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EventGovernment’s final consolidation of ‘homelands’
… and a way to strip Black South Africans of their South African citizenship. The argument from the point of view of the Apartheid government was that Black…
EventThe ANC and Government accept the Pretoria Minute
… Pretoria Minute is agreed upon by the government and the African National Congress (ANC), concerning release of … not willing to accept the Pretoria Minute…
EventSouth Africa sends troops to Ciskei
… Defence Force (CDF), and a former member of the South African Defence Force (SADF), leads a coup in the homeland of … in the homeland. On 5 March Gqozo…
EventUpington 14 are sentenced
… were sentenced to community service. References: South African Institute of Race Relations. (1989). Race Relations Survey 1988/89, Johannesburg: South…
EventBavumile Vilakazi dies
… The former African National Congress (ANC) Gauteng provincial secretary and South African high commissioner to Uganda, Bavumile Vilakazi, died … African…
EventMbeki and his entourage arrive in Abidjan, Ivory Coast
… South African President Thabo Mbeki, accompanied by Defence … by the secretary general of the Economic Community of West African States (Ecowas), Mohammed…
EventProvincial Executive Committee of Free State resigns
… the entire Provincial Executive Committee resigned. The African National Congress (ANC) was concerned that the … Sources: Books: Kalley, J. A. et al (1999)…
EventLegal action against election results
… for polling to be repeated in those areas. This followed African National Congress (ANC) complaints about … J.A.; Schoeman, E. & Andor, L.E. (eds)(1999)…
EventPolitical parties call for Constitutional changes
… education. Subsequently, the Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU) called for a one-day general … opposition to a lockout clause proposed by the…
EventDe La Rey is persuaded not to speak to the Burghers
… On 12 August 1913, Koos De La Rey, a South African War II General, was ordered to meet with Generals Jan … was formed after the defeat of Boer Republics in…
EventPolitical activist and trade unionist James La Guma is born
… unionist James Arnold (Jimmy) La Guma, member of the South African Communist Party (SACP) and president of the South African Coloured People's Organisation …
EventSADF commandos bombs the ANC office in Maputo
… South African National Defence Force (SADF) commandos bombed the African National Congress (ANC) office in Maputo, Mozambique … South African History Online,…
EventIraq boycott SA government’s apartheid policies
… of the Sharpeville killings. Political organisations like African National Congress (ANC),South African Communist Party (SACP), PAC and others were banned ……
ArticleShipwrecks in South Africa
… these ships is important when trying to understand South African history, as South African contact with European sailors goes so far back, that …
13 notable women in Cape Town’s history, 6 August 2015
… Along with the ANC, the NLL participated in the South African Communist Party’s United Front campaign of strikes, … as she was known there – became the first…
Passive Resistance 1946 - A Selection of Documents compiled by E.S. Reddy & Fatima Meer - Foreword
… at the expense of building the numerical strength of the African and Indian Congresses, the NEUF was hence allowed to … over the leadership of the Transvaal…
Draft Report of the National Executive Committee of the ANC, submitted to the Annual Conference, December 15-17, 1950
… 1950 was a turning point in the political history of the African people in this country. It was marked by a number of … indicated a new political outlook on…
ArchiveRemembering French Investments In Apartheid South Africa, 17 December 2013
… there has been unanimous praise in France for the South African leader and the struggle against apartheid he … became Total in 1991, had significant…
Document 136 - “Report on the Relationship of the Party to other Workers’ Organisations in South Africa”, Freedom 5, 4 August 1946
… the interests of the workers of South Africa, the South African Labour Party must be considered as an important section of the South African working class…
38. The Natal Franchise Bill, 1894: Do not make our sons pariahs
… the opinion that only those Indians who have abandoned all claims for themselves and their families for a free return …
ArchiveReminiscences of the Arrest of Fikile Bam & Marcus Solomon in 1963 by Roseinnes Phahle, August 2019
… first when he was employed as a barrier attendant on South African Railways and later when through varied informal means … known as mo-China because it…
EventUmkhonto we Sizwe bombs Church Street, Pretoria
… 1983, when Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK), the armed wing of the African National Congress, detonated a large mortar bomb … Square in Church Street, a building which…
EventAssassination attempt on Kwame Nkrumah, first prime and later president of Ghana
… to independence as Ghana in 1957. A firm believer in African liberation, Nkrumah pursued a radical pan-African policy, playing a key role in the formation of…
EventProfessional soccer is introduced in SA when the National Football League is founded
… played between the White Germiston Callies and the Black African Pirates before 10 000 people in Maseru, the capital … clubs that played in the first league…
EventKarel Schoeman, well known Afrikaans author, is born
… He moved back to South Africa and worked at the South African Library in Cape Town from 1983. Schoeman is the … languages In 1999 he was one of only two…
EventChurch Council meets PW Botha over unrest
… A delegation of the South African Council of Churches (SACC) met with President P W … Africa. In 1968, the CCSA changed its name to the South African Council…
EventZambian president Kenneth Kaunda refuses to take part in UK
… offered military bases for both Robert Mugabe's Zimbabwe African National Union (ZANU) and Joshua Nkomo's Zimbabwe African People Union (ZAPU). However,…
EventAngola becomes independent of Portuguese colonial rule
… bases for military training. For instance, the Zimbabwe African People's Union (ZAPU) and the South West African People's Organization (SWAPO) established…
EventMK’s Luthuli Detachment and ZAPU in a joint operation
… Luthuli Detachment in Rhodesia (Zimbabwe) and Zimbabwean African People's Union (ZAPU) guerrillas engaged Rhodesian … was meant to give added military…
EventLinguist and educationist Sedumedi Moloto is born
… subsequently served as Professor and Head of Department of African Languages at the University of Botswana in Gaborone. … equally fluently. Moloto was once…