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EventOne-fifth of SA's military infected with HIV virus, so HIV positive people are no longer accepted into their ranks
… the Defence Minister Mosiuoa Lekota stated that 'the South African National Defence Force (SANDF) is no longer accepting … Director of the Centre for…
PlaceSeshego, a Township
… (detached portions). Lebowa was designated by the South African government as the national territory for the northern … all of whom were legally Lebowa…
Archive2022 - President Ramaphosa, State of the Nation Address, 10 February 2022
… this social compact needs to include every South African and every part of our society. No-one must be left … and to hire more employees. The problems in the…
ArchiveThe South African Art Collective That Imagined the End of Apartheid by Keenan Teddy Smith, 27 August 2019
… poet and community organizer who became involved in the African National Congress in 1969, was arrested that same … state of apartheid. In spite of the…
ArchiveHamba kahle Jennifer Davis 1933-2019
… her study of the role of foreign capital in South African and colonial development, and her introduction to the … In her speeches and teaching, she linked…
EventThe first part of the South African Press Commission's report is tabled in parliament
… On 19 February 1962, the first part of the South African Press Commission's first report was tabled in … pages. The report strongly recommended that the…
EventSA wins top awards from the International Rugby Board
… 29 November 2004 in London's Royal Lancaster Hotel. South African flanker, Schalk Burger, was named IRB 'Player of the Year', South African coach Jake White…
ArchiveDeputy President Cyril Ramaphosa: Memorial Service of Steve Mokone
… teams competing in South Africa against white South African teams must themselves be all white.” Yet no amount of … people's liberation. History would have…
EventMalebane-Metsing stages a coup in Bophuthatswana
… the failed coup Malebane fled the country and joined the African National Congress (ANC). He successfully applied to …
EventGertrude Shope, former president of the ANC Women's League, is born
… Soweto. When she was 29 years old she decided to join the African National Congress (ANC) and soon afterwards left …
ArticleThe Mfecane: Understanding a Period of Transformation in Southern Africa
… of this period to justify white land claims and portray African societies as inherently violent. A people's history … Carolyn Hamilton, have emphasised the…
ArchiveA death warrant for Afrikaans by Hermann Giliomee, 11 November 2019
… was without doubt the most influential editor in the South African press during the second half of the twentieth … Great Trek into the interior (1834-1844)…
Say It out Loud - The 1912 Presidential Address, Johannesburg, Transvaal, 1st January, 1912
… feel as all human beings must feel. " The brutallest black African " says Carlyle, "cannot bear that he should be used … but a patois without any literature…
Archive2020 - President Ramaphosa, State of the Nation Address, 13 February 2020
… Speaker Ms Baleka Mbete and Mr Khomo, President of the Pan African Parliament, His Excellency Roger Nkodo Dang, United … of provincial legislatures,…
PlaceWakkerstroom
… in 1859. The Town has played a significant role in South African History, particularly during the Anglo-Zulu and … after the then-president of the South…
ArchiveAziz Pahad: Rest in peace by David Kenvyn
… in the Transvaal Indian Congress, and worked with the African National Congress, because it was not legal for them … Aziz was attached to the International…
Mafika Gwala’s Books Catalogue
… 1952- EXILES within : an anthology of poetry / 7 South African poets. - Johannesburg : Writers Forum, 1986. -- 68p. … theatre.' (SUBJECTS: Theatre and black…
EventIraq boycott SA government's apartheid policies
… of the Sharpeville killings. Political organisations like African National Congress (ANC),South African Communist Party (SACP), PAC and others were banned …
ArticleVlakplaas and the History of Apartheid's Death Squad
… Vlakplaas is also referred to as C, C1 and C10. The South African Police security section had broader control over … seen as opponents of the apartheid…
EventFirst celebration of International Women's Day
… as the historic 1956 anti-pass march by thousands of South African women. Visit our feature 'History of Women's struggle … ' for further information about…
ArchiveState of the Nation Address by President Cyril Ramaphosa, Cape Town City Hall, 8 February 2024
… Namibia. President Geingob was a dear friend of the South African people and a comrade in arms in the struggle for our freedom. He was a champion of African…
Chapter IV - A meaningful life
… had been banned for nine years; the Federation of South African Women, though not banned, had lost too many members … People, about the abitrary mass removal…
EventCiskei is granted 'independence'
… Black homeland to be granted 'independence' by the South African Government. Chief Lennox Sebe is elected President by …
Extract from a speech by the Honourable the Prime Minister during the Cape National Party Congress at East London on 3 September 1975
… and an easing of tensions. The co-operation of various African leaders was obtained in these efforts. The withdrawal of the South African Police from…
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…
EventThe Azanian People's Liberation Army (APLA) disbands
… Army (APLA) was the underground military wing of the Pan African Congress (PAC). APLA was formed in the 1960s, after … of the PAC and other political…
Chapter Two - The year with the ICU: 1921 - 1926
… According to some authors it became "defiantly African." The ICU, on the other hand, had close ties with the … of foodstuffs. In the course of the strike,…
EventFormer Bafana Bafana Legend John Moeti dies
… and also member of the Bafana squad thet lifted the 1996 African Cup of Nation …
ArchiveThe romantic rewriting of Haile Selassie’s legacy must stop by Dr Yohannes Woldemariam, 4 February 2019
… Negast still reverberate in the discourse of Ethiopian nationalism. While the majority of the Ethiopian people do … tyrannical reign, the perception that…