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EventConstruction of the Victoria Falls Bridge and the railway line are completed
… is a border separating Zimbabwe (then Southern Rhodesia) from Zambia (Northern Rhodesia) and the bridge links the two … Roberts, P., The Victoria Falls…
EventKenya is granted independence
… Kenya gained its independence from Britain with Jomo Kenyatta as the country’s first Prime … The New York Times," Kenya Gains Independence ",From: The New…
EventPieter-Dirk Uys, SA activist, satirist, playwright and novelist, is born in Cape Town
… Uys was born in Cape Town in 1945. He studied drama at UCT from 1965 to 1965 before going to study at the London Film … Available at www.pdu.co.za [accessed…
PlaceHoward College Building and the Memorial Tower Building, University of Natal
… of Kwazulu Natal) was made possible by a donation from Durban businessman T.B. Davis, in remembrance of his son …
EventThe Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland collapses
… decided that Nyasaland should be allowed to withdraw from the federation. A conference held in early 1963 at … Boddy-Evans, A., ‘Federation of Rhodesia and…
EventAfrican bus boycott lasting ten weeks is initiated in Johannesburg and Pretoria.
… increased the bus fare in 1957, it was met with resistance from the public. More than 80 percent of the Black population … successfully boycott buses in…
EventANC leader Walter Sisulu is convicted and sentenced to six years in prison for contravening the unlawful Organisations Act
… months after his release on bail he made a short broadcast from a secret ANC radio station. On 11 July of the same year … O’Malley P. ‘1963’ from Nelson…
EventJacobus Johannes (Jim) Fouché is born in Wepener in the OFS.
… was elected as the second Sstate President of South Africa from 1968-1975. Fouche was initially a farmer in the OFS …
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…
Document 26 - S. P. Bunting, Statement on the Kuusinen Thesis1 , presented at the Sixth Comintern Congress, 20 August 1928
… From: South Africa's Radical Tradition, a documentary … and ignorant peasants and workers for their liberation from all forms of exploitation. The former…
Analysis: Is South Africa doing enough to prevent heritage flight? by Rebecca Davis (Daily Maverick), 07 March 2017, South Africa
… rooted in South Africa. “It is the photos and stories from Goldblatt’s native country, whose scars of violence and … 75 “vulnerable” artworks have been…
Media briefing statement by ANC National Chairperson, Comrade Baleka Mbete, following the occasion of the Republic of South Sudans 9th July Independence Day Celebrations
… Introduction: I have just returned from Juba, South Sudan last night. I led an ANC delegation … for a better progressive world and to free our people from…
PlaceNiger
… part of the territory. (The name Niger derives it meaning from; “river among rivers,” in the Tamashek language.) One of … , in the Islamic Maghrib . Most…
Statement in Court by Dr G. M. Naicker and Dr Y. M. Dadoo, When Charged With Aiding and Abetting Under the Immigrants Regulation Act of 1913, February 26, 1948
… Asiatic persons in entering the province of the Transvaal from Natal knowing that the said persons were prohibited in … read with the Minister's Minutes of…
Address by President Nelson Mandela on receiving the freedom of the city of Bloemfontein 16 May 1997
… an important part of the evolution of our nation, starting from the conflicts and divisions of the past to the … you, the people of Bloemfontein. Their…
Document 25 - E. R. Roux, The New Slogan and the Revolutionary Movement among White Workers in South Africa, presented at the Sixth
… From: South Africa's Radical Tradition, a documentary … the South African situation we are accused of a departure from Marxism. We are told that it is…
Document 6 - M. Lopes, “Socialism and the Labour Party”, The Bolshevik, April 1920
… From: South Africa's Radical Tradition, a documentary … of a certain share of political power. The statement, from a Socialist standpoint, is absurd…
Speech by the Minister of Higher Education and Training, Dr. Blade Nzimande at SAHO Graduate Internship Programme launch, 30 October, 2012
… and schools. I hope also that many of you will go on from this base to become researchers who will help to shed … the oppressed people understood the past -…
Professor Terence Ranger: An Obituary by Trevor Grundy
… Although in Southern Rhodesia for less than six years -from 1957-1963- he managed to get up the collective noses of … in those days a hot bed of thought …
Document 21 - ANC National Consultative Conference: resolutions for the coming year
… talks which had taken over 4 years. These unions came from varying organisational and political traditions. COSATU … COSATU has in its short history grown…
Chapter 20. Malan’s Road to a New South Africa - Garment Workers in Action by E. S. Sachs
… accepted all the principles of the Nationalist Party and, from 1936 onwards, devoted much energy and attention to the … Prime Minister; Hertzog, grown old,…
Building A National Democratic Society by ANC, 20 December 2007, 52nd National Conference, Polokwane
… of a better life for all. Chapter 2: Where We Come From: Streams Of An Emergent Nation The South African … cradle of humankind and early forms of human…