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Chapter 6. A Daughter of the Free State - Garment Workers in Action by E. S. Sachs
… sister, Jacoba, and my brother, Johannes, who are United Party supporters with very strong Labour sympathies. Whenever … their minds poisoned by the…
Brief Detention Diary by Michael Hathorn (an excerpt)
… a big impetus by Chief Albert Luthuli and other African National Congress leaders publicly burning their own passes … to share my cell. Although he was not a…
ICA launches 2017 Great Texts/Big Questions lecture series with Professor Ngugi wa Thiong'o
… at 6pm. The lecture, presented in association with the National Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences … of his first major play, The Black Hermit,…
Statement by Oliver Tambo on the murder of Griffiths Mxenge, 01 November 1981
… his face and cut off his ears. A member of the African National Congress since the mid-1950s when he was a student … the apartheid regime sooner rather than…
Document 40 - Anti-CAD, Why You Should Not Vote [1958]
… only one of the methods to be used for the struggle for national independence and against white domination and … laws. The fact, some of them argued at the…
PlaceDurbanville
… cleared of Port Jackson and laid out with paths by: "the National Council of Women" , who uses the nature reserve to … Dutch complex that dates back to 1850…
20th Time of the Writer
… we have a full programme that includes the launching of a national literary gem, uNodumehlezi kaMenzi, an isiZulu …
EventTwo ANC members gunned down in Swaziland.
… On 4 June 1986, two African National Congress members, Sipho Dlamini and Busi Majola were …
ArchiveThe agrarian problem
… problem is not the only problem that we faced with; and National oppression is the other. The Ten-Point Programme is …
PlaceRiebeeck Square, Cape Town.
… time it became known as Riebeeck Square. It was declared a National Monument under old NMC legislation on 17 February …
EventDefiance campaign leadership meets with SAIC
… The Defiance campaign was adopted by the African National Congress (ANC) in December 1951. The Campaign began …
EventANC revolutionary propaganda leaflets exploded in Cape Town, Johannesburg, and Durban
… 1970, pamphlet bombs which scattered revolutionary African National Congress (ANC) propaganda leaflets exploded in Cape … bombs in City, Rand and Durban’ …
EventDr Joshua Nkomo African nationalist and guerrilla leader is born.
… Anton Mziwakhe Lembede, two then leaders of the African National Congress and took a little part in political …
EventThami Mnyele, SA artist and member of MK, is killed in Gaborone
… exiled in Botswana. He became very active in the African National Congress’ (ANC) military wing Umkhonto We Sizwe …
EventHendrik Andries Hanekom, SA actor dies in the Strand, Cape Town
… A collection of Hanekom's documents are preserved in the National Afrikaans Literature Museum. *Note: Some sources say …
EventAllan Boesak is born
… in 1983. In 1991 he was elected chairperson of African National Congress (ANC) in Western Cape. His meteroric rise …
EventThe Ben Schoeman freeway is opened
… and improve the flow of traffic, has been implemented. SA National Roads Agency Limited (Sanral) plans to add an …
EventMangope calls out troops as unrest flares in Bophuthatswana
… against registering for the election and the African National Congress (ANC) called for a blockade of the …
EventVerwoerd’s grandson joins ANC
… Verwoerd, main architect of apartheid, joins the African National Congress. Wilhelm Verwoerd risked being alienated by …
EventGeneral Motors fails to leave RSA quietly
… tough economic sanctions against South Africa. The National Automobile and Allied Workers' Union demanded that …
EventANC, COSATU and SACTU issues a joint statement in Lusaka
… of South African Trade Unions (COSATU) and the African National Congress (ANC) issued a joint statement in Lusaka, … COSATU, SACTU and the ANC 5-6 March 1986…
EventAmanzimtoti blast kills five
… the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC), the African National Congress (ANC) later stated that Zondo acted in …
EventANC claim responsibility for a land mine explosion which kills six
… the landmine. The day after this attack, the African National Congress (ANC) announced from Lusaka that it …
EventEpainette Mbeki receives the Order of the Baobab
… at the Union Buildings, twenty-six people received National Orders. The recipients included Ms Ruth First …
EventWorld Refugee Day
… forcibly displayed people to the entire world. The United National Commissioner of Refugees (UNHCR) campaign for 2014 …
EventAllan Boesak guilty on charges of fraud
… chairman of the Western Cape region of the African National Congress (ANC) and director of the Foundation for …
EventIvorian Footballer Didier Zokora is born in Abidjan, Ivory Coast
… Turkish side, Trabzonspor. He has been part of the Ivorian national team for the past twelve years. Zokora is therefore …
EventJames Kantor, a lawyer, is arrested for his involvement in Liliesleaf farm activities
… of uMkhonto we Sizwe (MK), the armed wing of the African National Congress (ANC). Though Kantor himself was secretly …
EventRichard Maponya, one of South Africa’s richest businessmen, is born
… Limpopo Province). The founder and first president of the National Federated Chamber of Commerce (NAFCOC), Maponya is …
PlaceElizabeth le Roux Hostel, Bloemfontein
… It was declared a National Monument under old NMC legislation on 8 August 1975. …