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EventBishop Desmond Tutu leaves for the USA to meet with American President Ronald Reagan
… United States to end their economic support of the South African government. These calls were initially unheeded, but …
EventUS Secretary of State Cyrus Vance travels to South Africa to promote transition to black rule in Namibia
… to independence. Then, without warning, outgoing South African Prime Minister John Vorster reneged on the U.N. plan. …
EventWinnie Mandela is banished to Brandfort
… Transkei , which was regarded as independent by the South African government. However, she chose to remain in South …
EventIan Smith of Rhodesia and Henry Kissinger meet in Pretoria
… in Pretoria to discuss majority rule for Rhodesia. South African Prime Minister B.J. Vorster joined the final stages …
EventFree, compulsory education for Black children
… creating a new educated Black middle class opposed to the African National Congress and other liberation movements. …
EventThemba Sono is expelled from SASO
… Themba Sono was forced to resign as president of the South African Student Organisation (SASO) before he was expelled … (1972), ' Professor Themba Sono…
EventDr Chris Barnard performs the world’s first human heart transplant
… On 3 December 1967, South African doctor, Dr Christiaan (Chris) Barnard, performed the …
EventIvory Coast’s new prime minister, Daniel Kablan Duncan, takes office
… he had formed the first agricultural trade union for African farmers. He established a strong relationship with …
EventNotorious role of Ferdi Barnard is disclosed
… disclosure of the complicity of elements of the South African Defence Force (SADF) in violence in South Africa on …
EventTurkish newspapers criticise of ANC leader Nelson Mandela for refusing to accept Turkey’s peace award
… On 14 May 1992, Nelson Mandela, leader of the African National Congress, was subjected to harsh criticism …
EventDay of mourning held for Kinross mine disaster that claimed 177 lives
… by the mine's management. COSATU (Congress of South African Trade Unions) supported the call for the 1st October …
EventMuziwendoda Mdluli, National Intelligence Agency (NIA) security chief is found dead
… in the Comoros, led by Bob Denard. Further ReadingSouth African Spy Chief Probing Coup When Slain - Orlando Sentinel. …
EventWWI: battalion consisting of ‘Cape Coloured men’, called the Cape Corps, is established
… it had around 23 000 members. More than 12 000 South African servicemen fought in World War One, and fewer than 4 … [accessed 16 September 2009]…
EventC James reports that South Africa is a poor market for produce
… for produce. He undertook this voyage during the South African War (Anglo-Boer War). As a produce distributor … Southland Times. (1900) A disappointed South…
EventANC sacks its chief whip Mbulelo Goniwe, after finding him guilty of sexual harassment
… positions, the most recent of which was the post of African National Congress (ANC) chief whip. In 2006, it was …
EventThe Trojan Horse Massacre
… became known as the Trojan Horse Massacre. A South African Railways truck was loaded with crates close to the …
PlaceMaphikela House
… Mangaung Township. It is known as the birth place of the African National Congress because that is where the party was …
EventMass funeral for those killed at Sharpeville commemoration
… destination of the marchers on 21 March. Members of African National Congress (ANC)-aligned United Democratic … Evans B.A., This Day in African History: 13…
Statement at the Symposium on the Survival and Development of Children in the Frontline States and Southern Africa, Harare, March 1-5, 1988
… Year of the Protection, Survival and Development of the African Child. This symposium, like its Dakar predecessor of … intellectual and cultural development…
Statement of the ANC Veterans League Inaugural National Conference, 6 December 2009
… during the historic inaugural national conference of the African National Congress Veterans League (ANCVL). Not only … the extent to which apartheid…
"If I were Prime Minister": Article by Albert Luthuli, 2 December 1961
… Prime Minister of South Africa. The solution to the South African problem will call for radical reforms. The basic … is the basic heritage of the people. The…
ArchiveAt the Pompidou by Jeremy Harding, 26 April 2018
… ‘The South African labour market,’ Charles van Onselen writes in New … was born in the 1880s and fought the British in the South African War, captures the…
PlaceClaremont, a Suburb of Cape Town
… began to express concerns about the squatting of African families in Cape Town suburbs. Claremont was … Black and Coloured inhabitants. A considerable number…
Minutes of the National Executive Committee of the ANC, February 1-2, 1947
… that a considered statement on Recognition of African Trade Unions be issued, be adopted, giving expression to the inclusion of the African mine workers and…
PlaceSomalia
… century CE, migrants from Oman began to arrive on the East African coastline and introduced the Somali inhabitants to … and unified the territory, creating a…
The Segregation Fallacy and Other Papers - Cross-roads of Native Policy
… believer in social equality that he married an African woman; on the other side there were Dutch fanners who practised cruelty towards their African servants…
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…
Political Overview by the Gauteng ANC Chairperson, Paul Mashatile, at the Provincial General Council, 8 June 2012, St George`s Hotel, Tshwane
… On the contrary, those who conceptualised and formed the African National Congress always cherished the ideals of … 33rd Anniversary, of the formation of…
Archive2012 - President Zuma, State of the Nation Address, 09 February 2012
… of our country, the centenary of the ruling party, the African National Congress. In marking this occasion we are … will result in the creation of more jobs…
EventSA wins top awards from the International Rugby Board
… 29 November 2004 in London's Royal Lancaster Hotel. South African flanker, Schalk Burger, was named IRB 'Player of the Year', South African coach Jake White…