sir Shafa’at Ahmad Khan
… held in Poona in June 1935. Before going to South Africa as High Commissioner in 1941, he was, in 1940, a … Government of India. During his tenure of office…
BiographyGeorg Schmidt
… proceeded to Amsterdam on foot again, sailed for South Africa on ‘t Huijs te Rensburg on 4 December 1736 and landed … the first Protestant mission station in…
BiographyDavid Patrick Russell
… on the Bench of Bishops of the Anglican Church of Southern Africa since 1986, the same year that Archbishop Desmond Tutu … and Dean of the province (Anglican…
BiographyCharles W H Kohler
… the co-operative idea was new and untested in South Africa at that stage, Kohler believed that uniting all wine … be known as the Co-operative Viticultural…
EventThe first hijacking of a South African Airways plane takes place
The first hijacking of a South African Airways (SAA) plane took place when two men armed with gelignite sticks hijacked a SAA Boeing 727 tri-jet, the Letaba,…
Press Conference in Maputo: Comments by Oliver Tambo on South African offer of territory to Swaziland, 5 March 1982
… a move against our struggle and against the interests of Africa". He condemned the attempts by Pretoria to deprive a … saying that it is possible to prove…
BiographyMary Butcher Turok
… the discussions to place economic sanctions against South Africa to pressure the Apartheid regime and promote the introduction of a new democratic Africa. [5…
O. R. Tambo interviewed in Luanda after Summit Meeting of Presidents of Frontline States and Southern African Liberation Movements, 1977
… of British Foreign Secretary David Owen on southern Africa are of great interest to the whole world, to the … and especially of course to the peoples of…
BiographyChristopher Ndodebandla Dlamini
… and was frequently arrested for illegal residence in South Africa. These arrests, together with an incident when South … for the Institute for a Democratic…
BiographyDr. Neil Hudson Aggett
… schooling in Kenya, and when his parents moved to South Africa in the 1963,he attended Kingswood College in … The Dictionary of Contemporary Politics of…
BiographyMoses Josiah Madiba
… from the Faculty of Education at the University of South Africa for meritorious services as linguist, author, …
BiographyDouglas Chadwick Thompson
… School at London University. Upon his return to South Africa he was assigned to the Geaina area of the Pretoria …
”The African Mine Workers’ Strike-A National Struggle.”flyer issued by the ANC Youth League, August 1946
… to the whole economic and political structure of South Africa. Huge profits from cheap Native Labour are …
BiographyJoseph (Joe) Mbuku Nhlanhla
… which prepared for the return of the ANC to South Africa and was part of the ANC delegation at the Groote …
BiographyIsaac Lesiba ‘Bra Ike’ Maphotho
… After the unbanning of the ANC, Maphotho returned to South Africa in 1992, 31 years after he left the country. He …
BiographyJackson Mthembu
… Mthembu is the Minister in the Presidency of South Africa, and parliamentarian for the African National …
BiographyAndrew Sibusiso Zondo
… government. The 1980s was a turbulent time in South Africa, and after reading a report about the December 1985, …
BiographyCecil Williams
… person. After the arrest of Mandela, Williams left South Africa for Britain where he lived until his death in 1979. In …
EventBritish establish first ‘refugee’ camps during the South African War
… et al. (eds)(1970). Standard Encyclopaedia of Southern Africa , Cape Town: NASOU, v. 3, p. 379.|Cloete, P.G. (2000). …
BiographyRobert John McBride
… contribute to the liberation struggle in South Africa. In 1984 sabotage was attempted on the oil refinery …
EventExtracts from one of South African President Thabo Mbeki's most stirring speeches
… an African. I am born of the peoples of the continent of Africa ... The dismal shame of poverty, suffering and human … nothing can stop us now! Whatever the…