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EventANC launches mass boycott of Bantu Education
… African National Congress (ANC) launches mass boycott of … to school and those who did not were expelled. The African Education Movement set up by the ANC…
EventGeorge Msimang, artist, is born
… in 1968 after completing Standard VIII. He came to the African Art Centre in Durban and was encouraged by Jo Thorpe … has also exhibited a number of times at…
EventANC calls on International community to save lives
… two women (according to the common purpose doctrine). The African National Congress (ANC) called upon the United … Nations to impose mandatory sanctions…
EventGovernment admits responsibility for Mdluli’s death
… The South African government admitted responsibility for the death of the African National Congress (ANC) member, Joseph Mdluli (50), … J.A.; Schoeman, E. &…
EventRhodesia adopts new constitution
… movements in Rhodesia that included Zanu (Zimbabwe African National Union), Zapu (Zimbabwe African Peoples Union) and others against the white minority …
EventResolute Treurnicht rejects waiving language policy
… Despite the indications of African unrest at Soweto schools being noticed by government … an action committee was set up under auspices of the South African…
EventThe death in police custody of Ahmed Timol, political activist and underground operative, is confirmed
… under security laws. He was a member of the banned South African Communist Party (SACP). Following calls from the … Enver Samuel in 2015. Finally, on October…
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 …
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 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…
The Legal Veneer
… was pronounced a crime against humanity, the South African government still kept up this charade of … first organisation to be declared unlawful was the…