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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 ……
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Closing Remarks to the 53rd National Conference of the ANC by President Jacob Zuma, December 2012, Mangaung
… period. We wish him a speedy recovery and assure his family that he remains foremost in our thoughts. Comrades, We …
PlaceSchweizer-Reneke
… is where we ended and the third Boer War, another South African war, will start here again. The Town has a History, … steeped in bloody relations between the…
ArticleShipwrecks in South Africa
… these ships is important when trying to understand South African history, as South African contact with European sailors goes so far back, that …
Condolence book for Comrade Ahmed Kathrada, 28 March 2017
… The African National Congress mourns the passing of … Johannesburg from 14h00 this afternoon. Issued by the African National Congress Enquiries Zizi Kodwa…
EventSouth Africans pay tribute to Nelson Mandela at the Grand Parade in Cape Town
… South Africans sang and danced while some waved the South African flag in honour of the former president. Flowers and … front of the City Hall to honour the…
Telegram to Gamal Abdel Nasser, President of the United Arab Republic by Oliver Tambo, 27 May 1967
… African National Congress of South Africa expresses full … peace in the Middle East, Africa, Asia and the world. African National Congress condemns these…
Liberal Opinion/Reality
… racial discrimination and non-violence for all South African citizens. The Liberal Party was forced to disband … (1969-1993). The journal continued to focus…
EventTwenty former SA political prisoners launched a campaign against apartheid laws
… Twenty former South African political prisoners, in defiance of the restriction … outside Cape Town. Their campaign came a month after the African National…
EventAnnesu de Vos, SA poet, is born.
… She is well-known as the youngest published poet in South African literature history. When she was 16, her first book … Marais prize, a prestigious literary…
EventANC command structure in the Western Cape is arrested.
… The South African police announced that they have uncovered and arrested members of the African National Congress (ANC) Western Cape command … J.A.; Schoeman…
EventSA Prime Minister completes a tour of homelands in the Northern Transvaal
… South African Prime Minister, B.J. Vorster completed a tour of self … This 'Bantustan' policy sought to assign every Black African to a 'homeland' according…
EventMandela is awarded the Joliot Curie Gold Medal for Peace
… The paper 'Leader' announced that African National Congress (ANC) leader Nelson Mandela has … to Dr Yussuf Dadoo, a former President of the South African…
EventMinister reports 23 acts of sabotage in RSA
… armies of the Pan Africanist Congress (PAC) and the African National Congress (ANC) respectively, Minister of … J.A.; Schoeman, E. & Andor, L.E. (eds)(1999)…
EventThozamile Botha breaks banning order
… with the University of Lesotho, but after the 1982 South African Defence Force raid in the capital of Lesotho, Maseru, … serving in the National Executive of…