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EventFirst Black-owned newspaper is published
… The first Black South African newspaper, Imvo Zabantsundu (Opinion of the People), … The paper survived a banning order during the Second South African war …
ArchiveFifty seven years of NUSAS - Have we learned our lessons?
… Critical overview of history of the National Union of South African Students in which the speaker questions the success … at the 59th Annual Congress of the…
ArchiveSouth Africa’s Radical Tradition, a documentary history, Volume Two 1943 - 1964, by Allison Drew
… Number One [1943] Document 6 - Report of Delegation to All-African Convention and Unify Conference 16-17 December 1943. … 1948 Document 15 - "Ruth First , …
Speech on the Sixtieth Anniversary of the ANC, Lusaka by O. R. Tambo, 8 January 1972
… sixty years of the formation and existence of the African National Congress of South Africa. And, let there be … of national consciousness among the…
Conclusion: A Land Dispossession History 1600s-1990s
… outcomes have been disappointing. In the case of Southern African countries such as Zimbabwe and Namibia, and more …
ArticleStructure of Government in South Africa
… The South African government is divided into three parts: the Executive …
Chapter 13
… or in small industrial strikes-all culminating in the African Miners Strike of August, 1946, which was drowned in … economic structure being threatened. The…
EventFifth banning order for Albertina Sisulu
… campaigner of South Africa, Albertina Sisulu, wife of African National Congress (ANC) leader Walter Sisulu, was … J.A.; Schoeman, E. & Andor, L.E. (eds)(1999…
EventDjibouti and Cote d’ Ivore strengthen diplomatic ties with SA
… his foreign minister Roelof "Pik" Botha a number of other African countries announced their willingness to improve … of full diplomatic relations, making it…
EventMinister Kobie Coetsee on meeting between Botha and Mandela
… hence he refused to denounce violence and break the African National Congress (ANC) ties with the South African Communist Party (SACP). … Mandela`s…
EventJoyce Kgoali dies
… also a National Executive Committee (NEC) member of the African National Congress Women's League (ANCWL) and a Provincial Executive Committee member of the…
Twenty-four people are killed in Operation Beanbag in Maputo, Mozambique.
… are killed in Operation Beanbag, an attack by the South African army on the ANC and PAC in Matola, a suburb of … as Joe Slovo, one of the raid's main targets…
PlaceWits Art Museum
… the first collecting institution that included classical African art. Named the Getrude Posel Gallery in 1972, it was … gallery” and was specifically…
Message by Oliver Tambo to Frelimo Central Committee on the death of Samora Machel, 22 October 1986
… stunned progressive mankind. It is a staggering blow to African people and especially to the people of southern Africa, a blow that is felt most intensely by…
Message to Frelimo Central Committee on the Death of Samora Machel by O. R. Tambo, 22 October 1986
… stunned progressive mankind. It is a staggering blow to African people and especially to the people of southern Africa, a blow that is felt most intensely…
PlaceVenda
… In 1962, the South African Government created Venda as a Homeland for the … their Residents any opportunity to participate in South African Politics. They…
Event20 000 Women march to the Union Buildings in protest of pass laws
… the pass laws was organised by the Federation of South African Women (FSAW or FEDSAW). The Federation famously … has come to represent the courage and…
EventSA pledges support for a negotiated settlement in Rhodesia
… The South African government under leadership of Prime Minister John … (holding talks) policies, aimed at improving South African foreign relations with…
EventPresident F.W. de Klerk announces withdrawal of Internal Stability Units (ISU)
… of Kathlehong and Thokoza. They were replaced by the South African Defence Force (SADF). ISU was the most unpopular and … the Police Reporting Officer had…
EventFirst air flight from London to South Africa
… that took off from London subsequently crashed on the African continent. Two South African pilots, Lt-Col Pierre van Ryneveld and Capt. CJQ … a further…
EventSA colonies meet to consider and adopt the South Africa Act, which leads to the Union of South Africa
… the Anglo-Boer War (1899-1902), Britain annexed the South African Republic and the Orange Free State, two hitherto … respectively, were added to Britain's…
EventPolitical activist, Professor ZK Matthews is born
… voter and his cousin, Sol Plaatje, a founder member of the African National Congress (ANC). Matthews devoted the first … at Fort Hare University and in 1923…
EventPAC’s leader, Potlako Leballo confirms that Poqo is the organisation’s military wing
… South Africa in 1963. At the time of his claims, the PAC, African National Congress (ANC), the Communist Party of South … (CPSA)and other liberation…
Neville Alexander interviewed by Rupert Taylor and Adam Habib,25 April 1998, Cape Town
… who do you think the major protagonists were in the South African conflict? Alexander: Well, the capitalist class and … working class, with the major...from…
EventSA artist Sfiso Mkame is born
… Justice Sfiso Mkame , South African artist, was born in Durban. As a child he drew on … and 1988 and received a First Prize for drawing at the UZ African…
EventPhyllis Naidoo escapes to Lesotho
… (Rick) Turner and others. In Lesotho she joined the African National Congress (ANC) and was involved in providing … who had left South Africa, assisting…
EventDefence Minister disputes HIV statistics in SANDF
… The South African Minister of Defence Mosioua Lekota dismissed as 'fallacy' claims that 89% of the South African National Defence Force (SANDF) had tested…
EventThe TRC report points out culprits
… Madikizela-Mandela for their transgressions. The ruling African National Congress (ANC) was also blamed in the … the primary culprit of the apartheid era was…
EventPresident Mandela reshuffles Cabinet Ministers
… a Cabinet reshuffle, replacing all the NP ministers with African National Congress (ANC) appointees. The Ministry of … J.A.; Schoeman, E. & Andor, L.E. (eds)…
ArchiveMajority rule: some notes
… and analyses it with regard to its meaning in the South African situation. This concept was born out of imperialism … the Unity Movement, play in the…