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BiographyNoria Mabasa
… May 10, 1938 in Xigalo in the Limpopo Province in South Africa. She received formal education for only one year, … the first black woman, and the only Venda…
BiographyLetlapa Mphahlele
… a group of PAC members for Guinea, on the West Coast of Africa to undergo military training. They arrived in Conakry … ties with the PAC underground across…
ArchiveDeclaration of the African National Congress (SA) Executive Committee, Morogoro, 17 - 20 March 1975
… March 1975. Calls for the mobilisation of all forces in Africa and world-wide against apartheid. …
ArchiveMinutes of a meeting between President Kenneth Kaunda and South African Representatives: Lusaka, 25 June 1984
… President Kaunda of Zambia and representatives from South Africa to discuss further peace initiatives in southern Africa, following the Lusaka Declaration…
ArchiveSouth African political prison-literature between 1948 and 1990: the prisoner as writer and political commentator
… in the subject English at the University of South Africa. This thesis examines works written about imprisonment …
January 8th Statements - Statement of the National Executive Committee of the African National Congress On The Occasion Of the 105th Anniversary of the African National Congress Presented By President Jacob Zuma
… sacrifice and hard work of millions of people, in South Africa and across the world, who acted in unity to ensure that we can live in a free South Africa…
BiographyRay Harmel (nee Adler)
… entry into that country. In 1928, Ray arrived in South Africa, with little formal education and no English, although … socialist organisation, and the …
”Opening Address” at Annual Conference of the South African Indian Congress, by Dr. S. M. Molema, January 25, 1952
… and sorrow, Nor flatter the rank breath of white South Africa, Nor bow our knee to their idolatries, Nor coin our … are, among the unprivileged and oppressed…
EventANC President, Oliver Tambo, denies that the ANC is in secret negotiations with the South African government
… by the Institute for a Democratic Alternative for South Africa (Idasa) in Dakar, Senegal in July, 1987 under strong …
BiographyHenry Selby Msimang
… a founder member of the multiracial Liberal Party of South Africa. From 1956-1968 he served on the executive committee …
BiographyNithianandan ‘Elvis' Ganese Govender
… KwaZulu-Natal – KZN), on the eastern seaboard of South Africa. The second of four children, he was the son of … need for political and social change within…
BiographyHenry “Black Cat” Cele
… was born on 30 January 1949 in KwaMashu, Durban, South Africa. As a member of the Cele family he was referred to by … 7 June 2011]| Anon, Henry Cele, from…
EventThe South African Police Services (SAPS) celebrates its 10th anniversary
The South African Police Services (SAPS) celebrated its 10th anniversary for providing a service to South African democracy on 27 January 2005. Since this…
BiographyGcinisizwe Sylvester Khwezi Kondile
… Kondile between June 30 and July 1, 2016 [16] . At South Africa's freedom park in Pretoria , a symbolic burial was … Posthumous of bravery for Sizwe Kondile,…
EventRichard Horatio Edgar Wallace, South African author and newspaper editor, is born in Greenwich, England.
… by the music hall comedians. In 1896, he came to South Africa, during the Boer War, where he met with Rudyard …
EventDavid Frost wins the South African Open golf championship in Stellenbosch
David Frost is a South African golfer who turned professional in 1981. In 1983, he had his first professional win. He has won several tournaments throughout…
Address by Oliver Tambo at the 75th anniversary meeting of the African National Congress, 08 January 1987, Lusaka
… exponent and defender of the cause of liberation in South Africa and Namibia, an unrelenting freedom fighter who has … as a great pillar of strength for the…
BiographyMark Fish
… on 14 March 1974. He started his soccer career in South Africa, but has departed our shores to pursue his career in …
BiographySandile Dikeni
… Die Suid-Afrikaan and political editor of This Day South Africa. He also served a stint in government, as spokesperson for South Africa’s then Housing…
Document 59 - Letter from Ruth First to The Secretary, South African Institute of Race Relations’, 17 August 1944
… From: South Africa's Radical Tradition, a documentary history, Volume Two … Relations', 17 August 1944 Young Communist League of South Africa Box …
Alan Wieder on the Rivonia Raids & South African Non-Violent Struggle
Alan Wieder remembers the Rivonia Raid 50 years after it happened. The South African government in the early 1960s attacked the Rovonia farm, then occupied by…
EventSouth African football legend Steve Mokone is born 23 March 1923
… player. He is regarded as the greatest footballer South Africa has ever produced, often being compared with the …
EventThe South African security police bombed two houses in Manzini, Swaziland
In response to attacks on the Sasol oil refinery in Secunda, the South African security police bombed two houses in Manzini, Swaziland. The attacks claimed the…
BiographyJulius C. Malie
… but the charges were dropped on appeal. He left South Africa for Lesotho in mid-1961 and has since died. …
Address by President Nelson Mandela at the book launch of the series on Southern African leaders 1 August 1994
… both categories. It is at one a reclamation of South Africa's history in its true and complete form and a tribute to some of the giants who have made South…
BiographyHenry Burton
… was born on 2 June 1866 in Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa and went to school at St Andrews in Grahamstown, … ) and the Germans in South West Africa …
BiographyPenny Heyns
… In 1992 at the age of 17 she was chosen to represent South Africa in the Olympic Games in Barcelona. She won no medal … Games, Heyns followed her conscious…
Dr Piet Koornhof, one of the most controversial figures in South African history, dies
… Koornhof, one of the most controversial figures from South Africa's apartheid era, died in a Stellenbosch frail care …
BiographyAbdool Kader Hassim
… was a member of African Peoples Democratic Union of South Africa (APDUSA) . His first child was born in March 1964 a …
BiographyThabo Marcus Motaung
… training. After training, he was deployed back into South Africa in 1979 as a member of a Unit of known as G5. The Unit … South Africa Democracy Education…