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… with South Africa following Pretoria’s undertaking to negotiate over disputed land. The break of diplomatic … all South African Defence Force (SADF) members seconded to the Transkei Army should leave. The dispute dates back to the late 1970s when Transkei demanded areas the …

… Brisbane, Birmingham, Belgrade and Paris who had bid to host the games. The games were also the first to be free of boycotts that had plagued the games since 1972. … able to send a team to the tournament. The team brought back two silver medals. …

… 1911 when Evelyn Driver flew  postcards from Kenilworth to Muizenburg. The mail bag was fastened to the back of his seat as he flew the Bleriot monoplane. The plane …

… provincial secretary and South African high commissioner to Uganda, Bavumile Vilakazi, died of a heart attack in Kampala. He was on his way back from the airport to fetch Deputy President Jacob Zuma. Vilakazi was the first …

… reasons for the decision of the Pretoria High Court to set the investigation of the Browde Commission into South … Nelson Mandela was unsatisfactory because he refused to answer certain questions, answered back and used the court for political rhetoric. The …

… died when he was a young boy and he and his brothers moved to Matyana, a village near Empangeni in Natal. Myeni started … in his sculpture, also developed at this time when he used to trace pictures of insects from science textbooks. In 1985 Myeni travelled to Chile for the opening of the Valparaiso Biennale. He lives …

… appeared in “Ons Klyntji”. S.J. du Toit invited Nesser to join the editorial team of “Ons Klyntji” and “Die Patriot” … Unfortunately political differences with Du Toit led him to quit his position and he returned to the Karoo, where he started farming. As the Afrikaans …

… received his early education at his home and later he went to England for higher education. He studied law and was called to the Side Bar, and returned to South Africa a Barrister-at-law of the Lincoln Inn. He was …

… with photography since an early age he decided to make it his career and decided to study photography. He completed his studies at Port … Technikon at the end of 1995. While studying he started to freelance for the local Eastern Cape newspapers and by his …

… 1998, the Truth and Reconcilaition Commission prepared to exhume the bodies of Aaron Makwe, Watson Majova and Paulos … responsible for burying them pointed out three graves to investigators. When the three graves were opened, it was … this. The twelve bodies that were exhumed are believed to include those of the three men mentioned above. The …

… It is hard these days - twenty-five years on - to recapture the feeling of the time of Rivonia - of the … And still Rivonia holds a special place in the tale. To explain, at least in part, why that should be so, it is … keynote speech, and won a decision for a national protest strike in May 31st 1960, for which he was appointed the …

… a mere five years, was its crucial role in giving birth to a movement that would kick-start the dismantling of … the space, resources, and intellectual and moral support to launch their own black-led organisation, SASO. Factors … and others for recognition. This resulted in a non-violent strike which was broken by the deployment of the police on …

… The rats are leaving the sinking ship. But he appears to have found a new recruit in the ranks of the African … to wasted effort and ineffective action. The call then is: BACK TO COMMON SENSE! BACK FROM JUNGLES OF FANTASIES AND … that the struggle of African Trade Unions is Indissolubly bound up with the African National Struggle for existence and …

… only two choices - submit or fight. That time has now come to South Africa. We shall not submit and we have no choice but to hit back by all means in our power in defense of our people, our …

… Location: back to this day in history search archive The Democratic … History: a chronology of key events from independence to mid-1997, Wesport: Greenwood. …

… David Owen on southern Africa are of great interest to the whole world, to the African continent and especially … ago. It is impossible to imagine we would suddenly fall back into waiting patiently as we did in 1912, in 1913. This … beginning in terms of the scale in which the conflict is bound to develop. The very violence with which the Soweto and …

… David Owen on southern Africa are of great interest to the whole world, to the African continent and especially … ago. It is impossible to imagine we would suddenly fall back into waiting patiently as we did in 1912, in 1913. This … beginning in terms of the scale in which the conflict is bound to develop. The very violence with which the Soweto and …

… was a very bad thing and we all knew, no, things are going to be worse for us all now the Nationalists are boss. We knew now we were going to have to work very hard to change things and make things … a long time. But I can't remember what happened with the strike if it was successful or what. There were so many …

… photographer for the Cape Times during which he also began to take freelance assignments for local magazine publications … for Reuters in 1989 covering the transition from apartheid to ANC rule as a photographer. In 1991 he started contributing to the South African documentary collective, Afrapix. …

… race mother of slave ancestry. The family later moved to Wittebome in Wynberg where Diane attended Battswood … Miller Young Africa Literary award in that year and was to be the start of a journey as a full-time writer capturing … workshops and motivational talks at schools. Diane is kind to a fault and is a lifeline to many in her community who …

… Kunene was born in Edenvale, South Africa on 13 April 1923 to Ephraim and Martha Kunene. [ii] Notwithstanding the … in 1949 and an M.A. at UCT in 1951. After his marriage to Selina Sekhuthe in 1953, he went on to do a PhD at the University of Cape Town, completed in …

… life. These include televisions or trade-union logos to make paintings, drawings, or sculptures. His interest is in “utilising images and codes that relate to the experience of living in South Africa today.” The … greed of international pharmaceutical companies who refuse to sell drugs at reasonable prices, the difficulties of …

… struggle, at considerable personal cost. At first aligned to the Black Consciousness Movement , and then joined the … encompasses grant making in the arts and humanities to research universities in South Africa, Uganda, Ghana, Egypt, and Lebanon and to pan-African and pan-Arab institutions working in higher …

… all-female quartet, The Quad Sisters, in direct response to the dominance of male groups such as The Manhattan … Kippie Moeketsi, and Miriam Makeba. The production toured to record-breaking multiracial audiences and played an important role in bringing South African jazz to international attention. Like many Black artists of her …

… Bailey scholarship (an all-expenses paid educational tour to the United Kingdom). In 1969 he married Marike Willemse, … He soon announced his policy of reform: he hoped to create a suitable climate for negotiations which would end … were held for the peaceful end of apartheid and transition to democratic rule. In 1993, De Klerk and Mandela were …

… 1971 at Eshowe , KwaZulu Natal . Gigaba is the second born to Reverend Jabulani Gigaba and Nomthandazo Gigaba. He has … Primary School in Mandeni around 1983. He then proceeded to do his high school education at Vryheid State High School … these organisations such as COSAS and SASCO were aligned to the banned African National Congress (ANC) . It was his …

… age of 12, his parents were exiled and the family moved to London where he and his brother Gibo Pheto were raised. … his brother were very interested in music and he went on to study towards a Bachelor of Music in Piano from Goldsmith … in the “avant and free jazz” genres. Pheto is signed to Ogun Records label and has released six albums with them, …

… at the Port Elizabeth Technical Art School from 1929 to 1932. Thereafter she trained in London at the Regent … She lived in Johannesburg and also Malawi, but returned to Port Elizabeth after she was widowed in 1939. She followed … realism in her painting, which was in no small measure due to the influence of her mother's thinking on art. However, …

… French composer and conductor Maurice Jarre engaged Ntoni to record music for the Lee Marvin film “Shout at the Devil”. … Africa in 1976 and his Black bassist was denied entry to the country, Ntoni was selected to play with the group. Assistance by Brubeck, and an …

… Indian Youth Congress in the early 1950s and a delegate to the 1953 World Festival of Youth in Bucharest. He was … member of the Transvaal Indian Youth Congress from 1952 to 1956 and an executive member of the  South African … of Trade Unions Congress in Vienna and a delegate to the 4th World Festival of Youth, August 1953. In the late …