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EventLady Diana Spencer, Princess of Wales, is killed in a car accident in Paris
… car accident in Paris. Her funeral was broadcast in South Africa by the SABC. The Funeral Speech (Eulogy) to Diana … by her brother Earl Charles Spencer,…
EventWinston Churchill, is captured by Boer forces during the Anglo-Boer War
… to cover the occurrences of the Anglo-Boer War in South Africa. Soon after his arrival in South Africa, he accompanied a scouting expedition on an armored ……
The Cape Northern Frontier
… expansion. These British settlers had been sent to South Africa to alleviate unemployment and poverty in England and …
ArticleAfrapix Chronology 1981-1991
… You Have Struck a Rock: Women and Resistance in South Africa , to mark the first August 9th Women’s Day … Group exhibition. • Omar Badsha participated in…
ArchiveHugh Lewin, 1939–2019, RIP by Jennifer Malec, 17 January 2019
… term of his sentence in Pretoria, before leaving South Africa on a ‘permanent departure permit’ in December 1971. … of prison writing, the book remained…
Cecil John Rhodes, warts and all by Tim Crowe (Politics Web), 22 December 2015
… because it fit in with his grand plan. He came to South Africa in 1870 at the age of 17 in the hope that the climate … Afrikaners (leading to the creation of…
85. Charter for Change, 1981
… policy, and proposed guidelines for a democratic South Africa in a Charter for Change, a document that was adopted … must be based on the will of all the…
BiographyBoy Mvemve
Boy Adolphus Mvemve died a very violent death in exile in Zambia in 1974. He was 43 years of age at the time, operating under the nom de guerre John Dube (or…
BiographyBalelekeng Sam Masemola
Born in 1926, Masemola worked as a clerk. He joined the African National Congress (ANC) in 1949 and helped to steer his branch in Alexandra Township away from …
Chapter 6 -The making of a black Bolshevik: Gumede and the League Against Imperialism, 1927
… semi-colonial countries attended the Congress in Brussels. Africa was represented only on a negligible scale; but “if we … must have been disappointed by the…
BiographyMartin Tose
The quiet and yet temperamental Martin Qgibinsizi Tose was born in Germiston, Johannesburg during the first decade of Apartheid. His birth coincided with the…
BiographyCijimpi Mnyandu
Cijimpi Mnyaundu, a trade union leader and African National Congress (ANC) member, who worked in Durban, was from the Makhanya Tribal Area, Umlazi District, on…
BiographyDr James Lowell Zwelinzima Njongwe
James Lowell Zwelinzima Njongwe was one of the most dynamic leaders of the African National Congress(ANC) after its turn to mass action in the 1950s, Njongwe…
EventRev. Allan Hendrickse is elected leader of the Coloured Labour Party
… was elected leader of the Coloured Labour Party of South Africa at its thirteenth Congress in Bloemfontein. The party …
Statement by Oliver Tambo at lunch hosted by the Foreign Minister of Venezuela, 13 July 1987, Caracas
… Award for Peace. Since then, the situation in southern Africa has deteriorated. Nelson Mandela and other leaders are … gives way to a nonracial, democratic,…
ArchiveStaffrider Vol.10 No.4 1992
… Keorapetse Kgositsile; The Politics of Publishing in South Africa and What it Means for Writers, Orenna Krut; The School Library in Contemporary South Africa…
EventDay of Reconciliation celebrated as a public holiday in SA for the first time
… 16 December is a day of great significance in South Africa due to two historical events that took place. The … The Voortrekkers, having moved into the…
EventPAC attends Patriotic Front Conference
… deliberations be held at a neutral venue outside South Africa. In spite of the PAC's later secession, deliberations …
Desmond Tutu interviewed by John Carlin
… as critical components of a class analysis of modern South Africa. This chapter seeks to provide an understanding of … communities. Yet there is a major…
ArchiveCelebrating and commemorating twenty-years of the Harare declaration by Kgolane Alfred Rudolph PHALA
… Introduction This year, 2009, the people of South Africa celebrate the 20th Anniversary of the Harare … document adopted by an OAU sub-committee on Southern…
Remembering Nadine Gordimer (The Conversation), 15 July 2014
… of Nadine Gordimer is a tremendous loss, both to South Africa and to the literary world. For me, and others who knew … a different era. Her first task was to…
Tribute to DR Nthatho Motlana by ANC President Jacob Zuma, 6 December 2008, University of The Witwatersrand, Johannesburg
… Motlana and family, The President of the Republic of South Africa, Cde Kgalema Motlanthe, Former President Thabo Mbeki, … the family of our icon and founding…
BiographyDaniel (Sampie) Malope
Born in 1915, Malope was a house painter. He joined the ANC Youth League in 1944 and was arrested in 1946 for assisting in the African mine workers' strike. He…
ArchiveAll That Glitters - The glitter of gold by Emilia Potenza
… and modern. From 1886 {until 1940] the story of South Africa is the story of gold. - C.W. de Kiewiet, 1941 The … history. Far more than diamonds, this…
ArticleHistory Grade 10 - Topic 6 Glossary
… A map representing the ‘new’ Union of South Africa of 1956 (The British Cape Colony and the two Boer … State). Image Source: https://alchetron.com/Union-of…
ArchiveAddress on the role and future of NUSAS
… the Union. Includes analysis of the student scene in South Africa and an assessment of the current position of the …
ArchiveDebate
… corner. Topic IMF, World Bank and economic development in Africa. List of speakers. …
EventMillions Regain SA citizenship
… Klerk, became effective four months before the first South Africa non-racial polls of 27 April, 1994. More than seven …
EventTwo ANC members convicted of terrorism training
… The state alleged that the two men left the South Africa in August 1982 in order to undergo military training … return in 1985 to Mdantsane Township,…
EventPrime Minister Vorster holds talks with Dr. Kissinger
… the meeting, was his intention of seeing whether South Africa would be willing to contribute to a moderate and peaceful evolution of events in southern…