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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…
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…