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Address by President Nelson Mandela at the Mercosur Heads of State Summit Ushuaia, 24 July 1998
… the affinities between the peoples of this continent and Africa. We are conscious of how, whenever circumstances … where we have come from and where we might…
Document 40 - Letter from T. W. Thibedi to the Communist League of America’, 26 April 1932
… From: South Africa's Radical Tradition, a documentary history, Volume One … We have been calling ourselves "Communist Party of Africa". The undermentioned…
EventAcademic and ANC politician Z.K. Matthews dies
… in its most crucial period. He was at the same time South Africa's, and perhaps the continent's, most distinguished … et al. (eds)(1970). Standard…
Extract from a speech at the conclusion of the Republic Festival on 31 May 1971 at Goodwood, Cape
… development at the disposal of any country in Africa that requested it in the interests of its own … threat still remained actual through the whale of Africa…
ArchiveSummary notes of a meeting between Mr D W Auret and Mr Marx of the Department of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Minister, Silvino da Luz, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Cape Verde: Praia, Cape Verde, 19 March 1986
… of Cape Verde to discuss the situation in southern Africa with regard to the implementation of the settlement … South Africa , Mozambique , United States of…
ArticleThe Roots of Apartheid in the Construction of Buchuberg Dam
… At the start of the 20th century South Africa faced a poor white epidemic. The state justified … not willing to fulfil these demands. The Union of South…
PlaceThaba Tshwane or Voortrekkerhoogte
… is a military base (or military area) in Pretoria , South Africa. Founded around 1905 by the British Army, and called: … Heights") in 1939 by the government…
EventSteve Biko, a pioneer of the Black Consciousness Movement, is born
… inspired the hope of freedom among millions in South Africa and elsewhere in Africa. He was banned and detained several times by the … The Law and The…
EventThe first flight in Kimberley takes off
… attempts of this nature, the Aeronautical Society of South Africa was established in 1911. It was the start of the John Weston Aviation Company of South…
EventThe twentieth anniversary of the arrest of Nelson Mandela is marked by a call for his release by China
… Howick, KwaZulu-Natal, shortly after his return to South Africa on completing six months’ military training in Oujda, Morocco, and after attending the All…
EventCharles Nqakula , Minister of Safety and Security and Chairperson of the SACP, is born
… Minister of Safety and Security of the Republic of South Africa since 7 May 2002 and current Chairperson of the South … reported correctly. It is generally…
EventReconciliation talks between F.W de Klerk and Nelson Mandela are rescheduled due to violence in Sebokeng
… the adoption of a new democratic constitution for South Africa. The talks were set to take place on 11 April, however … that would lead to the creation of a …
EventRailway line between Cape Town and Beira in Mozambique is completed
… 1902 the 3200km long railway line between Cape Town, South Africa and Beira in Mozambique was completed. The … to bring the war to the Transvaal region of…
EventPrime Minister Verwoerd’s assassin transferred from prison to a mental asylum
… June 1994, the Minister of Correctional Services in South Africa, Dr Sipho Mzimela, announced that Dimitri Tsafendas, … escaped from mental institutions…
EventNelson Mandela and Walter Sisulu on Robben Island 5 August 1982
… Howick, KwaZulu-Natal, shortly after his return to South Africa on completing six months’ military training in Oujda, Morocco, and after attending the All…
EventConstruction of the Victoria Falls Bridge and the railway line are completed
… Army’ (ZIPRA) during the war for the liberation of South Africa and Zimbabwe. The region has become one of the most visited tourist destinations in Southern…
EventArchibald Campbell Mzoliza Jordan is born
… having obtained an M.A. Degree at the University of South Africa in 1944, he was appointed to the Department of African …
BiographyJoel Mabi Lengisi
Joel Mabi Lengisi was born in 1920 at the Sitholeni Location, Engcobo, [Eastern Province, now Eastern Cape], Lengisi later moved to East London African…
BiographyLydia Kompe
Lydia (nee Ngwenya) Kompe was born in 1935 in Matlala, near Pietersburg in the Northern Transvaal (now Limpopo Province). Her father was a small-scale farmer…
Extract from a speech made at Heilbron on 16 August 1968
… to me that if the National Party suffers a setback, South Africa will be harmed irrevocably, and that must not happen … to tell you that the National Party…
ArticlePort Elizabeth Timeline 1799-1986
… the occasion. 1 May, The first telephone exchange in South Africa is installed in the Post Office at the corner of Main … is shown in Port Elizabeth for the…
ArchiveMeeting with Secretary of State Shultz during a working lunch at the Department of State, Washington D.C. on 26 November 1982
… from Angola and financial assistance to South West Africa …
BiographyKuben Naidoo
When Prema Naidoo and others were detained in 1981, the South African press published a photograph of his ten-year-old son, Kuben Naidoo, holding up a banner…
ArchiveBiography of Dambisa Moyo by Alex Kamau
… she was exposed to the harsh economic realities that Africa faces early in her life. At independence in 1964, … Her father was the son of a miner in…
Testimony by Moosa Muhammed Moolla before the Ad Hoc Working Group of the Commission on Human Rights, Dar es Salaam, 22 June 1967
… one of the fourteen detainees arrested on 10 May in South Africa. I was kept in indefinite detention for ninety days, … some sabotage acts had already taken…
ArticleNatal Indian Congress (NIC)
… the struggle for independence in India, arrived in South Africa as a fledgling lawyer in May 1893. Having completed …
EventJan Smuts is born
… Jan Christian Smuts, who became South Africa's second Prime Minister in 1919, was born on the farm …
ArchiveHamba kahle Jennifer Davis 1933-2019
… Jennifer Davis, stalwart champion of majority rule in South Africa and leader in the anti-apartheid movement in the … and organizers. Jennifer was born in…
BiographyGabriel Dichaba
Born in 1920 Dichaba was a herd boy until he was 15. He left school to become a labourer in the railway workshops. He led the first Free State volunteers in…
BiographyW Mati
Born in 1923, Mati worked as a clerk. He joined the African National Congress in 1946. He was active in the 1949 bus boycott in Port Elizabeth. Mati served…