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Statement by Malusi Gigaba, ANCYL President, at the funeral of Cde Wanga Sigila, late SASCO Deputy President, Cape Town 23 October 1999

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Nigerian political activist, Ken Saro-Wiwa is one of eight people sentenced to death for the death of four Ogoni leaders (who d

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Nigerian political activist, Ken Saro-Wiwa is one of eight people sentenced to death for the death of four Ogoni leaders (who d

Indian South Africans timeline 1970-1979

… and other members of South African Students Organisation (SASO) and the Black Peoples Convention (BPC) helped organise …

Jeremy Vearey portrait

Jeremy Vearey

Thami Mazwai, former journalist and anti-apartheid activist, is jailed for two years

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Thami Mazwai, former journalist and anti-apartheid activist, is jailed for two years

… to the work of the South African Students Organisation (SASO). This suggests that Mazwai was one of the journalists …

Lesedi Billy Masetlha portrait

Lesedi Billy Masetlha

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Three Black men are found guilty of high treason and of having been involved in the sabotage of SASOL fuel installations and th

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Manuel Pinto da Costa becomes the first president of the newly independent Democratic Republic of Sâo Tomé and Príncip

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SA’s Baby Jake Matlala beats IBA light featherweight boxing champion Michael Carbajal in Las Vegas to become world champion.

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The report of SA’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission is published. It accuses leading figures from across the political spect

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T. Samuels scores SA’s first ever try and also the first points for SA in 5 rugby test matches against Britain.

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Denel, SA’s state-owned defence and aerospace group, announces that it has been awarded contracts amounting to $2 million (abou

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Tristam Burrell, one of the SA’s most-experienced paragliders, is electrocuted when his powered trike hits powerlines. His pass

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Christopher Columbus first learns about growing and harvesting maize, now SA’s staple food, from the native population of Cuba.

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Victor (Vic) Toweel, (bantamweight) becomes SA’s first universal boxing champion by beating Manuel Ortez of the USA in Johannes

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Samuel Alfred (Taffy) Long, heralded by subsequent labour histories as one of SA’s greatest working-class martyrs, is arrested

The Azanian People's Organisation (AZAPO) is founded after the government banned a host of BCM organisations in October 1977.

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The Azanian People's Organisation (AZAPO) is founded after the government banned a host of BCM organisations in October 1977.

… (BPC), the South African Students' Organisation (SASO) and the Black Community Programmes (BCP). Out of the …

Imam Abdullah Haron portrait

Imam Abdullah Haron

Women’s resistance in the 1960s - Sharpeville and its aftermath

Women’s resistance in the 1960s - Sharpeville and its aftermath

… organisation, the South African Students' Organisation (SASO) led by Steve Biko , through which they planned to … group to identify with Black Consciousness principles was SASO, and it held its first conference in 1969. These black … the Black Consciousness Movement. She too was a member of SASO and shared his political convictions. In the 1970s a …

1987, the year of the Krimpvark, the cougar of the rooibok? presidential Address to the Black Sash National Conference held at Cape Town, 1987

1987, the year of the Krimpvark, the cougar of the rooibok? presidential Address to the Black Sash National Conference held at Cape Town, 1987

One-fifth of SA’s military infected with HIV virus, so HIV positive people are no longer accepted into their ranks

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One-fifth of SA’s military infected with HIV virus, so HIV positive people are no longer accepted into their ranks

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In SA’s first ever Fifa sanctioned match the Bafana Bafana, SA soccer team, beats Cameroon 1-0 in an international friendly gam

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SA closes its consulate in Wellington after the New Zealand prime minister cuts diplomatic ties because of SA’s racial segregat

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ANC leader Nelson Mandela says in Geneva, Switzerland, that SA’s Black population is prepared to suffer the consequences of san

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The Natal Mercury reports that Mr Jan Steyn, a director of Hillview Investments, announced that the company was to develop SA’s

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SA’s first national news Agency, the South African Press Association (Sapa), is established from what was the Reuters South Afr

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SA’s new constitution is enacted by parliament, signalling the end of apartheid and the birth of the new South Africa.

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The merger between Ashanti Goldfields and SA’s Anglo-Gold, approved by the Ghanaian government on 29 October 2003, becomes effe

The apartheid government reportedly pays compensation for death of Steve Biko

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The apartheid government reportedly pays compensation for death of Steve Biko

… of the all-black South African Student's Organization (SASO). It was from his involvement in this organization that …