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BiographyJohn Marinus Ferus
John Marinus Ferus (Hennie Ferus), an uMkhonto weSizwe (MK) soldier, was born on 8 February 1940. He joined the South African Coloured Peoples Congress (SACPO)…
40 years after: Understanding the Soweto Uprising by Motsoko Pheko (Pambazuka News), 30 June 2016
… not just drop from the sky. The Black students of South Africa did not wake up one day and begin resisting Bantu … Zephania Mothopeng and 17 Others – Supreme…
The Sweet Workers’ Union
… a newcomer from England lacking prior experience of South Africa’s intense racial divisions, Burford had first intended …
EventTaliep Petersen was born on this day.
… One of South Africa’s best known theatre personalities was born on this … and directed some of the most well-known musicals in South Africa including…
ArchiveNUSAS Press Release No. 4, 1967
… Day of Affirmation of Academic and Human Freedom in South Africa. Contains announcement that Professor Erwin N Griswold … for the Affirmation of Academic and…
ArchiveAll That Glitters - Before the mineral discoveries by Emilia Potenza
… All That Glitters by Emilia Potenza Life in Southern Africa changed greatly because of the discovery of diamonds … For most of the 19th Century almost all…
Address by President T Mbeki at Press Conference following Meeting with President Kikwete of Tanzania, held on 7 April 2006, at Presidential Guesthouse
… of an old decision between Tanzania and South Africa which has to do with what we have established - a … detailed economic co-operation between Tanzania and…
PlaceRobben Island Museum
… museum, a poignant reminder to the newly democratic South Africa of the price paid for freedom.- more info The prison … in 1997. In 1652, during the Dutch…
Document 53 - Remarks of Comrade Dubois”, Internal Bulletin of the International Communist League (B-L), no. 2, May 1935
… From: South Africa's Radical Tradition, a documentary history, Volume One … choice oftactics which are useful and effective in South Africa, revolves around…
Statement by Oliver Tambo to the ordinary Congress of the Socialist International, 20 June 1989, Stockholm
… (Extract) The special conference on southern Africa, convened by the Socialist International in Harare … who have supported the liberation struggle in…
Statement to the Ordinary Congress of the Socialist International, Stockholm by O. R. Tambo, 20 June 1989
… (Extract) The special conference on southern Africa, convened by the Socialist International in Harare … who have supported the liberation struggle in…
ArticleThe Dutch Settlement
… that led to Europe. European traders bought gold from Africa and exchanged it for spices and silk in Asia. The … were tasked with finding an alternative…
EventThe energy and chemical company, Sasol, is registered
… industry. It was realised then that, because South Africa did not have crude oil reserves, the country's balance … is one of the top five publicly listed…
EventCODESA’s starting date set
… a date for the start of substantive negotiations on South Africa's future constitution, a Convention for a Democratic South Africa (CODESA) . Its opening…
EventNamibians vote for a Constituent Assembly
… all-race and fully democratic elections in South-West Africa/Namibia. The Constituent Assembly was to draw up a new … than 97% of the registered voters voted…
EventSA jazz singer, Letta Mbulu is born in Soweto
… Masekela. At the end of the tour Mbulu returned to South Africa, but did not stay long because of the apartheid … and actor. In 1992 Mbulu and her husband…
EventHelen Nontando Jabavu, author and periodical editor in London, is born in Middeldrift, SA
… a European, tracing her origins in both England and South Africa. In her books she looked at the alienation she felt, issues of identity and the impact of…
BiographyJack Mkhuseli
Mkhuseli Jack was born on the farm Mosskraal in Humansdorp on 31 May 1958. Jack was the second youngest of eight children of Fikile and Alice Jack, a domestic…
Mkhuseli Khusta Jack
Mkhuseli Jack was born on the farm Mosskraal in Humansdorp on 31 May 1958. Jack was the second youngest of eight children of Fikile and Alice Jack, a domestic…
BiographyFort Calata
… - Former Law and Order minister , from Who’s Who Southern Africa , [online] Available at www.whoswhosa.co.za [Accessed …
ArchiveCHAPTER 9 - Tactics of talks, Tactics of confrontation, The Road to Vula, July 1985 - December 1986 Insurrection cannot be led from afar. by Howard Barrell
… after this particular young man had returned to South Africa, [p]roblems developed. And we had already [by June … talk to ‘anybody’ who wanted to know its…
ArticleGrade 4 - Term 1: Local History
… places and the people around them. In a country like South Africa, which has a rich diverse heritage, many people have … of a local history project, it being…
EventCôte d’Ivoire gains independence from France
… system had developed, but due to the European scramble for Africa, this system was replaced by French colonial rule in … was incorporated into the Federation…
EventA book claims that SA’s Nuclear weapons programme has continued since 1993
… Mandela's Nuclear Nightmare " claimed that South Africa did not destroy all its nuclear weapons in 1993, as it … insisting that there was no reason to…
Statement of Acceptance of the Ho Chi Minh Award Bestowed on the ANC by the World Peace Council by O. R. Tambo, Luanda, 15 December 1986
… most serious challenge to the ANC and the people of South Africa to relentlessly pursue their struggle for the … forces inspired and encouraged the oppressed…
O. R. Tambo Interviewed by RIXAKA, January 1985
… to certain exclusivist cultural artifacts. In South Africa this view has been deliberately promoted and used for … There should be no cultural links with…
Interview with Oliver Tambo by Rixaka, 05 January 1985
… to certain exclusivist cultural artifacts. In South Africa this view has been deliberately promoted and used for … There should be no cultural links with…
EventThe ANC Youth League is re-established at Orlando stadium in Soweto
… absence of thirty years from the political arena in South Africa. The Youth League was effected through the … in the struggle to achieve democracy in South…
Book 2: The Impact and Limitations of Colonialism - Chapter 2 - The Development of a Colonial Slave Society by Wayne Dooling
… of Education What were the turning points in southern Africa before colonialism? There can be little doubt that the imposition of European colonial rule in…
ArticleKora
… speak Dutch, ride and shoot. External links: 1. South Africa West Coast History: The Forgotten People from … section on 'raiding'. 3. Hunters and herders…