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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…
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 …
EventWalter Sisulu convicted of inciting protest
… Former secretary-general of the African National Congress (ANC), Walter Sisulu, was convicted of having incited a stay-at-home of African workers in protest…
EventMugabe announces the merging of ZANU and ZAPU
… Zimbabwe African National Union (ZANU) leader, Robert Mugabe announced … political organisations, ZANU and ZAPU (the Zimbabwe African People's Union), are to…
EventNelson Mandela says general strike will go ahead
… African National Congress (ANC) President Nelson Mandela said … fair elections to a constituent assembly. Source: South African History Online …
EventNelson Mandela continues his international tour
… The African National Congress (ANC) deputy president, Nelson … tour to Sweden. His tour had hitherto included African countries such as Zimbabwe, Ethiopia,…
EventThabo Mbeki is honoured
… conferred an Honorary Doctorate of Law on the South African president and the president of the African National Congress (ANC), Thabo Mbeki. He also …
EventNatoo Babenia is born
… Bellair, Durban. In South Africa he was a member of the African National Congress (ANC), South African Communist Party (SACP) and Umkhonto We Sizwe (MK) and …
EventFirst Black-owned newspaper is published
… The first Black South African newspaper, Imvo Zabantsundu (Opinion of the People), … The paper survived a banning order during the Second South African war …
ArchiveFifty seven years of NUSAS - Have we learned our lessons?
… Critical overview of history of the National Union of South African Students in which the speaker questions the success … at the 59th Annual Congress of the…
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…
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…
EventFifth banning order for Albertina Sisulu
… campaigner of South Africa, Albertina Sisulu, wife of African National Congress (ANC) leader Walter Sisulu, was … J.A.; Schoeman, E. & Andor, L.E. (eds)(1999…
EventDjibouti and Cote d’ Ivore strengthen diplomatic ties with SA
… his foreign minister Roelof "Pik" Botha a number of other African countries announced their willingness to improve … of full diplomatic relations, making it…
EventMinister Kobie Coetsee on meeting between Botha and Mandela
… hence he refused to denounce violence and break the African National Congress (ANC) ties with the South African Communist Party (SACP). … Mandela`s…
EventJoyce Kgoali dies
… also a National Executive Committee (NEC) member of the African National Congress Women's League (ANCWL) and a Provincial Executive Committee member of the…
Twenty-four people are killed in Operation Beanbag in Maputo, Mozambique.
… are killed in Operation Beanbag, an attack by the South African army on the ANC and PAC in Matola, a suburb of … as Joe Slovo, one of the raid's main targets…
Chapter 13
… or in small industrial strikes-all culminating in the African Miners Strike of August, 1946, which was drowned in … economic structure being threatened. The…
Conclusion: A Land Dispossession History 1600s-1990s
… outcomes have been disappointing. In the case of Southern African countries such as Zimbabwe and Namibia, and more …
ArticleStructure of Government in South Africa
… The South African government is divided into three parts: the Executive …
ArticleEconomic Freedom Fighters (EFF)
… Africans in the workplace. f. Massive development of the African economy and advocating for a move from reconciliation …
PlaceWits Art Museum
… the first collecting institution that included classical African art. Named the Getrude Posel Gallery in 1972, it was … gallery” and was specifically…
Message by Oliver Tambo to Frelimo Central Committee on the death of Samora Machel, 22 October 1986
… stunned progressive mankind. It is a staggering blow to African people and especially to the people of southern Africa, a blow that is felt most intensely by…
Message to Frelimo Central Committee on the Death of Samora Machel by O. R. Tambo, 22 October 1986
… stunned progressive mankind. It is a staggering blow to African people and especially to the people of southern Africa, a blow that is felt most intensely…
PlaceVenda
… In 1962, the South African Government created Venda as a Homeland for the … their Residents any opportunity to participate in South African Politics. They…