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ArchiveAhmed Timol and the return of The Light by Kevin Bloom (Daily Maverick), 28 October 2016
… Naturam expellas furca tamen usque recurret .” These words of the Latin poet Horace seem to be turning up everywhere … return.” Back when Horace wrote them,…
A chronology of meetings between South Africans and the ANC in exile 1983-2000 by Michael Savage
… the decade preceding the dramatic February 1990 unbanning of South Africa’s black liberatory movements, many hundreds of concerned South Africans undertook…
2012 ANC National Policy Conference: ANC Statement on Policy Conference state of readiness, 25 June 2012
… at Gallagher Estate particularly with the registration of all categories of participants, which is currently underway. We are … outcomes which will be a…
EventSouth African Communist Party leader Abram Fischer is sentenced to life imprisonment on charges of communism
… Johannesburg District Committee and the Central Committee of the Communist Party of South Africa (later SACP). In 1943, he helped A. B. Xuma … the…
Justice Arthur Chaskalson: President of Constitutional Court interviewed by Rupert Taylor, 2 February 2000, The Braamfontein, Johannesburg
… Justice Arthur Chaskalson President of Constitutional Court interview with Rupert Taylor 2 … through it at the time. Taylor: It gives an indication of what…
In the enduring spirit of President O.R. Tambo: Good luck to all matriculants, 22 October 2012
… matric certificate in South Africa symbolises aspirations of posterity while it represents a gateway to the dignity of getting further training and education…
EventInitial experiments on the body of Egyptian King,Tutankhamen, conclude he is a fifteen year old boy
… 1332 and 1323 BC. Tutankhamen became King around the age of nine or ten after the death of his father Akhenaten. DNA analysis of Tutankhamen’s mummy reveals…
ADDRESS BY PRESIDENT NELSON MANDELA TO MEMBERS OF THE SWISS-SOUTH AFRICAN ASSOCIATION Zurich, 2 September 1997
… President of the Swiss-SA Association; Distinguished guests; Ladies and … incomplete without the opportunity to engage with leaders of the Swiss business…
EventArchbishop Mpilo Desmond Tutu, chairman of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, is born in Klerksdorp, Transvaal
… Archbishop Mpilo Desmond Tutu , chairman of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, is born in … Transvaal Archbishop Mpilo Desmond Tutu, former secretary…
Document 20 - Letter from S. P. Bunting to the Secretary, Communist Party of South Africa, 22 September 1930
… from S. P. Bunting to the Secretary, Communist Party of South Africa, 22 September 1930 THE COMMUNIST PARTY OF SOUTH AFRICA … TOWN. Dear Comrade, In reply to…
Introduction by Oliver Tambo to a message from Nelson Mandela, smuggled out of prison, 10 June 1980
… The African National Congress of South Africa brings you this urgent call to unity and mass … by political prisoners on Robben Island to all patriots of our…
EventThe British High Commissioner for Basutoland, Bechuanaland and Swaziland issues the Prevention of Violence Abroad Proclamation
… Bechuanaland and Swaziland issued the Prevention of Violence Abroad Proclamation. The Prevention of Violence Abroad Proclamation made it an offence for ……
Address by President Nelson Mandela at a breakfast meeting of the Foreign Correspondents Association 24 April 1995
… Chairperson of the Foreign Correspondents Association; Members of the Association; Distinguished guests. I should start off by apologising for the late…
Albert Luthuli`s message to New Age on 25th anniversary of Progressive Press, 22 March 1962
… to New Age and its predecessors. Twenty-five years of uninterrupted production is an achievement that is remarkable for the progressive press of any country…
Interview with Dr Vanitha Chetty by Ms Rajes Pillay,University of Durban Westville,13 June 2002
… Thank you. RP: She is the daughter of the late Dr K Goonam, who is a well-known activist in … To begin with, we would like just a brief…
EventDetectives testify against members of the ANC and the Congress Alliance in the infamous Treason Trial
… the accused. The 156 accused in the trial were members of the Congress Alliance, which included the African National … (SACP), the South Indian Congress …
ArchiveThe National Committee for Liberation (ARM), 1960-1964: sabotage and the question of the ideological subject
… Thesis submitted in fulfillment of the requirements for the MA degree in History at the the University of Cape Town by Andries du Toit. The dissertation…
EventThe Minister of Manpower Utilisation, Fanie Botha reveals government plan on increasingly militant Black trade unions.
… The Minister of Manpower Utilisation, Fanie Botha warned of a government plan to adopt tougher measures against the … established industrial court was…
EventAn inquest into the death of Ernest Dipale finds no-one criminally liable for his death
… An inquest into the death of Ernest Dipale, who had died in custody at the Johannesburg … Internal Security Act and charged with furthering the aims of a…
ArchiveAppendix 8 Sam will never see his favoured son free of the traitor’s brand by Denis Goldberg
… Sam Goldberg is dead. But he lives on. One of the characters in the sell-out play, “Cincinatti”, was … this week. Sam was alisted person under the…
EventOver 400 Kikuyu suspected to be part of the Mau Mau movement are arrested in Kenya
… Mali was once part of the Great Songhay Empire, but came under French rule in 1892. After almost seventy years of colonial rule, Mali was renamed the…
EventThe NPA does not pursue charges against Wouter Basson, former chemical weapons expert of the SADF
… announced that it would not start a fresh prosecution of Dr Wouter Basson, former chemical weapons expert of the South African Defence Force (SADF), on the…
EventJacob Abraham Uitenhage de Mist and his daughter Augusta leave on an exploration of the interior
… and Mossel Bay, proceeding to Algoa Bay and the junction of the Great and Little Fish Rivers. The ladies remained … behind, and continued the journey, with…
ArchiveNUSAS Circular to SRC Presidents, Chairmen, Local Committees, Student Editors and SANSPA and Executive of NUSAS
… Circular from John Daniel, Vice-President of NUSAS, to SRC Presidents, Chairmen, Local Committees, Student Editors and SANSPA and Executive of NUSAS,…
Minutes of the meeting between the RSA and Angola at Ilha Do Sal on 5 June 1980
… Minutes of a meeting held with representatives of the South African and Angolan Governments to discuss … border issues, including border incidents and the…
ANC statement on the outcome of the officials meeting held at Luthuli House, 18 February 2002
… ANC Officials led by President Mbeki met in one of their scheduled meetings which was graced by the presence of former President Nelson Mandela, an ex -…
EventFormer Chief of the South African Defence Force (SADF), General Jannie Geldenhuys is born in Kroonstad
… Johannes Jacobus Geldenhuys (Jannie), Chief of the South African Defence Force (SADF) and member of the State Security Council, was born in Kroonstad, Orange…
EventDutch East Indian Company, pioneer in the expansion of European settlement in South Africa is formed
… as 'the Company', was founded when seventy-three directors of smaller trading companies united at the encouragement of Prince Maurice of Orange in the…
EventBoer statesman, soldier and first president of the South African (Transvaal) Republic, Marthinus Wessel Pretorius dies
… Boer statesman, soldier and first president of the South African (Transvaal) Republic, Marthinus Wessel … Pretorius, died at his home in Potchefstroom at the…
EventThe body of the former president Nelson Mandela is taken to the Union buildings in Pretoria.
… from the Military Hospital people waiting guard of honour was formed in Madiba Street near to the Union … coffin so that people could view Mandela’s body…