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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…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
BiographyTrevor Andrew Manuel
… National Planning Commission of the Republic of South Africa since 11 May 2009 and Member of National Executive …
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…
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…
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…
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…
EventArchbishop Mpilo Desmond Tutu, chairman of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, is born in Klerksdorp, Transvaal
… Black Archbishop of the Church of the Province of Southern Africa in Cape Town (thereby leader of the Anglican Church in South Africa), was born in…
EventP.W. Botha proposes a 'Constellation of States'
… establishment of the “Constellation of States” for South Africa's different races. The constellation of states would include South Africa's neighbours and…
EventSalman Rushdie’s visit is still on
… public lecture from the Islamic Council of Southern Africa, the Weekly Mail (now Mail and Guardian) announces … governments and other governments such as…
EventPresident Yasser Arafat arrives in SA
… arrived in Cape Town on his first state visit to South Africa at the invitation of President Nelson Mandela. The … 1995. Arafat's visit raised controversy…
EventKaNgwane is proclaimed a self-governing territory.
… is among the 10 homelands that were created to rid South Africa of its Black citizens; this was carried out in terms … was the homeland of the Swazi people…
ArchiveSpeech by I B Tabata
… meeting of the African Peoples' Democratic Union of South Africa about imperialism overseas and in South Africa. …
”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…
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…
ArticleA History of the Bulhoek Massacre
… arrest. Source: http://heritage.thetimes.co.za/ © Museum Africa At one of his services early in 1919, Mgijima … his followers, could be heard by Isrealites…
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…
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…
Message by Oliver Tambo on the 40th anniversary of the three doctors` pact, 09 March 1987
… heroic struggles led by the great Mahatma Gandhi in South Africa, has always been a source of inspiration and strength … of the racist regime and the…
EventGeneral H. Van Den Bergh blames the SACP for anti
… in exile. BOSS was at the cutting edge of Apartheid South Africa's fight against what it considered a threat on the … security legislation to put down the…
EventANC command structure in the Western Cape is arrested.
… of the Institute for a Democratic Alternative for South Africa (Idasa), a delegation of 62 people, mainly Afrikaners, … of national unity, and the nature of…
ArticleCOVID-19: The Whens and Whats of the Deadly Virus
… systems. [24] This system has also been adopted by South Africa. A figure representing an approximation of how … COVID-19. Image source (Accessed on 1…
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 …