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EventThe SS Mendi began its journey from Cape Town to Plymouth
… In 1916, the South African government agreed to recruit Black people to assist … There were to be 10 000 people to serve in the South African Native Labour…
EventThe National Library of South Africa is founded
… who first issued a proclamation launching the first South African Public Library. Somerset stipulated that a wine tax … only medieval incunabula, but also…
EventScores of people are killed in Boipatong, Vaal
… massacre happened during negotiations between the South African government, the African National Congress (ANC), the South Africa Communist … (Accessed: 24…
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ArchiveJoint Statement on the Durban Riots, by A. W. G. Champion of the ANC (Natal) and Dr. G. M. Naicker of the Natal Indian Congress [n.d.]
… DR. G.M. NAICKER OF THE NATAL INDIAN CONGRESS, 1949 The African National Congress and the Natal Indian Congress appeal to the African and Indian people of…
EventUN Security Council urges SA government to end Rivonia Trial
… UN Security Council passed a resolution urging the South African government to end the Rivonia Trial in progress and … in which it would have to react to an…
EventTreason Trial of 16 UDF members resumes
… were also charged with endorsing the ideas of the banned African National Congress (ANC). They were: Mewalal Ramgobin, … Isaac Ngcobo. The last four were all…
EventArchbishop Desmond Tutu is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize
… apartheid, first Black Secretary General of the South African Council of Churches, first Black Archbishop of the … across the globe, it was never celebrated…
EventDr. Rhoodie is arrested
… Dr Eschel Rhoodie, former South African secretary of information, was initially tracked down … scandal: africacrime-mystery.co.za History: south-african…
EventThe National President of the Black People’s Convention, Kenneth Hlaku Rachidi, declares that riots have lead to a new era of political consciousness
… of the BPC, which was founded by leaders of the South African Student Organisation (SASO). Rachidi joined the BPC … in the title, soon attracted the…
EventReport on ANC detention camps is released
… The African National Congress (ANC) released a report by an … and torture to extract confessions from alleged South African spies and other detainees. The…
EventSA President P.W Botha meets with leaders of independent homelands
… a five-nation summit in Pretoria , chaired by the South African State President P. W. Botha . At the end of the … result of the Land Act of 1913, which…
EventThe Azanian People’s Liberation Army (APLA) disbands
… Army (APLA) was the underground military wing of the Pan African Congress (PAC). APLA was formed in the 1960s, after … of the PAC and other political…
EventChina promises to increase imports from Africa
… being the premier trading partner of many countries on the African continent. Coupled with this is an undertaking by the … terms of export markets. This has…
EventGermany declares South West Africa a German protectorate
… of what is today Namibia. Over the next hundred years, African peoples living in Southwest Africa, inland from the … continued until 1907. When World War I…
EventSANDF soldiers strike
… of " uMkhonto we Sizwe" (MK), the military wing of the African National Congress (ANC) and the Azanian People's … wing of the Pan-Africanist Congress (PAC)…
EventPresident. F.W. de Klerk lifts the state of emergency
… On 7 June 1990, former South African President, F W de Klerk, announced the end of South … of Nelson Mandela from prison and the unbanning of the African…
Claremont Histories Photographic Exhibition
… the Group Areas Act. The event is co-sponsored by South African History Online and books published by South African History Online will be on sale as well. …
ArchiveBefore Dawn Culture in Another South Africa (CASA)
… AMSTERDAM IN DECEMEBR 1987 AND WAS ATTENDED BY 300 SOUTH AFRICAN ARTISTS, OF WHOM 120 CAME DIRECTLY FROM SOUTH AFRICAN AND 180 AS EXILES FROM THE REST OF THE…
ArchiveRace, culture and personality
… the study of race, culture and the psychology of African personality under the South African climate of apartheid and its development at all …
ArchiveStudent international
… at the 46th Annual Congress of the National Union of South African Students, 16 July 1970. Paper discusses the history … and the relationship of the National…
ArchiveMeeting with Secretary of State Shultz during a working lunch at the Department of State, Washington D.C. on 26 November 1982
… Minister together with other representatives of the South African Government and the Secretary of State together with … United States Government about the…
Interview with Albert Luthuli by Studs Terkel, 6 May 1963, Chicago
… Zulu? LUTULI: Since I became the President-General of the African National Congress in 1952, I have had three of these … for different peoples by claiming…
Verwoerd's Grim Plot by Nelson Mandela
… Council. It goes on to provide for the division of the African population into eight "ethnic units- (the so-called … all rights over and responsibilities In…
Book 6: Negotiation, Transition and Freedom - Bibliography
… and Freedom commissioned by The Department of Education African National Congress. Address to the Nation by ANC … , Politikon, 23 (2) 1996 Osaghae, E. `The…
Book 5: People, Places and Apartheid - Bibliography
… Philip, 1999. Biko, Stephen Bantu. I Write What I Like . African Writers Series. Oxford, Heinemann, 1987. Bonner, … In Gustavo Mejia (ed.), Democracy and…
ArchiveThe Soul of a Nation
… Constitution fixed a milestone beside the road of South African history, and marked the way for a new democratic … Constitution was also the birth…
EventPeter Becker dies
… Were Becker, writer of several popular historicl books on African people and their customs, died instantly after being … References: Sonderling, N.E. (ed.)…
EventBafana Bafana loses to Nigeria
… The South African national soccer team Bafana Bafana, under mentorship … Coach Trott Moloto, lost 0-2 to Nigeria in the semi-final African Cup of Nations …
EventJan Smuts is born
… as an international statesman and a general in the South African Army. He also participated in the Second Anglo-Boer War (South African War). …
ArchiveNUSAS - its background and history
… at National Seminar of the National Union of South African Students, April 1973. Pages7 to 10 of Appendix to the … at the 50th Congress of the National Union…