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ArchiveJock Strachan: Artist, guerilla, fighter pilot, bomb maker, fisherman, humourist, writer, hero
… him as “one of the most remarkable figures in recent South African history: a bomber and fighter pilot, art teacher, … visual evocation of the brutal…
ArticleTransvaal Indian Congress (TIC)
… functioned under the umbrella organization, the South African Indian Congress (SAIC) . However, in the 1930s -1940s … under the umbrella organization, the…
ArticleTreason Trial 1956 - 1961
… as 'co-conspirators'. Amongst those released were African National Congress (ANC) President Chief Albert Luthuli; African National Congress Secretary General…
ArticleSharpeville Timeline
… 16 December 1959 - At the annual African National Congress (ANC) conference, Chief Albert … these things they must learn their lesson the hard way.”…
ArticleInanda Seminary and its Influence on Education in South Africa by Claire Wilt
… played a pivotal role in the education of Black South African women. Just outside of Durban, Inanda Seminary has … with other professors to provide a great…
PlaceCape Town City Hall, Darling Street
The mayor of Cape Town, Thomas Ball, laid the cornerstone of the City Hall on 29 August 1900, but the Hall was only opened in 1905. It was designed by…
ArticleSouth Africa and the United Nations, 1946-1990
… in reaction to the ANC Defiance Campaign. The South West African question was also on the agenda annually as from 1946. Initially the South African…
Address of the President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki, at the launch of the UNDP 2006 Human Development Report, Kirstenbosch, National Botanical Gardens: Cape Town, 09 November 2006
… ingredients for progress that are present in the South African case: a clear national plan with well-defined … exposed to numerous preventable diseases. As…
ArchiveAn Interview With F.W. De Klerk, the Last Apartheid President of South Africa by Nicolas Rossier
… activist Nelson Mandela was released by South African President F.W. de Klerk after spending 27 years in … that resulted in giving equal rights to all South…
Biography of Hugh Masekela by Fardin Rahman
… the Huddleston Jazz Band. By 1956, Masekela joined the African Jazz Revue that was organized by a British entrepreneur named Alfred Herbert as an African…
ArticleAngolan Civil War (1975-2002): A Timeline of Events
… of several SADF forces and a clash between the South African government and Cuban forces. 15 January 1975 … of 15 provincial capitals. 5 August 1975 …
ArticleNamibian Timeline
… first English-language publications in Namibia were South African government publications during the inter-war period. … [2] It was not until after World War…
ArchiveChapter 13 A negotiated release by Denis Goldberg
… to have been a member of the National High Command of the African National Congress and that he did not participate in … the other accused who were in more…
ArticleThe Azania Liberation Support Committee and its publications
… Frontline as publications that were part of the South African liberation movement but independent of any political … South Africa and also reprinted news…
EventVan Zyl Slabbert is elected as the leader of the PFP
… when he resigned in 1986. Born in Pretoria to an Afrikaner family, van Zyl Slabbert grew up in Pietersburg (now known as … Kalley, J. A., 1999. Southern…
ArticleTimeline on the defacing of statues
… is defaced and painted with colors of the old South African flag used by the Apartheid government. 2015 26 March, … bottom part of the statue of Loius Botha,…
Chapter II - More of the same
… and the National Secretary of the Federation of South African Women, side by side in our restrictions, yet unable … police bought the house next door to me…
Bonani Africa 2010 Photographic Festival Conference: Papers and Abstracts
… and Shredded Edge by Ashraf Jamal Self-Imagining and South African Art Photography by Zen Marie “What Goals and Whose … Vision? Present Trends and Future…
ArticleThe 1913 Mineworkers’ Strike
… industry, mining. This task first fell to the South African Party that prevailed in the Union’s first general … Some of these socialist parties merged to…
ArticleStudent Protests at Tshwane University of Technology - Timeline
… has also been promised by the Post-Apartheid ANC-led South African government under the Presidencies of President Nelson … education, including an…
ArchiveChapter 9 Emotional desert: Prison, 1963 to 1985 by Denis Goldberg
… with, when you needed the most reassurance about your family, and over the years the authorities bowed to pressure … a particularly brilliant paper by…
ArticleMcGill University Project
… completed an exciting online collaboration with South African History Online (SAHO). Over the course of two months, … their work. The student essays formed…
Political Report of the National Executive Committee to the National Consultative Conference of the ANC by O. R. Tambo, Kabwe, Zambia, June 1985
… an open recognition of the fact that this pioneer of the African revolutionary movement, the ANC, is and will be at … the banner of genuine national…
ArchiveApartheid - a vigilant witness
… the first published book of photographs by a black South African]. Apartheid is violence. Violence is used to … years. A good starting point in the history…
Say It out Loud - Protest against the Women’s Enfranchisement Act, and the Franchise Amendment Bill, 1931
… Bill, 1931 1 The above two measures weakened the Coloured, African and Indian vote in the Cape in relation to the White … see what lies inside it. The…
ArticleAfricanist News and Views (1968-1973)
… to Africanist News and Views, was to galvanise the African people into a revolutionary force with a clearly defined political philosophy of an African…
ArticleTimeline of the Labour and Trade Union Movement in South Africa 1881 - 1919
… when the other black led political forces such as the African National Congress were moribund. 1881 December, The … at a De Beers Mine resulting in the death…
ArticleBisho Massacre 1992
… or Bantustan), amid tense negotiations between the African National Congress (ANC) and the South African government under President FW de Klerk. Prior to a ……
References and links: Local History
… [Accessed: 9 January 2015]. Online links South African History Online, (2014), “Constructing heritage and heritage resources” from South African History…
EventWinnie Madikizela Mandela, a stalwart in the fight against apartheid, passes away
… She passed away in the morning surrounded by her family and loved ones. Winnie is widely-known for the …