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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…
Statement Issued By GCIS: Briefing on the Case of Robert McBride - 21 May 1998
… case of Robert McBride What is the attitude of the South African government to Robert McBride's arrest? The position … based on the so-called Meiring Report?…
Introduction
… by Surendra Bhana and Bridglal Pachai In 1961 the South African Government gave official recognition to the de facto … accommodate the Indians. This took the…
Kora: A Lost Khoisan Language of the early Cape and the Gariep by Menán du Plessis - 1. The linguistic classification of Kora
… families that make up the collectivity of the Southern African Khoisan languages. The chapter concludes –in the … even to each other, let alone to any of the…
Address at the UN General Assembly, New York, 12 September 2002
… of Africa have risen to these challenges by forming the African Union. Our Union is based on the principles enshrined … It results from the transformation of…
EventSA Prime Minister P. W. Botha warns the country that confrontation will be inevitable if his proposed President’s Council fails
… South African Prime Minister P. W. Botha warns the country that … which still excluded direct political representation for African people. …
EventMelrose House opens as a Museum
… The first South African State President C.R. Swart opens Melrose House in … ending the Second Anglo- Boer War or Second South African War. …
ArchiveNUSAS resumé 1981
… some of the main events that the National Union of South African Students initiated or was involved in during 1981, in … at the 59th Annual Congress of the…
ArchiveShould NUSAS talk to the ANC?
… A pamphlet issued by the National Union of South African Students (NUSAS) at the start of their campaign to … students supported NUSAS representatives…
ArchiveNegotiations, armed struggle and the ANC
… 19 July 1990. On negotiations, the armed struggle and the African National Congress. Covers the African National Congress approach to negotiations and the …
EventEngenas Barnabas Lekganyane is buried in Morija
… has since been sanctified by the ZCC, the largest of the African Independent Churches. Sources: Verwey, E.J. (ed)(1995). New Dictionary of South African…
EventThe United Party is formed
… The United South African National Party, also known as the United Party, was … the leadership of General J.B.M. Hertzog, and the South African Party under…
EventFormer Colonial Prime Minister John Merriman dies
… South African statesman and the last prime minister of the Cape … Land Act introduced in 1913, which drastically limited African ownership of land. …
EventDieter and Ruth Gerhard are detained
… The South African government announced at a special press conference that a senior South African naval officer, Commodore Dieter Gerhardt and his … J.A.;…
EventMoses Kotane receives Isitwalandwe/Seaparankoe
… years before his death Moses Kotane, member of the South African Communist Party (SACP) and the African National Congress (ANC), was awarded the ANC's …
EventSADC treaty is signed in Namibia
… A treaty, which effected the establishment of the Southern African Development Community (SADC), was signed in the … capital, Windhoek, to replace its…
EventGhana imposes a total ban on exports to South Africa and South West Africa
… as a protest against apartheid. Ghana was one of the first African states to call on South African government to abolish its apartheid policy. The …
Oliver Tambo interview to Sechaba, 01 March 1976
… as possible I should pay a visit to the newly independent African State, to affirm the expressions of solidarity and … of Angola) over the invading troops of…
Racists Humiliated - O. R. Tambo Interviewed by Michael Wolfers, Sechaba, March 1976
… as possible I should pay a visit to the newly independent African State, to affirm the expressions of solidarity and … of Angola) over the invading troops of…
From Amsterdam with euphoria
… at the entrance to the exhibition. Forty-eight South African photographers had contributed specially to this … Die verborgen camera (The Hidden Camera). Here…
Document 46 - D. Tloome, “The Origin and Development of Non-European Trade Unions”, lecture delivered to the Johannesburg Discussion Club on 27 February 1953, Viewpoints and Perspectives. L 1,21 February 1953
… Trade Unions Independent of Unions of Other Race 32 African Trade Unions fall within this group, the geographical … investigations disclosed that there were…
Book 3: Migration, Land and Minerals in the Making of South Africa - Chapter 2 - Imperialism and the Union in South Africa by Timothy Keegan
… the system of labour migration, of drawing young African men (and, on a smaller scale, women) out of their … and Boer republics) lived side-by-side with…
ArchiveFrom conscience politics to the battlefield
… of radical liberalism, within a broader spectrum of South African liberalism. The Party was unsuccessful in preventing … relationship with Congress Alliance,…
EventPolice arrest members of Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK) High Command at Lilliesleaf Farm
… South African police raided the African National Congress (ANC) underground headquarters, the … to the manufacture of explosives, Mandela's diary of his…
EventNelson Mandela is appointed the Secretary of the National Action Council
… demand of the representatives of the united will of the African people - * We undertake to stage country-wide … or collaborate in any way with the proposed…
EventThe first Boeing 707 jet aircraft arrives in South Africa
… This aircraft has remained in the service of the South African Air Force (SAAF) up until today. The aircraft was … be replaced with more modern aircraft…
Event”Ghetto Act” or The Asiatic Land Tenure and Indian Representation Act No 28 of 1946 is passed
… Indian government and the United Nations. When the South African government ignored both the international community … on a campaign of passive resistance…
EventThe SA author and journalist, Herman Charles Bosman, shoots and kills his stepbrother David Russell during a quarrel
… who wrote under the pseudonym Herman Malan, was a South African author and journalist. He was educated at Jeppe High … of The Touleier (1930) and was…
EventNoble South Africans win Nobel Peace Prize
… Chief Albert John Mvumbi Luthuli was the first Black African to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize on 10 December 1961. Luthuli, president of the then banned…