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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…
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…
Chapter I - Twenty thousand strong we marched
… Union government, high on a hill. The brilliant colours of African headscarves, the brightness of Indian saris and the … laws, against the hated pass system,…
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…
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 …