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The Founder: An Ambiguous Figure by Chris Saunders
… the main driving force behind the creation of the South African Native National Congress (which changed its name to … an article I published twenty years ago…
Chapter 2 - The Soweto Uprising of June 1976: A Turning Points Event
… toll stood at 575 - 75 coloured, 2 white, 2 Indian AND 496 African. Many areas were affected - 22 townships in the … ideology and its associated…
Book 5: People, Places and Apartheid - Chapter 2 - The Soweto Uprising of June 1976: A Turning Points Event by Phil Bonner
… toll stood at 575 - 75 coloured, 2 white, 2 Indian AND 496 African. Many areas were affected - 22 townships in the … ideology and its associated…
Address by ANC President Jacob Zuma to Kwazulu-Natal Black Management Forum Gala Dinner in his Honour Inkosi Albert Luthuli, 11 July 2008, International Convention Centre Durban
… Founding fathers such as Pixley ka Isaka Seme spoke of the African Renaissance and African Regeneration as early as 1906. We have always been a … and the…
Address by President Nelson Mandela at the closing ceremony of the 19th meeting of heads of government of the Caribbean Community and Common Market (CARICOM) St Lucia, 4 July 1998
… and bondage. It has been made possible by our shared African heritage of resistance and renewal. For all these … of black people everywhere. We are bound by…
Chapter 7
… a call for a lead. The Executive Committee of the All African Convention at its meeting on the 27th-28th August, … happens in the life of a people. Eight…
ArticleThe Anglo-Zanzibar War of 1896
… [ii] Wolff, R. D. (1972). British Imperialism and the East African Slave Trade. Science & Society, 36, 443-462 (p.456). …
ArticleRemembrance of Albertina Sisulu through the Work of Cartoonists
… to capture the loss, love and respect felt by each South African at the time. Some of the cartoons chose to view …
The National Anthem
… composed by the Reverend ML de Villiers in 1921. The South African Broadcasting Corporation played both God save the …
Political executions
… 27 1988/03/25 Harris, Frederick John 1965/04/01 African Resistance Movement (ARM). Bombing of Johannesburg …
Straight Talk - Emilia Potenza
… Sciences textbooks shows that the full gamut of South African History - from pre-colonial through to post-Apartheid …
In Conclusion: The Decline and Fall of the Tricameral Parliament
… which were unable to suppress the revolt. After the African National Congress (ANC) made a call to render the …
ArticleFinding out about hunter-gatherers and herders
… The Broken String: An integrated approach to southern African History. Cape Town: Maskew Miller Longman. Online …
ArticleShip list of Indian Indentured Labourers
… Who's Who. Use this link to find passenger Indians: South African Indian Whos Who , Indentured Indians. One needs to …
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…
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…
Document 24 - “Wreckers at Work”, (Editorial), Liberation. 18, April 1956
… criticisms of those who wish to disrupt the movement. The African National Congress, like any other serious political … movement with a policy of its own and…
EventNiger's Independence Day
… at the 1885 Berlin Conference, the French West African colony was controlled strictly as an outpost for the … French government in July 1960 to dissolve the…
Letter to Ayatollah Khomeini by O. R. Tambo, Iran, 13 February 1979
… (2) Teheran Islamic Republic of Iran On behalf of the African National Congress and the oppressed masses of South … Iranian Revolution. (signed) Oliver…
A Walk in the Night
… Lydia Williams (1820 – 1910) and world-renowned South African artist, Lionel Davis, whose wok was recently exhibited at the South African National Gallery…
PlaceSeal Point Lighthouse, Cape St. Francis
… above the sea, regarded as the highest light on the South African coast, Commissioned on 11 May 1950 The Cape Seal … meters above sea level is the highest…
Cable to the United Nations Opposing Incorporation of South-West Africa, by Dr. A. B. Xuma, January 1946
… 17'/2 per cent for 8,000,000 Africans. Only 40 per cent African Children accommodated in mission schools. 95 per cent … at home. (Sgd) - A.B. Xuma President …
EventSS Mendi sinks in the English Channel on the way to France
… Africans, including 607 black troops serving in the South African Native Labour Contingent, died when the steamship … Havre in France, carrying the Fifth…
EventKenneth David Kaunda wins Zambian elections
… resulted in cooperation between the Rhodesian and South African security forces in arresting cadres retuning from … bestow on its citizens of foreign…
EventSA is banned from the Olympic Games
… Olympic Games in Tokyo. This was a heavy blow for South African sporting circles and it's supporters. Following Prime … in Mexico, but this elicited such…
EventThe Rivonia Trialists are charged with sabotage and attempting to violently overthrow the state
… sabotage and attempting to violently overthrow the South African government. This after a raid by security police at … 1963, the police arrested many…
EventGeraldine Fraser is born
… the Western Cape (UWC), she left South Africa to join the African National Congress (ANC) in exile, where she worked … USSR and Cuba. She also became a…
EventANC receives letter of gratitude from the British Prime Minister, Herold Macmillan
… 0n 10 February 1960, the African National Congress (ANC) received a letter from the … from Groote Schuur, official residence of the South African Prime…
EventThe Korean War ends
… in Korea. Sources differ slightly on the number of South African casualties, but it can be assumed that thirty-four … pilots were taken POW. Click here to…
EventANC adopts the Programme of Action
… The adoption of a Programme of Action by the African National Congress (ANC) at the December conference … the 1946 Passive resistance campaign mounted by the…