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EventVerney Cameron is first European to cross equatorial Africa
… campaign of 1868 and in the suppression of the East African slave trade. In 1872 the Royal Geographical Society … the first European to transverse the…
PlaceGrey Street Complex
… The significance of the area, in the life of the South African Indian community, can be gauged from the fact that up … settled by Indians, it was also home…
EventCol. Muammar Gaddafi seizes power in Libya
… 1974 Libya permitted not just the PAC but also other South African political organizations fighting Apartheid to use … support for the PAC was its alliance…
EventWalter Sisulu, co-founder of the ANCYL and Umkhonto we Sizwe, is born
… hand and was an active trade unionist before joining the African National Congress (ANC) in 1940. He immediately … to serve their prison sentences. In…
Address on the Occasion of the Budget Vote of the Presidency, 18 June 2002
… consisting of the Presidency, all the Premiers, the South African Local Government Association and the Ministers of … building of a democratic, peaceful and…
FREEDOM IN OUR LIFETIME, Durban, December 12-14, 1958
… Presidential Address to the 46th Annual Conference of the African National Congress, Durban, December 12-14, 1958 Sons … to our surprise. Our experience of…
PlaceFugard Theatre, Cape Town
… and was named in honour of Athol Fugard , an iconic South African playwright known for his contributions to South African theatre and film. He is one of the…
PlaceSchweizer-Reneke
… is where we ended and the third Boer War, another South African war, will start here again. The Town has a History, … steeped in bloody relations between 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…
American Supporters of the Defiance Campaign by George M. Houser
… - Mr. Houser describes the work of the Americans for South African Resistance (AFAR) in support of the Defiance Campaign … against Unjust Laws of South…
ArticleDefining culture, heritage and identity
… some overview of what is meant when people speak of South African Heritage. Culture Like 'heritage' and 'identity,' … Africa at large, to innocently enquire…
ArticleA Culture of Survival
… black women. This can be partly explained by the fact that African women did not have to carry passes until the 1950s, and were thus not as easily controlled…
ArticleColonial History of Port Elizabeth
… settlers, and these wars dominated 19th century South African History. The first frontier war broke out in 1780 and … harbour. However, developments…
ArticleZulu
… years, he had forged one of the mightiest empires the African continent has ever known. The Zulu empire weakened … for all Black South Africans, and in 1953…
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…
Chapter 2 - From Crisis to Stability to Crisis
… early twentieth century, the twin concerns of the South African state were guaranteeing capital accumulation on the … provision of facilities, for black, and…
Condolence book for Comrade Ahmed Kathrada, 28 March 2017
… The African National Congress mourns the passing of … Johannesburg from 14h00 this afternoon. Issued by the African National Congress Enquiries Zizi Kodwa…
EventSouth Africans pay tribute to Nelson Mandela at the Grand Parade in Cape Town
… South Africans sang and danced while some waved the South African flag in honour of the former president. Flowers and … front of the City Hall to honour the…
Telegram to Gamal Abdel Nasser, President of the United Arab Republic by Oliver Tambo, 27 May 1967
… African National Congress of South Africa expresses full … peace in the Middle East, Africa, Asia and the world. African National Congress condemns these…
Liberal Opinion/Reality
… racial discrimination and non-violence for all South African citizens. The Liberal Party was forced to disband … (1969-1993). The journal continued to focus…
EventTwenty former SA political prisoners launched a campaign against apartheid laws
… Twenty former South African political prisoners, in defiance of the restriction … outside Cape Town. Their campaign came a month after the African National…
EventAnnesu de Vos, SA poet, is born.
… She is well-known as the youngest published poet in South African literature history. When she was 16, her first book … Marais prize, a prestigious literary…
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…