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EventSAA flight 295 crashes
The South African Airways Helderberg 747 jet aircraft crashed into the Indian Ocean near Mauritius, killing all 159 people on board. A fire, which started from…
EventNRP leader, Vause Raw announces that his party is ready to give the President's Council a chance
The leader of the New Republic Party (NRP), Vause Raw announced that his party was ready to give the President's Council a chance as a start on the road to a…
Press Conference in Addis Ababal: Oliver Tambo, 02 July 1987
… held historic talks between the ANC and a group of Afrikaner liberals in the Senegalese capital, Dakar, …
Book 2: The Impact and Limitations of Colonialism - Chapter 1 - The Uneven Development of Colonialism in South Africa by Jeff Peires
… and subsequently exported from the Western Cape to the Afrikaner Republics of the Orange Free State and the … has come to play a central role in the…
Chapter 25. A Reichstag Fire Trial Replete With A Van Der Lubbe
… Nationalist Party polled 400,453 votes and its ally, the Afrikaner Party, 41,885, a total of 442,338 votes. On the … 1947, Gert Hendrik van der Walt, a young…
INTERNATIONAL NGO CONFERENCE AGAINST APARTHEID AND COLONIALISM IN AFRICA Geneva, 2 - 4 September 1974
Statement by Sean MacBride United Nations Commissioner for Namibia Having had the honour and privilege of presiding over the Special NGO Committee on Human…
ArticleOn Trial: State versus Abram Fischer and Thirteen Others by Norman Levy
… for. The eminence of the Fischer family (members of the Afrikaner aristocracy) may have made the special branch wary … respected by his peers at the bar…
PlaceCoastlands Musgrave Hotel, Durban
The group was founded in 1993 when a number of entrepreneurs including investor, and Chief Executive Officer of the SNG Group Mr. Saantha Naidu acquired a…
EventCiskeian police disrupt residents' meeting
The Ciskeian police disrupted a residents' meeting, which was held to inform those residents of Peelton unable to attend a previous meeting, of the…
EventThe National Union of Mineworkers start South Africa's longest wage strike
South Africa's longest and biggest strike was organised by the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM), led by Cyril Ramaphosa. At the time it was the second…
Dr. Nelson Mandela’s acceptance address at the Clark University Investiture Atlanta, Georgia, 10 July 1993
… the basis for an expanding floor of entitlements so as to accord every citizen that measure of dignity intrinsic to …
ArchiveThe Story of Jean Middleton by Grant Rohrmann
Jean Clarice Middleton was born in Durban, South Africa on August 30, 1928. She first attended the Durban Girls’ College. She then went on to receive a Master…
PlaceUniversity of KwaZulu Natal (UKZN)
Founded in 1910 as: 'The Natal University College', in Pietermaritzburg. The University of Natal was granted independent University status only in, 1949 and…
Chapter 14. Rebuilding the Union-Constitution
… bitter struggle, however, had thrown up a small group of Afrikaner women workers, at the head of whom stood Johanna … the factory section, consisting almost…
Chapter 1. The South African Trade Union Movement- Historical Background - Garment Workers in Action by E. S. Sachs
… out by Smuts to preserve "law and order". Labuschagne, an Afrikaner miner on strike who stood in front of the crowd, … African, who was black, unskilled and…
Chapter 3. The Poor White Problem - Garment Workers in Action by E. S. Sachs
… tell the people that the poverty of more than half of the Afrikaner population was not ordained from Heaven but … by South Africa. Master Race parasitism…
ArchiveMandela, From a Freedom Fighter to an Icon of Reconciliation
… and the ANC created a grave situation in Natal. A group of Afrikaner generals secretly mobilized 50,000 troops to …
PlaceOutcrop of Main Reef Group of Conglomerates, Johannesburg
… to raid the territory for its majestic fauna was a Cape Afrikaner by the name of Carel Kruger. It is said that, while …
Freedom In Our Life Time - Bibliography
… Crown and Swastika: The Impact of the Radical Right on the Afrikaner Nationalist Movement in the Fascist Era. Middle- …
Document 58 - Robert Mangaliso Sobukwe, “The Opening Address at the Africanist Inaugural Convention”, 4 April 1959 [….]
… a "New Deal" to win over progressive whites, especially Afrikaner workers. 7 In the late 1930s, some socialists had argued that Afrikaner nationalism could…
PlacePorterville
Before the arrival of Europeans, the area was inhabited by San and Khoikhoi peoples. In 1652, Jan van Riebeeck established a small colony on the Cape of Good…
ArticlePretoria Timeline 1800-2009
… in Mamelodi. 5 May, Approximately 7000 people attend an Afrikaner Volkswag rally in Pretoria. 1985 March, Police …
ArticleNelspruit Timeline 1815-1996
… names, previously numbered, change to be named after Afrikaner Nationalist VIPs. 1955 Bilharzia monitoring station …
ArchiveBarberton Prison by Sloane Fuller
… for them, often outside the town but within the bounds of Afrikaner influence. What distinguished the city, however, …
PlaceBitterfontein, Western Cape
In the Northernmost part of the Western Cape, along the Northwestern plain, lies a relatively isolated Village located in the Knersvlakte Region, called…
PlaceSibudu Cave, North Coast near Ballito (can be spelt Sibhudu)
A Prehistoric Rock Shelter, above the uThongathi River has been declared a World Heritage site. “Sibudu Cave has been identified as having the qualities so…
ArticleThe Western Cape Farm Workers Strike 2012-2013
… increased. However, workers mainly acted on their own accord. On 10 November 2012, a meeting was arranged by the …
ArchiveThe women's suffrage movement: The politics of gender race and class by Cheryl Walker
… of an organisation representative of both English and Afrikaner suffragists. The discussion is organised in three … in holding Boer society together. Spies…
Document 8 - Letter on the current situation and suggesting a multi-racial convention, from Chief Albert J. Luthuli to Prime Minister J.G. Strijdom
… conclude that now that the roles are reversed, and the Afrikaner is no longer a freedom fighter, but is in power, … markets and improved international…
EventThe Azanian People's Liberation Army (APLA) disbands
The Azanian People's Liberation Army (APLA) was the underground military wing of the Pan African Congress (PAC). APLA was formed in the 1960s, after the…