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EventAmanzimtoti blast kills five
… to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC), the African National Congress (ANC) later stated that Zondo acted in anger at a South African Defence Force…
EventPresident George W Bush announces his HIV/AIDS Plan
… Plan for HIV/AIDS prevention and treatment in twelve African and two Caribbean countries during his State of the … crisis. He stated that nearly 30 million…
EventAllan Boesak guilty on charges of fraud
… theologian, chairman of the Western Cape region of the African National Congress (ANC) and director of the … after the clearing of his criminal record by…
EventNP holds federal congress
… Following its withdrawal from the African National Congress (ANC)-led Government of National … J.A.; Schoeman, E. & Andor, L.E. (eds)(1999). Southern African…
EventIndustrial and Commercial Workers Union is founded under Clements Kadalie
… Kadalie, a young Nyassalander who spoke no Black South African language but used English to spread the message of … about 100,000 members, and pushed the…
EventNatal Football Union founded
… War of 1879 and the subsequent war with the South African Republics brought a new influx of Whites to South … and mostly English-speaking civilians formed…
EventThe Cape Times appears for the first time
… linked to the struggle for freedom of speech. The South African Commercial Advertiser, the first newspaper in South … only to the law of libel. The Cape…
EventFrederik Willem de Klerk is elected President of South Africa
… 02 February, 1990 to release Nelson Mandela and unban the African National Congress (ANC), Pan Africanist Congress (PAC), the South African Communist Party …
Chapter 4
… bringing down on their heads the condemnation of the African people? To answer these questions is our main concern … under three heads: (a) the relationship…
The National Question in Post 1994 South Africa. A discussion paper in preparation for the ANC`s 50th National Conference by Z. Pallo Jordan
… Could that admonition not also be directed at the South African national liberation movement (NLM) and the ANC? … April 27 1994 will remain a very…
Ahmed Timol: Three Documents by Politicsweb, 27 June 2017
… has recently been reopened into the death of the South African Communist Party (SACP) underground operative Ahmed … night, 22 October 1971, and literature…
ArchivePhotographer Ernest Cole: Of bondage and freedom – Discovery of trove of negatives a game changer by Ivor Powell (Daily Maverick), 30 November 2017
… in a bank vault in Sweden, 14,000 of them from Coles South African years and a startling 46,000 from the photographer's … discovered in its vaults to the…
3. The Communist Party of South Africa and the Communist International
… Communist International (Comintern) Executive and South African delegates at the Sixth Comintern International … it more receptive to Communist programmes…
Robert Sobukwe: What a sense of mission! By Sibonginkosi Mazibuko, 19 February 2015, South Africa
… people in South Africa in particularand around the pan-African world. Sobukwe was arrested in Soweto, Johannesburg, … by his jailers was nothing but chains…
1. The Way to Fox Street
… born in 1899 in Witzieshoek (now known as Qwa Qwa), a tiny African reserve squeezed into a valley on the south-eastern … could not farm it on their own, it…
EventAllen Kwela was born on this day
… Kwazulu Natal. He was exposed to Western and traditional African music, both of which were important in shaping his … became interested in jazz, playing with…
Event18 political prisoners are released from Bophuthatswana
… care by prison officials. Their release came after the African National Congress(ANC) restated that amongst its … fundamental preconditions for negotiation…
PlaceAir Force Museum, Port Elizabeth
… This museum depicts the history of the South African Air Force and houses a collection of old aircraft, … and paintings. The Port Elizabeth Branch of the…
EventCommodore Dieter Gerhardt’s trial begins in the Cape Town High Court
… prison he was visited by Nelson Mandela, the newly elected African National Congress (ANC)President. The ANC stated that " as a former high-ranking South…
EventSA Prime Minister, P.W. Botha calls for unity against Marxism
… a National Party (NP) Congress in Bloemfontein, the South African Prime Minister, P.W. Botha said that the NP has to … in South Africa. Just months after his…
EventThe launch of the Progressive Women’s Movement of SA
… Union Buildings in Pretoria that was organised by South African women to protest against the extension of pass laws to African women by the Apartheid…
EventANC’s chief representative in Swaziland, Stanley Mabizela, writes a letter to the ANC following a visit by Thabo Mbeki and Max Sisulu
… On 12 March, 1975, Stanley Mabizela the African National Congress (ANC) Chief representative in … a security agreement between King Sobhuza and the South…
EventThe energy and chemical company, Sasol, is registered
… in Parliament to investigate the establishment of a South African oil-from-coal industry. It was realised then that, … Afrikaanse Steenkool, Olie en…
EventManto Tshabalala - Msimang, controversial minister of health, is born
… politically driven students were ordered by the African National Congress (ANC) to skip the country. … wish. She practiced as a Medical Doctor in different…
EventJournalist and anti-apartheid activist M.P. Naicker dies
… anti-apartheid activist, and Director of Publicity of the African National Congress (ANC) External Mission, Marimuthu … of the ANC, Oliver Tambo, the…
EventSASO leader, Abram Tiro is assassinated
… Onkgopotse Abram Tiro, a leader of the South African Students' Organisation (SASO), was killed by a parcel … and returned to Dinokana for reburial in 1998…
EventSA Olympic team leaves for Barcelona
… The South African Olympic team of ninety-five members took off to … (IOC) for its apartheid policy. At this time, the South African team was composed of…
EventCODESA’s starting date set
… (NP) send two separate delegations. The delegations of the African National Congress (ANC) and the Inkatha Freedom Party … Pan Africanist Party (PAC) ,…
EventNamibians vote for a Constituent Assembly
… phased withdrawal of Cuban troops from Angola and of South African troops from Angola and Namibia. The agreement also entailed the removal of African…
EventRestitution of Land Rights Act is signed
… Front (FF), Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) and the South African Agricultural Union (SAAU). References: South African History Online Keesing's Record of World…