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EventThe Voortrekkers are united for the first time and only for a short period of time
… to Doornkop, Piet Retief's main laager, after the murder of Piet Retief and his men. Piet Uys and Hendrik Potgieter … are united for the first time and only…
ArchiveLegislation and race relations: a summary of the main South African laws which affect race relations
… This book provides a summary of the main South African laws which affect race relations. … South African Institute of Race Relations, Johannesburg ……
EventSir Julius Jeppe, founder of the Witwatersrand Township Estate and Finance Corporation, dies in London
… was knighted for his pioneering role in the development of Johannesburg. He was born in Rostock, Germany in July … Sir Julius Jeppe, founder of the…
EventPres. Nelson Mandela accompanies Queen Elizabeth II on a coach drive through the streets of London.
… Queen Elizabeth II on a coach drive through the streets of London. In a BBC documentary, Mandela repeatedly referred … Queen Elizabeth II on a coach drive…
ArticlePassive Resistance Campaign Timeline
… 1906 11 September, A mass meeting of Indians took place at the Empire Theatre in Johannesburg … November, established as the deadline for the registration…
10 YEARS PROJECT
… Worker 31 January 1929 The Seventh Annual Conference of the Communist Party of South Africa, which lasted from Saturday evening, December … with a 'social'…
ArticleSharpeville Timeline
… Albert Luthuli declared that 1960 would be the "Year of the Pass", with a nation-wide anti-pass campaign to start on 31 March - the anniversary of the 1919…
Alfred Nzo Lecture in memory of Comrade Alfred Baphethuxolo Nzo delivered on 28 June 2014 by Dr Zwelini Mkhize Treasurer General of the ANC in Mount Ayliff ; Alfred Nzo District in Eastern Cape Province
… The ANC appreciates the fact that the people of the Eastern Cape decided to honour this hero of our struggle by naming this municipality in his memory. It ……
Acceptance speech by President Jacob Zuma on the occasion of being awarded an Honorary Doctorate in Humane Letters in recognition of his contribution to education at Texas Southern University Houston, Texas, 23 September 2011
… Dr. John M. Rudley, President of Texas Southern University, Faculty Members, Members of the Alumni, Convocation, Chairperson of the Jacob Zuma RDP Education…
PlaceSeychelles
… can trace its first Settlement back to 1770. It is made up of 115 small Islands. They were first settled on by the French, leading a small party of Whites,…
EventWorld War I begins
… 19th century Europe had a complex system of political and military alliances in place. The assassination of Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand by a Serbian…
EventBritain and Egypt sign the Suez Canal agreement.
… the Mediterranean and the Indian Oceans, the canal was of great strategic importance. Situated in Egypt and largely … to the British government in 1875. The…
ArchivePaper on apartheid presented on behalf of the African National Congress of South Africa to the United Nations Human Rights Seminar on apartheid, held at Brasilia, Brazil, 23rd August - 5th September 1966
… Paper on apartheid presented by R M Resha on behalf of the African National Congress of South Africa to the United Nations Human Rights Seminar on … Brazil,…
PlaceOttosdal and Letsopa
… The Town of Ottosdal, was established as a Dutch Reformed Church on … routes to and from Gauteng ( Pretoria , Johannesburg , Vereeniging ), the Economic…
ArchiveIn the Supreme Court of South Africa before the Honourable Judge President Mr Justice De Wet, in passing sentence in the matter of the State vs Mandela and others, held in Pretoria, South Africa
… The remarks of the Honourable Judge President Mr Justice De Wet, in passing sentence in the matter of the State vs Mandela and others, held in Pretoria,…
Testimony of the Rev. Samuel Jacobus Brander, the Rev. Joshua Mphothleng Mphela, and Stephen Nguato of the Ethiopian Catholic Church in Zion, before the South African Native Affairs Commission, October 4, 1904 [Extracts]
… (Published in Minutes of Evidence, South African Native Affairs Commission, … Testimony of the Rev. Samuel Jacobus Brander, the Rev. Joshua Mphothleng Mphela…
ArchiveMeeting between a South African delegation led by the Minister of Foreign Affairs, the Honourable R F Botha and a United States delegation led by Dr C Crocker, Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs: Pretoria, 16 November 1984
… Minutes of a meeting between a South African delegation and a United … between a South African delegation led by the Minister of Foreign Affairs, the…
PlaceKwazulu Natal Province
… The homeland of KwaZulu (or place of the Zulu) was granted self-government … rapidly because in 1835, Captain A.F. Gardiner secured a treaty with Dingane…
Statement by Oliver Tambo at the meeting of the Special Committee against Apartheid, 12 January 1982
… United Nations Special Committee against Apartheid a debt of deep gratitude for inviting me to represent the African … which is being held to inaugurate the…
The flight of the Gwala-Gwala bird: Essays by Ari Sitas, review essay by Linda Cooper
… have taught us through their orations the undesirability of a social system based on capitalism, that is inqubo … that is stuffing one’s own ‘stomach’…
First National Consultative Conference: The Freedom Charter revolutionary programme of the ANC, 26 April 1969, Morogoro
… two hundred and fifty years the African people fought wars of resistance against the European invaders in defence of their motherland - South Africa. Despite…
Address on Accepting an Honarary Doctorate from the Russian Academy of Sciences Moscow, 30 April 1999
… but two, and not from one prestigious institution of learning but two! I will always cherish this association with the great intellectuals of a renowned…
Address by President Nelson Mandela at the Mercosur Heads of State Summit Ushuaia, 24 July 1998
… geography has kept us apart despite the many similarities of our histories. For too long those histories have denied us the possibility of building on the…
Kora: A Lost Khoisan Language of the early Cape and the Gariep by Menán du Plessis - Introduction
… From: Kora: A Lost Khoisan Language of the early Cape and the Gariep by Menán du Plessis … Bloemfontein and Bloemhof still remembered fragments of the old…
Document 134 - The Impending Strike of African Miners: A statement by the African Mineworkers’ Union, 7 August 1946
… Arcade, 58, Market Street, Johannesburg. 1.At a conference of the African Mine Workers' Union held on the Newtown … following resolution was unanimously…
ArchiveLiving in the Interregnum by Nadine Gordimer (The New York Review of Books), 20 January 1983
… in a society whirling, stamping, swaying with the force of revolutionary change. The vision is heady; the image of the demonic dance is accurate, not…
Dr. Pallo Jordan’s speech at the 20th anniversary of the Bisho massacre, 07 September, 2012
… Like so many of the landmarks along our long walk to freedom, September … South Africa, clashed head-on with the joint forces of reaction represented by the…
Foreword - The Congress of the People and Freedom Charter Campaign by Ismail Vadi, New Delhi, 1995
… THE SOUTH AFRICAN-GOVERNMENT/NATIONAL PARTY TAKING NOTE of the Constitution of the Republic of South Africa, Act 200 of 1993 as amended; and TAKING NOTE ……
The Military Defeat of the South Africans in Angola by Horace Campbell (Monthly Review), Africa, Angola
… In Angola in the spring of 1988 the armed forces of apartheid South Africa and the US-backed mercenaries of Jonas Savimbi were defeated by the combined force…
Presidential Address to the Twenty-Third Conference of the South African Indian Congress, Durban, September 3, 1961
… This Twenty-third Conference of the South African Indian Congress meets at a time when the Indian people of South Africa have completed a hundred years of…