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ArticleLiberal Party of South Africa (LPSA)
… persecution, some members of the LPSA fled into to exile and became involved in anti apartheid activities … to intimidate him. He left the country and went…
Address by Nelson Mandela at the Funeral of Adelaide Tambo, 10 February 2007
… building of the ANC, particularly in that trying period of exile. She was an activist and a freedom fighter in her own … right. And she was a mother to the…
EventFormer premier of Mpumalanga, Afrikaans poet and lawyer, Mathews Phosa is born
… its military activities in South Africa. He returned from exile to South Africa in 1990 as part of the ANC contingent …
EventKing Goodwill Zwelithini is installed
… On his return from exile to St Helena, King Goodwill Zwelithini was installed as …
EventSuspect in US embassies bomb blasts denies charges
… He was charged along with sixteen others, including Saudi exile Usama bin Laden, for allegedly planning attacks on …
EventJustin Alexander (Alex) La Guma, SA novelist, short story writer and political activist, is born in Cape Town
… and would use his time in jail to write. He later went to exile in England before returning to his father’s native …
EventNkomo, leader of ZAPU forms a coalition government with Robert Mugabe
… Union (ZANU) government. Three days later, Nkomo went to exile in Britain, but returned to Parliament in August. …
EventEmperor Haile Selassie reclaims his Ethiopian throne
… After nearly five years in exile in Britain, Emperor Haile Selassie returned to Ethiopia …
EventFirst president of Ghana, Kwame Nkrumah (62), dies in Bucharest.
… by the police and military. He spent his later years in exile in Bucharest, Romania. Kwame Nkrumah died on 27 April …
BiographyNelson Rolihlahla Mandela
… Mandela had kept Oliver Tambo, the President of the ANC in exile, informed of his discussions with the government … and a confidant of Mandela. Maharaj, who…
Ernest Cole: Brave photographer who exposed horrors of apartheid from within by Teo Kermeliotis, (cnn.com), 5 January 2015
… In 1967, one year after leaving South Africa to go into exile, Cole published his first and only photo book, entitled … photographic work, it was the reason…
ArticleANC January 8th Statements
… The ANC in exile issued its first January 8th statement in 1972, the …
ArticleCommemoration, remembering and memorialising June 16 Soweto uprising
… were unbanned and legalised, many who had been in exile returned home, and negotiation processes started. In …
James Stewart - the ANC fighter who spoke truth to power by Martin Plaut, 1 February 2016
… senior figures in one of the first meetings of the ANC-in-exile with eminent white South Africans. He was an ANC MP … the long introduction by the editors…
EventFidel Castro becomes Premier of Cuba
… Day 1959 the 26 July Army finally forced Batista into exile, and Castro turned Cuba into the only communist state …
EventCharles Taylor wins presidential election
… the country until a peace deal, which forced Taylor into exile in Nigeria, was brokered by international brokers led …
EventGifted writer and actor William Modisane is born
… Modisane left South Africa in 1959 and while in exile he published his only and much acclaimed book Blame Me …
EventJoshua Nkomo’s freedom of movement and association in Southern Rhodesia is restricted
… Julius Nyerere, to support his plans for a government-in-exile. He returned to Salisbury where he was placed in …
EventYusuf Dadoo, political activist, is born
… On 19 September 1983, Dadoo died while in exile in London. …
EventAllan Boesak is born
… When other Black political leaders were arrested or in exile Boesak established himself as a spokesperson for Black …
EventSA writer, Nadine Gordimer, wins Nobel Prize for Literature
… racial turmoil in her fiction, she has chosen a spiritual exile over an actual one. In announcing its selection to the …
EventJames Kantor, a lawyer, is arrested for his involvement in Liliesleaf farm activities
… He was released later that year and immediately went into exile in London. He left the law profession and wrote about …
EventTwo former Soweto student leaders, Khotso Seathlolo and Mary Loate are given long term sentences
… illegally and being a member of a banned organisation in exile. Other key leaders who played a major role were. …
EventJean-Bedel Bokassa, ruler of Central African Empire, crowns himself.
… by the French in 1979. He fled the country and went into exile in France. The Central African Empire was dissolved and …
BiographyAlfred Milner
Alfred Milner, a statesman and colonial administrator, became Governor of the Cape and High Commissioner of South Africa in 1897. He pushed the Transvaal…
ArchiveTribute to Ottilie Schimming Abrahams (2 Sept 1937-1 July 2018) – some notes and memories by Heike Becker
… the early 1960s one of only a handful of Namibian women in exile, probably not more than five women were in exile at the time, as Libertina Apollus (married…
EventMac Maharaj is born
… had been an activist, a detainee, a political prisoner, an exile, an underground commander, and a negotiator. He was the …
EventEx-mutineers consider resigning from the ANC
… On 31 December 1989, ex-mutineers in exile considered resigning from the African National Congress …
EventMoses Kotane, the South African Communist Party and African National Congress stalwart dies in Moscow
… as observers. In 1963 he left the country for Tanzania. In exile Kotane worked tirelessly in the African National …
EventClarence Makwetu announces the PAC’s suspension of its armed struggle
… their political aspirations. This led to a period of exile and the turn to armed struggle by the Azanian Peolple's …