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EventSecurity police raid offices of the United Democratic Front
… It filled a void created when organisations such as the African National Congress (ANC), Pan Africanist Congress (PAC), South African Communist Party (SACP)…
EventZimbabwe’s interior minister Joshua Nkomo is dismissed
… Zimbabwe. This triggered bitter fighting between Zimbabwe African People's Union (ZAPU) supporters in the … region of the country and the ruling Zimbabwe…
EventFirst Multiracial Election is held in Zimbabwe
… liberation organisation supported by groups such as the African National Congress (ANC) and the Pan Africanist … Congress (PAC) and the Rhodesians by the…
EventCosatu offices in Durban under attack
… into central Pietermaritzburg when the Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) offices in the town were … in KwaZulu-Natal; and their alleged links…
EventLord Milner leaves England to return to SA
… who played a prominent role in causing the South African War returned to South Africa to become British … was to negotiate a peace treaty that ended the…
EventNatal Indian Congress is formed
… the Cape Indian Congress later went on to form the South African Indian Congress (SAIC). Thereafter, many joint activities between the SAIC and African…
”ASINAMALI”, WE HAVE NO MONEY
… of the cheap labour policy fostered by the South African ruling class. The event, which provided the impetus … highlighted the need for significantly higher…
Obituary: Dr Hastings Banda by Richard Dowden (Independent), 27 November 1997
… of his life drew him into it. He was born, the son of an African farmer, apparently in 1898 (though the official year … the Chewa people by Scottish…
ADDRESS AT THE OPENING CEREMONY OF THE 24TH REGULAR MEETING OF THE CARICOM CONFERENCE, Montego Bay, Jamaica, 2 July 2003
… Commissioners, Delegates and friends: On behalf of the African Union and your brothers and sisters in Africa, I … system of apartheid, a system that was an…
Statement at Press Conference in Dar es Salaam Concerning Sentences in the Rivinia Trial by O. R. Tambo, 12 June 1964
… abandonment of the policy of white domination. The African National Congress will not rest before this challenge … then moderation and reason must take…
EventAdolf Hitler opens the 11th Olympic Games in Berlin
… Hitler's Aryan vision. Owens on the other hand was an African America, one of ten in the US team. Lang and Owens … others being in the 100m, 200m, 4 x 100m…
EventJosiah Gumede is succeeded by Pixley ka Isaka Seme as ANC president
… called for a convention of Africans to form the South African Native National Congress (SANNC). This organisation was renamed the African National Congress …
EventRay Alexander Simons, founder of Food and Canning Workers Union, arrives in South Africa
… 1950s, members of FCWU played a leading role in the South African Congress of Trade Unions (SACTU) In April 1954, Ray … and Florence Mkhize helped found the…
Briefing on Lekgotla outcomes, 27 January 2015
… The African National Congress invites members of the media to a … media cards Issued by Zizi Kodwa National Spokesperson African National Congress Enquiries…
Sechaba
… The African National Congress began publication of Sechaba in … injustice. Sechaba documents the process by which the African National Congress, banned in…
EventJames Ranisi Jolobe, Xhosa author and poet, and Presbyterian clergyman, dies in Tsolo, Transkei
… James Ranisi Jolobe made a contribution to South African arts and culture through poetry. Born in Transkei, … Verwey, E.J. (ed) (1995). New Dictionary of…
EventBritish labour conditions in South Africa condemned
… of the 141 British companies investigated have been paying African workers below the relevant poverty line. New British … operating in South Africa; British…
EventANC promulgates its constitutional proposals
… The African National Congress (ANC) announced its constitutional … a post-apartheid democracy and were supported by the South African Communist Party (SACP)…
EventDe Klerk announces referendum date
… Former South African president and leader of National Party (NP) F.W. De Klerk promulgated the date for the referendum on South African reform process, which…
EventAgreement to reincorporate Ciskei into South Africa is reached
… ruler Brig. Oupa Gqozo signed an agreement with the South African government, represented by Foreign Minister Roelof … public works and transport were handed…
EventSchalk Burger wins two International Awards
… The twenty-one year old South African rugby flanker, Schalk Burger, picked up two major … to these international awards, Burger also won the South African…
EventThe first Chadian oil pipeline opens
… President Idriss Deby on 10 October. Thus the small West African republic of Chad joined the group of oil-producing African nations. The opening of this…
EventBantu Holomisa is dismissed
… Environment and Tourism Minister after revealing that the African National Congress (ANC), received a sum of R2 million … to face internal ANC disciplinary…
EventUN Special Committee on Apartheid urges a boycott of all SA racist sporting organizations
… Committee on Apartheid urged a boycott of all South African racist sporting organizations and supported the African bloc’s proposal to exclude the country…
Letter from Neville Curtis, NUSAS, to Dear Sir
… various developments regarding the National Union of South African Students (NUSAS). These include the reaction and … as well as the relationship between…
EventDurban Declaration is published denouncing Thabo Mbeki’s AIDS denialism
… sole cause of AIDS and this viewpoint affected the South African government’s response to the AIDS epidemic. Access to … strong support for HIV being the…
EventBevil Rudd, the Olympic gold, silver and bronze medalist
… College in Grahamstown.[iii] He became the first South African to win a full set of Olympic medals, for which he … (20 April 2017). ↵ [iv] David van Lill,…
EventP.W. Botha launches CONSAS at the Carlton Conference to eliminate “Marxist threat”
… On 22 November 1979 South African prime minister P. W. Botha gathered business leaders … announced his plan to launch the Constellation of Southern African…
EventThe Bisho Massacre occurs
… into South Africa. The protest was led by several senior African National Congress (ANC) leaders, including South African Communist Party Secretary General…
EventDr. Federik Van Zyl Slabbert leads delegation to meet ANC
… intellectuals, to meet with the then-banned African National Congress (ANC) in Dakar, Senegal. Delegates … meeting is regarded as a milestone in South…