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Speech at the Funeral of M.P. Naicker, London by O. R. Tambo, 8 May 1977
… we Sizwe... We pay our respects on behalf of the African National Congress to members of his family and assure them that the loss sustained by them is not …
PlaceKookfontein
… wines in the world. In 2012 Kookfontein won the South African Gold Medal for Best Young Wine in the Olifants River … Coast. The working farm has belonged to…
EventM K Gandhi, pioneer of the SA Passive Resistance movement and leader who led India to Independence, is born
… Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was born into a Hindu Modh family in Porbandar, India. In 1893 he accepted a year-long … Passive Resistance movement (satyagraha)…
ArticleThe Wragg Commission (1885-1887)
… absenteeism from work. Bilharzia was common in certain areas and leprosy occurred in a small minority. Veneral … the construction of thatched buildings and…
PlaceGeneral Smuts House Museum, Doornkloof
… living memorial to the man known to everyone as 'Oubaas', housing many relics and mementos that offer fascinating …
EventThe first detainees are held under the apartheid regime’s 90-day Law
… introduced the General Law Amendment Act, the South African Security Police, or Special Branch, were given the … held in solitary confinement, without access…
PlaceInanda, Phoenix
… home of John Langalibalele Dube, first president of the African National Congress (ANC), as a residence/base of … served for a time as an important home to…
Resist Apartheid Campaign Message to Meeting in Johannesburg, 11 July 1954
… on July 11, 1954, in protest against the Western Areas Removal Scheme--the forcible removal of Africans from … fellow-countrymen I have the honour to lead…
PlaceLebowa
… in 1972. The territory was fragmented into six separate areas scattered throughout the northern Transvaal . Seshego … (detached portions). Lebowa was…
PlaceGoedverwacht, West Coast of Cape Town
… in court twice but it was upheld and remained in Maniesa's family's hands until 1888 when her last child, Hester, died. …
ArchiveHamba kahle Jennifer Davis 1933-2019
… died on October 15 in Montclair, NJ, surrounded by her family. She was 85. Her love, curiosity, honesty, and … her study of the role of foreign capital in…
EventForced Removals commence from District Six
… district was declared a ‘White area’ under the 1950 Group Areas Act of the Apartheid government. Before the passing of the Group Areas Act, multiracial…
Constructing the Union of South Africa; negotiations & contestations, 1902-10
… in late 19th and early 20th Centuries. After the South African War of 1899-1902 (also known as the Anglo-Boer War, … of thousands of Chinese to undercut any…
Chapter 3 - The Rise of the ANC
… workers' political organisation was being filled by the African National Congress. Though the CP leaders played a … the uneven character of the Defiance…
ArticleNatal Indian Association (NIA)
… NIC and the CBSIA to unite. [5] Prior to this, the South African Indian Congress (SAIC) representatives had gone to … but to face it as it had done in the…
EventRioting and destruction in Cato Manor and Durban continues
… led to Black people streaming into Durban. Thousands of African people moved into Cato Manor as tenants to Indian and African landowners. On 2 June 1946 the…
BiographyThomas Mbeki
… soon joined the Young Communist League as one of its first African recruits. When Clements Kadalie began to establish … From Protest to challenge: A…
BiographyAlexander Kgobe
… school issues. He was also accused of being active in the African National Congress (ANC), and despite warnings …
BiographyMtetunzima Ganyile
… revolt and ‘a strong supporter of the banned ANC [ African National Congress ].’ It was claimed that he planned …
BiographyMashudu Jonathan Mudau
… was shaped after becoming a member of South African Students Movement (SASM) during the 1976 uprisings. … • South African History Online. Mudau, Mashudu…
BiographyChris Qwazi
… Godolozi , Champion Galela ) and Congress of South African Students 2 ( Siphiwo Mthimkulu and Topsy Madaka ), …
PlaceKwaDukuza timeline
… Later, it was to be re-named Durban, after Cape Governor D'Urban. Settlers such as Henry Frances Fynn, Lieut. Farewell … grass and weeds. First White…
ArticleSouth Africa’s Academic and Cultural Boycott
… country to appeal to the UN on the basis of how South African Indians were being wrongfully racially segregated and … which is being boycotted. To this end,…
Lecture by the President of the ANC, President Jacob Zuma, on the occasion of celebrating the life and times of the tenth President of the ANC President Nelson Mandela, 10 July 2012, Limpopo
… Mrs Graca Machel and members of the Mandela family; Provincial Chairperson of the ANC, Comrade Cassel … 1961, after a long and anxious assessment of the…
BiographyPercival Henry Frederick “Percy” Sonn
… national and international level. Sonn worked in the South African cricketing scene in various capacities from 1974 … the greater part of his career, he…
PlacePeddie
… and a number of individuals were beginning to enter the urban and industrial job market, both as labourers and as … of St James was established on a nearby…
PlaceWooden Bridge over Lagoon, Milnerton, Cape Town
… for a R20 million makeover. Mayco Member for Transport and Urban Development, Brett Herron said; a tender for the … he said. The Bridge was Built in 1901…
PlaceLangkloof Valley, Eastern Cape
Part of the Cape Fold Belt, the Langkloof Valley and Mountains are a short range of Mountains that serve as a link between the Tsitsikamma and Outeniqua…
Regional Formation Schools.” Report in SASO Newsletter, September 1970
… I AM DIRECTED by the All-In African National Action Council to address your Government in the following terms: The All-In African National Action Council was…
PlaceAdams Mission, Kwa-Zulu Natal
… because of his changing of clothes to suit his differing areas of work, (including a white medical coat). He was … Botswana and Uganda, several ministers and…