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EventGen. Louis Botha, soldier, statesman and first prime minister of the Union of South Africa, is born.
… Transvaal army in the Second Anglo-Boer War (1899-1902) from March 1900, and he was one of the architects of the …
EventFormer Chief of the South African Defence Force (SADF), General Jannie Geldenhuys is born in Kroonstad
… the role he played in an attempt to release Charles Sebe from a Ciskeian jail in 1986. Geldenhuys was also an … “We Were There” by General Jannie Geldenhuys …
EventDennis Brutus is born
… in the campaign for the banning of South Africa from the Olympic Games. He was arrested in 1964 and fled to …
EventWinnie Nomzamo Madikizela-Mandela is sentenced to six years
… One of the youths, 14-year old Stompie Seipei died from the injuries he sustained. Winnie appealed against the … exhumed in ANC ‘murder’ case linked to…
EventWidespread violence and intimidation in 1996 Kwazulu-Natal
… had prohibited the African National Congress (ANC) from running campaigns in the rural areas controlled by them. … Political History: a chronology of key…
PlaceUniversity of the Free State, Main building, Bloemfontein
… opened on 16 October 1909. The North and South wings date from 1915 and 1929 respectively. It was declared a National …
EventNine policemen are killed in Cato Manor riots in Durban, shortly before the infamous Sharpville Massacre
… policemen would attempt to forcefully remove black people from Cato Manor, an area inhabited by both Africans and … Cape Town Campus] pg 1.| Electric Jive, …
Book 6: Negotiation, Transition and Freedom - List of Abbreviations
… From the book: Book 6: Negotiation, Transition and Freedom …
EventTrevor Manuel, Minister in The Presidency: National Planning Commission, is born
… for a month for his activities in the UDF and was banned from attending meetings until 31 August 1990. Following the … pp 162-165|The presidency, ‘ Minister…
EventEdgar D. Ngoyi, South African ANC leader who spent seventeen years on Robben Island, is born.
… Organisation (PEBCO) in 1984, soon after their release from Robben Island. Through PEBCO Ngoyi and his comrades took …
PlaceRhodes
… 1892 indicate that it must have been known by this name from the onset. Despite this the local Dutch Reformed Church …
PlaceAliwal North, Eastern Cape
… Town on the banks of the Orange River, some 195 km from Bloemfontein, on the road to to East London. It was … Town on the banks of the Orange River, some 195…
PlaceClarkson, Eastern Cape
… grammar school and then St John's College, Cambridge. From 1786, he lived and worked in London, in the Lake …
Statement by Oliver Tambo accepting the Simon Bolivar award on behalf of Nelson Mandela, 24 July 1983, Caracas, Venezuela
… Salvador and the sands of the Sahara turned russet brown from the blood of the innocents. He would not have been an … a galaxy of eminent leaders and…
Archive2004 - President Mbeki, State of the Nation Address, 6 February 2004 (Before National Elections)
… on the 24th of May, 1994. In that Address he quoted from a poem by Ingrid Jonker. In that poem Ingrid Jonker … to understand the fact that we are barely ten…
Man-made women: Gender, class and the ideology of the volksmoeder by Elsabe Brink
… From the book: Women and Gender in Southern Africa to 1945 … and Dutch historical writings (the latter emanating from the Netherlands as well as the Boer…
Address delivered at The 9th COSATU Congress, 18 September 2006, Gallagher Estate, Midrand
… and friends, I bring you warm and revolutionary greetings from the National Executive Committee and the entire … which direction we need to go. We know where…
Documents, and articles relating to the Sharpeville Massacre 1960
… waged against it. No proud people will ever obey orders from those who have humiliated and dishonoured them for so … forward to negotiate with the government…
Address of Nelson Mandela at his Investiture as Doctor of Laws Soochow University, Taiwan, 1 August 1993
… for me to stand before you to receive this honorary degree from your University. Your decision to confer this degree on … for fundamental and democratic…
Address of the President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki, at the National Council of Provinces, Limpopo, 4 November 2005
… our constitutional system of governance. This derives from the fact that it is the only institution within this … This process differs in some important…
Address to the National Health Summit, 19 November 2001
… bedrock of our health system. Consider where we had come from: Our recent heritage was one of dumping grounds and … enjoyed mostly at academic hospitals…
FREEDOM IN OUR LIFETIME, Durban, December 12-14, 1958
… he deems it necessary to forcefully disabuse "the Bantu" from any pretensions to graze in the green pastures of the … Party made Premier of the country. As…
Africans’Claims in South Africa,
… has been termed "Bill of Rights" and "The Atlantic Charter from the African's Point of View." This document was drawn up … and no right of freedom to…
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
… Wave of Terror In an attempt to extricate themselves from this quagmire, the racist rulers have acted with a … for the birth of a new South Africa - at last…
January 8th Statements - Statement of the National Executive Committee on the occasion of the 77th Anniversary of the ANC - 8 January 1989
… Wave of Terror In an attempt to extricate themselves from this quagmire, the racist rulers have acted with a … for the birth of a new South Africa - at last…
ANC pays tribute to the late Arthur Goldreich, 26 May 2011
… resolve that saw him leave South Africa when he escaped from custody in 1963. His legacy will always be with us and …
PlaceEerste Rivier, Cape Town
… after 13 February 1862. This was when the Railway Line from Cape Town reached Eerste River. It was acquired by the … as a Village after 13 February 1862 when…
ANC officials and staff to visit Usindiso Ministries as part of Mandela Day Celebration, 16 July 2010
… women and their children. About fifty (50) children aged from one (1) to eight (8) are accommodated at the shelter. …
ANC statement on the passing of Epainette Mbeki, 7 June 2014
… our stalwart Govan Mbeki due to incarceration and hiding from the police MaMBeki had to single handedly raised their …
PlaceAllanridge, Free State Province
… Somewhere during its History it also picked up plates from NBL 27404, which served as No 2 at the mine. By 1991 No …