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EventQueen Victoria issues charter for the formation of the British South Africa Company
… to further the influence of the British Empire over the African continent. A royal charter was sought to establish a … (BSAC) was established. Trade was…
EventSouth Africa’s first democratic elections end as counting begins
… Gazankulu, Lebowa, KwaZulu, Transkei and Ciskei. The African National Congress(ANC) under the leadership of the … won 243 478 of the national votes (1.25%),…
EventFormer SANNC President Sefako Mapogo Makgatho dies
… wa a teacher and a journalist. Makgatho joined the South African Native National Congress (SANNC) later renamed the African National Congress (ANC). He…
EventJ.J. Hadebe replies to Thabo Mbeki’s plea
… This Day in History, African National Congress (ANC) executive member in charge of … 1990s and subsequently paved the road to the first South African…
PlaceLegogote Mountain Region, Mpumalanga
… Garden with an enormous collection of Cycads and an African Rainforest. The Lowveld Legogote Region is situated … hiking trails, the largest collection of…
Document 54 - K. A. Jordaan, “What are the National Groups in South Africa? A Contribution to the Symposium”, Forum Club, Cape Town, May 1954
… rather of the internal arrangeÂments of the South African State. The form of this multi-national state must be … of the people. Concretely speaking, certain…
Address to Extraordinary Summit of the World Economic Forum 21 June 2003
… to be able to share with this august gathering, the South African success story and our approach to lasting peace and … number of lessons that we can say we…
SASO Newsletter, 1970 - 1976
… an exclusively black higher education formation, the South African Students' Organisation (SASO), and the election of … its formal inauguration in July 1969…
“Message to Those Staying At Home”: Joint Statement by Dr G. M. Naicker and Chief Albert J. Luthuli, April 1958
… of indunas from different firms where certain so-called "African leaders" would be present. PLEASE UNDERSTAND THAT … issued by Chief Luthuli, President…
EventBritain refuses Uganda’s request for independence
… Uganda is an east African country that had a number of kingdoms as well as … soon developed into the British sphere of influence on the African continent…
EventBophuthatswana decide not to publish report of Smith Commission
… house. Both the Pan Africanist Congress (PAC) and African National Congress (ANC) claimed responsibility for … measures, but instead used excessive force…
Call for Papers: Teaching Palestine: Pedagogical Praxis and the Indivisibility of Justice
… two-day international conference will bring together South African and international participants to contextualise the … and intellectual inquiry. The…
PlaceMalawi
… in 1907. The first political party named Nyasaland African Congress was formed in 1944. Initially, it was a … Nyasa (Lake Malawi), the most southerly lake in…
ArticleThe Anglo-Zanzibar War of 1896
… [ii] Wolff, R. D. (1972). British Imperialism and the East African Slave Trade. Science & Society, 36, 443-462 (p.456). …
The National Anthem
… composed by the Reverend ML de Villiers in 1921. The South African Broadcasting Corporation played both God save the …
Political executions
… 27 1988/03/25 Harris, Frederick John 1965/04/01 African Resistance Movement (ARM). Bombing of Johannesburg …
Straight Talk - Emilia Potenza
… Sciences textbooks shows that the full gamut of South African History - from pre-colonial through to post-Apartheid …
In Conclusion: The Decline and Fall of the Tricameral Parliament
… which were unable to suppress the revolt. After the African National Congress (ANC) made a call to render the …
ArticleFinding out about hunter-gatherers and herders
… The Broken String: An integrated approach to southern African History. Cape Town: Maskew Miller Longman. Online …
ArticleRemembrance of Albertina Sisulu through the Work of Cartoonists
… to capture the loss, love and respect felt by each South African at the time. Some of the cartoons chose to view …
Twentieth Anniversary of the United Nations Sanctions Resolution: Statement by Oliver Tambo at the plenary meeting of the United Nations General Assembly, 05 November 1982, New York
… affected by the criminal practices of the South African regime demand this action. The impediment to the … against South Africa is that the allies of the…
Burkina Faso: Echoes of a Revolution Past by Ernest Harsch, December 22nd, 2014
… in New York, whose most recent book is Thomas Sankara: An African Revolutionary , Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, … LSE Reference List [1] Ernest Harsch,…
The Founder: An Ambiguous Figure by Chris Saunders
… the main driving force behind the creation of the South African Native National Congress (which changed its name to … an article I published twenty years ago…
From the 1973 Durban strikes to the Marikana massacre and De Doorns conflict: How trade unions acquired their power and what has gone wrong with employment relations in South Africa subsequently by Johann Maree
… years ago during January and February 1973 mass strikes by African workers in Durban broke out in protest against low … The Durban strikes constituted a…
Document 45 - Ray Alexander, “Trade Unionism in South Africa”, Discussion, 1, 6, 1952
… were organised by British immigrants who came to South African the 1880's, with trade union experience. They formed … mining companies proposed to increase…
Letter to Ayatollah Khomeini by O. R. Tambo, Iran, 13 February 1979
… (2) Teheran Islamic Republic of Iran On behalf of the African National Congress and the oppressed masses of South … Iranian Revolution. (signed) Oliver…
A Walk in the Night
… Lydia Williams (1820 – 1910) and world-renowned South African artist, Lionel Davis, whose wok was recently exhibited at the South African National Gallery…
PlaceSeal Point Lighthouse, Cape St. Francis
… above the sea, regarded as the highest light on the South African coast, Commissioned on 11 May 1950 The Cape Seal … meters above sea level is the highest…
Cable to the United Nations Opposing Incorporation of South-West Africa, by Dr. A. B. Xuma, January 1946
… 17'/2 per cent for 8,000,000 Africans. Only 40 per cent African Children accommodated in mission schools. 95 per cent … at home. (Sgd) - A.B. Xuma President …
EventSS Mendi sinks in the English Channel on the way to France
… Africans, including 607 black troops serving in the South African Native Labour Contingent, died when the steamship … Havre in France, carrying the Fifth…