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EventSA government threatens to pull out of the UN peace plan for Namibia
… agreed to give up control of Namibia. The story of South Africa occupying German South West Africa (now Namibia) started in May 1915 when General Louis Botha…
EventSWAPO attacks SAP
… a month after the verdict of the World Court, which South Africa won on a technical point. In 1971, a reconstituted … Court reversed its former decision and…
2007 ANC National Policy Conference: Report of the Commission on International Relations, 27-30 June 2007, Gallagher Estate
… life for all and a vision of a just world and better Africa". Pan African Fund 4. The conference noted that the … collection of $1 billion dollars from…
WhatsYourHeritage
… In commemoration of Heritage Day, we are celebrating South Africa’s diversity and our cultural heritage. We have …
ArticleHistory Grade 10 - Topic 2 Source Based Questions
… with regards to how Portugal and the Netherlands colonized Africa. (1x2 marks) Colonialism is the process whereby one … of trade was used between trading…
ArticleSALDRU Newspaper Clippings Archive 1974 - 2000
… The clippings collection built up by the Southern Africa Labour & Development Research Unit (Saldru) in the … what is probably the most crucial quarter…
ArticleuMkhonto weSizwe (MK)
… necessary for the national liberation movements in South Africa to move towards a more significant challenge to the … eventually recognise the rights of…
Message from Dr. AB Xuma, President-General of ANC, to the United Nations, 22 January 1946
… of ANC, to the United Nations opposing South Africa`s proposal for incorporation of South West Africa 22 January 1946 The Chairman General Assembly United ……
Business leaders pay tribute to Mandela by staff writer, December 8 2013
… prosperous future for all the people of the new South Africa. This combination of humanity and unique statesmanship … he was integral to the ushering in of…
Address by Oliver Tambo to the joint session of Parliament of Trinidad and Tobago, Port-of-Spain, 2 July 1987
… Congress and the oppressed and fighting peoples of South Africa to convey the warmest greetings to this august … and significant way, the oppressed people of…
ArticleHistory Grade 10 - Topic 6 Source-Based Questions and Answers
… reminds Africans of their struggle to own land in South Africa and the injustices of the Natives Land Act. It … song starts with the declaration: “We are the…
BiographyRichard S. Canca
Richard S Canca was born in 1924 in Transkei. Canca was a leading figure in the All African Convention (AAC). Born about 1924, he obtained an M.A. degree from…
Book 5: People, Places and Apartheid - Bibliography
… Segregation and Apartheid in Twentieth Century South Africa . London, Routledge, 1995. Bickford-Smith, Vivian; … The Politics and Economics of Coloured…
EventCharlotte Maxeke dies
… and founder of the Bantu Women's League of South Africa, died in Johannesburg at the age of 65. In 1905 she became the first African woman from South Africa…
BiographyPiet Makgofe
Born in 1914 Makgofe was a labourer. He joined the African National Congress in 1938 and was active in the 1946 African miners' strike.
Statement by Oliver Tambo at the meeting of the Special Committee against Apartheid, 12 January 1982
… Year of Mobilisation for Sanctions against South Africa. This is a meeting which the ANC and the people of South Africa as a whole consider of the utmost…
Statement by Oliver Tambo at the meeting of the United Nations Special Committee against apartheid, 12 January 1982
… Year of Mobilisation for Sanctions against South Africa. This is a meeting which the ANC and the people of South Africa as a whole consider of the utmost…
Chapter 4 - In search of Justice; Gumede in England, 1919-21
… mere fact that the delegates were here was a proof that Africa was awake, and in coming to England, they did not find … since the last nine years, the Union…
EventFormer Tanzanian President Julius Nyerere dies
… in Tanzania and to other African countries including South Africa. His commitment to the liberation of Africa from White minority rule was demonstrated…
Hundred years of resistance, E.S. Reddy, 29 January 2012
… The African National Congress of South Africa, founded in January 1912, got a lot of support from … ago, on January 8, 1912, was a landmark in the history of…
Interview with Oliver Tambo to Newsweek, 01 August 1980
… : Your guerrillas recently blew up fuel tanks at South Africa`s oil-from-coal processing plant at Sasolburg, and … on police stations and a bank. Does this…
Eye of the Needle - Preface by Richard Turner
… Turner What is it that fascinates us so about South Africa? One thing, we would suggest, is that when Americans look at South Africa we are transfixed by…
Umbrella Contemporary Dance Festival
… work had had seminal effect on contemporary dance in South Africa were invited to form part of this. Workshop series; … in London (she also performed) The DU…
ArticleThe Anti-Pass Campaigns 1960
… says that black people should determine their own future - Africa for the Africans. It was first expressed by a Xhosa …
Mafika Gwala’s Books Catalogue
… eds. Towards liberation : culture and resistance in South Africa (Matatu ; 3/4). Gottingen : Matatu-Verl. Ehling, 1988: … ; (Wake, Clive, tr.) The poetry of…
EventP.W. Botha and Kenneth Kaunda in a historic meeting
… set down in the middle of the African bush across South Africa's border with Botswana to discuss the political situation in South-West Africa (Namibia) and…
BiographyDr. Philip Blaaiberg
Born in Uniondale in the Cape, Blaaiberg spent his youth in the Karoo town of Oudtshoorn. He studied dentistry in London after spending a year at the…
BiographyRichard Gert Sibande
Richard Gert Sibande was a leader among farm workers in the eastern Transvaal. He was an African National Congress (ANC) activist, and one of the first-string…
BiographyNombuso Mchunu
On her completion of Matric in 1972, Nombuso did casual work such as typing documents for the Garment Workers union, while she looked for permanent work. Her…
BiographyThembekile Enoch kaTshunungwa
National organiser of the African National Congress (ANC) in the mid-1950s and later a prominent figure in Transkei politics, Tshunungwa was born in 1923 in…