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Cape Floral Region
… A serial site - in Cape Province, South Africa - made up of eight protected areas, covering … in the world. It represents less than 0.5% of the area of…
EventPresident F.W. de Klerk announces Whites-only referendum results
… De Klerk announced triumphantly that the people of South Africa were behind him, along with the African National … by the South African Communist Party and…
BiographyTemba D. A. Mqota
Born in 1928, Temba D. A. Mqota was a student. He joined the African National Congress in 1946 and supported the Indian struggle against the "Ghetto" Act. He…
Statement by Oliver Tambo accepting the Simon Bolivar award on behalf of Nelson Mandela, 24 July 1983, Caracas, Venezuela
… The African National Congress and the peoples of South Africa are inspired by the fact that today we are linked with … Jury has bestowed an honour of rare…
EventThe SA 6th Division enters Florence in World War II
… fight on the side of the Allied powers was won and South Africa declared war on Germany. Approximately 135 000 white South Africans fought the Italians in…
Prehistory of the Rustenburg area
… Prehistory of the Region Pre-history of Southern Africa Africans who worked with copper and iron inhabited the … of the Rustenburg area Known as 'the richest…
ADDRESS AT THE SCOTTISH PARLIAMENT, 13 June 2001
… and special relationship between Scotland and South Africa, spanning more than two centuries. Scattered throughout South Africa are Scottish names that…
The defiance campaign by M. P. Naicker
… no matter where a man comes from, if he has made South Africa his home, then he is a South African. We want to live … stated its "firm conviction that all…
Colonial history of Rustenburg
… book The Hollander Afrikaners and their Republic in South Africa , published in Amsterdam in 1854, describes the … Republic, and eventually of the Republic…
EventBishop Desmond Tutu is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo
… first Black Archbishop of the Anglican Church in South Africa, Archbishop Emeritus of Cape Town, and chair of the … of his part in the transition to…
The Freedom struggle in Rustenburg
… to apartheid Umzabalazo - The Freedom Struggle in South Africa Conditions in Rustenburg point to deprivation … of the Pan-African Freedom Movement of East…
January 8th Statements -Statement of the National Executive Committee on the occasion of the 88th Anniversary of the ANC - 8 January 2000
… achieved. Where she was colonised and oppressed in 1900, Africa in 2000 is free. And yet the problem of the colour … been resolved! The complete emancipation…
January 8th Statements - Statement of the National Executive Committee on the occasion of the 104th Anniversary of the ANC by Jacob Zuma
… aspirations of the vast majority of the people of South Africa. Let us also acknowledge the tremendous honour and … member’s shoulders to lead this country…
From retirement to parliament
… from the Standpoint of Africans within the Union of South Africa' and 'Bill of Rights,' adopted by the ANC Annual … the attention of our Government in the…
EventRugby player Breyton Paulse is included in the national team after the ANCYL challenged the decision to omit him
… Rugby developed as a sport in South Africa in the late nineteenth century. It is said to have … team was in 1903. This started a winning streak as South…
BiographyCarol Moses
Carol Moses was born on 7 April 1968 in Oudtshoorn, Western Cape, one of seven siblings. She grew up on a farm outside Oudtshoorn. Moses was a struggle…
BiographyVivienne Ncakeni
… A documentary History of African Politics in South Africa: 1882-1964, Vol.4 Political Profiles 1882 - 1964. …
ArticleCommemoration, remembering and memorialising June 16 Soweto uprising
… Ever since, Youth Day is commemorated every year in South Africa. …
EventProceedings against SA start in the International Court of Justice
… Location: back to this day in history search archive South Africa received a mandate from the League of Nations over South West Africa (SWA) on 17 December…
ArchiveLiving in the Interregnum by Nadine Gordimer (The New York Review of Books), 20 January 1983
… aside. The city is Johannesburg, the country South Africa, and the time the last years of the colonial era in Africa. It’s inevitable that nineteenth-century…
Address at the National War College Abuja, Nigeria 8 December 2003
… earlier, on the same day, the youth and students in South Africa stood up and faced a system that the United Nations … that evil system stands thoroughly…
EventPhyllis Naidoo escapes to Lesotho
… was involved in providing for children who had left South Africa, assisting members of the South African Communist Party (SACP) and ANC to escape from South…
EventThe National Party (Transvaal) is founded
… The Union of South Africa was established in 1910. Although South Africa was no longer a British colony, it was not an … much support from Afrikaners in all…
EventScores of people are killed in Boipatong, Vaal
… government, the African National Congress (ANC), the South Africa Communist Party (SACP) and other liberation movements. … and withdrew from the Congress for…
BiographySicelo Shiceka
Sicelo Shiceka was born on 8 June 1966 in the village of Ingquza Hill, near Flagstaff, Lusikisiki in the Eastern Province (now Eastern Cape) His greatest…
EventSA troops withdraw from Angola
… forces UNITA. The withdrawal came as a result of South Africa losing an interest to engage in battles in Angola and South West Africa (later renamed Namibia)…
EventLord Milner leaves England to return to SA
… role in causing the South African War returned to South Africa to become British administrator for the Orange Free … War. Milner was also tasked with…
Book 6: Negotiation, Transition and Freedom - Introduction
… Congress (ANC). Contrary to many predictions, South Africa avoided a bloodbath. There was no single cause for … a broad outline of the developments that took…
Side By Side: The Autobiography of Helen Joseph
… tirelessly for freedom and justice for all people in South Africa This is her story. A deeply moving account of her 30 … given their lives to build a free…
My Spirit Is Not Banned - Abbreviations by Frances Baard and Barbie Schreiner
… Workers' Union ANC ”” African National Congress (South Africa) FSAW ”” Federation of South African Women PAC ”” Pan-African Congress (South Africa) SACTU ””…