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EventANC makes demands changes to facilitate democratic elections
… to be met during the year in order to facilitate South Africa's first democratic elections. These are the resumption … talks in the form of the Convention…
EventThe Second General Election is held in the Union of SA
… The second general election was held in the Union of South Africa with the National Party (NP) participating for the first time. The main point at issue was…
EventGrammy Award winner Miriam Makeba is born in Johannesburg
… US, Makeba discovered that she couldn’t return to South Africa, since her passport had been cancelled. She lived in … in several African countries before…
EventJudith Mason, SA artist, is born in Pretoria.
… Judith Mason is one of the most prolific artists in South Africa. She obtained a degree in Fine Arts at the University … decades. In the 70’s and 80’s she…
ArchiveCHAPTER 3 - Unprepared by Howard Barrell
… primarily by sporadic armed activity inside South Africa from October 1976. The previous chapter showed how the … destruction of the ANC’s small underground…
Congress of the People - I was there
… was intended to be our blueprint for the future South Africa, and it was the aim and hope of all of us that the people of South Africa would take the chance…
ArticleHistory Grade 10 - Topic 4 Source-based Questions
… Transformations in southern Africa after 1750 Source Based Questions The following … during the start of the nineteenth century in Southern Africa. [4]…
EventFormer Kenyan President, Jomo Kenyatta, dies
… joined the first anti-settler protest movement, the East Africa Association (EAA). However, this organisation was … in many parts of the African continent,…
"Our struggle is for progress": Statement by Albert Luthuli, 15 June 1962
… it is read by the politically conscious peoples of South Africa, and because it may appear in the last issue of this … There can be no compromise in our…
82. The President’s Council
… of the still continuing English-Afrikaner rivalry in South Africa, and the fact that the English still largely have not … far more fundamental issues that…
ArticleBarberton timeline 1884-1911
… built 1887 13 April, First Gold Exchange building in South Africa opens in Barberton 1893 13 October, Railway from …
EventPresident P. W. Botha offers Nelson Mandela conditional release from prison
… violent protest, as a means to bring about change in South Africa. Mandela communicates his refusal of the offer through … Pan Africanist Congress (PAC)…
SEME by Richard Rive and Tim Couzens
… and to give insight into a character who was one of South Africa`s most important historical figures. Secondly, the … C. Yvonne Jones, organiser of the…
Pledging to Debate History: Values and education
… This article deals with values and education in South Africa, and more specifically the proposed 'pledge'. Please … values - notably respect, dignity and…
ArticleHistory of Women in Prisons during Apartheid
… the prison was built to hold. The Black community of South Africa filled the prisons during apartheid. Even in prisons … she intended on going back to the…
EventBrig. Ramushwana in NPKF admission
… the townships to quell political violence before South Africa's first all-race elections. Major-General Bantu … Black homeland, said Ramushwana's admission…
ArchiveCourt Transcript of statement from the Dock of Nelson Mandela, Pretoria Supreme Court, 20 April 1964
… by the State in its opening that the struggle in South Africa is under the influence of foreigners or communists is … a leader of my people, because of my…
2002 Introduction By Jordi Martorell
… theory argued that the tasks of the revolution in South Africa were national-democratic, that is the national … this theory was not the invention of the SACP…
Document 127 - 6 Point Communist Programme f c. 7 941)
… From: South Africa's Radical Tradition, a documentary history, Volume One … is the only consistent party of the working class. South Africa must also play…
Press Conference in Lusaka: Oliver Tambo, 25 June 1985
… such groups as PAC and other small groupings inside South Africa? TAMBO: The ANC has always encouraged the unity of our … etc. Do you think that the changes…
Press Conference by O. R. Tambo, Lusaka, 25 June 1985
… such groups as PAC and other small groupings inside South Africa? TAMBO : The ANC has always encouraged the unity of … etc. Do you think that the changes…
BiographyJohn Mtini
Born in 1887, John Mtini was the 'Grand Old Man' of the trial who took part in the 1929 anti-pass campaigns, the struggles of the unemployed of 1931-2, the…
Canon Collins Memorial Lecture by Oliver Tambo, 28 May 1987, London
… of the living. As early as 1954, when he visited South Africa, he had the possibility not merely to study the … his assessment at the time it was clear to…
PlaceFalse Bay
… If you leave the "Mother City" of South Africa and follow the M3 towards Muizenberg , you will have a … first European seafarer anchored off the coast of…
EventThe first ‘Bantustans’ or ‘homelands’ comes into existence when the Transkei Regional Authority is instituted
… the South African government. The homelands: After South Africa became a Union, the government wanted Black and White … was a homeland for every major Black…
EventThe trial of Dr Allan Boesak on charges of theft and fraud starts
… would earn a doctorate in ethics. Upon his return to South Africa shortly after the 1976 Soweto uprisings, he increased … largest and most powerful legal…
Address at the Nigerian Institute of International Affairs Abuja, 3 October 2000
… Guests, Ladies and Gentlemen. Democracy and Renaissance in Africa: In search of an enduring Pax Africana Thank you for … the important topic of Democracy and…
ArticleTransport on water
… dhow, originally from the Arabian Seas and then brought to Africa. Often, early ships were propelled by both sails and … used today. In some countries like…
ArchiveLetter to Zuma by David Goldblatt (Mail and Guardian), 25 November 2011
… from the official history of our National Orders: South Africa has taken many strides away from its past of exclusion … of the human spirit have become…
Archive2016 - President Zuma: State of the Nation Address, 11 February 2016
… foundation in the Freedom Charter, proclaims that South Africa belongs to all who live in it. A lot has been done to … the President of the National…