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EventANC President Oliver Tambo meets with Mikhail Gorbachev in Moscow
The African National Congress (ANC) leader, Oliver Tambo met Mikhail Gorbachev, General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU)’s Central…
PlaceCross erected by Bartholomew Dias
The original cross is currently housed in the Library of the University of the Witwatersrand, and was declared a National Monument under old NMC legislation on…
EventAbebe Bikila wins gold at Rome Olympic Games
Ethiopian Abebe Bikila, running barefoot, became the first Black African to win gold in the history of the Olympic Games. In the process Bikila set a new world…
EventKwame Nkrumah is released from jail
Kwame Nkrumah was arrested for leading a disturbing ‘positive action’ campaign in Ghana against British rule in 1950. He was released to lead the newly formed…
EventPrime Minister Vorster holds talks with Dr. Kissinger
South African Prime Minister Balthazar Johannes (B.J) Vorster held talks with the United States Secretary of State, Dr. Henry Kissinger, on 23 and 24 June in…
EventClarence Makwetu announces the PAC’s suspension of its armed struggle
The Pan-Africanist Congress (PAC) president Clarence Makwetu announced the PAC's suspension of its armed struggle, thus opening the way for election…
EventResumption of talks
African National Congress (ANC) President Nelson Mandela accepted an invitation for urgent talks with State President F.W. de Klerk on political violence…
EventNelson Mandela is elected Deputy President of the ANC
In 1990, at the opening of parliament, former state president F.W De Klerk made an unanticipated and startling statement when he asserted that Nelson Mandela…
EventMandela visits Zambia
Nelson Mandela started a seventeen-day foreign visit on 27 February, his first since 1962. Subsequent to his release from prison on 11 February 1990, after 27…
EventMarais Steyn dies
Former senior opposition and government politician Marais Steyn, died of heart failure at the age of 83 in Stellenbosch. His political career started in 1948,…
EventDe Klerk resigns as NP leader
Seven years after freeing Nelson Mandela and other political prisoners, F.W. de Klerk, former South African president announced his retirement as the leader of…
EventMax the gorilla is shot
A mountain gorilla, Max was shot and wounded as he grappled with a fleeing armed robber who jumped into his zoo enclosure. The suspect, Isaac Mofokeng, ducked…
EventHunter and politician Johannes Viljoen dies
Big-game hunter, commandant, politician and scout Johannes Willem Viljoen (Jan) died in the Marico district, Western Transvaal. Together with three other…
EventDeputy Minister of Defence attends commemoration of Delville Wood
Mluleki George, SA deputy defence minister, attended the 90th commemoration of the Battle of Delville Wood in France, which raged from 15 to 20 July 1916…
EventAmy Mollison sets a new world record when she flies from England to Cape Town in 3 days 6 hours and 26 minutes
Amy Mollison (Nee Johnson) was an English Aviator who set numerous flying records during the 1930’s. She married fellow aviator Jim Mollison and the couple…
PlaceClarkson, Eastern Cape
A Moravian Mission Village in the former Humansdorp District, 26 km South-East of Assegaaibos Railroad Station, located in Cacadu District Municipality. It…
ArchiveChapter 8 The Rivonia Trial by Denis Goldberg
The judge Is dressed in red and white the assessors in black and white the prosecutor in a hostage smile and I in the borrowed robes of my grandmother…
PlaceStellenbosch, Western Cape
This Historic Town, is a living Museum with a vibrant 'Street Culture'. The Town has a variety of soils and locations ideally suited to flourishing of a wide…
ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 2000 -2010
During this period the ANC consolidated its hold on power but also faced both internal and external challenges. Significantly, the National Party, which was…
ArchiveIntroduction by Howard Barrell
ENEMIES DEPEND UPON EACH OTHER to sustain their wars and, if neither is a clear-cut winner in that process, no less so if they make peace. This was so on…
ArchiveClass, Consciousness and Organisation: Introduction by Kumi Naidoo
This chapter comes from the book
Statement by Oliver Tambo on the National Executive Committee of the African National Congress on the 25th Anniversary of the formation of Umkhonto We Sizwe, 16 December 1986
Umkhonto We Sizwe - "Born of the people" This day 25 years ago bomb blasts in several main centres rocked South Africa. Thus was born Umkhonto we Sizwe, the…
"Umkhonto we Sizwe - Born of the People": Statement of the National Executive Comittee of the ANC on the 25th Anniversary of the Formation of Umkhonto we Sizwe by O. R. Tambo, 16 December 1986
This day 25 years ago bomb blasts in several main centres rocked South Africa. Thus was born Umkhonto we Sizwe, the People's Army of our country. By…
EventDesmond Dube was born on this day.
On 25 January 1969, South Afican celebrity Desmond Dube was born, the son of well known actress Lillian Dube. [1] He is an actor who had a role in well known…
PlaceEerste Rivier, Cape Town
Eerste River was a Railway Station of the Cape Town, Wellington and Docks Railway Co Ltd, and was probably established as a Village after 13 February 1862…
Not in My Neighbourhood Documentary
As cities around the world catapult themselves into ‘World Class’, Global City status, we have to ask ourselves, “at what cost”? "Not in My Neighbourhood…
PlaceAllanridge, Free State Province
Allanridge is a Gold Mining Town in the Lejweleputswa District Municipality of the Free State province in South Africa, 34 km North of Welkom. It was founded…
EventUnFreedom Day
On the 27th of April 2006 Abahlali BaseMjondolo (AbM) decided to host an “Unfreedom Day” to highlight how there is “no democracy for the poor”[1] and to…
EventFirst Indian workers arrive in South Africa
Sugar farming grew rapidly in the late 1800s in Natal as a result of very cheap “indentured labour” sourced from India. The first group of Indian workers…
PlaceFaculty of Health Sciences, UCT Observatory
The oldest medical school in South Africa, offer a variety of educational, training and academic career options within the context of health care and research …