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Affirming the history of all South Africans
… history of all South Africans. The Legacy Project arises from many requests to the Office of the President after the … By conclusion I would just like to…
PlaceGrey Street now Yusuf Dadoo Street, Durban-City Centre
… had ended and brought their families to come over, from India to Durban and started their new lives as store … still stands today and was reportedly built by…
EventSouth Africa Freedom Day - 26 June 1950
… a ban imposed on Dr Dadoo and Sam Khan, prohibiting them from speaking in certain cities. 500 delegates attended the … Congress of the People, with nearly 3…
First National Consultative Conference: Report on the Strategy and Tactics of the African National Congress, 26 April 1969, Morogoro
… came to Africa. Unending Resistance to White Domination From the time alien rule was imposed there has been - … was punctuated by struggles involving…
January 8th Statements - Statement of the National Executive Committee on the occasion of the 75th Anniversary of the ANC - 8 January 1987
… constituted the bedrock on which our movement has grown from strength to strength. This, then, is Jubilee Day for all … and in practice, that finally its…
Archive2003 - President Mbeki, State of the Nation Address, 14 February 2003
… throughout their lives. These are Mr Marcus Mbetha from the Northern Cape, Mr Johannes Maseko from Mpumalanga, Mr Lesley Monnanyane from the Free State, Mrs…
On Post Colonial African Liberation Movements
… particularly on the radical pronounciations stemming from the ruling party as of late. There will be a question …
EventMiriam Makeba returns to South Africa
… part of the cast of the musical King Kong and was barred from returning when the apartheid government revoked her …
20th Time of the Writer
… Approximately 20 writers from South Africa, Africa and different parts of the world …
The Struggle Continues and Grows More Intense - Statement by O. R. Tambo, 23 August 1984
… Indian compatriots. Such a massive boycott could be a blow from which the apartheid regime may never recover. Let August …
EventTwo ANC members gunned down in Swaziland.
… employees. It was reported that a well informed policeman from Swaziland told the South African Press Agency that the …
PlaceAlbasini Dam, Limpopo
… Mountain Range. Named after Joao Albasini who lived from 1813 to 1885. He was the first European Settler in the … of the Soutpansberg, named after Joao…
Zephania Mothopeng - Searchlight South Africa, Vol 1, No. 2, February 1989
… Congress (PAC), of which Mothopeng is President]. From the book "Searchlight South Africa, Vol 1, No. 2, …
Secret Ballot
… the rallies of the first week after all the results from all the votes are counted. It is at these gatherings …
ArchiveThe Pan African Congress venture in retrospect: a Non-European Unity Movement pamphlet
… up against British imperialism With the PAC breaking away from the ANC, and then the launch of the Anti-Pass …
ArchiveAfrica South Vol.5 No.1 Oct-Dec 1960
… Correspondent in South Africa, Norman Phillips. Diary From a Refuge, Anon. Correspondent. Referendum for a …
PlaceElsie’s River
… husbands and farmed in the area in 1698. The railway line from Cape Town reached Elsie's River on 13 February 1862. In …
After Apartheid - Social Identities in the New South Africa Vol. 1
… South African identity. They touch upon and reinterpret from a fresh perspective a wide variety of South African …
EventThe UN Security Council to lay down rules which would allow UN forces to enter Congo
… arrived in Congo. Initially there were 1200 soldiers from 24 countries. …
EventGertrude Shope, former president of the ANC Women’s League, is born
… convening the ANC’s Internal Leadership Corps Task Force from 1990-1991. In 1994 Shope became a member of parliament … The O’Malley Gertrude Shope from The…
EventDr Joshua Nkomo African nationalist and guerrilla leader is born.
… 1999 he passed away in Harare, the capital of Zimbabwe, from prostate cancer. He is survived by his wife, Johanna and … (2012), Dr Joshua Nkomo (1917-1999):…
EventThami Mnyele, SA artist and member of MK, is killed in Gaborone
… activities. To date, these works have not been recovered from the security police. …
EventThe Second Basotho War, known as Siqiti war, breaks out
… lost the second war after Moshoeshoe’s appeal for aid from the British government was unsuccessful. Moshoeshoe was …
EventThe British High Commissioner for Basutoland, Bechuanaland and Swaziland issues the Prevention of Violence Abroad Proclamation
… of Violence Abroad Proclamation. Gqobose was released from prison in 1967. … O’Malley P. ‘1963’ , from O’Malley: The Heart of Hope, [online], available at …
EventMembers of Mau Mau uprising in Kenya to receive death penalty for resisting colonial rule
… sexual abuse and executions to extract information from prisoners and to force them to renounce their allegiance …
EventThe Transvaal Indian Congress takes a stand on Fietas removals
… It also covered the rezoning of Martindale and Sophiatown. From 1904 to 1934 Indians had increasingly become …
EventThe SA 6th Division enters Florence in World War II
… troops in the East African Campaign of 1940-1941. From 1941, the 1st, 2nd and 3rd Infantry Divisions of South …
EventSA joins World War II
… parliament, Hertzog was left with no option but to resign from his position. The minister of justice, Gen. J.C. Smuts, …
EventUDF organises boycott of Coloured and Indian parliamentry elections
… 1984. The UDF was against the exclusion of African people from the Tricameral parliament and saw this as a serious form …
EventSchool boycott in Port Elizabeth ends
… Political History: a chronology of key political events from independence to mid-1997, Westport: Greenwood. Reader's …