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ArticleList of employers to whom Indentured Indians were assigned
… Co Madras Addison, Friend Calcutta Addison, Friend Madras African Boating Co. Madras Arbuckle, W Madras Barrow Green …
ArticleMarikana Commission of Inquiry
… strike were shot and killed by the officers of the South African Police Services (SAPS) at the hills of Rooikopies …
Iron Age Kingdoms of Southern Africa
… mixed with those of the groups they met, which is why many African people are Bantu-speaking. They also brought iron …
ArticleTruth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC)
… police could be charged and, most notably, members of the African National Congress, the ruling party at the time of …
Message by Albert Luthuli to the Seventh Provincial Conference of the Natal Indian Congress, 5 February 1954, Durban
… . I am happy and proud on my behalf and on behalf of the African people I have the honour and privilege to lead under the banner of the African National…
Education for Service
… political organisations, administrations and the South African Government, coming together at this first meeting of … values where the dignity, worth and…
Passive Resistance 1946 - A Selection of Documents compiled by E.S. Reddy & Fatima Meer - Deputations
… to India, where they will put the cause of the South African Indians before the Government and the people of India on behalf of the South African Indian…
Constitution of the ANC Youth League, 1944
… NAME: The name of the Organisation shall be "African National Congress Youth League" hereinafter styled: … and encourage national consciousness and unity…
Statement by Oliver Tambo at the meeting of the Special Committee against Apartheid, 12 January 1982
… a debt of deep gratitude for inviting me to represent the African National Congress (ANC) at this special meeting which … the question of Namibia, and his…
Statement by Oliver Tambo at the meeting of the United Nations Special Committee against apartheid, 12 January 1982
… a debt of deep gratitude for inviting me to represent the African National Congress (ANC) at this special meeting which … the question of Namibia, and his…
EventDarrell Roodt was born on this day
… is one of the first anti-Apartheid films made by a South African. One of his most memorable films is Sarafina, which … and his 2012 film Little One was…
EventBirth of Paul Kruger
… Kruger was elected as the State President of the South African Republic (Transvaal) at age 57. Thereafter he became … the Boer resistance against the British…
ANC media statement on comrade Carl Niehaus, 10 July 2009
… The African National Congress (ANC) has noted a public apology … future of Comrade Carl, outside ANC structures. Issued by: African National Congress…
EventThe first legal photograph of Nelson Mandela released.
… Nelson Mandela was a member of the banned African National Congress and a famous black political … revealing all the political prisoners and the banned…
Rixaka
… Rixaka, the cultural journal of the African National Congress, was launched to establish a … masses to fight for a liberated country. President of the…
EventIn Britain, Foreign Office Minister Lynda Chalker, meets Oliver Tambo, president of the ANC.
… Oliver Tambo the then President of the African National Congress (ANC) was responsible for holding … step to attaining a peaceful change in South Africa…
EventThe TEC decides on Bophuthatswana’s incorporation following major unrest
… of South Africa and clashed with the police. South African troops in armoured vehicles were sent into the … in the homeland. Mangope was removed from office…
EventEzrom Kgobokanyo Sebata Legae is born
… Ezrom Kgobokanyo Sebata Legae, South African artist, was born in Vrededorp, Johannesburg. He … From 1972 to 1974 he was director of the art programme at…
EventRuth First is assassinated in Mozambique
… academic, anti-apartheid activist and member of the South African Communist Party , was brutally killed by a letter bomb in Maputo, Mozambique, sent by South…
EventThe S. A government seizes the passport of Bishop Desmond Tutu
… Church in Lesotho and as Secretary-General of the South African Council of Churches. On 16 April 1981, Tutu was arrested by the South African government and…
EventSADF’s 31 Battallion is disbanded
… The South African Defence Force's (SADF) 31st Battalion was disbanded … the San (Bushmen) battalion who had been deployed in South African townships and who…
EventDe Klerk announces a referendum to test his political reforms
… Acknowledgement and Ignorance:how white south african had dealt with the past,from the … 1966-The demand for a negotiated settlement from South African…
EventThe SA Cricket team is re-admitted to international cricket
… On 10 November 1991, the South African cricket team, now better known as the Proteas, played … in 1970 following a resolution taken against the South African…
EventUnited Front launch in jeopardy
… creation of a united front in negotiations with the South African government. AZAPO accused the implicated … Party and angered other organisations. On 20…
EventDulcie September is assassinated in Paris
… On 29 March 1988, Dulcie September, the African National Congress (ANC) representative in France, … in South Africa. Sergeant-Major Joseph Klue of the South…
EventThe Congress of Traditional Leaders of South Africa (Contralesa) is launched
… Independence. The movement aligned itself with the African National Congress and the United Democratic Front. By … Africa. As a result, Chapter 12 was…
EventPaul Adams becomes SA’s youngest Test Cricket player
… South African cricket player, Paul "Gogga" Adams, became South … was discovered by Eddie Barlow , world-renowned South African cricketer of the 1960s. …
EventCellist and music teacher Betty Pack is born
… accomplished cellist. In 1950 Pack founded the Young South African Chamber Orchestra of which she was a conductor. … of a group of instructors who…
EventPLAN launches armed struggle against South Africa
… the armed wing of SWAPO, fought in a battle against South African occupying forces at Omugulugwombashe in northern … gallant struggle of the Namibian people…
EventFormer National Minister of Arts and Culture, Pallo Jordan, is born
… He is the son to Professor Archibald Campbell Jordan an African novelist, linguist and academic and his mother, Dr … politically active in the early 1960s…