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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…
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…
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…
EventTruman Prince, the controversial ANC manager of the Central Karoo District Municipality, is suspended
… Hendrik Truman Prince is a South African politician and the former mayor of the Beaufort West … journalism show, Special Assignment. Calls for the African…
EventRobert Mugabe assures the SADC that the 9-10 March election in Zimbabwe would be free and fair
… president of South Africa Thabo Mbeki to send two South African judges, Dikgang Moseneke and Sisi Khampempe to … sparked a legal battle with the Mail and…
EventSA author, Nadine Gordimer, is born
… South African author and winner of the 1991 Nobel Prize for … novelists she has written non-fiction on various South African subjects and made TV…
Event523 people die in the Black concentration camps of the Second Anglo Boer War
… livestock was killed. Boer women and children and Black African people were put into separate concentration camps. … camps, with camps housing approximately…
EventMlungisi Sisulu dies.
… in Moscow to Max Sisulu and Mercy Vuthela, two young South African exiles studying in the Soviet Union. At the age of … and 1980s. As a youth, he joined the…