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EventElectricity cut off in Tumahole township
… the Township residents because since their inception the African National Congress (ANC) and United Democratic Front …
EventAn ANC car bomb directed at the headquarters of the Wits Command, Johannesburg, kills one person and injures 68
… by Heinrich Grosskopf, under the instructions of the African National Congress (ANC). Grosskopf had joined the ANC …
EventSADF mounts raids on ANC targets in neighbouring states
… Troops of the South African Defence Force (SADF) carry out raids on alleged ANC …
EventBessie Amelia Head, SA novelist dies
… Head was a prolific writer and was also the first South African Black woman to publish a collection of short … Verwey, E.J. (ed)(1995). New Dictionary of…
EventStart of blood classification controversy
… Poppie Bereng, who worked as a phlebotomist for the South African National Blood Service (SANBS) in Bloemfontein, was …
Event60,000 delegates attend the World Summit on Sustainable Development
… available at un.org [accessed: 13 August 2010] South African History Online …
EventSmuts becomes Prime Minister
… Party (NP), agreed to join forces against the South African Party (SAP) in the next election. When his party lost …
EventBattle of Delville Wood starts
… and heroism and remained the most costly action the South African Brigade fought on the Western Front. A memorial site …
EventAlan Paton is born
… by Jonathan in 1936. In 1930 Paton joined the South African Institute of Race Relations. Paton wrote Cry, the …
EventThe Vereeniging peace conference begins
… After the Second Anglo-Boer War (South African War), which had started on 11 October 1899, there …
EventGideon Scheepers executed
… commanding officer during the Second Anglo-Boer War (South African War) was executed by a firing squad beside an open … & Rousseau.| Kruger, D.W. (ed)(1972)…
EventSir John Frederick William Herschel dies
… here.Source: 1. S2A3 biographical database of southern African science, s2a3.up.ac.za/bio/Main.php, as on Tuesday 06 …
EventVoortrekkers are defeated during the Battle of Boomplaats
… the Battle of Boomplaats, 29 August 1848’ from The South African Military History Society [online]. Available at …
EventA Pilot Cellular phone project is launched
… in the 1990's, and today it is estimated that 60% of South African households own a cellular telephone. This is …
EventLord Charles Somerset arrives in the Cape as Governor
… to produce crops for export. In 1818 he launched the South African public library in Cape Town. He mediated between …
EventSir Patrick Duncan, Governor-General of the Union of South Africa, is born
… the Unionist Party before resigning to join the South African Party (SAP). He was minister of internal affairs, …
EventB.J. Vorster, Minister of Justice, announces extensive security measures following the Sharpeville Massacre
… of the security police, strengthening control of South African borders, the establishment of special mobile units …
EventSA Police kills eleven Pondo tribesmen when they revolt against the imposition of Bantu authorities.
… two sides. On the one hand, there were the people of the African National Congress and the Pan Africanist Congress, …
PlacePretoria, now known as Tshwane
… South Africa in 1910; and a City in 1931. During the South African War (1899–1902), Winston Churchill was imprisoned …
EventMultiparty negotiating forum meets for the first time since December 1993
… met for the first time since December 1993 to discuss the African National Congress (ANC)'s proposals. The ANC had … as a democracy from the crises of the…
PlacePolokwane
… Art Museum which has an excellent collection of South African art, check out the early history of the city in the …
ArchiveCHAPTER 5 - Armed Propaganda and Non-Colaborattion, Rationalising weakness, August 1979 - December 1980 by Howard Barell
… Reconstruction, January 1978 - August 1979 The South African state's banning of black consciousness organisations … students' organisation to replace the…
ArchiveSonia Bunting: Continuous Compassion and Adamant Activism by Jack Lucas
… the headlines of news publications and the minds of South African citizens. Despite the consistent political turbulence … allied with other anti-apartheid…
PlaceO.R. Tambo International Airport, Johannesburg
… 27, 2006. Oliver Reginald Tambo was President of the African National Congress at the height of the anti-apartheid … cuts across the Spectrum from high-end…
EventThe National President of the Black People's Convention, Kenneth Hlaku Rachidi, declares that riots have lead to a new era of political consciousness
… of the BPC, which was founded by leaders of the South African Student Organisation (SASO). Rachidi joined the BPC … in the title, soon attracted the…
Address to the Opening of South Africa Day CEO Conference, London (via video link-up), 21 November 2002
… for giving me this opportunity to talk about the South African economy to this important gathering of investors and … a significant decline in real interest…
Address of the President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki, to the 118th Inter-Parliamentary Union Assembly: Cape Town, 13 April 2008
… of the IPU, Anders B. Johnsson; Speaker of the South African National Assembly, Baleka Mbete; Deputy … in all parts of the world, especially here on the…
Chapter XIV - End of an era
… this repressive regime came in September 1962. The South African Congress of Democrats was declared an illegal … of the Congress of Democrats gave the…
Archive2003 - President Mbeki, State of the Nation Address, 14 February 2003
… wrong when we said that this, the 21st century, will be an African Century. However, for us to realise this objective, … unlike the 20th, the 21st century…
Chapter 1: The 1971 Art South Africa Today Exhibition: Towards a Language of protest art
… Overt socio-political protest in South African art, as I have suggested, first made a substantial … imagery of which satirise, criticise or refer to the…