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ArticleBrenda Fassie’s 1997 hit song Vulindlela still raises questions about South Africa as a nation
… In my doctoral thesis I look at how some women in South African popular culture like Fassie, singer Lebo Mathosa and … the country’s first Black president…
The Majefe Affair
… at the 45th Annual Congress of the National Union of South African Students, University of Cape Town, 6th-14th July, … University of Cape Town (and,…
Consultation in preparation for the meeting with law professors from white South Africa
… a meeting to discuss and work out an agenda for an African National Congress meeting with South African Law professors. Proposed agenda includes Human Rights…
EventSewsunkerlal Bahadur Singh dies in Durban
… role in SA sports as, inter alia, president of the South African Football Association (SAFA). Singh was also a … Source: Sonderling, N.E. (ed.) New…
EventUS Senator Edward Kennedy visits SA
… Africa to show his anti-apartheid support to the South African people. He was hosted by the recipient of the 1984 … to pay a visit to Winnie Mandela , wife…
SADF seals off Vaal townships
… A combined force of seven thousand South African Defence Force (SADF) troops and the South African Police (SAP) sealed off the Vaal Triangle townships ……
EventMaritime headquarters at Silvermine is opened
… Prime Minister B.J. Vorster officially opened the South African Navy's R15m Maritime Operational and Communications … forces was exercised, was constructed…
EventThe House of Assembly votes for inquiry into NUSAS & SAIRR
… and related matters of the National Union of South African Students (NUSAS), the South African Institute of Race Relations, the University Christian … J.A.;…
EventANC leader Nelson Mandela meets Boutros Boutros
… African National Congress (ANC) President Nelson Mandela met … the convening of the Security Council on this issue. Pan African Congress (PAC) President…
Circular from Neville Curtis, President, NUSAS, to SRC Presidents and others
… circular from the President of the National Union of South African Students containing the text of the Commission appointed by the South African Students…
Dead in one's own lifetime
… and provincialism in contemporary White English South African literature", "IIdeology, the State and South African film", "The right of the people to censor…
EventZimbabwe announces it has severed diplomatic relations with South Africa, but will maintain a trade mission in Johannesburg.
… ending of diplomatic relations between the two southern African countries happened just five months after Rhodesia … itself Zimbabwe. Robert Mugabe, head of…
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…
From 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,…
EventCPSA is founded
… established the Communist Party of South Africa (South African Section of the Communist International) and adopted … and S.P. Bunting, treasurer. In 1928 the…
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…
EventSix Treason Trialists miss resumption of trial
… by Mr. J. Trengove, for the Crown. He said that the African National Congress(ANC) consisted of “intelligent … Cape Town Campus] pg 1 Karis, T.G., 1961. ‘The…
PlaceIziko Museum's, Cape Town
… Visit the natural History collections at Iziko South African Museum and Iziko Planetarium , or explore History … others. Cape Town’s premier art gallery, the…
PlaceLowveld National Botanical Gardens
… and welcoming sight. Walking through the enchanting African Rain Forest enables one to cross the Crocodile River … the cascading waterfall can also be viewed…
“Don’t Support Apartheid Sport”: Appeal By Chief A. J. Luthuli and Dr G. M. Naicker, June 1962
… - the world soccer body has suspended the all-White South African Football Association from international football for … to the continued participation of…