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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…
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…
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…
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…
Statement at the 2053rd meeting of the Security Council by Mfanafuthi Johnstone (Johnny) Makatini, 9 December 1977
… me great pleasure to extend to you, in the name of the African National Congress, the warmest fraternal … whose experience, dedication and skill as the doyen…
The coup that set Ghana and Africa 50 years back by Charles Quist-Adade (Pambazuka News), 02 March 2016
… more to undermine our interests than any other black African.” [2] The US government was determined to depose … Nkrumah before he managed to unite Africa…
ArchivePik Botha: sympathetic obits fail to recognise that he protected apartheid by Alet Pretorius, 23 October 2018
… general tone of the commentaries – including the governing African National Congress (ANC’s) - has been sympathetic. … It displays a cavalier attitude…
EventLlewellyn Herbert was born on this day
… July 1977 in Bethal, Mpumalanga.[i] Herbert was the South African 400 metre hurdle champion from 1996 to 2003.[ii] He … Olympic Games.[v] He was known as the…
EventJoyce Mashamba passed away
… for the liberation struggle. [ii] She served under the African National Congress, ANC’s Women’s League and the South African Communist Party. [iii] Mashamba…
EventKhulane Morule, the Motswako rapper is born
… the Best Venacular Hip Hop Album award at the South African Traditional Music Awards.[iv] His Lost In Time album … such as the Best Collaboration award at…
EventThe full citizenship of Coloured people is called for
… origin. Coloured people, throughout the course of South African history, have been regarded as neither white nor … basis that the CRC was completely…
Document 11 - Industrial and Commercial Workers’ Union of Africa, Annual Conference Agenda, St Phillips School, Chapel Street. District 6, Cape Town, 18 January 1923
… 1923 1. Minimum or Standard rate of wages for all the African Workers throughout South. Conditions of the Railways … at the Head Office. 7. "One Big Union"…
EventThe Republic of South Africa is established
… the actions of the revolutionary elements, the South African government adopted legislation which increasingly … of Southern Africa, Cape Town: NASOU. 3…
EventThe Flag of the Union of South Africa is hoisted on Prince Edward Island
… Edward Island is one of two Islands annexed by South African which includes Marion Island. The Island lies about … play a strategic role. The British worked…
EventEditors oppose legislation on media control
… Newspaper proprietors and editors of all the main South African newspapers, both English and Afrikaans, unanimously … the bill. In its place, a new self…
EventA group of six White and several Black rebel army troops mounted another coup attempt on 21/22 November in Transkei, a Black ‘homeland’
… in a bloodless coup in 1987. Holomisa accused the South African government of having had knowledge of Duli's … Africa were strained, since Holomisa openly…
EventFormer Minister of Defence and others are charged with murder
… back to this day in history search archive Former South African Defence Force Minister, General Magnus Malan and 19 … between the Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP)…
Bush Radio mourns, Professor William T. McClain (1923-2011)
… when he went to study at the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London. Initially he … to study Indian or Middle Eastern law, but…
EventF.W. de Klerk announces the release of Nelson Mandela and unbans political parties
… F.W. de Klerk to release Nelson Mandela and unban the African National Congress (ANC), Pan Africanist Congress (PAC), the South African Communist Party …
ArchiveNUSAS Congress 1984: Head Office report
… Report of the Head Office of the National Union of South African Students to the Annual Congress of the National … the Azanian Students Organisation, the…
EventLillian Ngoyi, well-known anti-Apartheid activist, dies
… Anti-Apartheid activist and founder member of the African National Congress Women’s League (ANCWL), Lilian … as a nurse before she became an activist. She…
EventMK operatives, Jerry Mosolodi, Terry Mogoerane and Thabo Motaung are executed
… police station, a car bomb exploded outside the South African Air Force Headquarters and the South African Defence Force (SADF) Military Intelligence … at…