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Document 21 - Letter from S. P. Bunting to E. R. Roux, 27 October 1930
… add "also delegates (European and Coloured) from the South African Trades & Labour Council and the Furniture and Garment …
EventPansy Tlakula, Chairperson of the Independent Electoral Commission, announces her resignation
… parties such as the United Democratic Movement (UDM), the African Christian Democratic Party (ACDP), Congress of the …
Event90-Days Act comences
… enables authorities to align Umkhonto We Sizwe with the African National Congress (ANC) and Poqo with the Pan … Liebenberg, B. J. & Spies, S. B. (eds)(1993)…
EventMapungubwe is ‘discovered’
… have been the centre of the largest known kingdom in the African sub-continent. The civilization thrived as a …
EventSA and Mozambique revive Nkomati Accord
… for attacks on one another. Mozambique agreed to expel the African National Congress (ANC) from their country while …
EventWolraad Woltemade drowns at sea after saving 14 people from a sinking ship
… 2002, as part of the move towards establishing a new South African honours system. … Schirmer, P. (1980) The concise illustrated South African encyclopaedia …
EventLord Charles Henry Somerset, governor of the Cape Colony, is born in Badminton, England
… in Eastern Cape. In Cape Town he launched the South African Public Library in the Cape through a proclamation in …
EventMother Teresa is buried
… 1988. Further reading: Feature: The Nobel Prize and South African Winners of the award. Feature: Mohandas K. Gandhi …
EventSA judge jails former state assassin Eugene de Kock for more than 200 years
… regime, Eugene de Kock was a colonel in the South African Police force. He acted as the commander of a … J.A.; Schoeman, E. & Andor, L.E. (eds) (1999)…
EventThe Rand Revolt strikers’ stronghold at Fordsburg Square falls to the government
… active role in the uprising. On 15 March 1992, the South African government's artillery bombarded the strikers' … : Human & Rousseau|SAHO, The Rand Revolt ,…
EventGeneral C.R. de Wet was found guilty of treason for leading the Afrikaner rebellion of 1914
… in chief of the Orange Free State forces in the South African War (1899-1902) and was a leader in the Afrikaner …
EventFawcett Commission into Concentration Camps in South Africa
… of Afrikaners in concentration camps during the South African War. A British woman, Emily Hobhouse became the …
ArchiveCongress Resister 1983 - 1989
… community to the forthcoming elections for the South African Indian Council (SAIC). It was decided that the …
65. Letter from the Natal Indian Congress to Smuts, 1945
… colonies in the world. Any attempted solution of the South African Indian question that ignores Natal Indians is bound …
EventC. Lindenberg Letty, botanical artist, is born
… the eldest of five children. At the outbreak of the South African War in 1899, the family moved to Estcourt in Natal . … E.J. Verwey (ed), New dictionary of…
EventSoweto students march against government’s language policy
… Botswana, Lesotho and Swaziland. The majority joined the African National Congress (ANC) and some opted to undergo … march against government's language…
Interview with Dr Vanitha Chetty by Ms Rajes Pillay,University of Durban Westville,13 June 2002
… much younger age. In fact, my mother and all of us went in 1955. I’ve spent a couple of months in India. I was sent off … jubilant on her return because…
ArticleKey sites
… was an invention born of the City’s racist regulations. African people were not allowed to served in Indian … Market would be rebuilt on the adjacent land on…
Forward to Mass Action for People's Power! Message of the National Executive Committee of the ANC on the 77th Anniversary of the ANC by O. R. Tambo, 8 January 1989
… observe the 77th anniversary of the people's movement, the African National Congress. I have the pleasure to extend … by the regime's agents of the Head…
January 8th Statements - Statement of the National Executive Committee on the occasion of the 77th Anniversary of the ANC - 8 January 1989
… observe the 77th Anniversary of the people`s movement, the African National Congress. I have the pleasure to extend … by the regime`s agents of the Head…
Archive2004 - President Mbeki, State of the Nation Address, 6 February 2004 (Before National Elections)
… system. These were Onkgopotse Tiro, a leader of the South African Students Organisation (SASO), and Adolphus Mvemve … pressures are undoubtedly increasing…
Museums, Heritage & Meaning Making Conference
… conference from 21–24 October 2025 at the Iziko South African Museum, Cape Town — marking 200 years of … to submit abstracts and register to attend. Iziko…
EventIFP proposes a truce with ANC
… The Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) proposed a truce with the African National Congress (ANC) as an effort to distil … ANC and itself. The IFP blamed the…
PlaceTaj Hotel, Cape Town
… as the Board of Executors, built in 1890, and the South African Reserve Bank building, on St. George's Originally home to the South African Reserve Bank and…
ArchiveCHAPTER 6 - Towards a Broad Front and Other Desirable Accidents, January 1981 - January 1983 by Howard Barrell
… The Anti-Republic Campaign In early 1981, the South African government announced a month of festivities to … homeland in November, guerillas attacked a small…
Chapter 6 - ‘Direct Action’ on the Shop-Floor: The Denver Engineering Strike, 1919 - 1920
… workers, constituted a few exceptions to the rule in South African labour history, and there lies the historical … should be ensured and they immediately…
Archive2012 - President Zuma, State of the Nation, 9 February 2012
… of our country, the centenary of the ruling party, the African National Congress. In marking this occasion we are … will result in the creation of more jobs…
ArchiveWebinar Programme: Forward to Socialism/Socialist Futures (Panel 2) - Convenor: Janet Cherry
… Futures (Panel 2) Convenor: Janet Cherry Has the South African development trajectory over the past 30 years … ideological reflection and learning within…
Archive1990 - President De Klerk: State of the Nation Address, 2 February 1990
… be sufficiently attractive to ensure that the Southern African region obtains adequate investment and loan capital … is prepared to enter into discussions…
FW de Klerk’s speech to Parliament, 2 February 1990
… be sufficiently attractive to ensure that the Southern African region obtains adequate investment and loan capital … is prepared to enter into discussions…