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EventDefiance campaign leadership meets with SAIC
… Executive members meet with the leadership of South African Indian Congress (SAIC) to recommend a massive … conferences. The Defiance campaign was adopted by…
EventThe SA 6th Division enters Florence in World War II
… At the outbreak of World War II in 1939, the South African government was divided on the issue of participation. … in defeating Benito Mussolini's troops in…
ArchiveMeeting between the Honorable R F Botha, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Ambassador H Nickel of the United States: Cape Town, 12 March 1984
… Minutes of a meeting between the South African Foreign Affairs Minister, Pik Botha and the American … Mr H Nickel, about a statement made by the South…
EventPhakisa Freeway opens
… End Notes [i] David van Lill, Van Lill’s South African Sports Trivia (Cape Town: Zebra Press, 2005), p. 210. ↵ [ii] David van Lill, Van Lill’s South African…
EventUmkhonto We Sizwe, military wing of the ANC, claims responsibility for power station blast
… "Spear of the Nation", was the active military wing of the African National Congress (ANC). It was formed in co-operation with the South African Communist…
EventWWII: SA troops to fight in Europe
… South African prime minister, General J.C. Smuts, asked … that SA troops would only fight in Africa. The Sixth South African Armoured Division, the most…
PlaceHawaan Forest, Umhlanga
… bushbuck, bush-pig, mongoose, tiny duiker, scrub hair, African rock python, dwarf chameleon, coast purple tip …
Interview with Oliver Tambo by Zimbabwe Television (ZTV), 05 August 1983, Harare
… which showed that Pretoria would always be harassing African independent States "on one pretext or another." … that Zimbabwe had to do the explaining, not…
ArchiveFacts about the current situation in South Africa and what is to be done
… African National Congress report on the current situation in South Africa and how to respond. Examines the South African regime, the Black Consciousness…
ArticleAbstracts presented for the 1973 Durban Strikes Conference
… Government, The Trade Union Congress, and Black South African Trade Unionism, 1973 to 1994 by Dan Feather … Factory by Sithembiso Bhengu The Changing Nature…
EventKwame Nkrumah is released from jail
… security and an advanced economy. A firm believer in African liberation, Nkrumah pursued a radical pan-African policy, playing a key role in the formation of…
EventDe Klerk resigns as NP leader
… and other political prisoners, F.W. de Klerk, former South African president announced his retirement as the leader of … leadership where banned liberation…
EventDeputy Minister of Defence attends commemoration of Delville Wood
… lives in a fierce battle in the woods, dubbed by South African soldiers as the 'Devil's Woods'. During the commemoration ceremony, a new South African coat…
EventJames La Guma dies
… trade unionist and political activist, member of the South African Communist Party (SACP) and president of the South African Coloured People's Organisation…
EventCastro decides to send troops to Angola to fight South Africa
… to liberation movements in Southern Africa such as the African National Congress (ANC), the Zimbabwe African People's Union (ZAPU) and the South West African…
Entering Namibia without visas
… of anyone entering the territory without a visa from South African authorities. [A delegation from the UN Ad Hoc … South West Africa in 1961 with the…
South Africa: Liberation and Reconciliation Role of International Solidarity, 8 April 2004
… because people around the world marched with the South African people in the long struggle that led to those … of apartheid and were inspired by the vision…
Chapter 11
… African National Congress Now it is not so difficult to … different matter, however, with the third obstacle, the African National Congress . The people find…
EventESCOM announces its decision to order two nuclear power reactors from France
… On 29 May 1976, the South African Electricity Supply Commission (ESKOM) announced its … pressure due to the Apartheid policies of the South African State…
EventAbolition of Internal Security Act
… upon that the new structure of the police and the South African Defence Force (SADF) was to be put in place. The South African Police (SAP) was to be…
EventSA troops withdraw from Angola
… The South African government withdrew its military forces from Angola … and South West Africa (later renamed Namibia). The South African government…
EventApartheid bomb kills Zimbabwean and injures six ANC members
… Mr Obed Amon Mwanza, a Zimbabwean, was killed and six African National Congress (ANC) members were injured when the … outside an ANC transit house in…
EventConstructors make mass grave finding in Namibia
… made that two mass graves were found at a former South African Defence Force base, Eenhana, in northern Namibia. … The bones were suspected to be those of…
EventThe SA government gives limited powers of internal self-government to Damaraland
… had skills in mining and metal work. In 1960, the South African government settled the Damara in Damaraland, an area … soil and irregular rain fall. On 4…
PlaceSunset Beach, Cape Town
… Golf Course, next door! There are 5 small Parking Areas scattered between the upmarket homes of Sunset Beach, …
PlaceAshton, Route 62
The little Village of Ashton is famous for its; Fruit, Wine and Rose Nurseries. Ashton originally served as a Settlement Area for the Employees of one of the…
PlaceTarkastad, Eastern Cape
Set against the dramatic Winterberg Mountains, between Cradock and Queenstown, only three hours from Port Elizabeth, Tarkastad is a typical Karoo town on the…
PlaceClairwood Hospital, Durban
… community served by the hospital are from the following areas: Lamontville; Mobeni; Merebank; Woodlands; Montclair; …
ArticleThe Pietermaritzburg Treason Trial, 1984
… Isaac Ngcobo. The last four were all members of the South African Allied Workers Union (SAAWU), while the others were … violently. The UDF was used by its…
PlaceJohannesburg Art Gallery
… and the Witwatersrand. She was of English-speaking South African descent and her husband, like many others among the … space is given over to the permanent…