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EventANC command structure in the Western Cape is arrested.
… The South African police announced that they have uncovered and arrested members of the African National Congress (ANC) Western Cape command … J.A.; Schoeman…
EventSA Prime Minister completes a tour of homelands in the Northern Transvaal
… South African Prime Minister, B.J. Vorster completed a tour of self … This 'Bantustan' policy sought to assign every Black African to a 'homeland' according…
EventMandela is awarded the Joliot Curie Gold Medal for Peace
… The paper 'Leader' announced that African National Congress (ANC) leader Nelson Mandela has … to Dr Yussuf Dadoo, a former President of the South African…
EventMinister reports 23 acts of sabotage in RSA
… armies of the Pan Africanist Congress (PAC) and the African National Congress (ANC) respectively, Minister of … J.A.; Schoeman, E. & Andor, L.E. (eds)(1999)…
EventThozamile Botha breaks banning order
… with the University of Lesotho, but after the 1982 South African Defence Force raid in the capital of Lesotho, Maseru, … serving in the National Executive of…
EventLanguage crisis in schools resolved
… of Bantu Education, M.C. Botha, announced that the South African Government had annulled the regulation that Black … J.A.; Schoeman, E. & Andor, L.E. (eds)…
EventMandela threatens armed struggle
… African National Congress (ANC) deputy president Nelson Mandela warned that if the South African government fail to take effective steps to end the …
EventBotshabelo forced into Qwa Qwa
… to incorporation into the Qwa Qwa homeland, the South African government proceeded with its plan of incorporation. … the residents of Botshabelo would not…
EventEbrahim, Maseko and Dladla are abducted in Swaziland
… South African Security Forces abducted African National Congress (ANC) activists Ebrahim Ismail …
EventMoses Mabhida dies in Maputo
… remains were transferred to South Africa by the South African government for reburial at his home in KwaZulu-Natal. … Thabo Mbeki. Click here to read the…
EventSA tennis player Wesley Moodie and Australian Stephen Huss win the Wimbledon Men’s double title
… On 2 July 2005, South African tennis player, Wesley Moodie, and Australian, Stephen … before this tournament. Before this, the last time a South African had…
EventANC celebrates 90th anniversary
… On 6 January 2002, the African National Congress (ANC) celebrated its 90th … the moment which came eight years post the first South African non-racial polls…
EventCyril Ramaphosa resigns as ANC Secretary-General
… Matamela Cyril Ramaphosa confirmed that he was resigning as African National Congress Secretary-General, as well as from … was widely tipped both within the…
EventWinnie Mandela is dismissed from government
… unanimously hailed by parliamentary parties as well as the African National Congress (ANC) and its aligned structures, the Congress of South African Trade…
EventMgqwetho,the first poem of Nontisi is published
… She contributed close to ninety poems, which urged South African Black people to put aside their differences and unite … South Africa Click here to read…
EventLeprosy expert Dr Kok is born
… Sources: Sonderling, N.E. (ed.) New Dictionary of South African Biography, v. 2. … South African History Online …
EventN.P. van Wyk Louw is born
… Renowned South African author, Nicolaas Petrus (N.P.) van Wyk Louw, … in literature and advocacy of language rights for the African languages, posthumously…
EventThe Minister of Manpower Utilisation, Fanie Botha reveals government plan on increasingly militant Black trade unions.
… two years after the formation of the Federation of South African Trade Unions (FOSATU) in 1979, which brought another … FOSATU was the predecessor to the…
EventO. R. Tambo leaves South Africa for exile
… after the Sharpeville massacre , on the instruction of the African National Congress (ANC). The international world … Once they reached London, they…
EventSouth Africa and the United Kingdom embroiled in a diplomatic crisis
… from police in the British Consulate in Durban. The South African government in retaliation for London's refusal to … evict the fugitives announced it would…
EventThe British government closes its consulate in Angola
… Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA) and South African troops for the National Union for the Total … The two organisations enlisted the support of…
EventBotha’s Pass in Natal is under attack by General Buller’s forces
… Van Wyk's Kop, was too lightly armed to resist the South African Light Horse brigade. General Buller was now free to … The attack by General Buller occurred…
EventCommodore Dieter Gerhardt and his wife are sentenced to life imprisonment
… for the Soviet Union. On 26 January, 1983, the South African government announced at a special press conference that a senior South African naval officer,…
EventLady Mary Bailey, the first pilot to complete the London to Cape flight and back solo, dies in Cape Town
… Lady Mary Bailey, wife of a South African mining magnate, was the first person to fly solo from … 1960. One of her sons, Jim Bailey founded the Magazine…
EventProf. Astley Hilary Goodwin, first professional archaeologist in SA, is born
… including developing the standard terminology of South African archaeology. He founded the South African Archaeological Society and wrote books like The…
EventAstley Hilary Goodwin, first professional archaeologist in SA, is born
… including developing the standard terminology of South African archaeology. He founded the South African Archaeological Society and wrote books like The…
ArchiveCHAPTER 2 - You only win once by Howard Barrell
… was poised to break out of the near irrelevance to South African affairs into which its miscalculations of the 1960s … the ANC external mission’s ability to…
Chapter 2 - The lack of a workers’ party
… exÂploitation and national oppression of the African people - could now be carried forward. In action, the African working class had begun to show its…
Address by President Thabo Mbeki, at the University of Havana, Cuba, 27 March 2001
… duty to define ourselves. We speak about the need for the African Renaissance in part so that we, ourselves, and not … living, who we relate to and how. Our…
Address at the University of Havana, Cuba, 28 March 2001
… duty to define ourselves. We speak about the need for the African Renaissance in part so that we, ourselves, and not … living, who we relate to and how. Our…