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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…
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…
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 …
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…
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…
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…
EventEllen Phyllis Hellmann, social anthropologist and executive member of the SAIRR, dies in Johannesburg
… Hellman decided to do research into the lives of urban African slum dwellers and it was this exposure to their … depicted as the incubator of early…
Event20 000 Women march to the Union Buildings in protest of pass laws
… the pass laws was organised by the Federation of South African Women (FSAW or FEDSAW). The Federation famously … has come to represent the courage and…
EventSA pledges support for a negotiated settlement in Rhodesia
… The South African government under leadership of Prime Minister John … (holding talks) policies, aimed at improving South African foreign relations with…
EventPresident F.W. de Klerk announces withdrawal of Internal Stability Units (ISU)
… of Kathlehong and Thokoza. They were replaced by the South African Defence Force (SADF). ISU was the most unpopular and … the Police Reporting Officer had…
Event7 People are killed during a SATS strike
… about sixty-seven injured when about 800 striking South African Transport Services (SATS) workers, on their way to a … After a letter of complaint by the…
EventFirst air flight from London to South Africa
… that took off from London subsequently crashed on the African continent. Two South African pilots, Lt-Col Pierre van Ryneveld and Capt. CJQ … a further…
EventSA colonies meet to consider and adopt the South Africa Act, which leads to the Union of South Africa
… the Anglo-Boer War (1899-1902), Britain annexed the South African Republic and the Orange Free State, two hitherto … respectively, were added to Britain's…
EventPolitical activist, Professor ZK Matthews is born
… voter and his cousin, Sol Plaatje, a founder member of the African National Congress (ANC). Matthews devoted the first … at Fort Hare University and in 1923…