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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…
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…
ArchiveSouth Africa’s Radical Tradition, a documentary history, Volume Two 1943 - 1964, by Allison Drew
… Number One [1943] Document 6 - Report of Delegation to All-African Convention and Unify Conference 16-17 December 1943. … 1948 Document 15 - "Ruth First , …
Speech on the Sixtieth Anniversary of the ANC, Lusaka by O. R. Tambo, 8 January 1972
… sixty years of the formation and existence of the African National Congress of South Africa. And, let there be … of national consciousness among the…
ArchiveAll That Glitters - Bound to strike back by Emilia Potenza
… of resistance was to look for better jobs. After the South African War (1899-1902), thousands of African workers boycotted the gold mines because wages had ……
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…
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…
Document 76 - The Speakers’ Notes - A Brief Course on the Training of Organisers [Document found by the police during the Rivonia raid of 11 July 1963]
… to see to it that you recruit the best elements among the African youth into the ranks or even the vanguard of our … of the 19th century saw the complete…
Coetzee as Contractarian: Disgrace as Political Theory by Joshua Richman
… being the most critically engaged with novel in the South African canon, there remains an ambiguity regarding the … of the Rainbow Nation. Having traced…
ArticleIndian South Africans timeline 1900-1909
… of the disease. 1902 31 May, the Anglo-Boer War/South African War ends with the signing of the Treaty of Vereeniging . The South African Republic (Transvaal)…
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…
ArticleBrenda Fassie’s 1997 hit song Vulindlela still raises questions about South Africa as a nation
… In my doctoral thesis I look at how some women in South African popular culture like Fassie, singer Lebo Mathosa and … the country’s first Black president…