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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…
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…
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,…
ArchiveConsultation 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…
EventSADF 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…
ArchiveCircular 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…
ArchiveDead 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…
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…
EventWhite women achieve suffrage in South Africa
… chapters of this league were established in other South African cities, and this group became known as the Women's … the perception of women in the period…
EventTricameral Parliament inaugurated
… Parliament convened in Cape Town to promulgate a new South African Constitution with a three-tier parliament which would … for members of this parliament…
Book 2: The Impact and Limitations of Colonialism - Introduction
… the imposition of colonialism and explores its impact on African societies. Colonialism is often viewed as an … of Europeans. After exploring the first…
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…
Address by President Thabo Mbeki at the Opening Ceremony of the 23rd Africa Regional Conference of the Food and Agricultre Organisation: Sandton Convention Centre, Johannesburg, 4 March 2004
… you. It is indeed an honour for South Africa to join the African family of nations in hosting, for the first time, this seminal 23rd African Regional…
Book 4: Industrialisation, Rural Change and Nationalism - Chapter 1 - Rural Change and the Future of South Africa by Rachidi R. Molapo
… up in both the mining and manufacturing industries. Both African and Afrikaner nationalisms flourished during this … in understanding the larger dynamics…
78. The Natal Indian Congress calls for a national convention
… convention of all leaders, while rejecting the South African Indian Council as a useless body, and affirming the … forgiven if, with understandable…
Statement of the Alliance Political Council, 13 October 2009
… Council, comprising of the National Officials of the African National Congress (ANC), the South African Communist Party (SACP), the Congress of South African…
EventSASO founder and Black Consciousness leader, Steve Biko dies in detention
… Bantu Steven Biko , leader of the South African Students' Organisation (SASO) and pioneer of the … circumstances surrounding his death. At first, the South…
ArchiveGovernment Commissions of Enquiry
… The four organisations were the National Union of South African Students, the South African Institute of Race Relations, the Christian Institute …