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Address on Receiving the Freedom of the City of Kingston Jamaica, 30 June 2003
… towards its renaissance. Accordingly, the Organisation of African Unity has given way to the African Union, which has among other things adopted its … today…
EventDarrell Roodt was born on this day
… is one of the first anti-Apartheid films made by a South African. One of his most memorable films is Sarafina, which … and his 2012 film Little One was…
EventBirth of Paul Kruger
… Kruger was elected as the State President of the South African Republic (Transvaal) at age 57. Thereafter he became … the Boer resistance against the British…
ANC media statement on comrade Carl Niehaus, 10 July 2009
… The African National Congress (ANC) has noted a public apology … future of Comrade Carl, outside ANC structures. Issued by: African National Congress…
EventThe first legal photograph of Nelson Mandela released.
… Nelson Mandela was a member of the banned African National Congress and a famous black political … revealing all the political prisoners and the banned…
ArchiveA survey of race relations in South Africa: 1954-1955
… group planning, Group areas and siting of industrial and African townships; Housing; Other matters affecting urban … Events outside the union with bearing on…
Rixaka
… Rixaka, the cultural journal of the African National Congress, was launched to establish a … masses to fight for a liberated country. President of the…
EventIn Britain, Foreign Office Minister Lynda Chalker, meets Oliver Tambo, president of the ANC.
… Oliver Tambo the then President of the African National Congress (ANC) was responsible for holding … step to attaining a peaceful change in South Africa…
EventThe TEC decides on Bophuthatswana’s incorporation following major unrest
… of South Africa and clashed with the police. South African troops in armoured vehicles were sent into the … in the homeland. Mangope was removed from office…
EventEzrom Kgobokanyo Sebata Legae is born
… Ezrom Kgobokanyo Sebata Legae, South African artist, was born in Vrededorp, Johannesburg. He … From 1972 to 1974 he was director of the art programme at…
EventRuth First is assassinated in Mozambique
… academic, anti-apartheid activist and member of the South African Communist Party , was brutally killed by a letter bomb in Maputo, Mozambique, sent by South…
EventThe S. A government seizes the passport of Bishop Desmond Tutu
… Church in Lesotho and as Secretary-General of the South African Council of Churches. On 16 April 1981, Tutu was arrested by the South African government and…
EventSADF’s 31 Battallion is disbanded
… The South African Defence Force's (SADF) 31st Battalion was disbanded … the San (Bushmen) battalion who had been deployed in South African townships and who…
EventDe Klerk announces a referendum to test his political reforms
… Acknowledgement and Ignorance:how white south african had dealt with the past,from the … 1966-The demand for a negotiated settlement from South African…
EventThe SA Cricket team is re-admitted to international cricket
… On 10 November 1991, the South African cricket team, now better known as the Proteas, played … in 1970 following a resolution taken against the South African…
EventUnited Front launch in jeopardy
… creation of a united front in negotiations with the South African government. AZAPO accused the implicated … Party and angered other organisations. On 20…
EventDulcie September is assassinated in Paris
… On 29 March 1988, Dulcie September, the African National Congress (ANC) representative in France, … in South Africa. Sergeant-Major Joseph Klue of the South…
EventThe Congress of Traditional Leaders of South Africa (Contralesa) is launched
… Independence. The movement aligned itself with the African National Congress and the United Democratic Front. By … Africa. As a result, Chapter 12 was…
EventPaul Adams becomes SA’s youngest Test Cricket player
… South African cricket player, Paul "Gogga" Adams, became South … was discovered by Eddie Barlow , world-renowned South African cricketer of the 1960s. …
EventCellist and music teacher Betty Pack is born
… accomplished cellist. In 1950 Pack founded the Young South African Chamber Orchestra of which she was a conductor. … of a group of instructors who…
EventPLAN launches armed struggle against South Africa
… the armed wing of SWAPO, fought in a battle against South African occupying forces at Omugulugwombashe in northern … gallant struggle of the Namibian people…
EventFormer National Minister of Arts and Culture, Pallo Jordan, is born
… He is the son to Professor Archibald Campbell Jordan an African novelist, linguist and academic and his mother, Dr … politically active in the early 1960s…
EventUranium enrichment programme gets a boost from B.J. Vorster
… South African Prime Minister, Balthazar Johannes Vorster disclosed … auspices of the Atomic Energy Board (AEB). In 1990 South African President, F. W. de…
EventNkomo, leader of ZAPU forms a coalition government with Robert Mugabe
… Joshua Mqabuko Nyangolo Nkomo, leader of the Zimbabwe African People's Union (ZAPU) formed a coalition government … members of ZAPU were arrested by Robert…
EventUp to 100 ANC members are reported to have been detained in Swaziland
… Around 100 African National Congress (ANC) members were reported to have … agreement signed between King Sobhuza II and the South African government. … …
EventSouth Africa’s TRC begins its formal hearings into Human Rights Violations
… first formal hearings in East London City Hall. The South African TRC was set up by the Government of National Unity … The Commission heard testimonies from…
Bantu Authorities Act of 1951
… system and development. The Traditional leadership of the African population had to some extent become representatives … his position as Chief when he…
EventANC’s Walter Sisulu and Duma Nokwe rally support against Urban Bantu Councils Act
… African National Congress (ANC) leaders, Walter Sisulu and … movements like Pan Africanist Congress (PAC), South African Communist Party (SACP) and others…
Book 1: Ancient Civilizations and Global Trade commissioned by The Department of Education
… Amanda Esterhuysen Chapter 4 - Some Reflections on Early African and South African History by Sekibakiba Peter Lekgoathi Bibliography …
EventPass laws are suspended in South Africa
… The South African Commissioner of Police announced that the pass laws, applicable to the African population, were suspended until normality had been … SAHO, …