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EventA strong delegation of the ANC NEC members arrives at Caculam, Angola
… Executive Committee (NEC) members arrived at Caculama, the main training centre of the ANC’s military wing, Umkhonto we …
Observatory - Steeped in History and Heritage by Patric Mallet
… in Cape Town and had premises on both sides of the Lower main Road. On the one side feed and pigeons and on the … would become Observatory. The area from…
ArticleSALDRU Newspaper Clippings Archive 1974 - 2000
… around the country. Cuttings were then sorted into some 89 main subject headings (from Africa & Agriculture to the World …
The Triumph of the Radicals, 1939-1946
… Radicals, 1939-1946 4. War Issue In February 1933, the two main white political parties, the Nationalists and the SAP, … on Britain being victorious…
Indian Community
… lived in cramped yards, sharing a communal toilet. The main areas that Indians occupied were beyond the Umgeni … Act meant the expropriation of Indian…
ArticleAlbertina Sisulu and the organisations she was connected to
… especial before Walter was imprisoned, it was not her main connection to political activism and there were other … league, she also played an integral role…
EventNational Arts Festival celebrates 37 years in Grahamstown
… running for 10 days in June and July. It consists of a Main programme and Fringe programmes, all of which are …
EventMembers of the ANC and SACP are detained due to Operation Vula
… an underground operation called Operation Vula. The main objectives of this operation were to smuggle freedom …
EventF.W. de Klerk clamps down on KwaZulu
… to the failure of constitutional procedures as the main reason for the declaration of the emergency. …
ArchiveCuito Cuanavale, Angola 25th Anniversary of a Historic African Battle by Ronnie Kasrils (Monthly Review), Africa, Angola
… battle’s outcome some background is required. The early 1960s had seen the emergence of armed liberation movements in … South Africa’s peace negotiations in…
Education Feature from Frene Ginwala's Thesis
… of school going age were receiving education and the main burden was borne by mission schools. According to a … school system that was still operating in…
ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 1866-1909
… Native Congress (NNC) is officially inaugurated. “The main aims of the Congress were to cultivate a political …
Launch of uMkhonto weSizwe (MK)
… and coffee”¦we planted this bomb at the door of the main office of the pass office in Ordinance Road. When we …
PlaceMelville Koppies Nature Reserve, Judith Road, Johannesburg
… at all, but in the band of conglomerate which formed the main reef. Since then these rocks have produced 40% of the … at all, but in the band of conglomerate…
Chapter 12 - Blind alley of guerrillaism
… was coming into existence in South Africa in the early 1960s - or could be brought about by a guerrilla struggle. … movement had become divided and confused…
PlaceGordonia Division
… which joins the Orange River just north of Augrabies. The main industries are stock-farming (cattle,Karakul and other …
Notes on the Life of Ernest Cole 1940–1990 by Gunilla Knape
… in the harshest and most threatening of situations.The main focus of Cole’s photography was his commitment to …
EventPaarl Riots report submitted
… report on the 1962 Paarl Riots. The report analysed the main causes of the riots, and included information on Poqo, …
EventThe Bethal Treason Trial resumes
… Mothopeng and seventeen others). The defendants faced two main charges under the Terrorism Act, and a number of …
EventRobert Mugabe assures the SADC that the 9-10 March election in Zimbabwe would be free and fair
… violence broke out largely against the MDC which was the main opposition. The rising tensions in Zimbabwe after the …
EventThe siege of Mafeking starts
… Northern Cape (now North West Province), situated on the main railway line to Rhodesia (Zimbabwe) and the Bechuanaland … Cloete, P.G. (2000). The Anglo-Boer…
PlaceHout Bay, Atlantic Seaboard- Western Cape
… Mountain . Its beautiful heavily wooded Valley became the main source of timber for the building and repairs of ships …
EventSir John Frederick William Herschel dies
… database of southern African science, s2a3.up.ac.za/bio/Main.php, as on Tuesday 06 May 2008. …
PlaceWupperthal Mission Station, Clanwilliam
… is dried and worked into rolls ( roltabak ). The other main products of the area are dried fruit , dried beans and …
PlaceSun City, Rustenburg
… which kept him at work for the greater part of the 1960s. Later his reputation was such that that he could rely …
ArticleBlack Consciousness Movement of Azania (BCMA)
… of support from newly independent African countries in the 1960s, by the mid-1970s the ANC was on the ascendancy, … is significant that the growth of the ANC…
ArticleMandela and the South African Communist Party
… leaves little doubt that Mandela was at a point in the 1960s (between 1960 and 1962) an official member of the … was in control during the murky exile…
Oliver Tambo, Southern Africa, South Africa and the ANC replies to questions by Sechaba, 01 April 1968
… struggle for which we have been preparing since the early 1960s. It is a phase in which we can rightly claim to have … that these lines of communication…
ArticleBoipatong massacre - 17 June 1992
… not providing new houses in black townships in the 1960s and 1970s, overcrowding became inevitable. Residents …
ArticlePass Laws and Sharpeville Massacre
… of World War II and continued growing into the 1950s and 1960s. In response to this growth and increased employment …