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EventCongress of the People starts in Kliptown
… 3,000 delegates from different racial groups in South Africa. Hundreds of delegates were blocked on their way to … Carter is a corner stone of the…
EventWriter J.M. Coetzee is awarded the 2003 Nobel Prize for Literature
… Born in South Africa in 1940, JM Coetzee has had a successful literary … [Accessed 19 February 2015]. South Africa's Nobel Prize-winner J.M. Coetzee – South…
PlaceKirstenbosch National Botanical Gardens, Cape Town
… lives up to its reputation as the most beautiful garden in Africa and one of the great botanic gardens of the world. Few … the extraordinarily rich and…
Enuga S Reddy: Notes on meeting with Dr. Cassim Jadwat -1997
… that he must help get support for the struggle in South Africa. [He moved to the United States in the early 1960s(?)] … office. I was involved in the…
Speech by President Mandela at the Chief Albert Luthuli Centenary Celebration, 25 April 1998, KwaDukuza
… of his time conducting the struggle of the people of South Africa. It was here that he taught that the destiny of the … When Chief Luthuli demanded: "Let My…
Conflict among civic organisations
… him to carry out the attack. Wilkinson returned to South Africa and was employed once more at the plant with the task …
BiographyAndries (General China) Chamile
Born in 1900, Johannesburg Chamile worked as a labourer. He was a member of the Newclare branch of African National Congress which he joined during the…
January 8th Statements -Statement of the National Executive Committee on the occasion of the 89th Anniversary of the ANC - 8 January 2001
… of our country and the renaissance of our continent, Africa. As you know, last year we said that we should observe … been a movement for the liberation of…
Archive2014 - President Zuma, State of the Nation Address, 13 February 2014 (before National Elections)
… Jacob G Zuma, President of the Republic of South Africa on the occasion of the Joint Sitting of Parliament, … for this opportunity to speak to the people of…
ArticleWhy protect children’s rights?
… which prohibited the adoption of a child born in South Africa by people who were not South Africans, was held to be … it might be in the best interests of a…
ArticleThe turbulent 1950s - Women as defiant activists
… from the ANC and SAIC (the Communist Party of South Africa [CPSA] had disbanded in 1950) began to publicly defy … representing 230,000 women from all parts…
Political Report by Limpopo ANC Chairperson Cde Cassel Mathale during the Limpopo ANC Provincial General Council, 10 June 2012
… to the African Union with one determination to position Africa as the dominant force in this century. We formed the … us even when they are at their lowest…
ArchiveAluta continua
… Campaign against South African military agression in South Africa and Southern African countries. …
ArchiveRecommendations for the forthcoming ANC Conference
… the African alliance, Zimbabwe, Imperialism and Southern Africa. …
BiographyGary Jim Player
Please note: This biography is a modified extract from the following source: Laubscher, L. (1999) “Gary Player” from They Shaped our Century: The Most…
79. Indian Parliament: separate can’t be equal
… yellow. It is significant that the relationship in South Africa between the whites and its black, brown, and yellow … of speaking or were the subject people,…
PlaceJesser Point Lighthouse
… Point Lighthouse is the most Northerly light on South Africa's East coast. This Lighthouse was established in 1986. … Sodwana lies within the iSimangaliso…
PlaceEllis Park
… most memorably the 1995 Rugby World Cup Final, where South Africa recorded its first major international sporting … key stepping stone towards the creation…
EventGeneral J.C. Smuts (80), former prime minister of SA, dies
… South Africa's former Prime Minister on two occasions, from 1919 - … Whites and the other races existed side by side in South Africa (in opposition to the…
The Mass Democratic Movement, February 1988 - January 1990
… South Africa, Johannesburg, Poert Mzwakhe Mbuli, UDF concert 1989 … was once again ushered in as changes were made in South Africa. By the end of 1988 a…
Extract from a speech made in the House of Assembly on 4 February 1974 in reply to a motion of no confidence in the Government by the Leader of the Opposition
… of the Opposition mentioned the economic position in South Africa. He put many questions in that regard. In particular … more than others. Let us consider…
PlaceDriekopseiland: Rock engravings
… A site of knowledge: Driekopseiland South Africa has a large number of historical rock-engraving sites, where South Africa’s original inhabitants carved…
Message by Albert Luthuli to people of Western Areas, 7 February 1955, Johannesburg
… [Protest meetings were held in South Africa in February 1955 denouncing the government`s use of … theirs. Non-Europeans and Europeans in every part of South…
ArchiveThe agrarian problem
… An address delivered by I B Tabata to the Society of Young Africa (SOYA); an organisation affiliated to the Unity … people are engaged with in relation to…
Coloured by History, Shaped by Place - New perspectives on Coloured Identities in Cape Town
… what it means to be coloured in post- apartheid South Africa. It argues that coloured identities are a valid part … Soft cover : ISBN 0-7957-0136-5 Who is…
EventANC Consultative Conference comes to an end
… It was the first party conference held within South Africa in thirty-one years and was opened by ANC president … a call to relax international sanctions…
EventNamibia’s constitution is ratified
… traced to an accord agreed upon by Cuba, Angola and South Africa. The reason that these particular parties were … independence is that Namibia was a…
EventGeneral Motors fails to leave RSA quietly
… (GM), the American owned automobile industry in South Africa, pulled out of the country amidst a series of disputes … to introduce tough economic sanctions…
EventDesmond Tutu is appointed TRC chairperson
… Uprising, Tutu supported an economic boycott of South Africa. The boycott became successful as disinvestments took … up to deal with the atrocities of the…
EventFormer Prime Minister H.F. Verwoerd is born
… cause in Anglo-Boer War 2, the family immigrated to South Africa in 1903. Verwoerd was elected by the caucus of the … et al. (eds)(1970). Standard…