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EventArchbishop Owen Cardinal McCann becomes South Africa’s first cardinal.
… Early in Cardinal McCann's tenure as Archbishop, the South African Catholic Church began campaigning against Apartheid. … Cardinal McCann accompanied the…
EventSACTU launches a national potato boycott.
… to death in 1944. In support of these workers, the South African Congress of Trade Unions (SACTU) launched a country … The boycott, one of the most…
EventChris Hani is born
… Chief of Staff of Umkhonto we Sizwe, military arm of the African National Congress (ANC) and General-Secretary of the South African Communist Party (SACP)…
EventWaluz and Derby-Lewis are sentenced to death
… Clive Derby-Lewis to death for assassinating the South African Communist Party (SACP) leader, Chris Hani . They were … the country upside down. The sentence…
EventGoldstone Commission confirms SADF complicity in violence
… its findings of a "dirty tricks" campaign against the African National Congress (ANC). The Commission reported the … apparently sanctioned by senior figures…
EventNelson Mandela is elected Deputy President of the ANC
… from prison. He also announced the unbanning of the African National Congress (ANC), Pan Africanist Congress (PAC), South African Communist Party (SACP) and…
EventPresidents of Mozambique and South Africa meet
… In search of peace two Southern African presidents, Joaquim Chissano of Mozambique, successor … died in a plane crash in South Africa, met his South African…
EventNkuma and Mahlalela sentenced to death
… could have an effect on the outcome of it. Source: South African Institute of Race Relations. (1989). Race Relations Survey 1988/89, Johannesburg: South…
EventThree Delmas trialist released
… a power station, and Maxala Vilakazi, a clerk at the South African Committee for Higher Education (Sached). All three … for being members of the illegal…
Event46664 concert is held in Fancourt
… The South African 46664 concert, 46664 being the prison number of South African president Nelson Mandela during the apartheid era, … SAHO, Nelson Mandela…
EventAttempted coup in Equatorial Guinea sees fifteen arrested
… in Equatorial Guinea. Many of the suspects were South African, including the alleged leader of the advance party, … 23 Angolans, 2 Congolese and 1 Zimbabwean…
EventEmily Hobhouse travels to South Africa
… camps for Boer women and children during the Second South African War/ Anglo Boer War 2, set sail for South Africa. … and was appalled by the conditions. She…
EventSecurity officials report that levels of political violence have dropped significantly in SA
… political violence took place in February 1990 after South African President F.W. de Klerk made a speech at the opening … among other measures, the lifting…
EventHarold Macmillan begins his “winds of change” tour of Africa
… in 1957, with Kwame Nkrumah as its first President. Many African countries gained independence after Macmillan’s … British Prime Minister on 3 February 1960…
EventFrene Noshir Ginwala, former speaker of the SA Parliament, is born
… and as a result she had to go to exile. She worked as an African National Congress (ANC) official and a journalist in the UK and other African countries like…
EventWidespread violence and intimidation in 1996 Kwazulu-Natal
… aligned traditional chiefs (amakhosi) had prohibited the African National Congress (ANC) from running campaigns in the … had been killed in the province…
EventRecord of Understanding is agreed to by the SA government and the ANC
… During a summit between the South African government and the African National Congress (ANC), both parties agreed to a … Boddy-Evans, A., 2011. ‘This Day in…
EventSA Prime Minister, J.B. Vorster, vows to fight against terrorism
… On 19 January 1973, South African Prime Minister J.B. Vorster confirms that there was … troops and police opened fire on a threatening South African police…
Women’s liberation by Zanele Dhlamini (Mbeki)
… from half a million to one million, and the effect of the African vote was more than halved."1 (It was finally … to that of Black women. With all their…
Chapter 9 - Division weakens the movement
… for support for their policies. That is why a certain 'African leader' in an issue of Liberation could state that … by foreigners who thereby had…
Chapter 12
… already mentioned Dr. Xuma's ad hoc Convention for the African Charter-Bill of Rights. Then there was the National … staking their claim for full democratic…
ArticleConference: The Politics of Armed Struggle in Southern Africa
… Institute for Strategic Reflection (MISTRA) and South African History Online (SAHO) are hosting this conference on …
ArticleMatabele Wars 1836-1896
… Matabeleland. Source: wikipedia. Displaced from the South African highveld, the Mzilikazi's Ndebele trekked over the …
ArticleAccount of events: Rand Rebellion 1922
… - and had been behind some of the party's support for the African strikers in 1918, was in Moscow when the miners came …
ArticleKingdoms of southern Africa: Great Zimbabwe
… kingdom existed because of riches gathered from the East African gold trade. The area was very rich in gold and the …
Speech at the Tenth General Conference of the United National Independence Party by O. R. Tambo, Zambia, August 1988
… instance to place on record the sincere gratitude of the African National Congress for the invitation extended to us … galaxy of Heads of State as well as…
Eulogy by President Jacob Zuma at the funeral of Mme Ruth Mompati, Vryburg, North-West Province 23 May 2015
… yet another icon of our struggle and a distinguished South African and patriot, Mme Ruth Segomotsi Mompati. Indeed, … with joy and inspiration. That is…
Book 6: Negotiation, Transition and Freedom - Chapter 2 - Explaining the Miracle by Max du Preez
… South Africa. What prepared the ground for the South African transition? The world, South Africans included, … of attitudes on both sides. The government…
The Polly Street Era
… portrayals of black society in fl uenced by traditional African sculpture, he received some financial assistance to … into two distinct streams: a 'township…
2. Potchefstroom: A Fighting Location
… In the mid-1920s African protest escalated throughout the Transvaal countryside. African labour tenants and farm workers, chafing under poor … Communist…