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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…
PlaceRwanda
… of the Mwami” [cx] . In this letter they rejected any claims to brotherhood between Tutsi and Hutu and argued that … of its national mineral resources by…
PlaceUniversity of Stellenbosch
… in the 20th century. Between 1919 and 1978 each South African prime minister had been an alumnus of the university … of its students and staff. On the 29 May…
David Goldblatt’s Portraits of Ex-Convicts at the Scenes of their Crimes by Max Campbell, 6 October 2016
… at the Scene of the Crime,” a series by the South African photographer David Goldblatt, we see an older woman … Another subject, Hennie Gerber, joined the…
Address To The Nation On National Women’s Day, 9 August 1999
… them to reach their full potential and are themselves the African pioneers leading all of us into the African century which should also be the century for…