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EventG7 meeting on world finance kicks off in London
Top finance officials from seven of the world's richest countries, the G7 (now Group of 8 after the inclusion of Russia), opened a two-day meeting in London…
EventInternational Day of Peace Vigil is observed
After the United Nations General-Assembly resolution 55/282 of 2001, beginning 2002, 21 September of each year is observed as the International Day of Peace…
EventSwanepoel and Du Preez found guilty of killing soldiers
Marius Swanepoel and Hendrik Du Preez were convicted by Judge Faan Hancke for murder on two soldiers, Michael Leisanyane and Gilmore van Wyk, in an apparent…
EventSA Policeman Wins 90km Comrades Marathon
A member of the South African Police Services (SAPS) from Mafikeng in North West, Andrew Kelehe, won the 90km Comrades Marathon from Pietermaritzburg to Durban…
EventInhabitants flee UNITA occupation
The National Union for the Independence of Angola (UNITA), formed in 1966 by Jonas Savimbi to contest power and access to minerals in Angola, occupied Kuxi in…
EventFinance Minister Chris Liebenberg presents his budget
The SA finance minister, Chris Liebenberg, presented his 1996 - 1997 budget to parliament. It was a cautious package intended to reduce the fiscal deficit and…
EventBafana Bafana wins against Algeria
The SA soccer team, Bafana Bafana, won their Africa Cup of Nations Quarterfinal match against Algeria 2 - 1 at the FNB Stadium, Johannesburg. The defender,…
EventZAR’s last Cruesot ‘Long Tom’ dynamited
During the Anglo-Boer War II, the fourth and last Creusot 'Long Tom' of the state Artillery of the Zuid-Afrikaansche Republiek (South African Republic, also…
EventSA painter Frederick Timpson I’Ons (85) dies
Frederick Timpson l'Ons (85), SA painter of the early life in the Eastern Cape, died in Grahamstown. He was born in Islington, Middlesex, England on 15…
EventThe Bloemfontein Convention is signed
The Republic of the Orange Free State was established by the signing of the Bloemfontein Convention (also called the Orange River Convention) between Sir…
EventChurch bombing kills 15 people in Nigeria.
On 3 June 2012, a suicide bomber forced his car, filled with explosives, through a checkpoint and exploded, killing people at the Living Faith Church in Bauchi…
EventJohn Davidson Rockerfeller, US philanthropist, donates $10 million towards the building of a museum in Cairo, Egypt
John Davidson Rockerfeller was an industrialist and a philanthropist who founded the Standard American Oil Company. Rockefeller family is one of the richest…
ArchivePromotion of Bantu Self-governing Act, Act No 46 of 1959
The Act was to provide for the gradual development of self-governing Bantu national units and for direct consultation between the Government of the Union and…
EventHenry Morton Stanley’s expedition reaches Fort Bodo, Congo
Henry Morton Stanley, an English explorer who lived in America, was commissioned by The New York Herald with the task of finding explorer David Livingstone. No…
EventInternational Literacy Day highlights the importance of literacy in areas such as health and education
International literacy Day was first celebrated in 1966. This day is meant to raise awareness in countries all over the world about the high levels of…
Speaking Notes for the President of the African National Congress, President Jacob Zuma, during the MKMVA National Conference, 12 October 2012
Programme Director; Chairperson, Comrade Kebby Mphatsoe and the National Executive Committee; Chairpersons of MKMVA Provincial Committees; MKMVA stalwarts…
Increase Assistance to Liberation Movements - Statement at the International Conference of Experts for the Support of Victims of Colonialism and Apartheid in Southern Africa by O. R. Tambo, Oslo, 11 April 1973
We should like to endorse and associate ourselves with every detail of the case that has been made out for the support of the liberation movement in the…
Tribute to the United Nations Special Committee Against Apartheid - Statement at the Meeting of the Special Committee on its Tenth Anniversary by O. R. Tambo, New York, 2 April 1973
Mr. Chairman, Sir, Distinguished representatives, Today, we, black and white, peoples of many nationalities and continents, representatives of different…
Address to the SANC Local Government Conference, 30 July 1999 Johannesburg
Master of Ceremonies SADC Secretary General, Dr. Kaire Mbuende SADC Ministers and Deputy Ministers of Local Government President of the International Union…
Closing address by President Nelson Mandela in the president’s budget debate Cape Town, 22 April 1998
Madame Speaker; Honourable Members; Ladies and Gentlemen; Let me start off by thanking all parties and particularly those members who took part in the…
ArchiveA death warrant for Afrikaans by Hermann Giliomee, 11 November 2019
Introduction The Constitutional Court’s ruling that Afrikaans as a language of instruction has to be content with a marginal place at Stellenbosch…
A Future Free of Exploitation - Address to the First Congress of MPLA by O. R. Tambo, Luanda, December 1977
Comrade President Agostinho Neto, Comrade Members of the Presidium of the Congress, Comrades Militants and Combatants of MPLA, Comrades and Friends: …
Eye of the Needle - Chapter 6 - Education for Freedom
From the book: The Eye of the Needle by Richard Turner At this point I want to make a small excursion into the field of education, for four reasons: 1. Most…
EventUnited Democratic Front call to Police
The United Democratic Front criticized the police actions at a Guguletu Funeral and made a call for police to stay away from funerals. This was requested by…
PlaceGroote Schuur Hospital, Cape Town
Groote Schuur is one of Cape Town's premier tertiary Academic Hospitals and was officially opened in 1938. The hospital is internationally renowned as the…
ArchiveThe birth of the African Peoples Democratic Union of Southern Africa (APDUSA)
This pamphlet clearly describes, with some background, on the political state of the country before the birth of APDUSA. The NEUM called on the leadership of…
Phakamani
Phakamani, meaning "stand up", reflecting the call to stand up and join the democratic forces inside South Africa and abroad to oppose the legality of the…
EventConservationist and entrepreneur Rufus Maruma is born
Makgabo Rufus Maruma, world respected Tourism, Environmental and Waste Management expert and founder of Bohlweki Environmental (Pty) Ltd as well as member…
EventSA artist, Dumisani Mabaso is born
Dumisani Abraham Mabaso, South African artist, was born in Soweto. From childhood until 1974 he received art education at the Young Women's Christian…
EventIndia complains in 1946 against racism in South Africa
For an excellent background history of this complaint by E. S. Reddy, and how it was taken to the United Nations, read article. For chronological details of…