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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…
EventThe South African Astronomical Observatory celebrates 200 years of its existence
… Cape of Good Hope, which became known as the South African Astronomical Observatory (SAAO) was founded. It is … the National Research Foundation (NRF) and…
EventClements Kadalie dies
… he was trained as a teacher. In 1915, he went to South African in search of work. Three years later, he had settled … branch of the ICU in East London and…
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…
EventANC agrees to facilitate SA rugby's return to international games
… The African National Congress (ANC) in Harare, Zimbabwe, agreed … its good offices" to facilitate the readmission of South African rugby into international…
EventSouth West African People's Organisation (SWAPO) is founded to oppose South African rule
… The South West African People's Organisation (SWAPO) was founded in … of its co-founders Sam Nujoma, began attacking the South African regime. It was…
EventThe constitution of the South African Students’ Organisation (SASO) is adopted at its inaugural conference and Steve Biko is elected president
… The constitution of the South African Students' Organisation (SASO) is adopted at its … does not reject the liberalism of National Union of South African…
EventThe constitution of the South African Students' Organisation (SASO) is adopted at its inaugural conference and Steve Biko is elected president
… The constitution of the South African Students' Organisation (SASO) is adopted at its … does not reject the liberalism of National Union of South African…
EventZimbabwe's interior minister Joshua Nkomo is dismissed
… Zimbabwe. This triggered bitter fighting between Zimbabwe African People's Union (ZAPU) supporters in the … region of the country and the ruling Zimbabwe…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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)…
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…
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,…
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 …
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…
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…
ArticleA Charge of Treason by Norman Levy
… Talk; names of people in the Congress of Democrats and the African Education Movement; and documents of the SACP. The … congresses, the youth and women’s…
First Raymond Mhlaba Annual Memorial Lecture delivered by the President of South Africa Thabo Mbeki, 22 August 2008, Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University
… and have been urged to describe ourselves as proudly South African, answer the questions - who are we? and what are we? … self-serving and shamelessly…
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 …