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EventSouth Africa sends troops to Ciskei
… Defence Force (CDF), and a former member of the South African Defence Force (SADF), leads a coup in the homeland of … in the homeland. On 5 March Gqozo…
EventUpington 14 are sentenced
… were sentenced to community service. References: South African Institute of Race Relations. (1989). Race Relations Survey 1988/89, Johannesburg: South…
EventBavumile Vilakazi dies
… The former African National Congress (ANC) Gauteng provincial secretary and South African high commissioner to Uganda, Bavumile Vilakazi, died … African…
EventMbeki and his entourage arrive in Abidjan, Ivory Coast
… South African President Thabo Mbeki, accompanied by Defence … by the secretary general of the Economic Community of West African States (Ecowas), Mohammed…
EventProvincial Executive Committee of Free State resigns
… the entire Provincial Executive Committee resigned. The African National Congress (ANC) was concerned that the … Sources: Books: Kalley, J. A. et al (1999)…
EventPolitical parties call for Constitutional changes
… education. Subsequently, the Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU) called for a one-day general … opposition to a lockout clause proposed by the…
EventDe La Rey is persuaded not to speak to the Burghers
… On 12 August 1913, Koos De La Rey, a South African War II General, was ordered to meet with Generals Jan … was formed after the defeat of Boer Republics in…
EventPolitical activist and trade unionist James La Guma is born
… unionist James Arnold (Jimmy) La Guma, member of the South African Communist Party (SACP) and president of the South African Coloured People's Organisation …
EventSADF commandos bombs the ANC office in Maputo
… South African National Defence Force (SADF) commandos bombed the African National Congress (ANC) office in Maputo, Mozambique … South African History Online,…
EventIraq boycott SA government’s apartheid policies
… of the Sharpeville killings. Political organisations like African National Congress (ANC),South African Communist Party (SACP), PAC and others were banned ……
'States of Emergence', at Warren Siebrits Modern and Contemporary Art by Sean O'Toole, November 2002
… Emergence' is a striking debut. Charting an epoch in South African art, this accomplished unveiling presents works by a host of South African contemporaries,…
Speech by President Nelson Mandela at the football banquet Pretoria, 1 March 1996
… gentlemen. South Africa had dared to expect much of the African Cup of Nations. We felt we would acquit ourselves … and Recreation for their sterling work in…
Address of the President of the Republic of South Africa, Mr Thabo Mbeki, at the Forum on China-Africa Co-operation (FOCAC) Summit, Great Hall of The People, Beijing, China, 5 November 2006
… and beneficiation of the resources derived from African countries through encouraging joint ventures between … harmonious and ensure a better life for our…
Passive Resistance 1946 - A Selection of Documents compiled by E.S. Reddy & Fatima Meer - Foreword
… at the expense of building the numerical strength of the African and Indian Congresses, the NEUF was hence allowed to … over the leadership of the Transvaal…
EventUmkhonto we Sizwe bombs Church Street, Pretoria
… 1983, when Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK), the armed wing of the African National Congress, detonated a large mortar bomb … Square in Church Street, a building which…
EventAssassination attempt on Kwame Nkrumah, first prime and later president of Ghana
… to independence as Ghana in 1957. A firm believer in African liberation, Nkrumah pursued a radical pan-African policy, playing a key role in the formation of…
EventProfessional soccer is introduced in SA when the National Football League is founded
… played between the White Germiston Callies and the Black African Pirates before 10 000 people in Maseru, the capital … clubs that played in the first league…
EventKarel Schoeman, well known Afrikaans author, is born
… He moved back to South Africa and worked at the South African Library in Cape Town from 1983. Schoeman is the … languages In 1999 he was one of only two…
EventChurch Council meets PW Botha over unrest
… A delegation of the South African Council of Churches (SACC) met with President P W … Africa. In 1968, the CCSA changed its name to the South African Council…
EventZambian president Kenneth Kaunda refuses to take part in UK
… offered military bases for both Robert Mugabe's Zimbabwe African National Union (ZANU) and Joshua Nkomo's Zimbabwe African People Union (ZAPU). However,…
EventAngola becomes independent of Portuguese colonial rule
… bases for military training. For instance, the Zimbabwe African People's Union (ZAPU) and the South West African People's Organization (SWAPO) established…
EventCol. Muammar Gaddafi seizes power in Libya
… 1974 Libya permitted not just the PAC but also other South African political organizations fighting Apartheid to use … support for the PAC was its alliance…
EventMK’s Luthuli Detachment and ZAPU in a joint operation
… Luthuli Detachment in Rhodesia (Zimbabwe) and Zimbabwean African People's Union (ZAPU) guerrillas engaged Rhodesian … was meant to give added military…
EventVanessa Brereton, former human rights lawyer, admits that she was an Apartheid spy
… on high profile cases under the Apartheid regime. When the African National Congress (ANC) was unbanned in 1990, she was … apartheid government. In 1991, she…
EventLinguist and educationist Sedumedi Moloto is born
… subsequently served as Professor and Head of Department of African Languages at the University of Botswana in Gaborone. … equally fluently. Moloto was once…
EventVerney Cameron is first European to cross equatorial Africa
… campaign of 1868 and in the suppression of the East African slave trade. In 1872 the Royal Geographical Society … the first European to transverse the…
Document 136 - “Report on the Relationship of the Party to other Workers’ Organisations in South Africa”, Freedom 5, 4 August 1946
… the interests of the workers of South Africa, the South African Labour Party must be considered as an important section of the South African working class…
EventWalter Sisulu, co-founder of the ANCYL and Umkhonto we Sizwe, is born
… hand and was an active trade unionist before joining the African National Congress (ANC) in 1940. He immediately … to serve their prison sentences. In…
PlaceBritstown, Northern Cape
Britstown located in the Northern Cape of South Africa, a small farming town Named after Hans Brits, who accompanied David Livingstone on a venture to the…
PlaceUmdloti, North Coast of Kwa-Zulu Natal
Umdloti is the ideal place to unwind and enjoy the sunshine with: 'beaches, rock pools and sea'. There are a number of activities for the more energetic - the…