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EventThe World Campaign against Military and Nuclear Collaboration is launched
… The initiative enjoyed the support of the United Nations (UN) Special Committee against Apartheid. Several Heads of …
ArticleLand: dispossession, resistance and restitution
… were expanded over time to become the Bantustans or Homelands under the Apartheid government. It is important to …
ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 1866-1909
… (Union of Native Vigilance Association) is formed in response to the increasing attacks on African rights and … , takes place in Natal. The armed rebellion…
EventInternational Day for the Abolition of Slavery
… 1949. This was one of the early resolutions of the UN, adopted during the fourth session. …
ArticleA History of Official Government HIV/AIDS Policy in South Africa
… from a range of sectors together to develop a cohesive response to the crisis. The government’s AIDS Unit was … a growing consensus among civil society…
ArticleAfrica: Colonialism, Arts, Protest & Independence
… nation from former Belgian Congo, under Moishe Tshombe; UN troops deployed in Katanga to end secession from newly … become independent states. Members of the…
ArticleOrganization of African Unity Timeline 1884-2000
… nation from former Belgian Congo, under Moishe Tshombe; UN troops deployed in Katanga to end secession from newly … become independent states. Members of the…
BiographyTim Bruwer
Odd one out Over the years many people have asked me how it came about that I, amongst all the Afrikaners that I grew up with or knew, as a young man in the…
The South African government has released details of a South African Defence Force (SADF) raid into Southern Angola.
… destroyed, including rations originally obtained from the UN High Commission for Refugees. …
EventProf. Hudson Ntsanwisi, former Chief Minister of Gazankulu, dies in Johannesburg
… He served as Chief Minister of Gazankulu (one of the 8 homelands) for 24 years, until his death on 23 March 1993. …
EventBophuthatswana is granted independence by the South African government
… the 1994 elections, Bophuthatswana, together with other homelands, was incorporated to form part of South Africa’s …
EventFelix Mounie, the Cameroon opposition leader is assassinated in Geneva.
… The UPC was a major political force demanding the end of UN Trusteeship over Cameroon and full independence of the …
ArchiveThe Life of Trevor Huddleston, Makhalipile (the Dauntless One) by Victoria Vandiver, 3 May 2018
… Huddleston’s connection with the townspeople, “He was so un-English in many ways, being very fond of hugging people, … (Apartheid and all that jazz,…
Address by the President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki, to the Hellenic Foundation for European and Foreign Policy (ELIAMEP), King George Hotel, Athens, 24 February 2005.
… African continent since 1999 and then move to the global response to the situation of poverty and underdevelopment … peace to the Cote d'Ivoire and in…
BiographyCecyl Esau
… towns to demand their unconditional reinstatement. The response they received from the people and their perceptions …
ArchiveAppendix 1: Time Line of South African history by Denis Goldberg
… Territorial apartheid was sharpened and the so-called Homelands (Bantustans) were established for the various … and declared them to be citizens of one or…
ArticleCustomary Law in South Africa: Historical Development as a Legal System and its Relation to Women’s Rights by Devon Wall
… state of affairs’. (Roodt v. Lake & Others, 1906) In response, these varying sets of laws were consolidated in the … Act of 1959, which provided for the…
ArticleSouth African Constitutional Development Timeline 1902 - 1997
… in death squads and the ongoing violence emerge. In response, the African National Congress suspends all … the Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP), parties operating…
EventSADF raid Southern Angola
… destroyed, including rations originally obtained from the UN High Commission for Refugees. Click here to read an …
EventSouth African Parliament votes to restore citizenship to residents of so-called independent states
… soon afterwards. Click here for more information about homelands ... …
EventCiskei is granted 'independence'
Ciskei becomes the fourth Black homeland to be granted 'independence' by the South African Government. Chief Lennox Sebe is elected President by the National…
ArticleThe Crackdown on the Black Consciousness Movement in 1973
… by those who were appointed functionaries of the various homelands. When SASO’s Themba Sono suggested at a conference … SASO expelled him and took a strong…
ArchiveThe Man Before Mandela by Steven Gish
… writer W.E.B. Du Bois and singer-actor Paul Robeson. The UN ultimately rejected South Africa’s annexation proposal, …
EventEuropean Community lifts sanctions against SA
… Executive Council and Nelson Mandela's call to the UN General Assembly to lift all sanctions with the exception …
ArticleThe Angolan Civil War (1975-2002): A Brief History
… the process. South Africa’s actions were condemned by the UN Security Council and Zaire, and Cuba reacted by increasing … but UNITA was not complying. It…
Biography: Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, Liberia's 'Iron Lady' by Alistair Boddy-Evans updated 08 August 2016
… as Assistant Administrator, and then Director, of the UN Development Program Regional Bureau for Africa (essentially an Assistant Secretary-General of the UN…
EventP.W. Botha launches CONSAS at the Carlton Conference to eliminate “Marxist threat”
… Lesotho, Swaziland, Transkei, Bophuthatswana and other homelands which became independent. At around the same time, …
PlaceQuaqua
… a part of South Africa in 1994, along with the other nine Homelands. The QwaqQwa Nature Area has been incorporated into …
EventThe Bisho Massacre occurs
… the other Xhosa homeland. Ciskei and all of the other homelands were reincorporated into South Africa on 27 April …
EventThe world pay tribute to former president Nelson Mandela at the FNB Stadium
… Li Yuanchao, President Raul Castro Ruz of Cuba and UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon at the memorial service. A …