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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…
ANC mourns the passing on of Mama Regina Nzo, 27 September 2011
… her husband in 1964 for 26 years. She returned to South African in 1990 and worked for ANC Womens League. Her … in peace. Issued by: Jackson Mthembu…
ArchiveAfrica South Vol.3 No.4 Jul-Sept 1959
… Vicky. Kenya at the Cross-Roads, Tom Mboya. A South African in Nigeria, Ezekiel Mphahlele. The United States at U.N.O., Winifred F. Courtney. Towards an…
ArchiveAfrica South Vol.3 No.2 Jan-Mar 1959
… der Eyken with illustrations by Mickey Munro. Towards an African Literature(VII), Dr. A.C. Jordan. Anglican Bishops … in West Africa, L.A. Fabunmi. The Art…
PlaceKitson the Steam Train, Krugersdorp
… A mobile South African National Monument, yes on wheels, is resting in the … years! Kitson is on permanent loan from ESKOM to the South African National…
EventJoyce Barker, SA soprano, is born in Mooi River, Natal.
… Festival in 1954. Barer appeared in numerous South African Broadcasting Corporations (SABC) broadcasts such as … and on concert platforms as a soloist with…
EventArchibald Gumede, former President of the United Democratic Front, is born in Pietermaritzburg.
… 1 March 1914 in Pietermaritzburg. He studied at the South African Native College (now University of Fort Hare), but … out after two years. He returned to…
EventVuyisile Mini, Trade unionist and uMkhonto we Sizwe (MK) activist is hanged
… MK and anti-apartheid resistance. As a member of the South African Congress of Trade Unions (SACTU), he was responsible … measures against Black trade unions…
EventThe soccer match between Lourenco Marques club Desportive and Durban City Football Club is called off because a rule against Coloured players
… Team including Coloured players was raised by the South African government. This has always been a condition set by the South African government for any…
EventSouth Africa withdraws from the Commonwealth
… within the British Commonwealth, Dr H.F. Verwoerd, South African prime minister, went to London in March 1961 to give … British Commonwealth. This request…
EventMembers of the AAM hand over a memorandum to Verwoerd's private secretary about Apartheid policies
… Steward, Dr. Yusuf Dadoo, former president of the South African Indian Congress and J. Kozonguisi of the South African United Front. The AAM was one of…
EventThe SABS is established
… The South African Bureau of Standard (SABS) was established in terms of … and Industry and is known as the Council of the South African Bureau of Standards…
EventMartin Luther King, Junior, is born
… Martin Luther King, Junior, an African-American clergyman who orchestrated social change … police and Parks was arrested and fined. As the South African…
EventPW Botha states that the Soviets will not prevent South Africa from attacking ANC bases in Mozambique
… The regular cross border raids by South African troops, that violated the sovereignty of its … to prop up the Apartheid system. In January 1981, South…
EventChief Albert Luthuli, Nobel Peace Prize winner and former President of the ANC, is killed in Groutville
… KwaZulu-Natal. Chief Luthuli was President-General of the African National Congress (ANC) from 1952 until his death in … Peace Prize and he was the most…
EventButhelezi says Zulus would continue carrying cultural weapons
… Buthelezi warns that the deals struck between the African National Congress (ANC) and the South African Government were " illegitimate " and " …
EventFifty killed over three days during Inkatha
… that pro-government forces as well as members of the South African security establishment wished to destabilise and totally disrupt the negotiations between…
EventUN passes resolutions on South Africa
… condemning South Africa's relations with its Southern African neighbours. The UN General Assembly re-affirmed the … of Nelson Mandela, the imprisoned leader…
EventCiskeian police disrupt residents’ meeting
… the incorporation as they were going to loose their South African citizenship and did not wish to fall under the … However, resistance by the residents…
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 …