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EventLucas Mangope, Bophuthatswana homeland leader is deposed
… from collapsing. This invasion failed and the South African Government in consultation with the African National Congress (ANC) ousted Mangope as leader of …
EventANC Constitutional proposals are disclosed
… meeting of the National Executive Committee (NEC) of the African National Congress (ANC), the meeting adopted a new … (DP), the Pan-Africanist Congress (PAC)…
EventHarms releases his report
… report on its investigations in the activities of South African Defence Force Army and South African Police counter insurgency units. Supreme Court judge, …
EventThe Pope arrives in Lesotho
… Liberation Army , which was once supported by the South African government to undermine the Lesotho government. The … a military government, which was fully…
EventKhotso House is bombed
… The South African Council of Churches (SACC) headquarters, Khotso … groups a year after a blast at Congress of South African Trade Union (COSATU) House. The…
EventIFP proposes truce with ANC
… The Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) proposed a truce with the African National Congress (ANC) as an effort to calm violent … itself closer to the ANC, it blamed…
EventSchools closed in the Western Cape
… were also reacting to the banning of the Congress of South African Students Association (COSAS). Attempts to re-open … were hampered by the arrest of 100…
EventBafana Bafana loses to Germany
… South African soccer team Bafana Bafana played against the German … games to be held in France the following year. The South African team was under the…
EventFirst aeroplane flight in Kimberley breaks the non-stop flight record
… at Brandfort, in the Free State. This was the first South African built aeroplane. He lacked an engine with enough … made the first flight in Kimberley…
EventLiberia is established
… nation. The story of Liberia is different from other African countries because of its bond with the United States … ex-slaves were given and the blue square…
EventParliament opens with the debate of no confidence on Government
… South African Parliament opened with the debate of 'no confidence' … sea route. He pointed out that South Africa is an African state and that the Republic as…
EventANC stalwart, Albertina Sisulu dies in Johannesburg
… African National Congress (ANC) stalwart, Albertina Sisulu, a … role – both in the ANC and in the Federation of South African Women (FEDSAW). The second of…
EventThe State Theatre in Pretoria opens
… [Accessed on 14 may 2012] The South African State Theatre About the South African State [online] Available at: …
EventBlacks in South Africa protest against segregation
… of the arrival of Jan van Riebeeck in Table Bay, the African National Congress (ANC) and the South African Indian Congress (SAIC) at a meeting held on…
EventThomas Pringle, journalist and editor of Cape newspaper Commercial Advertiser, dies in London
… John Fairbairn, and established two newspapers, the South African Journal and the South African Commercial Advertiser. The publications were plagued …
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…
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…
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…
ArchiveThe Legacy Of The Jazz Epistles, South Africa's Short-Lived But Historic Group by Simon Rentner, 27 April 2017
… club in Cape Town with two other formidable South African jazz players — Kippie Moeketsi on alto saxophone and … story of The Jazz Epistles may be deeply…
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…
Address to the 21st Session of the Assembly of Heads of State and Government of the OAU by O.R. Tambo, Addis Ababa, 19 July 1985
… On behalf of the National Executive Committee of the African National Congress, its militants and combatants … a matter of honour to the people of South…
Address at The Youth Day Rally, Witbank, 16th June 2003
… Youth Commission, Umsobomvu Youth Fund and the South African Youth Council, which is a broad based youth civil … Youth Commission, Umsobomvu Youth Fund and…
Address to The 3rd Summit of The ACP Heads of State and Government Nadi, Fiji, 18 July 2002
… honoured to bring you the greetings and best wishes of the African Union, which held its first Assembly of Heads of … the decisions of the peoples of Africa…
WE HAVE THE KEY TO FREEDOM NOT THE OPPRESSOR, December 16, 1957
… Address to the Forty-fifth Annual Conference of the African National Congress, Orlando, Johannesburg, December … of political leaders; Deposition and…
"Peace and Development in our Region" Speech at "War on Want" Conference by O. R. Tambo, London, June 1988
… the winter's end. When we speak thus, we talk of the South African and Namibian child who is a victim of malnutrition … in the past, of a so-called…
Support our People until Power is Restored to Them - Statement at the Plenary Meeting of the United Nations General Assembly by O. R. Tambo, New York, 26 October 1976
… President, (2) and this august body, in the name of the African National Congress and the entire liberation movement … in southern Africa and in other parts…
ArchiveMandela’s Democracy by Andrew Nash, 26 June 2013
… his speech from the dock, at his 1962 trial for inciting African workers to strike and leaving the country without a … north, were mentioned as the pride and…
#JimiMatthews decision praised by Chelsea Geach (News), 28 Jun 2016
… and I can no longer be a part of it,” he wrote. The South African National Editors Forum (Sanef) and the Right2Know … as a propaganda tool but was not able…