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Address at the 22nd Congress of the Socialist International, 27 October 2003
… indicated, this Panel is scheduled to discuss the topic of a new multilateralism for sustainable development and … if we do not confine ourselves strictly…
Forward to a People's Government by O. R. Tambo - Statement of the ANC, 18 March 1980
… On March 9, 1980, the racist Prime Minister of South Africa, P.W. Botha, surprised the world with the … had decided to summon a conference representative of…
Book 6: Negotiation, Transition and Freedom - Chapter 4 - The Fruits of Freedom by Eddy Maloka
… Transition and Freedom commissioned by The Department of Education The first ten years of South Africa’s democracy brought dramatic and rapid change. South…
Chapter 12. The General Strike Of 1931 - Garment Workers in Action by E. S. Sachs
… unemployment followed. As there was no social insurance of any kind in the country, the unemployed workers suffered great distress. For the hundreds of…
Conference: One Hundred Years of the ANC - Debating Liberation Histories and Democracy Today
… One Hundred Years of the ANC: Debating Liberation Histories and Democracy Today 20-23 September 2011 The 100th anniversary of the African National Congress…
PlaceCape Point and the Lighthouse, at the Southern Point of the Cape Peninsula
… Cape Point is a promontory at the South East corner of the Cape Peninsula , which is a mountainous and scenic … about thirty kilometres at the extreme South…
Burkina Faso: Echoes of a Revolution Past by Ernest Harsch, December 22nd, 2014
… Burkina Faso: Echoes of Revolution Past Ernest Harsch discusses the enduring appeal and influence of the revered revolutionary leader, Thomas Sankara. There…
Message by Albert Luthuli on the eve of Multi-Racial Conference, 1 November 1957
… on December 3-5, 1957. Very little, if anything at all of what is new, can be said about it now. But the need to … achieve this "underlining" that I have…
Address on the Occasion of the State Banquet, Tripoli, Libya, 12 June 2002
… Gentlemen: Thank you, dear Brother Leader and the people of the Great Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriaya for … your fraternal greetings from the…
Oration at the Funeral of Moses Kotane by O. R. Tambo, Moscow, 26 May 1978
… with Moses Kotane was in 1946, which was the beginning of a period of great political upheavals in our struggle, a period that was to prove most decisive in…
Address at the Opening of the ICC Cricket World Cup 2003 February 8, 2003
… Director of Ceremonies, President of the ICC, Mr Malcolm Gray, Dr Ali Bacher, Executive Director of the ICC, Mr Malcolm Speed, CEO of the ICC, Minister of ……
Document 29 - Resolution on the need for the resumption of multi-party negotiations
… submissions to the Constitutional Assembly come at the end of the process of public participation in drawing up our new Constitution. … constituency in the…
EventB.J. Vorster, Minister of Justice, announces extensive security measures following the Sharpeville Massacre
… On 15 February 1962, B.J. Vorster, Minister of Justice announced extensive measures to "ensure the safety of the state to the absolute maximum" in view of…
EventZulu King Cetshwayo address his warriors at the great military kraal of Nodwengu
… On the afternoon of 17 January 1879 the Zulu king Cetshwayo addressed 20 000 of his warriors at the great military kraal of Nodwengu: "I am sending you out…
Call for the observance of Human Rights Day: Albert Luthuli, 12 December 1959
… and declaration by the United Nations Organisation of human rights and the fundamental freedoms was a great … when organised world opinion showed an…
Chapter 5: The Socio-Economic impact of Vigilantes and Political Violence in Kwazulu-Natal
… 5.1 The Socio-Economic impact of Vigilantes and Political Violence It would be an oversight … might have played a role in the socio-economic development of…
EventResearchers proclaim they found a type of SIVcpz that is almost identical to HIV
… On 4 February 1999 a group of researchers from the University of Alabama proclaimed that they had found a type of Simian Immunodeficiency Viruses (SIVcpz)…
EventJack Penn, sculptor and one of the world’s best plastic surgeon is born
… Parktown High School and studied at the University of the Witwatersrand (WITS). After marrying Diana Malkin in … wife to the United Kingdom (UK), where he…
EventAnglo-Boer War 2: Lord Methuen, British general, destroys the village of Schweizer-Reneke
… as Egypt, and Bechuanaland (Botswana). At the outbreak of war in South Africa, he was given command of the British 1st Division. In December 1899 he…
Address by Nelson Mandela at the Funeral of Adelaide Tambo, 10 February 2007
… this morning we come to pay our last respects to a member of our generation of freedom fighters and patriots. Over these last few years … we have with…
EventA resolution against the use of Afrikaans is taken during SASM conference in Roodepoort
… Roodepoort. During the conference Aubrey Mokoena, a member of the Black People's Convention (BPC) and the Black Parents … about Black Consciousness, in which…
Democracy - The only solution by Nelson Mandela, President of the ANC 1 July 1992
… Unemployment is running as high as 40 per cent! Millions of Rands of taxpayers' money, supposedly earmarked for black … by government officials with impunity…
EventTito Mboweni, former Governor of the SA Reserve Bank, is born in Tzaneen
… his high school studies, he registered for a Bachelor of Commerce Degree at the University of the North (now University of Limpopo). However, he went into…
EventNicolaas Jacobus Smit, Vice-President of the ZAR, is born in Graaff-Reinet.
… Nicolaas Jacobus Smit, was the eldest child of Nicolaas Jacobus Smit, (descendent of Jan Smit and Adriana Tol) and Elizabeth Magdalena van der Merwe, …
EventArchibald Gumede, former President of the United Democratic Front, is born in Pietermaritzburg.
… at the South African Native College (now University of Fort Hare), but dropped out after two years. He returned … National Congress (ANC) in 1949 and became…
EventLady Diana Spencer, Princess of Wales, is killed in a car accident in Paris
… On the 31 August 1997 Princess of Wales, Lady Diana Spencer, the former wife of Prince Charles, was killed with her companion Dodi Fayed … by the SABC. The…
EventPresident Paul Kruger authorises the construction of the railway line to Delagoa bay
… The discovery of various rich mineral resources in Southern Africa saw the construction of various railway lines. Of note was the construction of the Delagoa…
EventKing Moshoeshoe II, the paramount chief of Lesotho, is killed in an accident
… King Moshoeshoe II of Lesotho died in a car accident shortly after he reclaimed … on a mountain road on the way to Maseru, the capital city of Lesotho. After…
EventDeputy Minister of Bantu Education,Treurnicht is warned about deteriorating conditions in Soweto
… Rene de Villiers, member of parliament for Parktown, drew the attention of deputy minister of Bantu education, Dr Andries P. Treurnicht, to the fact … Muller…
Event20 000 Women march to the Union Buildings in protest of pass laws
… In one of the largest demonstrations staged in this country's history, 20 000 women of all races marched to Pretoria's Union Buildings on 9 August 1956, to…