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EventSelassie returns to Ethiopia after attempted coup
… Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie returned immediately to his country after a short successful coup launched on 13 … Brazil on a diplomatic mission. The coup…
EventBram Fischer dies
… Communist Party (SACP) Bram Fischer died of cancer at his brother Dr Paul Fischer's house in Bloemfontein. After news of his illness became known, liberal…
ANC hits back at Jimi Matthews
… has hit back at former SABC Acting CEO Jimi Matthews after his resignation on Monday, saying they expected better conduct from him. Matthews says his exit…
EventDavid Kitson released
… Kitson, was released, seven months short of completing his twenty-year sentence for sabotage. Kitson, an engineer by profession, was sentenced in December…
The purpose of the Archie Mafeje Annual Memorial Lecture by Sehlare Makgetlaneng (Pambazuka News), 31 March, 2016
… a means to solve Africa’s problems. The annual lecture in his honour immortalizes his perspectives. The Programme Director, Africa Institute of … Archie…
ANC President Jacob Zuma to speak at the Imvuselelo one Million Membership Countdown Launch, 16 July 2011
… Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK) was arrested during the height of apartheid. President Zuma will speak on the Imvuselelo one …
Grassroots
… oppression and injustice, and building opposition against apartheid. …
EventNational Arts Festival celebrates 37 years in Grahamstown
… for political and protest theatre during the height of the apartheid era, and it still offers an opportunity for …
EventDr Abrahams to be returned to Bechuanaland
… in its Report of the Special Committee on the policies of apartheid of the Government of the Republic of South Africa …
EventGeraldine Fraser is born
… such as Geraldine Fraser-Moleketi in the struggle against apartheid is celebrated. …
EventThe African National Congress (ANC) calls a meeting to chart a way forward for the Defiance Campaign
… 'defiers' were imprisoned for peacefully refusing to obey apartheid laws. The campaign, which carried on into 1953, …
EventANC adopts the Programme of Action
… party and its determination to implement a policy of apartheid. The ANC, inspired by the desire to achieve …
EventCar bomb explodes outside Air Force headquarters
… was considered to be purely cosmetic. In retaliation, the apartheid government launched an attack on the Mozambiquan …
EventA car bomb explodes at Ellis Park Rugby Stadium
… a message to the White community regarding the futility of apartheid as a system. Ellis Park was chosen as a target as …
EventSA President P.W Botha meets with leaders of independent homelands
… to their race. This meeting was held at the time when the apartheid government was put under extreme pressure as unrest …
EventThe consortium Midi Television is awarded the first privately owned free
… broadcaster as a means to disseminate propaganda, as the Apartheid government had done. References: Burger, D. …
EventThe peace talks between the African National Congress (ANC) and the Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) are called off
… its alliance partners on the one hand and the IFP and the apartheid government on the other escalated into a crisis …
EventZuid-Afrikaansche Republiek decides that December 16 will be a public holiday called Dingaan’s Day
… December 16 continued to form part of the history of post apartheid South Africa. On 16 December 1995 the name was …
EventPrime Minister B.J. Vorster predicts South Africa will become leading state in the Southern Africa
… and Soviet-backed states eager to contribute to bringing apartheid in South Africa to an end. From the mid 1990s …
EventFirst United Nations General Assembly opens
… has debated crucial issues over the years, including apartheid in South Africa UNO is simply a more refined …
EventNelson Mandela is born
… Fort Hare University after he met Oliver Tambo, who became his life-long friend. In 2009, the United Nations, declared … president of South Africa in 1994…
EventXhosa hero Maqoma dies on Robben Island
… to the murder of a tribal chief who had refused to destroy his cattle. Maqoma and his wife Katyi were banished to Robben Island for twenty-one … after being…
EventTito Mboweni, former Governor of the SA Reserve Bank, is born in Tzaneen
… on 16 March 1959, in Tzaneen Limpopo. After completing his high school studies, he registered for a Bachelor of … into exile in Lesotho in 1980, before he…
EventTwo psychiatrists give evidence on the proceedings of David Beresford Pratt’s case
… Beresford Pratt, two psychiatrists gave evidence about his mental condition. The case was heard at the Supreme Court … mark the anniversary of the Union of…
Address by President Thabo Mbeki at the SA-USA Business and Finance Forum, Roosevelt Hotel, New York, 23 September 1999
… government has committed itself to be a 'a nation at work'. By this we mean that we are a government that is … in succession. In line with the spirit of a…
EventPresident Barack Obama visits South Africa
… On 29 June 2013 President Barack Obama, accompanied by his family, made his first visit to South Africa since he was elected President of the United States…
Statement of the African National Congress and the South African Tamil Federation National Working Committee, 14 November 2014
… policies in the public and private sectors concerning work seekers; Creating more economic opportunities for Tamil …
Known as Black Tuesday’, the New York Stock exchange collapsed sending economic shockwaves throughout the world and throwing the global economy into depression
… a living on their farms. Likewise farm workers had to seek work in the cities due to the closure of farming production. …
EventThe Native Land Act is passed
… farmers for more agricultural land and force Blacks to work as labourers. …
ArchiveAll That Glitters - Bridging two worlds by Emilia Potenza
… farms, on the mines or doing some other form of work in the towns. Behind the scenes of the world of the … hungry mines For many young men the Land Act meant…