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EventLabour Party Colonel Creswell’s move to support the war wins majority
… At a special conference of the South African Labour Party (SALP), Colonel Creswell’s move to … Some of ISL’s ideas later influenced and radicalized South…
EventPresident Thabo Mbeki establishes a commission of inquiry to probe alleged illicit activities on the UN's Iraq oil-for-food programme
… Mbeki to probe alleged illicit activities of certain South African companies or individuals relating to the United … featured in their investigation had…
EventTafari Makonnen proclaimed Emperor Haile Selassie I of Ethiopia
… during his reign, the position he occupied, as an African leader of an empire that claimed a pedigree older than most European empires, gave hope to many…
EventThree ANC members are sentenced to death
… Three African National Congress members, Telle Simon Mogoerane, … their torture. The trial also revealed that South African medical professionals were…
EventMass protest against the circumstances of Neil Aggett’s death
… for a nationwide work stoppage from the mostly nonwhite African Food and Canning Workers Union, where the young … had worked. A spokesman for the Federation…
EventGoldstone Commission investigate the Bisho Massacre
… However, the actions of Ronnie Kasrils and other senior African National Congress members were criticized for acting … start shooting without warning,…
EventMass funeral for the victims of Bisho massacre
… Many who gathered wanted to hear the speeches from leading African National Congress (ANC) and South African Communist Party members such as Walter Sisulu,…
EventMourners are shot at Ntuli’s funeral in Thokoza
… were killed on the day of the funeral of Sam Ntuli, an African National Congress (ANC) member murdered on 29 … Party (IFP). The incident led to renewed…
EventThe ANC threatens to suspend constitutional talks
… The African National Congress (ANC) threatened in an open letter … "Inkathagate" scandal (This was revelations about South African Defence Force involvement…
EventAngola, Cuba and South Africa allegedly signed a cease fire treaty
… in Angola is one of the turning points in Southern African History. It led to the movement of powerful Cuban … Cuanavale is described as either a defeat of…
EventBartholomew Dias, Portuguese discoverer of the Cape of Good Hope, drowns at sea
… The first European known to set foot on South African soil was Bartholomew (or Bartolomeu) Dias. In December 1487 Dias sailed down the African coast, landing…
EventAnglo American announces switching of main listing to London
… completed the biggest Black empowerment deals in South African corporate history in 1996 through the sale of … and JCI to the National Empowerment Consortium…
EventLaw and Order Minister, Adriaan Vlok implicates De Klerk at TRC
… amnesty for the role he played in the bombing of the South African Council of Churches headquarters, Khotso House; the bombing of the South African Congress…
EventDe Kock is convicted of six killings
… to murder to fraud. Amongst those that were killed were African National Congress (ANC) lawyer, Bheki Mlangeni, and … References: Kalley, J. A. et al (1999)…
EventTrevor Manuel unveils GEAR
… local and international business. The Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU) welcomed the commitment to … J.A.; Schoeman, E. & Andor, L.E. (eds)…
EventWits attains full university status
… (Wits), Johannesburg. The origin of Wits lies in the South African School of Mines, which was established in Kimberley … University College in 1906 and was…
EventKitchener’s opinion on Concentration Camps
… During Anglo-Boer War 2 (also called South African War) between the two former Boer Republics (the South African Republic and the Orange Free State Republic)…
EventQueen Victoria issues charter for the formation of the British South Africa Company
… to further the influence of the British Empire over the African continent. A royal charter was sought to establish a … (BSAC) was established. Trade was…
EventSouth Africa’s first democratic elections end as counting begins
… Gazankulu, Lebowa, KwaZulu, Transkei and Ciskei. The African National Congress(ANC) under the leadership of the … won 243 478 of the national votes (1.25%),…
EventFormer SANNC President Sefako Mapogo Makgatho dies
… wa a teacher and a journalist. Makgatho joined the South African Native National Congress (SANNC) later renamed the African National Congress (ANC). He…
EventJ.J. Hadebe replies to Thabo Mbeki’s plea
… This Day in History, African National Congress (ANC) executive member in charge of … 1990s and subsequently paved the road to the first South African…
PlaceLegogote Mountain Region, Mpumalanga
… Garden with an enormous collection of Cycads and an African Rainforest. The Lowveld Legogote Region is situated … hiking trails, the largest collection of…
Speech by President Nelson Mandela at a banquet in honour of President Nujoma of Namibia Cape Town, 13 May 1996.
… On a winter's day in 1976 more than 20 000 pupils from the African township complex of Soweto began a protest march … On 25 May 1976, Fred van Wyk, the…
ArticleThe Johanna
… the first British East Indiaman to shipwreck on the South African coast. On 8 June 1682, she met her fate after eight … under the National Monuments Council…
Yusuf Dadoo Timeline 1850-1889
… is valid. 1899 October 11, The outbreak of the South African War , the Second Anglo-Boer War, forces the majority …
ArticleA tribute to a great struggle stalwart Paul David by Siva Naidoo
… for four years and was elected as a delegate to the South African Council of Sport. In later years, Paul was elected … and convened the National Sports…
SASO Newsletter, 1970 - 1976
… an exclusively black higher education formation, the South African Students' Organisation (SASO), and the election of … its formal inauguration in July 1969…
Call for Papers: Teaching Palestine: Pedagogical Praxis and the Indivisibility of Justice
… two-day international conference will bring together South African and international participants to contextualise the … and intellectual inquiry. The…
PlaceBalule Private Game Reserve, Kruger National Park
… on the Western Boundary of the Kruger National Park. Here, African Wildlife roam freely in this Area, as there are no … add a greater sense of adventure for…
PlaceMalawi
… in 1907. The first political party named Nyasaland African Congress was formed in 1944. Initially, it was a … Nyasa (Lake Malawi), the most southerly lake in…