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Freedom In Our Life Time - African Nationalism
… From the book: Freedom In Our Life Time by Anton Muziwakhe Lembede 14. "africanism," T.A.S.A. … several brilliant and scholarly speeches, there was one by…
Visit of Graca Machel, 9 October 1991
… A delegation from Mozambique, led by Mrs Graca Machel, and a delegation of South Africans led by ANC National Chairman Oliver Tambo - comprising in total ……
ArchiveMarxism and history: twenty years of South African Marxist studies
… developments. The early Marxist approach was constituted by the climate of political repression and economic growth in South Africa during the 1960's by its…
Searchlight South Africa: a Marxist journal of South African Studies
… a Marxist journal of South African Studies was founded by Baruch Hirson from 1988-1993, and to a large extent written by him in collaboration with other…
EventDemocratic Republic of Somali is formed
… situated on the eastern coast of Africa and bordered by the Gulf of Aden and the Indian Ocean, were occupied by the two colonial powers since the early 19th…
EventSouth West African People’s Organisation (SWAPO) is founded to oppose South African rule
… South West Africa (presently Namibia) on 19 April 1960 by Herman Toivo Ya Toivo. The party was originally formed to … leading party following independence in…
EventSA artist Mizream Maseko is born
… his career as a house painter and was inspired to paint by the works he saw in the houses. Maseko gave up house … and pictures on scarves in a small shop. He…
EventJacob Matlala, SA flyweight, wins the World Boxing Organisation world champion title
… Matlala had been introduced to boxing at a young age by his father, and turned professional in 1979. Under the … (IBA) Flyweight title in 1997. Matlala was…
EventMa Tambo dies in Johannesburg
… politics at the age of 10 after her grandfather was beaten by police. By 18, she was a branch chairman of the ANC and spent her … service at Wattville…
EventThe DG for Transport, Mr. A.B. Eksteen, outlines plans for a marine line along the SA coast
… the work of existing services such as those provided by Sea Fisheries, the National Sea Rescue Institute (NSRI), aircraft and vessels operated by the…
PlaceWalter Sisulu National Botanical Garden, Krugersdorp/Roodepoort
… youngest of the nine National Botanical Gardens managed by the South African National Biodiversity Institute. The … Councils made the establishment of the…
EventThe fall of the fortress town of Tobruk
… as well as the tactical superior strategies employed by Rommel. Before the fall of Tobruk, Klopper had allowed the … would not have much stomach for a…
EventUnesco lists Robben Island as a World Heritage Site
… is located off the coast Cape Town and was named as such by Dutch explorers who encountered many seals on the island. It was however, discovered in 1488 by…
Nelson Mandela Letter to F.W. de Klerk, 9 July 1992
… to a secondary place. The matter is made worse by the factual inaccuracies, distortions and blatant party … to the South African conflict need to be…
PlaceSimon's Town, Cape Peninsula
… dockyard facility was first established in Simon’s Town by the Dutch East India Company in 1743. This was taken over by the British Royal Navy in the 1790's,…
53. The significance of the settlement for the colonial-born India
… A Documentary History of Indian South Africans edited by Surendra Bhana and Bridglal Pachai In the following … born of the Passive Resistance Movement…
74. The Freedom Charter, 1955
… A Documentary History of Indian South Africans edited by Surendra Bhana and Bridglal Pachai There were some 2 844 … been robbed of their birthright to land,…
PlaceChad
… Chad as a nation state [v] . Post-colonial Chad was marred by both a small scale war with Libya and a protracted … first as the Duguwa Kingdom, and then,…
Chapter 8 - The politics of Congress in the late 1950s
… From: Lessons of the 1950s By Richard Monroe, March-May 1984 Chapter 8 - The politics of … opposition of the ruling class and its state machine, only by…
WE HAVE THE KEY TO FREEDOM NOT THE OPPRESSOR, December 16, 1957
… but, Thank God, I can still speak to you in absentia, by the written word through the medium of a proxy whom I … The Nationalist Government, alarmed and…
Memorandum from Nelson Mandela to F. W. de Klerk, 26 June 1992
… placing party political interests above national interests by trying to minimise the seriousness of this crisis. 4. … We are of the view that the response…
I - Introduction
… From the book: No.46 - Steve Biko by Hilda Bernstein, 1978, South Africa This is the year, … political detainee known to have died under interrogation by…
PlaceChapman's Peak Drive, Hout Bay to Fish Hoek
… In 1915, with the use of convict labour supplied by the newly formed Union Government, construction began from … Mountain’ was opened to traffic on Saturday…
X - Counsel’s Submission on behalf of the Biko Family
… From the book: No.46 - Steve Biko by Hilda Bernstein, 1978, South Africa These are the … of 6 Sept 1977. At night he was handcuffed, and shackled by leg…
PlaceOak-Villa Cottage, Baviaanskloof Road
… cottage, consisting of three rooms, was erected in 1850 by the then owner Mr. Trautman as a second dwelling house. It was later occupied by his son Fred…
PlaceHarbour Board Building, Port Elizabeth
… Building was used for 70 years for harbor administration by the South African Railways and Harbours, in Port … announced the name change. The foundation…
Famous Gatsha Buthelezi Editorial in SASM Newsletter, April 1973
… much super. When Chief Buthelezi was invited to Holland by four World Organisations, he accepted the invitation. … to undertake this trip, he was game. Again…
EventOver 400 Kikuyu suspected to be part of the Mau Mau movement are arrested in Kenya
… overthrown in a bloodless military coup and was replaced by Lieutenant Moussa Traore. Continuing with economic reform, the new government was constantly…
EventUSA drops atomic bomb on Nagasaki
… War broke out with the German invasion of Poland in 1939. By 1941, the Japanese had launched a military strike on the United States by attacking their naval…
EventMK hero cadre Solomon Kalushi (Khala) Mahlangu is executed
… Solomon Kalushi (Khala) Mahlangu was executed by the Apartheid regime for being part of an abortive attempt by African National Congress (ANC) members to…