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Says no to xenophobia, 19 April 2015
… The African National Congress has emphatically denounced attacks … to a stakeholder forum that will bring together voices of African compatriots against this…
My Spirit Is Not Banned - Resources by Frances Baard and Barbie Schreiner
… Frances Baard and Barbie Schreiner The Federation of South African Women's Papers, University of the Witwatersrand … Ravan Press, 1983. Interview with…
ArchiveMafika Gwala Second Annual Lecture and Book Launch, 5 October 2016
… Mafika Pascal Gwala Annual lecture was initiated by South African History Online in 2015 and is run in partnership with … and Social Sciences (NIHSS). Gwala…
EventCape Colony Prime Minister opposes War
… in the Cape Colony at the start of Anglo-Boer War 2 (South African War), summarised the pssure his government has put on the Zuid-Afrikaansche Republiek (ZAR…
EventAlfred Milner becomes High Commissioner and Governor of the Cape Province
… heightened growing tension between Britain and the South African Republic (Transvaal). With his rigid attitude he … a prominent role in events leading up to…
EventActress and teacher Wilhelmina Freund is born
… Germany, when her parents, who were South African German immigrants, were on a visit to Germany. On … she was appointed as teacher of elocution at the South…
Tribute To Michael Harmel: Oration At Funeral In Prague, June 24, 1974
… pay homage to Comrade Michael Harmel, an outstanding South African revolutionary whose whole life was unconditionally … draft of our Party's new programme, …
Analysis: Is South Africa doing enough to prevent heritage flight? by Rebecca Davis (Daily Maverick), 07 March 2017, South Africa
… David Goldblatt was the first South African to be granted one of the art world’s major benchmarks … on the campus. It is not just on universities that South…
ANC Secretary General meeting former political prisoners on the Cuban Five, 21 May 2010
… unionists - incarcerated in Miami, United States, in 1998, African National Congress (ANC) Secretary General Gwede … is today (21 May 2010) holding a meeting…
EventMafika Gwala born
… South African poet, writer and BCM member Mafika Gwala was born … activities firstly joining National Union of South African Students (NUSAS) that later…
EventPolice swoop down on the homes of Congress of the People leaders across the country, the arrests led to the Treason Trial
… Congress of the People Conference in June 1955, the South African Police raided the homes and offices of those who had … number of documents. At dawn on 5…
EventHarold Strachan is served with restriction order
… Harold Strachan, former South African Air Force pilot in World War 2 and member of the … (CPSA) and Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK), the armed wing of the African…
EventFormer anti-apartheid activist, Allan Boesak accuses ANC
… or referring to himself as Coloured in 1970, but the African National Congress (ANC) has made him "Coloured" again … descent) and contribute to the…
EventSibusiso Vilane tells about his conquest of Everest
… game ranger, Sibusiso Vilane, became the first Black South African to reach the top of Mount Everest, an 8 848m … peak, one of the world's highest. Vilane,…
EventSamora Machel pledges solidarity with the people of South Africa
… Machel of Mozambique pledged solidarity with the South African people, in reaction to the massacre on 30 January … weSizwe (MK) cadres were killed. Machel,…
Book 6: Negotiation, Transition and Freedom commissioned by The Department of Education
… "The most talked-about turning point in South African history is the 1994 transfer of political power from the National Party (NP) to the African National…
Umberto Eco on the Merits of Studying History (and the Terrors of Losing It) by Charles Chu (The Polymath Project), 24 September 2017
… were tested by bludgeoning the victim to determine if any areas were still frozen. Variations of these tests in more …
Frederik Van Zyl Slabbert: Former Leader of the Opposition in the Whites-Only Parliament, and co-founder of Idasa interviewed by Rupert Taylor and Adam Habib, 24 March 1998, Johannesburg
… this institute? and we called it Idasa, it had a sort of African ring to it. And we made it quite clear from the … the top security guys spread the rumour…
EventWillie Smith, South Africa’s bantamweight champion boxer is born
… ↵ [iii] David van Lill, Van Lill’s South African Sports Trivia (Cape Town: Zebra Press, 2005), p. 190. ↵ [iv] David van Lill, Van Lill’s South African Sports…
EventFIFA World Cup is staged in Africa for the first time
… (FIFA), the World Cup was staged in Africa. Five African nations vied for the right to host the FIFA World Cup … when South Africa defeated Morocco and Egypt…
EventThe first Cape to Rio yacht race takes place
… Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) took place on this day. SAS (South African Ships) Tafelberg served as guardship for the voyage … and Salvador in Brazil. The race was…
EventSA troops invade East Africa in their confrontation with German forces in World War I
… South West Africa be fully launched. On 5 March 1916 South African Troops, led by General Jan Smuts , invaded East … and 2 500 people of mixed race and…
SACTU press release in ‘New Age’, 22 November 1962
… B. (1980). Organize or Starve! The History of the South African Congress of Trade Unions , New York: International … with no voice to say 'NO'? And when he…
EventAmerican President Ronald Reagan reverses his earlier stance on South Africa and agrees to limited sanctions
… and Reagan administrations had tried to influence South African governments by working with them discreetly in a … Washington was concerned the ANC's…
EventTwo ANC members gunned down in Swaziland.
… On 4 June 1986, two African National Congress members, Sipho Dlamini and Busi … a well informed policeman from Swaziland told the South African Press Agency…
ArchiveInterview with Julius Nyerere
… to work on the revitalization of the Tanganyika African National Union (TANU), the country's ruling party. In May 1963 the Organization of African Unity was…
ArchiveAfrica South Vol.4 No.1 Oct-Dec 1959
… Julius Nyerere. Durban Explodes, Myrna Blumberg. The African in Industry, Brian Bunting. The African on the Farm, Ben Turok M.P.C. The new Serfdom, James ……
EventChief Cyprian Zulu warns his people not to participate in the Defiance Campaign
… to the enactment of numerous apartheid laws by the South African government. During the African National Congress (ANC) Annual Conference in December ……
EventANC, COSATU and SACTU issues a joint statement in Lusaka
… The South African Congress of Trade Unions (SACTU), the Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU) and the African National Congress (ANC) issued a…
EventA plan limiting admission of black students in white universities is withdrawn
… character. The history of institutional racism in South African universities dates back to the 19th century. It … government. The 1916 legislation…