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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 …
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…
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…
The Role of Women in the Struggle against Apartheid, 15 July 1980
… of the most significant mass movements in modern South African history. It is only in the very recent past that the … of non-racial worker solidarity. Since…
Address by the President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki, to The Joint Sitting of Parliament, Palais Du Parliament, Brazzaville, Republic of Congo, 1 December 2005
… it was in this very city that in 1986 the Organisation of African Unity launched the Africa Fund which played a … and Kinshasa. As far as mining is concerned…
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…
’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…
Document 38 - Certification of the Constitution; a summary of the judgment of the Constitutional Court
… of Defiance against Unjust Laws" - launched jointly by the African National Congress of South Africa and the South African Indian Congress - was one of the…
Book 1: Ancient Civilizations and Global Trade - Chapter 2 - The Beginnings of Globalisation by Jeff Guy
… trading sites which were being established on the East African coast in what is now Kenya and Tanzania. More than … beliefs and religious practices. It also…
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…
ArchiveANC 2019 Election Manifesto
… turn the page and Let’s Grow South Africa. Together. The African National Congress is a broad movement of the people … South Africa together. Twenty-five…
The Spirit of Bandung - Address to the International Conference in Support of the Liberation Movements of Southern Africa and in Support of the Frontline States by O. R. Tambo, Lusaka, 10 April 1979
… the days, 25 years ago next year, when a delegation of the African National Congress travelled from Johannesburg to … the Afro-Asian People's Solidarity…
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…
Funeral arrangements afoot for Mama Dideka Mhlaba, 20 January 2010
… in the Eastern Cape in preparation for the funeral of African National Congress (ANC) veteran, Mama Dideka Mhlaba … who was Eastern Cape Premier and…
PlaceBaxter Theatre, Rondebosch- Cape Town
… of the Baxter to house and represent the best of South African performing arts and has played a significant role in South African arts and entertainment. It…
PlaceHouse Schoch, Boschdal, District of Rustenburg
… when it was acquired by August Schoch. After the South African War, the farm Boschdal was used as a centre for the … du Plessis, of life in Rustenburg during…
PlacePaardekraal Monument, Market Street, Krugersdorp
… of April 1877, Sir Shepstone annexed the ZAR (The South African Republic or the Dutch : Zuid-Afrikaansche Republiek), … Africa, it occupied the area later…
EventFirst celebration of National Heritage Day
… Heritage Day is one of the newly created South African public holidays. It is a day in which all are … the proposed Public Holidays Bill before the New…
Don’t be misled by the PROPAGANDA OF THE KAJEE-PATHER GROUP
… The government and the African National Congress agree on a common commitment … on a definition of political offences in the South African situation; to…
Event1 575 people are detained under a state of emergency
… city, where they were confronted by a force of the South African Police (SAP) under Col. I.B.S. Terblanche. The … called by the PAC, which ultimately…
Thabo’s pen versus perceptions by Tinyiko Maluleke (Sunday Independant), 24 January 2016
… that in the year 2100, students of post-apartheid South African rhetoric the world over will continue to recognise his 1996 “I am an African” speech as a…
Address by President Jacob Zuma to the 12th International meeting of the Communist and Workers Parties, 3 December 2010, Centurion, Pretoria
… General Secretary of the South African Communist Party, Comrade Blade Nzimande; Comrades` … and friends, I bring revolutionary greetings from the African…