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EventEleven people are killed at Donnybrook, Kwazulu
… supporters of the Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) and the African National Congress (ANC). This rivalry reached its … J.A.; Schoeman, E. & Andor, L.E. (eds)(1999…
EventPresident Mandela addresses the National assembly of Mali
… Mandela mentioned the many challenges still faced by African nations. He and urged the assembled politicians to … African National Congress Speeches [online…
EventSouth Africa concludes an agreement with the Marconi Company for a high
… During the South African War in 1899, Marconi wireless equipment was tested in …
EventThe first SARS case is suspected in South Africa
… On 9 April 2003, a 62-year-old South African man was treated at a Pretoria hospital as a possible … [Accessed: 8 April 2014]| CNN.com,(2003), First African…
EventEducationist George Molefe is born
… conditions, he received the 'Freedom of Port Elizabeth's African Townships' in 1973 in recognition of his efforts to … Sonderling, N.E. (ed.) New Dictionary…
EventThree cases of Buboinic plague are reported in Cape Town
… being forced to move to the periphery of the city. African people and their residential areas were cited by the … Boddy-Evans, A. ‘This Day in African…
Event5,580 Egyptian prisoners of war are exchanged for four Israelis held by Egyptian troops
… was one of the most important events in the history of African independence. The fallout from this unsuccessful … Boddy-Evans A. ‘This Day in African History…
EventChiliboy Ralepelle becomes the first black player to lead the Springboks against a World XV in England
… recently (April 2019) been tested positive by the South African Institute for Drug-Free Sport for the banned drug … Who’s who Chiliboy Ralepelle South…
EventNicolaas Jacobus Smit, Vice-President of the ZAR, is born in Graaff-Reinet.
… in the Anglo-Transvaal War and Vice-President of the South African Republic (SAR), was born at Doornbos, Graaff-Reinet …
EventUnion of South Africa officially ceases to exist
… of Commonwealth Prime Ministers held in London, the South African Prime Minister, H.F. Verwoerd formally announced that …
EventPhambili Ka Ntloko, national organiser of AZAPO, is born
… a high school student, Ntloko became involved in the South African Students’ Movement (SASM), a black consciousness … Gastrow S. ‘Who’s who in South African…
EventMaggie Laubser, SA painter and winner of several awards, dies
… artist in Berlin, Germany. She was elected to the South African Society of Artists (SASA) in recognition of her …
EventA booby-trapped TV kills Tsitsi Chiliza, wife of an ANC official in Harare, Zimbabwe
… living in Zimbabwe, regardless of whether they were South African or Zimbabwean. The bomb blasted the second floor of … www.apnewsarchive.com [accessed on 16…
EventThe passive resistance movement begins with a mass meeting of 2000 Africans
… of passes. The demonstrations were peaceful. The South African Native National Congress (SANNC) had even hired … African National Congress Campaign against…
EventDr Hendrik Johannes van der Bijl, SA industrialist who laid the foundation for the establishment of Escom and Iscor, is born in Pretoria
… his sights on the steel industry and established the South African Steel and Iron Corporation (Iscor). Van der Bijl died …
EventEx-mutineers consider resigning from the ANC
… 1989, ex-mutineers in exile considered resigning from the African National Congress (ANC). This came after the …
PlaceStatue Of Cecil John Rhodes, in the Company's Gardens
… Company’s Garden on a secondary axis of the Iziko South African Museum . The original plan was to use the Statue as a …
2007 ANC National Policy Conference: Report of the Commission on Peace and Stability, 30 June 2007, Gallagher Estate
… and control of the National Commissioner of the South African Police Service be implemented so that the … Special Operations (Scorpions) be located within…
Mines of the beloved country: Through the mind of a photographer and essayist by J Brooks Spector (Daily Maverick), 5 November 2012
… the dark moral landscape that was South Africa, a South African colleague insisted we walk from our office in … Among the books on display were volumes of…
Mobilise Our Black Power - Statement to the People of South Africa on the Tenth Anniversary of Umkhonto we Sizwe by O. R. Tambo, 16 December 1971
… system of racist oppression of the blacks. New Order The African National Congress of South Africa has remained … represent the unbreakable will and…
Address at a Banquet at the Guildhall London, 13 June 2001
… We cherish a real hope of success, in company with other African nations working tirelessly for the same cause. We are hard at work on an African Recovery…
Albertina Sisulu, Freedom Fighter
… national President of the multi-racial Federation of South African Women. Born 70 years ago, in Cofimvaba in the … a member of the executive of the…
XI - The Verdict
… Nobody can say. But I didn't know . . . Every South African must now answer to his own conscience ... and submit … English language broadcast for abroad on 5…
Pridekit - Enoch Sontonga
… Mgqibisa, the daughter of a prominent minister in the African Methodist Episcopal Church. She died in 1929, in … On 8 January 1912, at the first meeting of…
Kora: A Lost Khoisan Language of the early Cape and the Gariep by Menán du Plessis - Acknowledgement
… Documentation Programme at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, who in 2011 awarded us … F. Maingard, which appeared in two…
Statement on Human Rights Year by Oliver Tambo, 01 June 1968
… of all the practices, policies and laws of the South African State. For our people therefore, the adoption of the … Declaration was inevitable. The…
ArchiveHugh Lewin, 1939–2019, RIP by Jennifer Malec, 17 January 2019
… to seven years in prison for his activities in the African Resistance Movement, a small group of activists that … in London in 1974 as Bandiet: Seven Years…
Address to a Joint Session of the Parliament of Pakistan Islamabad, 4 May 1999
… and developing nations. Pakistan's close relations with African countries, and her influence in bodies such as the … between our regional organisations, the…
Address by President Mandela on receiving the freedom of the city of Cape Town Cape Town, 27 November 1997
… achievement. It is rather a tribute to our whole South African nation. I humbly accept it in their name. Cape Town's … cultures, priceless threads in the…
Speech by President Nelson Mandela at a banquet in honour of her majesty Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands Pretoria, 30 September 1996
… could start the snowball rolling in setting off general African resentment against the passes. This could catapult … falling off of popular support for the…