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EventZulu assault at Holkrantz
… then sent a message to Sikobobo daring him to take back his cattle. The chief then set about doing this, and a …
EventPresley Chweneyagae, star of the Oscar winning movie Tsotsi, is arrested for fraud in Pretoria
… an award for outstanding performance by a lead actor for his role in Tsotsi at the Black Movie Awards in Los Angeles …
EventThe second Matabele war breaks out
… of the country. However, when Mlimo was assassinated after his hiding place was found by the British, through an …
EventFrederik Willem de Klerk is elected President of South Africa
… the resignation of President P.W. Botha on 14 August. His announcement on 02 February, 1990 to release Nelson …
EventProfessor Bob Hepple is born
… Hepple was born in Johannesburg, Transvaal (now Gauteng). His father, Alex Hepple, was a trade unionist, Labour Party …
EventThe trial of Fred Carneson, a listed communist begins at the Supreme Court in Cape Town
… 1972, following which he left South Africa to join his family in London. Eventually, he was employed at the …
EventTwo former Soweto student leaders, Khotso Seathlolo and Mary Loate are given long term sentences
… under the Terrorism Act. Seathlolo was given 15 years and his companion, Mary was given 10 years. The two were …
EventJean-Bedel Bokassa, ruler of Central African Empire, crowns himself.
… Republic (CAR). He spent seven years in France writing his memoirs. In 1986, he returned to CAR and was arrested as …
EventGeneral Idi Amin overthrows Ugandan President Milton Obote
… in 2003 in Saudi Arabia. The Ugandan government refused his family permission to allow Amin to die in Uganda. …
EventDaisy de Melker is hung for poisoning her two husbands and her son.
… It was suspected that he may have been pestering her with his father’s inheritance since he was approaching the age of …
EventTakudzwa Ngwenya, Zimbabwean-born American rugby player, is born
… for the Mashonaland Club and for Vainona High School in his home country. He then moved to Texas, USA, where he …
Interview with Harry Gwala conducted by Tony Karonat, January 1989, Dambuza Pietermaritzburg
… President. I remember at That conference Mtimkulu and his executive staged a walk-out, with Chief Luthuli at that … power' (laughs) Yes, and became…
76. The Indian people are an integral and permanent part of South Africa
… are reflections of the white man's dilemma ”” a dilemma of his own making ”” when he decided to make his home in a country and a continent inhabited…
ArticleThe Angolan Civil War (1975-2002): A Brief History
… which prevented total economic and military collapse. The death of President Augustinho Neto in 1979 led to the …
Document 61 - A. Mon [M. N. Averbach] 4 , “A Comment on Trotsky’s Letter to S.A.”, Worker’s Voice, 1, 3, July 1945 […]
… African, in most cases, is also a city worker for part of his life, so the land problem is tied up with the problem of … nationally in order to exploit n…
Chapter 10 - Sharpeville and its aftermath
… and Langa. On Saturday 26 March he publicly burnt his pass. Mass support swung once again behind Congress. The … black pressure could not be maintained;…
Say It out Loud - The 1907 Presidential Address, Outdshoorn, Cape, 7 January, 1907
… Cape, 7 January, 1907 1 Dr Abdurahman delivered his Presidential Address, speaking in English. He said that … was necessary or not. He put Education in the…
42. Petition from Indians at the time of Union
… of any self-respecting British Indian in this portion of His Majesty's dominions almost intolerable. Having hitherto … procedure, as a last resort they now…
Congress of the People - I was there
… with the spirit, enthusiasm and energy of someone 50 years his junior. He lived with his wife in a tiny pondokkie in Elsies River, near Cape Town. … Inspired…
Address of the President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki, at the SA-Mali Project Fundraising Dinner, Cape Town International Convention Centre, Cape Town: 8 April 2005.
… here (that) for the African man to fully understand his present situation, he must trace his roots and course of his journey to the present; and to make…
88. Gandhi’s legacy
… The source of much of Gandhi's inspiration came from his early experiences in this country, and because of this I … essential freedoms: political, economic,…
Images That Preserve History, and Make It : ‘Rise and Fall of Apartheid’ at Center of Photography by Holland Cotter (The New York Times), 20 September 2012
… as he had been at countless others since the 1950s. His picture of the mass funeral following the Sharpeville … Massacre in 1960 had immense impact at the…
PlaceSimon's Town, Cape Peninsula
… houses’, which were side by side – the one belonging to his mother and the other to his grandmother. Despite the imperfections of the location – … day,” he…
Address during a joint sitting of Parliament to mark 10 years of Democracy In South Africa Monday 10 May 2004, Cape Town
… President and to those that he has appointed as members of his national Cabinet and to the positions of provincial … a modest man and I know he would prefer…
Document 34 - Letter from the Executive Bureau, Communist Party of South Africa, to the Executive Committee, Comintern
… Kadalie is opposing it, ostensibly on the ground that his organisation has already put forward demands similar to … because he fears the League will still…
Address on the Occasion of the Torch Handing Over Ceremony, “From Rio to Johannesburg” , 25 June 2002 Rio De Janeiro
… the world declared: "Man is both creature and moulder of his environment, which gives him physical sustenance and … and technology, man has acquired the…
Nelson Mandela Correspondence around Mandela’s health
… I'll harpoon him to the ring and hammer him out in his own corner. I can't predict what will happen tomorrow but … I will discuss the matter further with Dr…
8. Pillay and others petition the Viceroy of India
… people are weak and effeminate, as stated by Mr. Morris in his History of India, and cannot, consequently, stand … cases that may come before the court at…
Address at the Opening Session of The South Africa-Algeria Bi-National Commission, Algiers, 22 September 2000.
… of the same continent, is aptly captured by Edward Behr in his book, "The Algerian Problem" quoting a report by Jules … the European settler that there are…
EventDiplomatic ties are established between SA and Saudi Arabia
… Samuel Motsuenyane, arrived in November 1996 and completed his duty in August 2000. The Royal Saudi Arabian Embassy in …