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EventSouth Africa’s new constitution is approved
… The adoption of the South African Constitution on 8 May 1996 was one of the turning … and democrats who had fought for the principle that South African…
EventThe first issue of the weekly periodical ‘TIME’ appeared on news stands
… readership topping 4 million, which includes many South African readers. TIME magazine has covered many South African stories, see below for a few TIME…
EventLesotho’s deputy Prime Minister shot
… Lesotho's President Mokhehle appeals for South African intervention, but his request is turned down. Despite … South Africa's refusal of military assistance,…
EventJoshua Nkomo’s freedom of movement and association in Southern Rhodesia is restricted
… of the nationalist struggle. Nkomo, who supported the African National Congress (ANC) when he was in South Africa … authorities as one of the rising stars of…
EventFlorence Josephine Zerffi, SA still life and landscape painter, dies
… and at the Arts and Crafts Academy in Berlin. In South African, Zerfifi joined the South African Society of Artists (SASA). Not only did Zerfifi … South…
EventAfrica Malaria Day
… Assembly in May 2007. Malaria Day was first observed by African governments in 2001 and was known as Africa Malaria … to control and ultimately eradicate…
Inqaba ya basebenzi
… in London by the Marxist Workers' Tendency of the African National Congress documents the workers' struggle for … are issues debated at length, placed in the…
EventSouth Africa begins occupation of South-West Africa
… Africa. With these international developments the South African government, under the leadership of General Louis … the South West Africa. After the British…
EventMK soldiers threaten armed struggle
… Having been dismissed from the South African National Defence Force (SANDF) for their illegal … unless their demands, which were being investigated. The…
Statement at the Sixth Conference of Heads of State or Government of Non-Aligned Countries, Havana, Cuba by O. R. Tambo, 3 - 9 September 1979
… It now remains for me to intervene in the name of the African National Congress and on behalf of the objects of … brutal exploitation in South Africa. The…
Launch of the ANC Volunteer Corps and Visit of the President, 19 June 2013
… The President of the African National Congress Comrade President Zuma will be … Issued by: Comrade Zamani Saul Provincial Secretary African National Congress…
PlaceThaba Tshwane or Voortrekkerhoogte
… The oldest building in the complex is the South African Garrison Institute, what is now known as the: 'Army … and was erected by the British shortly after…
PlaceMuseum Africa
… the first civilisations thrived. It is not a revisionist African history written by biased Afrocentric scholars. The … of black children can identify and…
EventJoaquim Chissano succeeds Samora Machel as president of Mozambique
… States and apartheid South Africa. At this time, the African National Congress(ANC) was granted access to military … following a number of successive…
EventSteve Biko, a pioneer of the Black Consciousness Movement, is born
… RepresentativeCouncil (SRC) members who formed the South African Student Organisation(SASO) in 1968. SASO was formed … break-away student movement of the…
The Reunited National Party is founded by Malan and Hertzog
… in the merger of the National Party (NP) and the South African Party (SAP), to form the United Party (UP) in 1934. … suffering parliamentary defeat on the…
EventANC celebrates its 79th anniversary in Durban
… The African National Congress (ANC) celebrated its 79th … such as the Pan Africanist Congress (PAC) and South African Communist Party (SACP) in 1960. Some…
EventCourt approves same-sex couple's right to marry
… in Africa to do so, at the time. In contrast to many African countries where gay and lesbian people are … and inherit from their partners' wills. The ruling…
EventDemonstrators close down businesses and government offices in Lesotho
… city. After appeals for assistance by Lesotho to Southern African Development Community (SADC) and South Africa, Judge Pius Langa the Deputy President of the…
EventAmy Biehl’s murderers receive amnesty from TRC
… was politically motivated. They were members of the Pan African Students Organisation (PASO), the Azanian People's Army (APLA) and the Pan African Congress …
EventSouth Africa completes destroying its stockpile of anti-personnel mines
… use of landmines. For instance, in 1994 the former South African government announced a moratorium on the marketing, … Anti-Personnel landmines. On 19…
EventThe Rand Revolt breaks out
… With strong organisational links to the newly formed South African Communist Party (SACP) under the leadership of W. H. Andrews and the South African Labour…
EventuMkhoto weSizwe (MK) launches its first acts of sabotage
… date, uMkhonto we Sizwe (MK), the military wing of the African National Congress (ANC) announced its existence by … on the Koeberg Nuclear Plant in Cape Town…
PlaceOliewenhuis Art Museum
… exhibit works of art which represent the heritage of South African art on behalf of and to the advantage and edification … and is devoted exclusively to…
PlaceUnion Buildings, Pretoria
… Dellville Wood War Memorials, which pay tribute to South African troops who died during the First World War. The … of the Congress of Democrats ; Sophie…
Invitation to the TB Davie Memorial Lecture
… this question has been at the centre of discussions in African universities in the period after independence. He … Professor of Government and Professor of…
Save South Africa calls ‘People’s Assembly Against State Capture’
… bandanas, armbands or t- shirts portraying the South African flag. “Civil society and other formations will be … workplace or in other public spaces, and…
Document 121 - A. Mon (M. N. Averbach), “The Colour Bar and the National Struggle for Full Democratic Rights”, Workers’ Voice, 1, 2, November 1944
… organisation, do not understand class structure of South African society, and therefore cannot understand I … the Communist Party here. They also approached…
EventRand Daily Mail publishes exposé of conditions in Homelands
… the article reflected the thought process of the South African government, the media and White perceptions of Black … explaining to them what Apartheid was…
ArchiveAfrica South Vol.2 No.1 Oct-Dec 1957
… The Prisoners, Gerard Sekota. Sex and Sedition. The South African Police, Harry Bloom. Cartoon, David Marais. The … M.M. Carlin. Israel and Africa, E. Ben…