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EventTwelve people are killed in Daveyton
… to open fire when the crowd attacked them, while the African National Congress (ANC) claimed that its supporters …
EventANC and IFP joint peace rally is called off
… The African National Congress (ANC) called off a peace rally to …
EventChris Hani succeeds Joe Slovo as Chief of MK
… who had been appointed general secretary of the South African Communist Party (SACP). MK was intensifying its …
EventThe ship São José is wrecked
… About 1300 ships have been wrecked on or near the South African coast since the year 1500. …
EventTsotsi wins Academy Award
… On 6 March 2006, the South African film Tsotsi, starring young actors Presley …
EventDumisani Makhaye passes away
… Housing and Traditional Affairs and member of the African National Congress (ANC), Dumisani Makhaye, succumbed …
EventThe 4 x 100m men’s relay team win the gold medal for SA at the Olympic Games in Athens
… The South African squad of Roland Schoeman, Lyndon Ferns, Darian …
EventCosatu celebrates its 18 th anniversary
… The Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) celebrated its 18th anniversary …
EventBotha pleads not guilty to contempt charges
… Former South African President P.W. Botha appeared in court in George, …
EventNew ANC National Working Committee is elected
… The African National Congress (ANC) announced the names of …
EventFormer SADF Chief Tienie Groenewald is acquitted
… Former South African Defence Force (SADF) Chief Tienie Groenewald was … J.A.; Schoeman, E. & Andor, L.E. (eds)(1999). Southern African Political History: a…
EventSheila Cussons is born
… South African poet Sheila Cussons was born at Moravia, near …
EventAllison Wessels George (Mhlongo) Champion is born
… of J.T. Gumede, Champion became an executive member of the African National Congress (ANC). … Verwey, E.J. (ed)(1995). New Dictionary of South African…
EventSpringboks wallop Scotland
… After the demise of Apartheid, the South African rugby team, (Springboks/Amabokoboko) went to …
EventMauritius gains independence
… different nationalities - descendents of Chinese, Indian, African and European immigrants and slaves all make up its … at: www.mongabay.com [Accessed on 21…
EventPretoria’s first Black mayor
… of Mamelodi High School and chairman of the South African Democratic Teachers Union (SADTU). On 24 November …
EventKaiser Matanzima of Transkei announces his intention to retire from the Presidency
… However, in 1986 Matanzima was forced by the South African government to retire from the presidency. He was … South African History Online , ‘Kaiser…
EventStudents protest at the University of Fort Hare
… on 7 August 1973. The students’ organization, the South African Students Organisation (SASO) was held responsible for … at www.sahistory.org.za (Accessed: 22…
ArchiveLetter from John Daniel, President, to University Principals and others
… at the 44th Annual Congress of the National Union of South African Students, 30 June-9 July 1968. Also included: …
ArchiveLetter from R F Botha to The Honourable Alexander H Haig Jr, Secretary of State, United States of America
… Incudes the response of 23 September 1981, of the South African Government to the message of the Governments of …
Michael Mosoue Moerane, pianist, choirmaster and composer, is born in Gumtree, Basutoland (now Lesotho). He died in Gumtree in
… uncle to Thabo Mbeki and Marumo Moerane. He was the first African BMus graduate in South Africa (1941) and remains the … Sonderling, N.E. (ed.) New…
EventFormer Presidents de Klerk and Nelson Mandela are joint recipients of the Nobel Peace Prize.
… This meant the release of anti-apartheid activist and African National Congress leader Nelson Mandela. Mandela and …
ArchiveCosatu News
… Cosatu News, published by COSATU, the Congress of South African Trade Unions, documents the struggle of workers to …
EventSouth Africa Grants independence to Venda and Gazankulu homelands
… falling short of full diplomatic recognition. The African National Congress (ANC) objected to the creation of …
ArchiveStudent walkouts have changed history before. In South Africa, one helped end apartheid by DeNeen L. Brown (The Washington Post), 14 March 2018
… Hector Pieterson, a 12-year-old South African boy, was one of the first students to die. On June … Johannesburg, defiance came at a terrible cost. South…
“Let us dream you, forbidden landscape”: the Storming project sings change, 17 July 2017
… world, it can obscure as much as it reveals. Today’s South African political music is rarely written about: even when … ( Dubul’ iBhunu ), it is prosecuted…
Our Souls dwelt in the House of Tomorrow: The student Committee of 81 by Nicky van Driel
… on 19 April 1980, high school and tertiary students in the African, Coloured and Indian areas of the Western Cape … in both rural and urban areas, and…
Document 64 - Letter from the Workers’ Party of South Africa to the International Secretariat of the International Communist League (B-L), 1 July 1936
… time of writing there is being held in Bloemfontein an All African Convention to which all political organisations that … the Chamber of Mines, the bourgeois…
PlaceChris Hani Baragwanath Hospital, Johannesburg
… the Secretary of State in London formally asked the South African Government if it would provide health care facilities … 1947). Post war plans were already…
The Role of the Missionaries in conquest - Chapter XII - End and Beginning
… for the mines, the farms, the towns. In other words, African labour was to be exploited in order to build up the South African State, but the Black man was…