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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…
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…
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…
Book 2: The Impact and Limitations of Colonialism - Chapter 2 - The Development of a Colonial Slave Society by Wayne Dooling
… Indeed, changes such as the ones described above prompted African societies to seek contact with societies from which … of Africa. Cloth was an important…
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…
After Apartheid - Social Identities in the New South Africa Vol. 1
… facing the vision of a much-needed new, broader South African identity. They touch upon and reinterpret from a fresh perspective a wide variety of South…
EventANC revolutionary propaganda leaflets exploded in Cape Town, Johannesburg, and Durban
… August 1970, pamphlet bombs which scattered revolutionary African National Congress (ANC) propaganda leaflets exploded … that distributed ANC propaganda in…
EventSA Prime Minister, B.J. Vorster reveals that SA scientists have succeeded in developing a new process for uranium enrichment
… announced in the House of Assembly in Cape Town that South African scientists have succeeded in developing a new process … plant for this process was under…
EventSA artist Anthony Nkotsi is born
… Anthony Molebatsi Nkotsi, South African artist and the head of the Printmaking Department in … Orlando, Soweto. Here he was exposed to contemporary South…
EventNational Party wins national elections
… Munnik (JBM) Hertzog's National Party (NP) wins the South African general election with an outright majority. Race … the government's rule difficult…
EventLucas Mangope leaves Mmabatho due to uprising
… first democratic elections. Mangope rejected the South African Independent Electoral Commission's pleas for free … the uprising. This prompted the…
EventAmanzimtoti blast kills five
… to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC), the African National Congress (ANC) later stated that Zondo acted in anger at a South African Defence Force…
EventPresident George W Bush announces his HIV/AIDS Plan
… Plan for HIV/AIDS prevention and treatment in twelve African and two Caribbean countries during his State of the … crisis. He stated that nearly 30 million…
EventAllan Boesak guilty on charges of fraud
… theologian, chairman of the Western Cape region of the African National Congress (ANC) and director of the … after the clearing of his criminal record by…
EventNP holds federal congress
… Following its withdrawal from the African National Congress (ANC)-led Government of National … J.A.; Schoeman, E. & Andor, L.E. (eds)(1999). Southern African…
EventIndustrial and Commercial Workers Union is founded under Clements Kadalie
… Kadalie, a young Nyassalander who spoke no Black South African language but used English to spread the message of … about 100,000 members, and pushed the…
EventNatal Football Union founded
… War of 1879 and the subsequent war with the South African Republics brought a new influx of Whites to South … and mostly English-speaking civilians formed…
EventThe Cape Times appears for the first time
… linked to the struggle for freedom of speech. The South African Commercial Advertiser, the first newspaper in South … only to the law of libel. The Cape…
EventFrederik Willem de Klerk is elected President of South Africa
… 02 February, 1990 to release Nelson Mandela and unban the African National Congress (ANC), Pan Africanist Congress (PAC), the South African Communist Party …
ArticlePseudo-scientific racism and Social Darwinism
… One of the world's greatest cosmologists, a South African based at the University of Cape Town, Prof. George … racial terms that have been used to categorise…
Document 34 - Letter from the Executive Bureau, Communist Party of South Africa, to the Executive Committee, Comintern
… petition form and circular letter of the League of African Rights. In taking the initiative in the formation of … national organisations among the natives;…
ArchiveMandela, From a Freedom Fighter to an Icon of Reconciliation
… curiosity as his photographs had been banned by the South African Government for almost thirty years. Mandela was … South Africa. He was among the first to…
Address by President Mandela at ECOWAS Abuja, 30 October 1998
… me as the Chair of SADC, to have been invited to address African leaders at this meeting of Heads of state of the Economic Community of West African states…