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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 …
ArticleNelson Mandela Timeline 1970-1979
… the struggle for liberation. 1972 8 January, The ANC in exile issued its 8 of January Statement. 1 August, J.B. … May, Winnie Madikizela-Mandela was…
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…
The Freedom struggle in Rustenburg
… and many activists were arrested, and some went into exile. Soya did not survive the crackdown, and internal … coup was crushed by the South African army,…
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…
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 …
EventYusuf Dadoo, political activist, is born
… On 19 September 1983, Dadoo died while in exile in London. …
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 …
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…
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…
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 …
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 …
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…
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 …
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…
Chapter 5 - TOWARDS PEOPLE’S WAR
… From: The South African Communist Party In Exile 1963 - 1990 The 1980s were the culmination of the mass … alleged spies. This caused serious problems withÂ…
ANC mourns the passing on of Mama Regina Nzo, 27 September 2011
… at the age of 81. She was an ANC activist and went into exile with her husband in 1964 for 26 years. She returned to …
ArchiveStaffrider Vol.4 No.1 Apr-May 1981
… by Bicca Muntu Maseko; Staffrider Profile, Poet in Exile by Mongane Serote; Music Section, Home Is where the …