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EventThe Rembrandt Tobacco Corporation was founded in South Africa
… family continues to be a dominant force in the South African business world. The Rembrandt Group was built up into …
EventSouth Africa abandons the Gold Standard, sparking a period of economic expansion
… hard hit when the resulting spike in the cost of South African goods devastated exports, especially minerals and …
EventANC rejects National Party proposal for a new constitution
… In a strongly worded statement, the African National Congress rejected the constitutional …
EventMilitary coup is executed in Lesotho
… Matlosa.K. & Pule.N.W, (2001), The Military in Lesotho, African Security Review, Vol.10, No.2 (online), available …
EventThe ship São Bento (St Benedict) is wrecked on the Transkei coast
… carrying ability. According to research done by South African archaeologists, C. Auret and .T.Maggs in 1982, the …
EventThe trial of Dr Allan Boesak on charges of theft and fraud starts
… South Africa, approximated that of the then-banned African National Congress (ANC). In the late 1990s Boesak, …
EventWomen protest against passes in the Free State
… Click here to read more about the struggle of South African women. … history of South Africa, Claremont: New Africa Books|South African History Online,…
PlaceRiverside
… tokens are the best researched and most sought after South African trade tokens by numismatists and serious Coin …
EventHaitian leader General Raoul Cedras resigns in favour of exiled President Jean
… PrÁƒÂƒ©val became the new president of Haiti. South African has been criticised for providing refuge to Aristid …
EventThe last French troops pull out of Rwanda
… Rwanda, much like the rest of the African continent, was ruled by colonial powers that left a …
EventUnited Nations lifts arms embargo on South Africa
… Africa (Armscor), the procurement agency for the South African army and the armaments industry's marketing … About African History, ' This Day in African…
Document 63 - Letter from Workers’ Party of South Africa to the International Secretariat of the International Communist League (B-L), 11 April 1936
… in secrecy to bring out the first Afrikaans (i.e., South African Dutch) translation of "The Communist Manifesto". The …
EventNelson Rolihlahla Mandela passed away
… struggle. Imprisoned in 1964 for his role in the African National Congress’ (ANC) struggle against the … South African History Online, Nelson Mandela , from…
Document 72 - Letter from R. T. R. Molefe to London comrades, 21 February 1938
… of Steel Ceilings and Aluminium Works Ltd. formed our "African Metal Trade Union" which so far appointed com RL to …
EventMahatma Gandhi leaves the Tolstoy Farm 1913
… Gujaratis, Tamils, Hindus, Christians, Muslims, Parsis and African families. At its height, Tolstoy Farm supported a …
EventFormer Ivorian president is extradited to the ICC
… of human rights abuses. The ICC has indicted two other African heads of state, including Sudanese President Omar …
PlaceThe Queen’s Fort Military Museum, Bloemfontein
… After the War, it was occupied by a division of the South African Constabulary, and following the armed uprising of …
The significance of the Bulhoek massacre today by Sam Matiase, 11 May 2015, South Africa
… the Bulhoek massacre both designed to drive the indigenous African people from their land, dispossess and subjugate and … summonses in all were issued and…
The Segregation Fallacy and Other Papers - Native Unrest
… or, to use a more correct expression, out of their African civilization, have for generations remained quite, … fear black and Indian merchants? Why does he…
PlaceSlave Church Museum
… The South African Missionary Meeting House/ Sendinggestig Museum (short … was built between 1802 and 1804. It was founded by the African Missionary Society…
GEAR and Neo-Liberalism (Part 2) by Thabo Mbeki, 28 March, 2016
… Trevor Manuel, wrote: “The 50th National Conference of the African National Congress held in Mafikeng in December 1997 … their budgets to reflect the changed…
Zonal Centenary Memorial Lecture on the Life and Times of David Bopape, presented by David Makhura, ANC Gauteng Provincial Secretary, 21 June 2012, Tsakane
… a teaching post at Berlin School and joined the Transvaal African Teachers` Association (TATA). Bopape becomes a … Bopape joins the Communist Party and…
Press Conference in Lusaka: Oliver Tambo, 25 June 1985
… ideological trends. It addresses the workers, the South African people as a whole who are opposed to the racist … how do you see the question of sanctions?…
Press Conference by O. R. Tambo, Lusaka, 25 June 1985
… ideological trends. It addresses the workers, the South African people as a whole who are opposed to the racist … do you see the question of sanctions? TAMBO…
Keynote address on the launch of Mafika Gwala’s Collected Poems Howard College, UKZN, 6 October 2016 by Mandla Langa
… I’d probably be raking in millions as a creator of South African Manga comics.) My first impression of Mafika was of … assorted staffers and officials from…
PlaceKruger National Park
… Wildtuin' (in Afrikaans ), was proclaimed by the South African Republic (SAR - more or less comprising current … its troops massed on the borders of the ZA…
PlaceGhana
… 1945 a conference was held in Manchester to promote Pan African ideas. This was attended by Nkrumah of Ghana, Azikwe … built by the missionaries. There was…
Presidential Address to the Extended Meeting of the National Executive Committee of the ANC by O. R. Tambo, April 1975
… lead a mighty and victorious struggle. The Organisation of African Unity Having analysed the situation and decided on … anew Kwame Nkrumah's declaration,…
Say It out Loud - The Coloured People and the Franchise, 1906
… to enter, travel or reside in any part of the South African Republic, etc. etc. Even as late as 1899, both the … He wrote me as follows: "In the local laws…
I will not Compromise About my Work: David Goldblatt on Artistic Freedom, Censorship, and Moving His Archive Out of South Africa by Robin Scher ( ArtsNews.com), 2017
… Until recently, the South African photographer David Goldblatt had arranged for his … portraiture that positioned him to become the first South African…