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"Should we get rid of the whites?" - Albert Luthuli answer to a question, 5 March 1959
… [Drum, a Johannesburg monthly, asked a number of African leaders, "Do we really want to get rid of the white man?" The following is the reply of Chief Lutuli…
ArchiveChapter 14 Out of prison: 28 February 1985 as a free person by Denis Goldberg
… and exhausting. It was lovely sitting in the back of a car looking at the city with her, holding hands. Very … I was quite exhausted from the noise and the…
EventSouth African photojournalist and member of the Bang-Bang, Club Kevin Carter, commits suicide
… after winning the Pulitzer Award for feature photography of a controversial picture depicting famine in Sudan. Carter came under a lot of criticism for a…
EventA United Nations team finally arrives in Mbandaka, Congo, to investigate alleged massacres of refugees
… Following the Rwandan genocide of 1994, thousands of Hutu refugees fled to the neighboring Congo (DRC), … as Zaire. This was in an attempt to escape the…
EventCanada offers a second contingent of troops to the British in the South African War
… The Canadian government offered a second contingent of troops consisting of infantry, cavalry and field artillery to bolster British … need for additional…
EventNotorious Pirate, Captain William Kidd, is reportedly sighted off the coast of Cape Town
… Perhaps one of the most notorious pirates in history, Captain William … was thought to have become familiar with the practice of piracy while serving as an…
EventEllen Phyllis Hellmann, social anthropologist and executive member of the SAIRR, dies in Johannesburg
… in 1894. She studied Social Anthropology at the University of Witwatersrand. For her Master’s degree Hellman decided to do research into the lives of urban…
ArchiveA Place In The City - The Rand On The Eve Of Apartheid by Luli Callinicos
… The new government, they feared, would introduce an era of rampant racism, and many left South Africa for other … Congress President, Dr Xuma, spoke for many…
Document 40 - Letter from T. W. Thibedi to the Communist League of America’, 26 April 1932
… 40 - Letter from T. W. Thibedi to the Communist League of America', 26 April 1932 … April 26,1932. Secretary Communist League of America 84 East 10th Street…
EventUN report accuses Katangan President and Congo President of conspiracy to murder Patrice Lumumba
… and Congo President, Joseph Kasavubu, were accused of conspiracy to murder ex-premier Patrice Lumumba in a UN … that Patrice Lumumba was assassinated with…
EventThe First Anglo-Boer War: Boers defeat the British at the Battle of Majuba
… The poverty and vulnerability of the South African Republic (Transvaal) prompted Disraeli's … This was an important step in achieving the federation of the…
EventConnie Mulder resigns as a result of his involvement in plot to sell apartheid propaganda
… On 24 January 1979, the Minister of Information, Connie Mulder , resigns his seat in Parliament at the insistence of the Prime Minister P. W. Botha as a…
EventUmkhonto We Sizwe, military wing of the ANC, claims responsibility for power station blast
… Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK), translated as "Spear of the Nation", was the active military wing of the African National Congress (ANC). It was formed in … (SACP)…
EventNelson Mandela condemns the Lockerbie bombing, the first mass killing of Americans by terrorists
… a statement condemning the Lockerbie bombing and loss of life that occurred as a result. The bombing killed all 243 … sustain peace and stability. It was the…
EventDeputy Minister of Interior Affairs, P.W. Botha, introduces the Republican Referendum Bill to Parliament
… On 11 March 1960, for the first time in the history of South Africa, the Republican Referendum Bill was introduced to Parliament by the Deputy Minister of…
EventEllen Johnson-Sirleaf, becomes the first woman to be Head of State in Africa
… Johnson-Sirleaf became the first elected woman as Head of State in Africa. Johnson-Sirleaf’s historic inauguration as President of Liberia was on 16 January…
EventMohandas K. Gandhi is arrested as he leads a march of Indian miners in South Africa
… Africa in 1893, Mohandas Gandhi had first -hand experience of the discrimination faced by people of colour. His response to this was the establishment of the…
EventANC sacks its chief whip Mbulelo Goniwe, after finding him guilty of sexual harassment
… active in the liberation struggle and with the inception of new democracy, held several positions, the most recent of which was the post of African National…
EventThe Castle of Good Hope, oldest surviving colonial building in South Africa, is completed.
… The Castle of Good Hope is the oldest surviving colonial building in … establishing a maritime replenishment station at the Cape of Good Hope for the Dutch…
EventRay Alexander Simons, founder of Food and Canning Workers Union, arrives in South Africa
… that many workers in the Cape Town area and in the rest of the country were not organized into unions. Consequently, … in the Western Cape. After joining the…
EventSir Christoffel Joseph Brand succeeds his brother, P.A. Brand, as editor of De Zuid
… English and partly in Dutch, and started off as a weekly of four pages, until 1841 when it appeared twice a week, and … in the British Cape Colony at the…
ArchiveA Crime Against Humanity - Analysing the Repression of the Apartheid State edited by Max Coleman
… Introduction Part A: The unfolding of total strategy 1948 - 1989 1. The many faces of apartheid repression 2. The legal veneer 3. The … 4. …
EventPresident Paul Kruger lays the foundation stone of the Raadsaal on Pretoria’s Church Square
… Concorde. Church Square marks what used to be the centre of Pretoria, and what is now home to many historically … Chamber), which stands on the south western…
ArchiveProfile of a Death Row Prisoner: Paper Presented at the Black Sash National Conference 1989
… Profile of a Death Row Prisoner: Paper Presented at the Black Sash … and ordinary prisoners on death row, apartheid, education of death row prisoners,…
EventCharges against 53 of the 76 Africans detained after the Sharpeville massacre are dropped
… who were protesting against the pass laws in the township of Sharpeville, near Vereeniging in the Transvaal. Scores of people were left injured and others…
EventNelson Mandela appeals for calm after the assassination of Communist Party chief, Chris Hani
… Following the assassination of the former Secretary-General of the South African Communist Party (SACP) and chief commander of uMkhonto weSizwe (MK), the…
EventLord Charles Henry Somerset, governor of the Cape Colony, is born in Badminton, England
… experienced a serious unemployment problem as a result of the Napoleonic Wars, the British government encouraged … people immigrate to the Cape Colony. The…
EventThe first Prime Minister of the DRC, Patrice Lumumba, declares martial law in Katanga
… The first Prime Minister of Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Patrice Lumumba declared martial law in the Katanga region of the Congo as a result of the…
EventMinister of Police and Prisons announces that twenty-one trade unionists have been detained
… Louis Ie Grange, Minister of Police and Prisons, stated in the House of Assembly that twenty-one trade unionists have been detained since the beginning of…
Dr Piet Koornhof, one of the most controversial figures in South African history, dies
… Dr Piet Koornhof, one of the most controversial figures from South Africa's … era, died in a Stellenbosch frail care centre at the age of 82, following a…