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EventKing George VI is born
… the country. King George was not the first and last person from the British Royal house to visit South Africa. In 1925 …
Zastron
… J.H. Brand, President of the Orange Free State Republic from 1864 to 1888. Zastron was laid out in 1876 on Jan …
EventMlungisi Sisulu dies.
… Sisulu, the grandson of Walter Sisulu died in London from Cerebral Malaria. Sisulu, better known as Lungi, was … (2008), ' Mlungisi Sisulu to be buried on…
EventThe first known reference to Antjie Somers, a South African bogy figure, is made in The Friend
… life, he stayed in the disguise that he had used to run from the law - clothes belonging to his sister. It is said …
EventChief Kausobson Kausob is killed
… However, it was alleged that this happened under pressure from the Whites and Kausob's relative Decoie (Danzer), a …
EventMore than 400 miners killed in what was the worst mining disaster in South Africa
… Immediately after the incident, rescue teams arrived from other mines in the region and boreholes were drilled … Pogrund B., (2010), The 435 SA miners who…
Conference: African Indigenous Knowledge Systems
… Some Doubts about 'Indigenous Knowledge', And The Argument From Epistemic Injustice The following panel of experts will …
Document 71 - National Committee for Liberation, Announcement [20 December 1961]
… From: South Africa's Radical Tradition, a documentary …
EventLord Charles Somerset arrives in the Cape as Governor
… Lord Charles Somerset was the Governor of the Cape Colony from 1814 to 1826. He arrived in the Cape on 6 April 1814 as …
EventSix Treason Trialists miss resumption of trial
… ‘Nelson Mandela`s Testimony at the Treason Trial 1956-60’from African National Congress [online] Available at …
EventSA Police kills eleven Pondo tribesmen when they revolt against the imposition of Bantu authorities.
… unreservedly accepted in the homelands. Opposition came from two sides. On the one hand, there were the people of the …
EventMultiparty negotiating forum meets for the first time since December 1993
… Despite the negative response from the Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) leader Chief Gatsha … 1995, p.39846.| SAHO, How SA emerged as a democracy from the crises…
EventCPSA is founded
… Party of South Africa (CPSA) took place in Cape Town from 30 July to 1 August 1921, however, the party was founded …
Interview with Archibald Gumede 6 April 1996
… with the Caprivi incident, you can't separate it from that and you have got to take in connection with the … into account so that it is not just a question…
Statement by Albert Luthuli to the council of the Institute of Race Relations, 19 December 1960
… now so clear cut as to admit of no confusing assistance from our friends of the liberal paternalistic outlook who … This has sometimes provoked the cry, "oh,…
Address delivered by the Deputy President, Jacob Zuma, at the National Union of Mineworkers National Congress, 24 May 2006
… membership and ensuring that it also includes the workers from the construction industry as part of its membership. … Communist Party and the progressive…
Propaganda and the Pursuit of Hegemonic Goals – The Myanmar and Zimbabwe Experience by Thabo Mbeki, 29 February 2016
… Abacha Government and approved the suspension of Nigeria from the Commonwealth. Thereafter, despite strong … still had a small challenge to address. We had…
Address of the President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki at the Millennium Debate of the Joint Houses of Parliament, Cape Town, 19 November 1999
… Nations University in Tokyo, Japan, last year, we quoted from a tract written by Pliny the Roman, during the first … less while your offspring multiply; your…
ArchiveSpeech of the President of the ANC, Nelson Mandela to members of the British parliament House of Commons, London, 5 May 1993
… the dim mists of history, there is also the reality that, from here, there issued decisions which imposed on my own … certain that you will play your part in…
Address to the International Labour Conference Geneva, 8 June 1990
… demanding our release very clearly. We drew inspiration from this. I knew from the very first day of our incarceration that in the end … are confident that…
Opening remarks by President Jacob Zuma to the 3rd Nobel Laureate Symposium on global sustainability - transforming the world in an era of global change, Inkosi Albert Luthuli ICC, African Pavilion, Durban, 06 December 2011
… in particular are hardest-hit by climate change. Apart from the climate change impact such as sea-level rise, severe … droughts and floods, Africa`s…
PlaceSt Andrew’s Presbyterian Church, Odendal Street, Germiston
… it was first called “St. Andrew’s”. The name fluctuated from one to the other for many years until it was finally … the Spiritual with the Worldly. Eight…
Address by President Mandela on Heritage Day Robben Island, 24 September 1997
… citizens. Our cultural institutions cannot stand apart from our Constitution and our Bill of Rights. Within the … jailers all together;leaders of resistance…
ArchiveSpeech by President Nelson Mandela on Women’s Day, Pretoria, 9 August 1996
… Africa converged on these Union Buildings forty years ago, from every corner of South Africa, they created one of the … wathint' imbokodo;uzokufa!" The…
Address by President Nelson Mandela at the National Day of Safety and Security Vosloorus, 15 October 1994
… Thokoza and Vosloorus, have suffered more than most from violence and crime. But you are also showing that there … in our country has a fundamental right to…
January 8th Statements -Statement of the National Executive Committee on the occasion of the 83th Anniversary of the ANC - 8 January 1995
… regional and district structures, in the mass movement, from the President to the ordinary card-carrying branch … for that mandate. But we cannot succeed as…
Early Beginnings
… attending the science congress here, having just returned from the continent. When I left Moscow the question of the … demands which we must fight for in the…
2012 ANC National Policy Conference: Statement by the head of the ANC NEC policy sub-committee on the release of Policy Discussion documents, 05 March 2012
… discussion documents is to enable the members of the ANC from branches to the highest levels, to review our policies … debates, self criticism and…
Address of the Deputy President of the African National Congress, Nelson Mandela, to the Parliament of Canada Ottawa, 18 June 1990
… for granting us the honour and privilege to speak from the podium of the House of Commons of Canada, an eminent … of a people than can truly be called heroic…
Speech by Rev. Dr. Allan Boesak at the launch of the United Democratic Front, 20 August 1983, Rocklands Civic Centre, Mitchell’s Plain
… which shall belong to all of its people, an open democracy from which no single South African shall be excluded, a … there are rights that are neither…