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ArchiveCommission of Inquiry into the South African Council of Churches held at Pretoria on 28 March 1983, Volume 59
… of the Methodist Conference of the Methodist Church of Southern Africa, of the Commission of Inquiry into the South African …
EventLegal action against election results
… during the second election of a democratic South Africa under ANC government. However, President Nelson … Kalley, J.A.; Schoeman, E. & Andor, L.E. (eds)(1999…
EventEllen Khuzwayo is born
… in 1996. References: Hayes, S. (ed)(2000). Who's Who of Southern Africa 2001..., Graighall: Jonathan Ball. Dr Nnoseng Kuzwayo. …
Need for New Level of International Action against Apartheid. Statement at the special session of the United Nations Special Committee against Apartheid, Stockholm by O. R. Tambo, June 18, 1968
… devotion to the cause of freedom for the people of South Africa. Your own inspired and capable leadership of this … emphasise a few aspects of what I have…
PlaceLuderitz, Namibia
… excursions to the ghost town of Kolmanskop. Luderitz in southern Namibia is isolated on a wild and windy shore - it … so at odds with the extremely rocky…
PlaceGrey Street now Yusuf Dadoo Street, Durban-City Centre
… Juma Masjid Mosque is said to be the largest mosque in the Southern hemisphere . Originally just a small brick and … of different styles and is the oldest…
Statement by Oliver Tambo at the plenary meeting of the United Nations General Assembly, 09 November 1982, New York
… diplomatic, economic and military relations with South Africa, this august body honoured certain personalities for … gangs to spread terror and mayhem in…
ArchiveAfrica South Vol.3 No.4 Jul-Sept 1959
… and the Africanists, Walter Sisulu. Sports test for South Africa, D.A. Brutus. Orlando Revisited, Anthony Sampson. The … Rhodesia, Kenneth Kaunda. The…
EventPrime Minister B.J Vorster supports changes to Black labour
… than his predecessor as he saw the change in power in Southern Africa and was quick to offer cooperation with South Africa’s neighbours. Within the country…
EventReconciliation talks between F.W de Klerk and Nelson Mandela are rescheduled due to violence in Sebokeng
… the adoption of a new democratic constitution for South Africa. The talks were set to take place on 11 April, however … demonstrators in Sebokeng, a township…
EventSamora Machel, president of Mozambique, dies in a plane crash
… 134 plane crashed into the Lebombo Mountains, South Africa, after allegedly following a false beacon. Machel was … summit in Zambia. His death sent…
PlaceRichtersveld Cultural and Botanical Landscape, Northern Cape
… dramatic Mountainous Desert in the Northern Cape of South Africa. Constitutes a Cultural Landscape Communally owned and … that may have persisted for as much…
EventThe PAC is formed
… as powerful as the ANC within a year, especially in the southern Vaal townships (Soweto and Sharpeville, near … other Black political organisations, was…
EventQueen Victoria issues charter for the formation of the British South Africa Company
… South Africa effectively became a British colony in 1795. This led … changes, such as the expansion into the interior of South Africa and the discovery of…
ArticleThe role of gender in Ndebele architecture
… Hartbeesfontein. The creation of a built environment in southern Africa's rural areas is not merely the provision of shelter: … symbolic role in the creation…
EventXhosa author Samuel Mqhayi dies
… D.J. et al. (eds)(1970). Standard Encyclopaedia of Southern Africa, Cape Town: NASOU, v. 7, p. 628. …
EventLanguage crisis in schools resolved
… C.F.J. (ed)(1981). Five Hundred years: a history of South Africa; 3rd rev. ed., Pretoria: Academica, p. 534. Kalley, J.A.; Schoeman, E. & Andor, L.E. (eds)…
Speech at the Tenth General Conference of the United National Independence Party by O. R. Tambo, Zambia, August 1988
… well as from the struggling masses of the people of South Africa, to this historic tenth General Conference of the … destabilisation continues to wreak havoc…
Colonial history of Rustenburg
… book The Hollander Afrikaners and their Republic in South Africa , published in Amsterdam in 1854, describes the … to hold a thousand congregants, added to…
ArticleThe San
… The San, the first people in South Africa The earliest hunter-gatherers in southern Africa were the San people. The San were also known as …
ArticlePoqo
… to the injustice of the White minority state of South Africa, but Poqo proved more dangerous at the time. Its … (1976-1983) In the 1960s there were conflicts…
General South African History Timeline: 1970s
… South African nationality, the right to work in South Africa etc. Assent gained: 26 March 1970; commencement date … four-day visit during which cooperation…
The Road to Durban: Workers’ struggles, student movements, and the resurgence of resistance politics in Namibia and South Africa by Heike Becker
… connections between radical politics in Namibia and South Africa in the early 1970s. It demonstrates the significance … Today the regional entanglements of…
Conference: African Indigenous Knowledge Systems
… Leadership Framework For Sustainable Organizations In Africa: An Indigenous Knowledge Systems Perspective v Indigenous Systems of Governance and Post…
EventCastro decides to send troops to Angola to fight South Africa
… to send Cuban troops to Angola in response to South Africa's invasion of the country. After attaining its … Angola provided support to liberation movements…
ArticleEuropean trading systems in the Middle Ages - fourteenth to sixteenth centuries
… they moved together, further into the interior of South Africa. The Hottentots Holland Mountains can be seen as a … something that is yours Land…
Press statement by Oliver Tambo in Moscow, 06 November 1986
… the struggle for a united, democratic and nonracial South Africa, an independent Namibia and a peaceful region of southern Africa. We draw immense…
Statement by Oliver Tambo at lunch hosted by the Foreign Minister of Venezuela, 13 July 1987, Caracas
… Bolivar Award for Peace. Since then, the situation in southern Africa has deteriorated. Nelson Mandela and other leaders are … with the prospect of engulfing…
Address to the Swedish Parliament Stockholm, 13 March 1990
… cements these official ties. We have a vision of South Africa as a united. democratic. non-sexist and non-racial … peoples, with the one in northern Europe…
ArchiveAfrica South Vol.3 No.1 Oct-Dec 1958
… United Nations, Paramount Chief of the Hereros. South West Africa and the United Nations, Mburumba A. Kerina. The … Alan Rake. The Central African Liberals,…