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EventNelson Mandela delivers a speech marking his first 100 days in office
On 18 August 1994, the first democratically elected President of the Republic of South Africa, Nelson Mandela, delivered a speech to the joint sitting of…
EventIdi Amin Dada releases the Americans held hostage in Uganda
Idi Amin Dada releases the Americans held hostage in Uganda since 25 February and suggests they leave the country. Almost three months later, Amin went to…
EventSeven impalas are trapped in a camp and viciously beaten to death at Skukuza, Kruger National Park
Four South African National Parks (SANP) employees were arrested for beating seven impalas to death and cutting them up for meat in Skukuza, Kruger National…
EventSouth African Foreign Minister, ‘Pik’ Botha denies South African support for RENAMO
South African Foreign Minister, 'Pik' Botha denied South African support for RENAMO, claiming that the country is committed to the Nkomati Accord of 1984. The…
EventFirst flight in an airplane is undertaken
On the morning of 17 December 1903, brothers, Wilbur and Orville Wright succeeded in the world's first powered flight in a heavier-than-air machine under…
EventThirteen residents are gunned down in Mamelodi by South African police
Thirteen residents were gunned down in Mamelodi by South African police. This followed the declaration of a State of emergency on 25 July 1985 by President PW…
EventWhite sympathisers join evicted Black squatters in a protest
About 100 White sympathisers joined evicted Black squatters in a protest against the demolition of shanty dwellings outside Cape Town. This was the third day…
EventThe Federal Congress of the National Party supports a set of constitutional reforms
The Federal Congress of the National Party (NP) supported a set of constitutional ‘reforms’ outlined by Prime Minister P.W. Botha, and explained to the…
EventZambian plane crashes at Libreville, Gabon killing 18 national soccer team players
A Zambian Air Force De Havilland Canada DHC-5D Buffalo carrying the Zambian national soccer team crashed in the Atlantic Ocean just 500 meters offshore from…
EventNkomo, leader of ZAPU forms a coalition government with Robert Mugabe
Joshua Mqabuko Nyangolo Nkomo, leader of the Zimbabwe African People's Union (ZAPU) formed a coalition government with Robert Mugabe in Zimbabwe. Nkomo's party…
EventMore than 2,250 people are arrested in the township of Sebokeng
Police arrested 2,300 people in the township of Sebokeng in the Vaal in what was believed to be the biggest raid against black people living in the townships…
Clarion Call
Clarion Call was published as the official journal of the KwaZulu Government, as a record of their activities, and as a mouthpiece of the Inkatha Institute…
EventCouncil of Unions of South Africa (CUSA) is formed
The Council of Unions of South Africa (CUSA) was formed, with 9 affiliates. CUSA originated from the Urban Training Project and the Consultative Committee of…
EventNegotiators representing Afrikaner Republics travel to Pretoria to present terms of surrender
At the end of the South African War (also known as the Anglo-Boer War) of 1899-1902, negotiators for the Afrikaner republics of the Transvaal and Orange Free…
EventEmperor Haile Selassie reclaims his Ethiopian throne
After nearly five years in exile in Britain, Emperor Haile Selassie returned to Ethiopia to reclaim his throne with the help of the British. Selassie lost his…
PlaceBoom van Sameswering, Onze Rust, Bloemfontein
The so-called Tree of Conspiracy stands on the farm Onze Rust, and once belonged to Marthinus Steyn, the last President of the Free State, who bought the land…
EventAfrikaner women march to the union buildings in protest of SA’s involvement in WW2
About 10 000 Afrikaner women, led by Mrs H.C. Steyn, wife of former President M.T. Steyn, marched to the Union Buildings to protest about the South African…
Message to the People of South Africa on the 67th Anniversary of the ANC by O. R. Tambo, 8 January 1979
Fellow countrymen, Militants of the African National Congress and of the struggle for liberation in our country, Cadres of Umkhonto we Sizwe inside South…
January 8th Statements - Statement of the National Executive Committee on the occasion of the 67th Anniversary of the ANC - 8 January 1979
Fellow countrymen, Militants of the African National Congress and of the struggle for liberation in our country, Cadres of Umkhonto we Sizwe inside South…
PlaceMagnet Theatre, Cape Town
Magnet Theatre is an independent physical theatre company founded in 1987 in order to produce Jennie Reznek’s first one-man performance “Cheap Flights”. Then…
ArchiveIndia’s African Sufis - Demystified! by Blanche Michael
From the hypnotic effects of the circular motions of the spiritual dancing of whirling dervishes to the mesmerising qawwali [1]performances of the likes of the…
Twentieth Anniversary of the United Nations Sanctions Resolution: Statement by Oliver Tambo at the plenary meeting of the United Nations General Assembly, 05 November 1982, New York
Over the past three decades the apartheid regime has emerged as a vicious oppressor and a ferocious exploiter of the peoples under its domination, an aggressor…
ANC statement on more lies inside the Cape Town story, 14 May 2011
South Africans have now become accustomed to the blatant falsehoods, deceits, relentless misinformation and unbridled malicious campaign, which is the basis…
ANC ‘Military High Command’ Leader Interviewed
From the "Focus on Africa" program BBC World Service 4th July 1986 South African police today launched a campaign to fight a spate of urban bombs. There have…
ArchiveThe Way History is taught in South Africa is ahistorical, – and that’s a problem by Natasha Robinson (theconversation.com), 7 June 2018
History may soon be a compulsory school subject until Grade 12 in South Africa. A task team established by the country’s minister of basic education made this…
Address by President Nelson Mandela at the Development Bank of Southern Africa (DBSA) Johannesburg, 21 November 1997
Directors of the Bank; Dr. Goldin and staff of the DBSA, When the Development Bank was founded it took its place, whatever the intentions of its leaders, as…
Democracy - The only solution by Nelson Mandela, President of the ANC 1 July 1992
Please take note that this article was written prior to the answer that we have received yesterday afternoon from President De Klerk in response to the ANC's…
34. Further immigration restrictions, 1903
From the book: A Documentary History of Indian South Africans edited by Surendra Bhana and Bridglal Pachai A fresh piece of legislation sought to tighten…
ArticleAZAPO’s Women’s Wing - Imbeleko
Imbeleko is the women's wing of the Azanian People's Organisation (AZAPO), formed in 1982 to address the specific challenges faced by black women under…
”Apartheid Over Our Dead Bodies:” Speech, July 1948
Speech at mass welcome meeting in Johannesburg organised in his honour by the Transvaal Passive Resistance Council on his release from prison] I am deeply…