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EventSteve Biko, a pioneer of the Black Consciousness Movement, is born
… RepresentativeCouncil (SRC) members who formed the South African Student Organisation(SASO) in 1968. SASO was formed … break-away student movement of the…
The Reunited National Party is founded by Malan and Hertzog
… in the merger of the National Party (NP) and the South African Party (SAP), to form the United Party (UP) in 1934. … suffering parliamentary defeat on the…
EventANC celebrates its 79th anniversary in Durban
… The African National Congress (ANC) celebrated its 79th … such as the Pan Africanist Congress (PAC) and South African Communist Party (SACP) in 1960. Some…
EventCourt approves same-sex couple's right to marry
… in Africa to do so, at the time. In contrast to many African countries where gay and lesbian people are … and inherit from their partners' wills. The ruling…
EventDemonstrators close down businesses and government offices in Lesotho
… city. After appeals for assistance by Lesotho to Southern African Development Community (SADC) and South Africa, Judge Pius Langa the Deputy President of the…
EventAmy Biehl’s murderers receive amnesty from TRC
… was politically motivated. They were members of the Pan African Students Organisation (PASO), the Azanian People's Army (APLA) and the Pan African Congress …
EventSouth Africa completes destroying its stockpile of anti-personnel mines
… use of landmines. For instance, in 1994 the former South African government announced a moratorium on the marketing, … Anti-Personnel landmines. On 19…
EventThe Rand Revolt breaks out
… With strong organisational links to the newly formed South African Communist Party (SACP) under the leadership of W. H. Andrews and the South African Labour…
EventSouth Africa signs agreement with Switzerland to support the Reconstruction and Development Programme (RDP)
… socio-economic inequality. In order to address this, the African National Congress (ANC) along with the Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU) and…
EventuMkhoto weSizwe (MK) launches its first acts of sabotage
… date, uMkhonto we Sizwe (MK), the military wing of the African National Congress (ANC) announced its existence by … on the Koeberg Nuclear Plant in Cape Town…
PlaceOliewenhuis Art Museum
… exhibit works of art which represent the heritage of South African art on behalf of and to the advantage and edification … and is devoted exclusively to…
PlaceUnion Buildings, Pretoria
… Dellville Wood War Memorials, which pay tribute to South African troops who died during the First World War. The … of the Congress of Democrats ; Sophie…
Address by President Thabo Mbeki at the 40th anniversary of Inkosi Albert Luthuli`s passing away, 4 November 2007, Thembeni, Ilembe District Municipality, Kwazulu-Natal
… armies at the Battle of Adowa, inspiring legions of African patriots who were not prepared to endure colonial … colonial rule had suffered serious setbacks,…
ArchivePhotography pundit David Goldblatt takes ex-offender portrait series to British jails by Matsepo, 2 June 2017
… South African photographer David Goldblatt (87) has installed … Goldblatt’s work is also in a display of Jean Pigozzi’s African art collection, on view at…
Siyanqoba Bafana-Bafana Siyanqoba!!! Siyavena Bafana Bafana Siyavena!!!, 3 June 2010
… The African National Congress joins all soccer loving Africans, … flags. The FIFA World Cup will be hosted in a developing African Country for the first time…
Statement by Oliver Tambo on the murder of Griffiths Mxenge, 01 November 1981
… On the night of the 19th of November in the South African city of Durban, agents of the Pretoria regime … mutilated his face and cut off his ears. A member…
Save South Africa calls ‘People’s Assembly Against State Capture’
… bandanas, armbands or t- shirts portraying the South African flag. “Civil society and other formations will be … workplace or in other public spaces, and…
Freedom In Our Life Time - Acknowledgements
… Lesotho, and we began a running conversation on South African society that continues to this day. We found that we … and Economic Research at Rhodes…
Statement by Oliver Tambo accepting the Simon Bolivar award on behalf of Nelson Mandela, 24 July 1983, Caracas, Venezuela
… were shot down in Katatura and Kassinga, and their South African counterparts were massacred in Soweto, Matola and … misery on the peoples of this continent…
Document 121 - A. Mon (M. N. Averbach), “The Colour Bar and the National Struggle for Full Democratic Rights”, Workers’ Voice, 1, 2, November 1944
… organisation, do not understand class structure of South African society, and therefore cannot understand I … the Communist Party here. They also approached…
EventRand Daily Mail publishes exposé of conditions in Homelands
… the article reflected the thought process of the South African government, the media and White perceptions of Black … explaining to them what Apartheid was…
ArchiveAfrica South Vol.2 No.1 Oct-Dec 1957
… The Prisoners, Gerard Sekota. Sex and Sedition. The South African Police, Harry Bloom. Cartoon, David Marais. The … M.M. Carlin. Israel and Africa, E. Ben…
After Apartheid - Social Identities in the New South Africa Vol. 1
… facing the vision of a much-needed new, broader South African identity. They touch upon and reinterpret from a fresh perspective a wide variety of South…
EventANC revolutionary propaganda leaflets exploded in Cape Town, Johannesburg, and Durban
… August 1970, pamphlet bombs which scattered revolutionary African National Congress (ANC) propaganda leaflets exploded … that distributed ANC propaganda in…
EventThami Mnyele, SA artist and member of MK, is killed in Gaborone
… becoming exiled in Botswana. He became very active in the African National Congress’ (ANC) military wing Umkhonto We … On June 14, 1985, Thami Mnyele was…
EventSA Prime Minister, B.J. Vorster reveals that SA scientists have succeeded in developing a new process for uranium enrichment
… announced in the House of Assembly in Cape Town that South African scientists have succeeded in developing a new process … plant for this process was under…
EventSA artist Anthony Nkotsi is born
… Anthony Molebatsi Nkotsi, South African artist and the head of the Printmaking Department in … Orlando, Soweto. Here he was exposed to contemporary South…
EventNational Party wins national elections
… Munnik (JBM) Hertzog's National Party (NP) wins the South African general election with an outright majority. Race … the government's rule difficult…
EventLucas Mangope leaves Mmabatho due to uprising
… first democratic elections. Mangope rejected the South African Independent Electoral Commission's pleas for free … the uprising. This prompted the…
EventVerwoerd’s grandson joins ANC
… historic move, Wilhelm Verwoerd, grandson of former South African Prime Minister, Hendrik Verwoerd, main architect of apartheid, joins the African National…