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EventHenri Edouard Prosper Breuil (84), French archaeologist who did research with Dr Robert Broom in SA, dies in Paris
… Professor Henri Breuil came to South Africa as a part of a six year trip across Southern Africa with a mission to examine rock shelters and rock art. Most of…
EventPortuguese explorer Bartholomew Dias anchors at Walvis Bay
… on an expedition to discover a sea route to the East round Africa. He gave the area the name Golfo de Santa Maria da … Walvis Bay became part of the newly…
Document 31 - S.O.Y.A. National Executive Committee, The Maritzburg Conferences and the Tasks of the Immediate Future, 31 May 1959
… From: South Africa's Radical Tradition, a documentary history, Volume Two … Movement has always stood before the oppressed people of S.Africa, and which…
A Future Free of Exploitation - Address to the First Congress of MPLA by O. R. Tambo, Luanda, December 1977
… and the youth; from the entire struggling people of South Africa. We feel genuinely proud that we are active … time. The heroic anti-colonial struggles of…
Document 83 “Native Bourgeoisie as a Class”, Umsebenzi, 16 February 1935
… From: South Africa's Radical Tradition, a documentary history, Volume One … under the heading, "Is there a Native Bourgeoisie in South Africa?" I maintain…
We Shall Win - Statement at the Meeting of the United Nations Special Committee against Apartheid to launch the International Anti-Apartheid year by O. R. Tambo, New York, 21 March 1978
… succession, grappling with the question of racism in South Africa. Then, as now, the racists tried to shelter themselves … action against the inhuman system…
Statement by Oliver Tambo at May day rally, 01 May 1987, Stockholm
… of this country in the name of the working people of South Africa and Namibia, as well as their southern African … also salutes you in the name of the…
EventThe Johannesburg International Airport is officially renamed OR Tambo International Airport by President Mbeki.
… OR Tambo Airport is South Africa’s main airport for domestic and international flights. … Kempton Park, Ekurhuleni, just outside Johannesburg. It is Africa’s…
EventIraq boycott SA government’s apartheid policies
… his country will not recognise the government of South Africa because of its apartheid policies. The announcement … Congress (PAC).The political conditions…
Passive Resistance 1946 - A Selection of Documents compiled by E.S. Reddy & Fatima Meer - Foreword
… in a glorious decade of liberation struggle in South Africa culminating in the adoption of the Freedom Charter in … the new leadership's objectives of a non…
Search for a United Front against racism
… the elementary rights and freedom of the Indians in South Africa. I therefore declare from this platform that we … their fundamental rights. By this Bill,…
Passive Resistance 1946 - A Selection of Documents compiled by E.S. Reddy & Fatima Meer - Search for a United Front against racism
… the elementary rights and freedom of the Indians in South Africa. I therefore declare from this platform that we … their fundamental rights. By this Bill,…
EventESCOM announces its decision to order two nuclear power reactors from France
… arms in order to prevent a Soviet invasion of South Africa. This programme, which included the setting up of … Koeberg power station, the only nuclear power…
EventThe SA government gives limited powers of internal self-government to Damaraland
… First World War. The occupation of the country by South Africa started in May 1915 when General Louis Botha, first Prime Minister of the Union of South…
ArticlePrehistory of the Cape Town area
… Prehistory of Southern Africa The Dutch East India Company (VOC) established Cape … city’ is the centre for historical archaeology in southern Africa…
ArticleArmed Struggle, the anti-apartheid struggle accelerates 1984-1990
… FW de Klerk became president talking of a ‘new South Africa’. Other political prisoners, including Sisulu, were …
Black Peoples Convention - National Leadership
… and Cultural Advancement of the African People of South Africa (ASSECA) Black Community Programmes (BCP) Black …
EventGeraldine Fraser is born
… the University of the Western Cape (UWC), she left South Africa to join the African National Congress (ANC) in exile, … of the SACP, based in Zimbabwe. Upon…
A common purpose: the Commonwealth’s support for the AAM
… its soul, because of its support for freedom in Southern Africa, it is the new Commonwealth. I use the word new … to introduce discussion of what was…
EventSA and British governments clash over interpretation of the Simonstown Agreement
… The British claim that all the arms that South Africa requested and listed when the agreement was drawn up … agreement for the defence of sea routes around…
EventKarel Schoeman, well known Afrikaans author, is born
… where he worked as a librarian. He moved back to South Africa and worked at the South African Library in Cape Town … novels and numerous works of history,…
EventChurch Council meets PW Botha over unrest
… founded in the mid 1930s as the Christian Council of South Africa to coordinate the activities of Christian churches around South Africa. In 1968, the CCSA…
EventDr Wilson Carswell, medical adviser to the government’s Aids unit, says about 100 000 South Africans are infected with HIV
… 3 Million South Africans are living with HIV. Sub Saharan Africa has the highest HIV infection rate in the world and South Africa’s rate is highest in the…
EventBreyten Breytenbach; SA poet, activist and painter, receives the Hertzog Prize for his poetry
… J.B.M. Hertzog, former premier of the Union of South Africa and a champion of the Afrikaans language. The prize … was a committed opponent of apartheid and…
150th Anniversary; Anxieties of Commemoration - Towards a National Dialogue by Omar Badsha and Jon Soske
… indentured laborers in Natal will take place across South Africa. The preparations have already inspired wide-spread … to the past and present relations…
Cedric Nunn
… that will leave a positive legacy for the children of Africa'. Born in 1957 in Nongoma, KwaZulu, and raised in … executive of the Professional Photographers…
Address to the Nation by President Thabo Mbeki, 21 September 2008
… the high position of President of the Republic of South Africa, effective from the day that will be determined by the … 14 years as the Deputy President and…
”Malan Cannot Succeed Where Hitler Failed”: Interview To , Cape Town, June 1950
… "Never before in the history of South Africa have the national leaders acted so swiftly and with … go through with the Suppression of Communism Bill. South…
Address to a Joint Session of the Parliament of Pakistan Islamabad, 4 May 1999
… the ideal of a democratic, non-racial, non-sexist South Africa. Pakistan's proud history of solidarity with struggles in Africa against colonialism and…
I have written it by E.S. Reddy & Fatima Meer - International Support: UNO - 1947
… Perturbed by the general trend of events in South Africa subsequent to the UNO decision, the Natal Indian … upon the Governments of both India and the Union…