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EventThe Citizen reveals housing irregularities in Transkei
… by barring all competitive business. References: South African Institute of Race Relations. (1989). Race Relations Survey 1988/89, Johannesburg: South…
EventSamora Machel, president of Mozambique, dies in a plane crash
… 11 years. On the day of the crash he was returning from an African leaders’ summit in Zambia. His death sent shockwaves … it on bad weather and others…
EventBritish create the settlement of Sierra Leone, for freed slaves
… by British philanthropists and abolitionists as a home for African slaves freed in England. A Temne king sold a strip of … years later the settlers were also…
EventUN spokesman comments on Mugabe’s eviction campaign
… ruling party reacted angrily to a resolution passed by African lawmakers to send a delegation to probe human rights … Mbeki of South Africa, who was mandated…
EventHealth Minister Tshabalala-Msimang announces that SA pledges R20 million to the Global Fund to Fight HIV/AIDS, TB and Malaria
… On 20 May 2002, South African Health Minister, Manto Tshabalala-Msimang, announced … South Africa was still, at the time, lagging behind other African…
EventCollen Chauke, infamous escapee, is captured
… late on Tuesday evening. Chauke, a former member of the African National Congress ' armed wing Umkhonto we Sizwe , … holding a prison warder hostage with a…
EventSA President Nelson Mandela to step down
… country's first democratic president in 1994. The South African constitution has a stipulation that states that the … endorsement by Nelson Mandela and some…
EventSekhukhune successfully resists the Boers
… dispute. On 16 May 1876, the Volksraad of the South African Republic declared war on Sekhukhune and his … References: Kruger, D.W. (ed)(1972). Dictionary of…
EventFormer MK members are dismissed from SANDF
… without leave in October from the newly instituted South African National Defence Force (SANDF). After they were … members of the armed wing Umkhonto we…
EventSouth Africa’s first democratic elections
… atmosphere, contrary to fears of political violence. The African National Congress (ANC) won the election with 62.65 % … (DP) 1.7 %, Pan Africanist Congress …
EventOlaudah Equiano, enslaved person and writer dies
… of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African. The book surprised and impressed many with its … in the movement for the abolition of slavery…
EventThe longest cricket test match in history is played between South Africa and England in Durban
… the only one of its kind in history. Since then, the South African Cricket team, the Proteas, continue to break world … to captain his side in 100 Test…
EventShaun Pollock makes history in a test match
… The South African all-rounder, Shaun Pollock, became the only player in … made him a bowling all-rounder. He captained the South African team from the year…
EventRuth Perry is elected to lead Liberia, thus becoming Africa's first female head of state
… Sando Perry, was unanimously elected at a meeting of West African heads of state to become the third chair of Liberia's … a sub-regional plan of the Economic…
Message from Dr. AB Xuma, President-General of ANC, to the United Nations, 22 January 1946
… than 17 percent for 8,000,000 Africans. Only 40 per cent African Children accommodated in Mission Schools. 95 per cent … at home. (Signed) A.B. Xuma…
EventANC leader Walter Sisulu is convicted and sentenced to six years in prison for contravening the unlawful Organisations Act
… On 04 March 1963, the African National Congress (ANC) leader, Walter Sisulu was … banned ANC, Pan Africanist Congress (PAC), South African Communist Party …
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…
Address by President Nelson Mandela on Receiving and Honorary Doctorate from Harvard University Boston, 18 September 1998
… tribute to the struggles and achievements of the South African people as a whole. I humbly accept the award in that … memory of this great American…
Address of the President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki, at the SA-Mali Project Fundraising Dinning, St. Georges Hotel, City of Tshwane, 27 September 2005
… will always be available as part of the historic African literary, scientific and scholarly heritage. Your … States, said: "All those of you who care and…
Address on the Occasion of the State Banquet, Tripoli, Libya, 12 June 2002
… kind and warm welcome to me, my wife and the entire South African delegation. It is indeed a special pleasure for us to … to accelerate the pace of…
The ANC’s attempt to become the sole legitimate representative of the people of South Africa by Martin Plaut
… In 1979 the African National Congress launched an attempt to receive … Labour Party, in line with the UN and the Organisation of African Unity, recognised…
’I am not prepared to sell the birthright of the people to be free’
… not be like them. My father says: I am a member of the African National Congress. I have always been a member of the African National Congress and I will…
ArchiveCHAPTER 1 - Old Battle-Cries and Borrowed Language by Howard Barrell
… shot dead 69 unarmed anti-apartheid protesters in the African township of Sharpeville on March 21 1960. Nine days later, the South African government…
ArchiveRoseinnes Daniel Phahle by Allison Drew
… and the predominantly white National Union of South African Students were then calling for and proclaiming … invited to share his historical knowledge of the…
Contact, conflict and dispossession on the Cape eastern or northern frontiers in the nineteenth century
… they are now known, left the Cape and moved into the South African interior. They grouped themselves into a number of … known as the Great Trek. As they…
The Atlantic slave trade
… Atlantic Ocean, was in the early 1500s. European, Arab and African merchants were now selling humans as well as gold, … hand, Africans bear some…
57. The Agreement does not touch the root of anti-Asiaticism
… by a small group of men who style themselves the South African Indian Congress, which held their meeting on the 12th … public feeling for reasons stated…
57. The Agreement does not touch the root cause of anti-Asiaticism
… by a small group of men who style themselves the South African Indian Congress, which held their meeting on the 12th … feeling for reasons stated below: 1…
ArchiveLiving in the Interregnum by Nadine Gordimer (The New York Review of Books), 20 January 1983
… crossbreed of Dutch, German, English, French in the South African white settler population produced a bluntness that … into fiction—there has been for me a…