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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, …
ArchiveSouth Africa’s Marikana 10 years on: survey shows knowledge of massacre is low, by Benjamin Roberts, Jare Struwig and Steven Gordon (theconversation.com), 16 August 2022
… the age of 15 responded to the annual round of the South African Social Attitudes Survey (2021 ) by the Human … awareness of the tragedy is relatively low…
ArchiveWhat lost photos of Blue Notes say about South Africa’s jazz history by Lindelwa Dalamba , 14 October 2019
… In 1964 a young South African student and photography enthusiast, Norman … over the world. The Blue Notes embody the beauty of South African jazz 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…
*Free Entrance: Emancipation Day and World Aids Day
… selected museums. *Free Entrance includes only the South African Museum and South African National Gallery. Free entry excludes: Groot …
EventDurban Declaration is published denouncing Thabo Mbeki's AIDS denialism
… sole cause of AIDS and this viewpoint affected the South African government's response to the AIDS epidemic. Access to … strong support for HIV being 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…
ArchiveCHAPTER 3 - Unprepared by Howard Barrell
… it was able to re-register as a significant actor in South African politics, primarily by sporadic armed activity inside … possibilities, which the ANC…
EventDjibouti and Cote d' Ivore strengthen diplomatic ties with SA
… his foreign minister Roelof "Pik" Botha a number of other African countries announced their willingness to improve … of full diplomatic relations, making it…
EventZimbabwe's interior minister Joshua Nkomo is dismissed
… Zimbabwe. This triggered bitter fighting between Zimbabwe African People's Union (ZAPU) supporters in the … region of the country and the ruling Zimbabwe…
ArticleThe Judicial Commission of Inquiry into Allegations of State Capture, Corruption and Fraud in the Public Sector including Organs of State (The Zondo Commission)
… including Organs of State'. In May 2017, following an African National Congress National Executive Committee (ANC … . Accessed 14 January 2022 The South…
ArchiveJonas Gwangwa embodied South Africa’s struggle for a national culture by Gwen Ansell
… seek to name one musician whose life embodies the South African people’s struggle for a national culture, it must be … Gwangwa’s playing contributed to every…
’UNITE! MOBILISE! FIGHT ON! BETWEEN THE ANVIL OF UNITED MASS ACTION AND THE HAMMER OF THE ARMED STRUGGLE WE SHALL CRUSH APARTHEID!’
… the ANC at the time. When did the ANC get the message. The African National Congress brings you this URGENT CALL TO … guns the ferocity of their fire has…
Address by President Nelson Mandela to the 1995 National Conference of IDASA Cape Town, 18 August 1995
… in racially-defined "group areas". De-racialising South African society is the new moral and political challenge that … gentlemen; It is understandable that…
Address by President Nelson Mandela at the National Day of Safety and Security Vosloorus, 15 October 1994
… right to be free from fear. Each and every South African has the right to feel secure in their home, to feel … criminals who carry out such attacks. Members…
Address by the President of South Africa, Mr. Thabo Mbeki, at the Opening of Civil Society Forum of the WSSD, Johannesburg, 23 August 2002
… underdevelopment and environmental degradation. As an African, I must also say that it is also important that the … in Africa just as we are celebrating the…
Mandela’s membership of the Communist Party: what needs to be reassessed by Tom Lodge
… rigidities of organisational “discipline”. In his pan - African travels between January and July 1962 amongst the … the Alliance and that it should project a…
63. Colonisation scheme: the colonial-born Indians respond - From the book "A Documentary History of Indian South Africans" edited by Surendra Bhana and Bridglal Pachai
… among some, especially the colonial-born, that the South African Indian Congress did not sufficiently represent their … Source: Indian Opinion , 5 January…
Early Beginnings
… as a subject race and the natives as members of the S. African working class. We have got to put forward definite … do so. It was 'an independent workers'…
PlaceDelgoa Bay Now Known as Maputo Bay, Mozambique
… East coast of Mozambique, East Africa, near the South African border. Discovered by António do Campo, a member of … Indian Ocean trade, and as an avenue of…
ArchiveJohnny Clegg: South Africa’s universal man of uncommon passion by David Coplan, 25 July 2019
… on “township music”. Like me, Johnny was a devotee of African music and dance and a senior student in anthropology. … of the Witwatersrand (Wits), interest…
ArchiveApartheid's Sporting Afterlife by Clark Easley
… Easley · Eleven Named People The challenge facing South African sport is no longer formal segregation but inherited … - guided one of the most principled…