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Closing remarks to the 13th Ordinary Session of the African Union Assembly of Heads of State and Government, 03 July 2009, Sirte, Libya
… great pleasure and honour that I accept the invitation to make the closing remarks before this Assembly. Your … on your behalf in expressing our thanks and…
ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 1970-1979
… Mandela with 21 other people in 1970. Workers went on strike in 1970 and in 1973 in Durban. During this period … role for the ANC in exile by allowing the…
Address by ANC President Jacob Zuma to ANC National General Council fundraising dinner at Inkosi Albert Luthuli International Convention Centre, 19 September 2010, Durban
… Special guests, Good evening, we thank you all for coming to share this very special evening with us. Tomorrow we start … will turn one hundred years old. We…
BiographyBuzwe Stanley Mabizela
… early age when he first joined the ANC Youth League. A son to a farm worker, Mabizela did his primary education in Port … After passed Standard 6, he was…
BiographyJob Shimankana Tabane
… education in 1949 at Diepkuil Primary School and had to balance his school work with tending his grandfather’s … completing Standard five in 1956. In 1957…
BiographyDiana Ferrus
… attended the Dutch Reformed Mission School before going to Esselen Park High School, where she matriculated in 1972. … of protests . When it finally reopened…
BiographyWalter Ernest Stanford
… in a riding accident. Subsequently, in 1857, he was sent to live with his uncle J.C. Warner, a missionary in charge of … Stanford was sickly and his mother…
BiographyAshley La Grange
… "My guiding principle is to work hard and live within my means. My father died when I … and my mother’s inheritance was embezzled, so she had to work on…
BiographyBenson Tsele
… years of military, political and physical training to return to South Africa, train recruits and help revive the … free of racial injustices. Tsele and his…
Mobilise Our Black Power - Statement to the People of South Africa on the Tenth Anniversary of Umkhonto we Sizwe by O. R. Tambo, 16 December 1971
… and imperialism. They are making great sacrifices to redeem their human dignity and fundamental liberties from … They stand for peace and justice: they…
Document 38 - “How to Build o Revolutionary Mass Party in South Africa: A letter from the Executive Committee of the Communist International, “Umsebenzi, 12 December 1930
… Volume One 1907 - 1950, by Allison Drew Document 38 - "How to Build o Revolutionary Mass Party in South Africa: A letter … the Communist International, …
ArticleWages Commission
… Soon after the 1971 garment workers’ strike at Currie’s Fountain, three students from the Durban … Durban activist academic Rick Turner, who challenged them…
Hlaudi manifesto gives Jimi Matthews and his SABC comrades no option but to vote #Hlexit by Ra'eesa Pather (Mail & Guardian), 27 June 2016
… it, SABC acting group CEO Jimi Matthews has said bye bye to the public broadcaster, effective immediately. “What is … of it,” Matthews said, in a…
Call for Papers ‘Rethinking “Apartheid’s Golden Age”: South Africa, c1966-1979’, Colloquium to be held at the University of Pretoria, 20 June 2016
… stretching from the death of Hendrik Verwoerd (1966) to the Soweto uprising and its aftermath. The colloquium seeks to reconsider the period, which is often…
EventPercy Qoboza, editor of the Post, states that it is difficult to see how a credible newspaper for Blacks can be created in South Africa
… studying in the United States for a year, Qoboza returned to South Africa with even greater determination to challenge the apartheid system. Re-assuming his…
Chapter 7 - 1957-58: The Movement in a Crucial Phase
… evaporated. This reflected itself partly in a rise of strike action, from the low point of the decade in 1953 to a high point in 1955-57. But the weakness of…
ArticleNelson Mandela Timeline 1960-1969
… South Africa.” 28 March, The ANC calls for a nation-wide strike in protest of the Sharpeville massacre. Pass books are … the Minister of Justice. The Chief…
Address by Selby Msimang, President, Industrial and Commercial Workers’ Union of South Africa, July 23, 1921
… ideas and objects in view. The forces with which they had to contend had become so formidable that it was now essential … of disorganisation. There had been…
ArchiveMinutes of the Black Peoples Convention held at the Lay Ecumenical Centre, Edendale, Pietermaritzburg from 8th July 1972 to 10th July 1972
… Centre, Edendale, Pietermaritzburg from 8th July 1972 to 10th July 1972. The convention discussed the draft … schemes, Black education and other issues…
Working Life - Factories, Township and Popular Culture 1886 - 1940 - Protest and Resistence
… Topic Towns People Between 1886 and 1914 people continued to arrive in a steady stream. From 1914, the population of … Now lets look at how the workers and…
The South African Congress of Trade Unions
… there was a word from our head-office that we had to organize what we call SACTU (South African Congress of … them into a trade union. I remember after that…
ArticleGrade 8 - Term 2: The Mineral Revolution in South Africa
… almost destitute, similar wealth that had drawn Europeans to the rest of the continent. By then, South Africa had no … came to the Rand as full-time workers,…
Nelson Mandela Timeline 1920-1929
… passed. This Act made funds available for the government to house the poor. “The resultant estates were required to be … National Native Congress (SANNC)…
Opening address by President Jacob Zuma to the 2nd Biennial Summit on substance abuse, 15 March 2011, Inkosi Albert Luthuli International Convention Centre, Durban
… action committees, Ladies and gentlemen, We are gathered to discuss a matter that is very central to our nation building efforts. We have come together…
ArticleAccount of events: Rand Rebellion 1922
… 1922 and he took up their cause. He wrote about the strike and subsequent revolt and aimed to raise support in Britain. Below is an extract of a graphic ……
ArchiveOut of the Fire to Find New Fetters: The Violence of Poverty in a Shack Settlement: Paper Presented at the Black Sash National Conference 1991
… Out of the Fire to Find New Fetters: The Violence of Poverty in a Shack … Out of the Fire to Find New Fetters: The Violence of Poverty in a Shack …
ArticleSouth African major mass killings timeline 1900-2012
… on wage protest at Marikana, North West Province. 1913 A strike of 9000 African miners takes place at Jagersfontein … Diamond mine, after a fellow-worker is…
PlaceHerold, Route 62
… idyllic tranquility and peaceful contemplation, but access to both the Coastal and Inland attractions; of the Klein … of what was once the blacksmith’s shop,…
Attacks on Sasol 1 and NATREF in Sasolburg and Sasol 2 in Secunda take place in the night of 31 May/1 June in order to coincide
… Secunda take place in the night of 31 May/1 June in order to coincide with Republic Day. Nobody is killed in the … Secunda take place in the night of 31 May…
Event60,000 delegates attend the World Summit on Sustainable Development
… Location: back to this day in history search archive  An estimated … by the United Nations and was aimed at finding ways to strike a balance between…