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ArchiveReport on Congress
… Report on Congress …
ArchiveWe fight on...
… We fight on... …
BiographyDr Alfred Bitini Xuma
… Congress’, which called for the ANC to rekindle the spirit of African political initiative in South Africa. … June 1945 to present the petitions, Deputy…
EventJan van Riebeeck, Dutch colonial administrator and first commander of the colony at the Cape of Good Hope, is born
… van Riebeeck , was born in Culemborg in the Netherlands on 21 April 1619. An administrator for the Dutch East India … (DEIC) , van Riebeeck landed at the…
BiographyDr Martin Luther King jr
… leader, influential and inspirational in many African lives For an excellent and richly linked biography, click …
EventSpecial Committee on Apartheid publishes its first Interim Report
… The United Nations (UN) Special Committee on Apartheid published its first Interim Report, satisfied … Party (NP) after it won the heavily contested…
BiographyColin Wells Eglin
… Sea Point, Cape Town, Western Province (now Western Cape) on 14 April 1925. His parents, Carl August and Elsie May … to Italy. He took part in the South…
BiographyMyron Peter
… boycotts in the 1970s, and upon learning that his name was on a list of 41 students to be expelled, Peter left … in Fatima Meer's , Factory and Family: The…
BiographyDr. Jacob Mfaniselwa Nhlapo
… he became the first principal of the recently founded (1948) Boitshoko Methodist Institution near Ventersdorp in the Western Transvaal. He went on to shape…
BiographyLutchmee Marie
… a big meeting or a conference, the local activists called on her to cook for the occasion. The security branch … protests and demonstrations organised by the…
BiographySuzanne ‘Zan’ Louw
… government’s security forces, experiences that she drew on for a series of woodcuts and monoprints. Several of these … vehicles of the security forces, in…
BiographyHarry Snitcher
… Harry Snitcher was born on 10 May 1911 in Uniondale. His early schooling was in … He matriculated at 15 years of age in 1926, and went on to read law at the…
BiographyMosiuoa Gerard Patrick "Terror" Lekota
… in Kroonstad, Orange Free State (now Free State Province) on 13 August 1948, into a working-class family. He was the eldest of seven … just a few years…
Nelson Mandela Speaks on Tolerance, April 30, 2006 on CBS (Video)
… from Nelson Mandela has run in 82 countries. It debuted on April 30, 2006 in the program 60 MINUTES on CBS and is believed to be Nelson Mandela's first ever…
Address on South African Freedom Day 2001, Pietersburg, 27 April 2001
… communicate and work together with the people in the spirit of Imbizo. Your democratic government will continue to … of the enormous legacy of neglect…
SA troops led by Gen. Jan Smuts invade East Africa in their confrontation with German forces in World War I.
… SA troops led by Gen. Jan Smuts invade East Africa in their confrontation with …
General Constand Viljoen is appointed as Chief of the South African Defence Force (SADF) and Lieutenant-General Jan Geldenhuys
… South African Defence Force (SADF) and Lieutenant-General Jan Geldenhuys …
Dr Bernabé Jan Gerard de la Bat (84), first principal of the Deaf and Blind Institute in Worcester, dies.
… Dr Bernabé Jan Gerard de la Bat (84), first principal of the Deaf and …
Dr Bernabé Jan Gerard de la Bat, first head of the deaf-and-dumb institute in Worcester, is born.
… Dr Bernabé Jan Gerard de la Bat, first head of the deaf-and-dumb …
Police baton-charge and teargas protesters at Jan Smuts Airport in Johannesburg. The protesters had gathered to express their d
… Police baton-charge and teargas protesters at Jan Smuts Airport in Johannesburg. The protesters had …
Jan van Riebeeck writes in his diary that the first two pounds of butter was churned at the Cape.
… Jan van Riebeeck writes in his diary that the first two …
ArchiveMemorandum on political prisoners
… Memorandum on political prisoners submitted by Alfred Ngokong on behalf of the ANC to the Ad Hoc Working Group of Experts of the United Nations Commission on…
ArchiveCC Resolution on Elections
… the Central Committee of the South African Communist Party on elections, on Angola, and on negotiations. Supports a single ANC electoral list and … CC…
BiographyRev. James Arthur Calata
… the ANC's election boycott decision of 1946 and of 1948. He appeared to be adopting a cautious wait-and-see … had already begun to make him a target for…
ArchiveChildren on the frontline
… Red title on grey background. Black and white photo of children playing … children alliance. Exhibition at St. George's Cathedral on 17th December 1987. ……
ArchiveSeminar on creative writing
… Black and white poster. Notice of a Seminar on creative writing at the National Museum, Gaborone, on Saturday 14th and Sunday 15th November. Artwork of a…
BiographyDorothy Shanley
… the arrest and trial of Dorothy and her husband Errol. She lives in London. …
BiographyStephen Zelwane Nkadimeng
… of migrant workers and peasantsof Sekhukhuneland). On the last day of a two and-a-half year jail sentence for … Instead, he was given £2 [R4] and a rail…
’The spirit of Bandung’, Statement by Oliver Tambo to the International Conference in support of the liberation movements of Southern Africa and in Support of the Frontline States, Lusaka, 10 April 1979
… ’The spirit of Bandung’, Statement by Oliver Tambo to the …
ArchiveA comment on the F W de Klerk address to Parliament on 2 February 1990
… Penuell Maduna's comments on F W de Klerk's address to Parliament when he announced the … A comment on the F W de Klerk address to Parliament on 2 February…