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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…
EventNelson Mandela appeals for calm after the assassination of Communist Party chief, Chris Hani
… of the former Secretary-General of the South African Communist Party (SACP) and chief commander of uMkhonto weSizwe (MK), the armed wing of the African…
EventKenyan independence hero Bildad Kaggia dies after a long illness
… quarter-sergeant at a war office meant to rehabilitate African soldiers. During his time there, Kaggia studied … religions. He started his own church, which…
EventSA jazz singer, Letta Mbulu is born in Soweto
… album Not yet uhuru, which introduced them to the South African audience. Mbulu was honoured with a Lifetime Achievement Award by the South African Music…
EventHelen Nontando Jabavu, author and periodical editor in London, is born in Middeldrift, SA
… for many years. She went on to become one of the first African female writers and journalists. The Ochre People is … preferred positioning herself as being…
EventThe Azanian People’s Organisation (AZAPO) is founded after the government banned a host of BCM organisations in October 1977.
… others, the Black People's Convention (BPC), the South African Students' Organisation (SASO) and the Black Community … divided with some of its members…
EventRwandan and Burundian presidents J Habyarimana and C Ntayamira are killed in an air crash
… 6 April 1994, an extraordinary event in the history of the African continent took place in Kigali, Rwanda when two … were returning from a meeting of east…
PlaceBloemfontein City Hall
… to enlarge 21 of June 2017, a 1000 members of the South African Municipal Workers Union allegedly set fire to this …
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…
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…
Document 34 - Letter from the Executive Bureau, Communist Party of South Africa, to the Executive Committee, Comintern
… petition form and circular letter of the League of African Rights. In taking the initiative in the formation of … national organisations among the natives;…
Interview with Oliver Tambo to Newsweek, 01 August 1980
… an escalating urban guerrilla-warfare programme by the African National Congress? TAMBO : I`m afraid so. That is not … onus on us. We are reacting to a…
ArchiveMandela, From a Freedom Fighter to an Icon of Reconciliation
… curiosity as his photographs had been banned by the South African Government for almost thirty years. Mandela was … South Africa. He was among the first to…
Address by President Mandela at ECOWAS Abuja, 30 October 1998
… me as the Chair of SADC, to have been invited to address African leaders at this meeting of Heads of state of the Economic Community of West African states…
Nelson Mandela Letter to the United Party, 23 May 1961
… it is opposed by every articulate group amongst the African, Coloured and Indian communities, who constitute the … developing crisis. We, on our part, in the…
ArticleHistory Grade 10 - Topic 1 Contextual Overview
… a world power in the 14th and 15th centuries, Songhai, an African empire during the 15th and 16th Centuries, and the … Ming Dynasty, China in the 14th and…
PlaceSão Tomé and Príncipe
… parents and expelled from Portugal, in the world war ) and African slaves. This country was the world’s largest … are the descendants of these immigrant,…
PlaceVoortrekker Monument
… 16 December 1888, when President Paul Kruger of the South African Republic attended the Day of the Covenant … £ 360,000, most of which was contributed by the…
Address at a Luncheon in Honour of Zhu Rhongji, Premier of the People’s Republic of China, 5 September 2002
… of the Chinese Delegation, Representatives of the South African Government, Distinguished Guests, Ladies and … long history between us, in particular with…
PlaceGroutville
… the establishment of the sugar mill to support aspiring African farmers. Reverend Grout also introduced a system of: … It was home to Benedict Wallet…
Message to Archbishop Trevor Huddleston, President, Anti-Apartheid Movement, on the 25th Anniversary of its Founding by O. R. Tambo, 26 June 1984
… Dear Mr. President, The African National Congress congratulates the British … over the centuries of contact between British and South African peoples, the…
The Story of PR Pather, the grand old man of Indian politics in South Africa: Bibliography
… 1988 Calpin, C.H., A. I. Kajee. His Work for the South African Indian Community. Durban: Iqbal Study Group. N/D … 1994 Pachai, B., International Aspect of…
ArchivePostscript Ante by Howard Barrell
… In July 1990, five months after the South African government had unbanned the ANC, security police in … into South Africa on operations. The last that South…