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January 8th Statements - Statement of the National Executive Committee on the occasion of the 68th Anniversary of the ANC - 8 January 1980
… the occasion of January 8th, 1980, 68th anniversary of the African National Congress of South Africa. Today is January … one nationality and another, between…
EventStanley Bongani Nkosi, SA artist, is born in Newcastle, Natal
… (now kwaZulu Natal). When Nkosi was three years old his family moved to Dukathole near Germiston in the Transvaal … South African History Online, Stanley…
Address by ANC President Jacob Zuma to ANC National General Council fundraising dinner at Inkosi Albert Luthuli International Convention Centre, 19 September 2010, Durban
… we start the third National General Council of the African National Congress. It is an important gathering given … Of importance, is that the report also…
January 8th Statements -Statement of the National Executive Committee on the occasion of the 90th Anniversary of the ANC - 8 January 2002
… Africans: On the occasion of the 90th Anniversary of the African National Congress, we extend our greetings and best … in the Department of Trade and…
ArchiveSouth Africa’s Radical Tradition, a documentary history, Volume One 1907 - 1950, by Allison Drew
… Introduction Part One - South African Socialists and the radically-divided working class … 1929 Document 18 - Letter from S. P. Bunting to the South African…
Professor Terence Ranger: An Obituary by Trevor Grundy
… wrote years later, "began a debate on what it means to be African by saying how much he wishes he was black because for … was precarious. His father was a…
"Strategy and Tactics" - Statement adopted by the ANC at the Morogoro Conference, April-May 1969 (abridged)
… maintain systems which go against the current trend of the African revolution and world development. This has been made … of the inter-locking and…
EventBlacks boycott municipal elections
… local authorities. For the first time elections for all areas, except homelands, were held on the same day. This … J.A.; Schoeman, E. & Andor, L.E. (eds) …
EventSophiatown residents are forcefully moved to Soweto
… apartheid plan to turn the residential and business areas of cities and towns white. A new, white suburb was …
Message to the People of South Africa by O. R. Tambo, 26 June 1974
… you in the name of the National Executive Committee of the African National Congress, and of its leaders and militants … fascist Salazar-Caetano regime,…
Statement by Oliver Tambo at the plenary meeting of the United Nations General Assembly, 09 November 1982, New York
… the countless appeals repeatedly addressed to the South African racist regime since the inception of this world body … the appeal made by their national…
ArticleBlack Community Programmes (BCP)
… Africa – at first through the establishment of the South African Students Organisation (SASO). Conscious of the … for regional youth organisations, as well…
Documentary Photography and Awakening the International Community, 1976-1994
… Audience Following the Soweto uprising of 1976, the South African government placed increased importance on controlling … the Soweto uprising and its brutal…
EventDesmond Dube was born on this day.
… his philanthropic work and is respected as a devoted family man. He is the brand ambassador for the Clientèle …
PlaceSacramento Cannon, Cape Recife
… This bronze artifice, cast by the Bocarro family, also known as the Miracle Cannon , was salvaged in …
EventWhite ministers and theologians of the DRC reject apartheid
… Reformed Church (DRC) (Nederduitse Gereformeerde Kerk) family issued a statement in which apartheid in church and … (1915), ' Reverend Beyers Naudé Biography…
EventHendrik Witbooi, Chief of the Nama, dies
… Hendrik Witbooi was born into a prominent Nama family in 1830. He was educated at a Lutheran Mission and was …
EventMoroccan explorer, Ibn Battuta is born
… Al Lawati Al Tanji Ibn Battuta was born into a Muslim family in Tangier, Morocco. At the age of 21 Battuta set out …
EventValliamma Munuswamy Mudaliar, SA political activist dies from a fever
… increasingly aware of the oppressive system she and her family were living under. When Mudaliar was sixteen she …
EventEduardo Mondlane, president of FRELIMO, dies
… Africa (now Mozambique). He was born into a Tsonga royal family and was a shepherd as a child. Mondlane completed his … SAHO, Eduardo Mondlane , from South…
EventThe Eureka Diamond is sold in London for 5 700 Pounds
… a young boy and his little sister as they played in their family farm along the Vaal River. The children often picked …
Call For Renewed Struggle Against Ghetto Act: Joint Statement By Dr G. M. Naicker And Dr Y. M. Dadoo, December 1947
… decision inviolate The intransigent attitude of the South African Government has compelled India to sever diplomatic … We shall occupy the Gale Street. We…
Address by President Nelson Mandela at the Banquet hosted by President Sharma of India India, 25 January 1995
… internationalism. I consequently speak for all South African when I say that our victory would have been less … the strengthening of our relations, including…
The Afrikaner Bond
… their Fatherland, and only want to fill their pockets with African wealth in order to go and spend it in Europe’. He … wanted to eradicate African squatting…
EventP.W. Botha becomes SA's first Executive President
South Africa's Prime Minister since 1978, P.W. Botha, was unanimously elected by eighty-eight members of the Electoral College to the office of first executive…
Year of women of South Africa by E.S. Reddy
… time with my parents and my sisters. We were a knitted family and I wasn't interested in dancing and bioscope. I was … problems. Where we lived was mixed and…
PlaceBarton Keep, Jacob Mare Street, Pretoria
… the outbreak of the second war of independence, the South African War, placed him in a difficult position. After discussion with the President he and his…
Address by President Mandela at the opening of the 36th Annual World Boxing Council Convention Johannesburg, 26 October 1998
… me to do so. I am confident that your hosts, the South African National Boxing Control Commission, will go all out … by the safety consciousness that seems…
PlacePeelton
… The visit of Mancotywa, accompanied by the South African Heritage Resources Agency (SAHRA) and some of the … services for sick people and support for their…
De Klerk pays tribute to Mandela’s ‘unique contribution’
… deepest condolences to his wife Graça Machel, the Mandela family and their friends, to the ANC and indeed to the entire South African nation," said De Klerk…