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ANC President Nelson Mandela’s press statement on the Bisho Massacre King William’s Town - 8 September 1992
… of the profound illness that afflicts our country. South Africa is a country traumatised by centuries of violence and … that reverberated through the length…
78. The Natal Indian Congress calls for a national convention
… but for the unhappy state of affairs existing in South Africa today, I would be listening to this address from the … electorate, the irreconcilable choices…
EventThe NCCR is dissolved
… (UNHCR) will take over the reception of exiles in South Africa. He added that a criminal investigation and a …
EventTripartite Alliance plans mass action
… was adopted after the Convention for Democratic South Africa (CODESA) negotiations at World Trade Centre in Kempton …
EventGovernment bans 20 Black leaders
… In 1973 massive strikes occurred throughout South Africa, culminating in September 1973 at the Western Deep … Reader's Digest. (1988). Illustrated History of…
ArticleTransport on land
… domestic animals that were originally wild donkeys from Africa. Donkeys have been used since earliest times in Europe … as pets because they are clever,…
EventEthiopia requests OAU to stop Somali intervention in the Ogaden Province
… a 39 page memorandum titled “War Clouds in the Horn of Africa” to Heads of States attending an OAU meeting in Addis …
EventCOSATU intensifies campaign against apartheid
… South Africa's largest labour federation, the Congress of South …
Speech, on Behalf of the National Liberation Movements, at the Opening Session of the Sixth Conference of Heads of State or Government of Non-Aligned Countries by O. R. Tambo, Havana, Cuba, 3 September 1979
… movements, for entrusting this task to the people of South Africa - and, in their name, in the name of the peoples of South Africa and Namibia, Zimbabwe,…
Address to the Joint Session of the houses of Congress of the U.S.A. Washington, D.C., June 26, 1990
… in our towns and villages and in the countries of southern Africa. Indeed, we have even had our political … representatives killed in countries as far away…
EventWalter Sisulu convicted of inciting protest
… of African workers in protest of the Republic of South Africa Constitution Act of 1961. This incitement was seen as …
EventBeverly Palesa Ditsie is the first out lesbian woman to address the United Nations about LGBT rights
… She was one of the founding members of GLOW, South Africa’s first multiracial and political lesbian and gay rights group. During the drafting of South Africa…
EventWayne Ferreira was born on this day
… Amanda Coetzer in 2000 to win the Hopman Cup for South Africa.[vii] He has also represented South Africa at the Davis Cup.[viii] Ferreira founded a the Wayne…
PlaceCote D’Ivoire or Ivory Coast
… was introduced in the 1880s following the scramble for Africa. In 1904, Ivory Coast became part of French West Africa until 1960 when the country regained…
Introduction
… against growing anti-Indianism in various parts of South Africa, were channelled into a concerted movement which aimed … found ‘material worthy of a part in…
Archive2012 - President Zuma, State of the Nation Address, 09 February 2012
… Jacob G Zuma, President of the Republic of South Africa on the occasion of the Joint Sitting of Parliament 09 … Commissioners representing 146 countries,…
PlaceMadagascar
… the Madagascar-Antarctica-India landmass from the Africa-South America landmass around 135 million years ago. … to: the Comoros, Mauritius, Mozambique,…
Document 90 - “Hertzog’s Native Bill Passed: Only 11 Oppose Reactionary Measure”, Umsebenzi, 1 1 April 1936
… From: South Africa's Radical Tradition, a documentary history, Volume One … that posterity may know what SOCIALISM meant in South Africa in 1936:-Walter B…
ArchiveBantustans, Colouredstans and Indianstans
… Mqotsi at the African People's Democratic Union of South Africa Conference. …
The Role of Women in the Struggle against Apartheid, 15 July 1980
… Women in South Africa, since the turn of the century, have emerged as … to some degree in all kinds of organisations in South Africa, from church groups to…
Document 29 - Letter from S. P. Bunting to E. R. Roux, 5 December 1928
… From: South Africa's Radical Tradition, a documentary history, Volume One … problem. On the boat I wrote a pamphlet on Imperialism & S Africa of which I…
ArticleNatal Indian Association (NIA)
… Sayed Razi Ali was appointed the Agent General in South Africa. Immediately on his arrival in here, he convened and … Rau, another Agent General from India,…
January 8th Statements -Statement of the National Executive Committee on the occasion of the 72th Anniversary of the ANC - 8 January 1984
… and increased aggression against the rest of Southern Africa, these measures point to the desperation of the regime … in Mdantsane, the second largest black…
EventUnesco lists Robben Island as a World Heritage Site
… of their countries. When the British took control of South Africa, a leper colony was started on the island. Initially … history serves as a sad reminder of…
BiographyJohannes Maswanganyi
Johannes Maswanganyi was born in 1948 at Msengi Village, near Giyani, Limpopo Province.Although younger than many of the sculptors from rural northern…
BiographyIan Mkhize
Ian Mkhize was born on 3 October 1941 in Nhlazantshe Township in Pietermaritzburg. He spent his formative years in Ixopo and matriculated at Sobantu High in…
BiographyPatrick “Bra Pat” Matanjana
Patrick Matanjana was born in 1943. Bra Pat, as he was affectionately known, was a member of the armed wing of the African National Congress, Umkhonto weSizwe…
EventFifth banning order for Albertina Sisulu
… Stalwart anti-apartheid campaigner of South Africa, Albertina Sisulu, wife of African National Congress …
EventMinister Kobie Coetsee on meeting between Botha and Mandela
… confirmed their support for peaceful development in South Africa. However, the document which Mandela gave to Botha …
ArchivePresidential Address
… Town, for the African People's Democratic Union of South Africa. …