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E. R. Roux, The New Slogan and the Revolutionary Movement among White Workers in South Africa, presented at the Sixth
… Slogan and the Revolutionary Movement among White Workers in South Africa, presented at the Sixth …
Press statement, released by Nelson R. Mandela, Honorary Secretary of the All-in African National Council, June 26, 1961
… by Nelson R. Mandela, Honorary Secretary of the All-in African National Council, June 26, 1961 …
ArticleImpact of World War II: how the nature of political quest for independence in Africa changed after 1945
… War II: how the nature of political quest for independence in Africa changed after 1945 …
BiographyProfessor Hoosen Mahomed "Jerry" Coovadia
… Professor Hoosen Mahomed "Jerry" Coovadia was born in Durban, Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal - KZN) on 2 August 1940. … in the extreme - they had separate…
EventDr Albert Hertzog confirms that television would not be introduced in South Africa
… was unchanged. Television was not to be introduced in South Africa. In 1971, the SABC was finally allowed to introduce a … regarded the hostility towards…
ArchiveConcerned citizens invites you to panel discussion on what is happening in the townships
… Offset litho; black; Concerned citizens : Invites you to Panel Discussion on : What is happening in the townships? : The road to Peace through dismantling ……
BiographyAlexander Lionel Boraine 'Alex'
… Dr Alexander (Alex) Lionel Boraine was born in 1931 in Cape Town, Western Province. In 1950, at the age of … Consultant for Anglo American, focusing on…
EventThousands are killed after terrorists crashed hijacked airliners into the World Trade Centre in New York and the Pentagon in Washington
… crashed hijacked airliners into the World Trade Centre in New York and the Pentagon in Washington. Four planes were hijacked in total, two were flown into…
EventDiplomatic office of the ANC in Stockholm is bombed
… A bomb exploded in the office of the African National Congress (ANC) on the third floor of a block of offices in Stockholm Sweden. The office was severely…
From Protest to Challenge: Documents of African Politics in South Africa 1882-1964 Volume 1
… controversy during the year. There were 30 delegates, 20 black and 10 white. The visitors were guests of the party … and Johannesburg branches, the 'real…
EventSADF mounts raids on ANC targets in neighbouring states
… Force (SADF) carry out raids on alleged ANC targets in Botswana, Zambia and Zimbabwe. Several people are left … The targets include the ANC's operational…
Soweto: urban politics, poverty and race in apartheid society
… presented to the Faculty of Princeton University in candidacy for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy, in the Department of Politics. Abstract: The thesis is …
BiographyLeo Marquard
… Leopold ‘Leo’ Marquard was born on 15 June 1897 in Winburg in the Orange Free State. His father was Reverend J. J. T. … he wrote a book on South African…
EventThe first Indian people, 197 men, 89 women and 54 children, arrive in Natal
… The first Indian people in South Africa are reported to have arrived on board the Truro from Madras to work in the sugar cane plantation in Port-Natal. The…
EventBeginning of the Waterberg Battle in the Herero Revolt
… of Namibia, then German South West Africa, took place in 1884. The Herero, a pastoral and nomadic group, had begun to move into Namibia in the 17th century…
EventGrammy Award winner Miriam Makeba is born in Johannesburg
… Miriam Zenzile Makeba was born in Johannesburg on 4 March 1932 to a Swati mother and a Xhosa … father worked as a clerk for Shell. Makeba began singing in…
EventDemonstrators close down businesses and government offices in Lesotho
… closed down businesses and government offices in Lesotho as protests against the outcome of the 23 May 1998 … cited electoral irregularities which they…
EventThe Rembrandt Tobacco Corporation was founded in South Africa
… In 1948 the Rembrandt Tobacco Corporation was established by Anton Rupert. The first cigarettes were manufactured in an old flour mill in Paarl on 12 June…
PlaceDie Nederduitsch Hervormde Kerkgebou in Du Toit Street, Pretoria
… congregation was founded on 8 and 9 September 1855 in Pretoria. It was one of the independent churches started … The church was very small and not much…
Press Conference In London by O. R. Tambo, 21 March 1984
… conference. We owe this day to a massacre that took place in Sharpeville, South Africa, many years ago now. It shocked … world because although there had…
Chapter 5. A Rebel’s Daughter - Garment Workers in Action by E. S. Sachs
… (Translated from the Afrikaans) I was born and brought up in the Lichtenburg District, Transvaal. Both my father and my grandfather fought in the Boer War…
EventThe first 1820 British Settlers arrive in South Africa
… to the Cape colony, the first 1820 settlers arrived in Table Bay on board the Nautilus and the Chapman on 17 … as Port Elizabeth. Lord Somerset, the British…
ArchiveEducation is the key to change in South Africa
… In this paper, at the the very outset, Bozolli, has expectations of change in the educational pattern as well as change in attitudes. The effects of…
BiographyLindiwe Mazibuko
… Lindiwe Mazibuko was born on 9 April 1980 in Swaziland . At the age of six she moved to KwaZulu-Natal … was a banker and her mother a nurse. Mazibuko grew up…
BiographyBarend Jacobus (Ben) Erasmus
… and Susara Catharina Elizabeth Horak on 29 December 1918 in Johannesburg. His father was a businessman and farmer who also owned a butchery in Parys…
ArchiveReflections on life in a rearview mirror by Jo Ractliffe, 27 Jun 2011
… David Goldblatt celebrated his 80th birthday in November last year. He tells fellow photographer Jo … generated a lot of interest from young people—young…
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…
EventEban Abba, Israeli statesman is born in Cape Town
… Eban Abba, Israeli statesman was born in Cape Town South Africa, on 2 February 1915. He is the son … still a child. After graduating at Cambridge University…
BiographyMary Malete
… South Africa) and the Job Creation Trust. Malete grew up in Lady Selbourne, Pretoria West. Her father, Jerry Molokwane, was a herdsman in Romtshinyadi in…
BiographyManasseh Tebatso Moerane
… Manasseh Tebatso Moerane was born in 1913 to an educated Sotho parents in the Transkei, he attended Adams College and obtained … (ASSECA), and in the early…