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EventPrime Minister P.W. Botha announces Ciskei will become independent on 4 December 1981
… excluding the majority of Black South Africans from South Africa proper. The Bantustans would then function as labour reserves for white South Africa. It is…
EventNegotiations between SA, Cuba and Angola start in London
… Representatives of South Africa, the United States (US), Angola and Cuba met in London … war in Angola and the ultimate independence of South West Africa…
EventPresident Mandela addresses the National assembly of Mali
… cultural, and political links between Mali and South Africa. He also thanked the people of Mali for their support … led ANC government to normalise relations…
When Mandela's Predecessor toured the US to Expose Segregation back home by Matthew Blackman (www.ozy.com), 29 May 2018
… lead, and the party that would eventually overthrow South Africa’s old racial order. Plaatje was headed to the U.S. … as a postman, but by 1921 he was well…
ArchiveGeorge Peake by David Hemson
… unionist and a socialist. He had links throughout Southern Africa and an understanding of the social linkages between struggles particularly in Zimbabwe and…
EventDivision in the Coloured Representative Council deepens
… favour of the Federal Party when the government appointed all twenty nominated members from the ranks of the latter …
They Killed Dulcie – Podcast series by The Daily Maverick
… Sound Africa · They Killed Dulcie …
ArchiveLessons from Black Wednesday by Jerome Klaaste, 18 October 2019
… All of this week, my mind kept racing back to a momentous … calling for a just, free and more equitable society for all – whether as political leaders,…
EventPretoria receives city status
… became the Administrative Capital of the Union of South Africa which was constituted in 1910 with the merger of the … Thirty years later, in 1961, when the…
EventGerhardus Cornelis Oosthuizen buys a section of land, which is later declared part of the Witwatersrand gold reef
… was to become a source of great mineral wealth for South Africa, and allowed South Africa to settle a large sum of state debt. The discovery of gold also…
Book 6: Negotiation, Transition and Freedom - List of Abbreviations
… IDASA Institute for a Democratic Alternative in South Africa IMD International Institute for Development Management … and Development Programme RSA Republic…
Statement by Oliver Tambo on South African Raid on Matola, 05 February 1981
… against the people of Mozambique and the people of South Africa, members of the ANC in this city has a lesson for us. … household, every residence occupied…
PlaceDitsong National Museum of Military History, Johannesburg
… and other artefacts from the many conflicts that South Africa has been involved in through the centuries including … War, World War I and II, the conflict in…
EventGambia is admitted to the United Nations
… Situated on the west coast of Africa, the banks of the River Gambia have been inhabited for … by Hanno the Carthaginian of his voyage through West Africa…
EventThe South African Football Association (SAFA) is founded
… Football, like other sporting disciplines in South Africa, was racially segregated. In 1902 the South African … the White body of the Football Association of…
PlacePhoenix Settlement and Gandhi Trail
… Gandhi started his first newspaper in Durban South Africa in 1903 and in 1904 he moved the entire press to … the Satyagraha campaigns. Gandhi and his…
EventF.W. de Klerk announces the release of Nelson Mandela and unbans political parties
… was the result of the following factors. Firstly, South Africa had been isolated through international trade … failed to combat the ongoing uprisings. Lastly…
ArchiveZambia, the ANC and the struggle against apartheid 1964-1990
… movements and the White minority governments in Southern Africa, and seeks to find out to what extent Zambia's commitment to the liberation of Southern…
EventPretoria is proposed as the new capital of ZAR
… Town being the legislative capital when the Union of South Africa was established in 1910. The city remained the administrative capital when South Africa…
EventSA troops withdraw from Angola
… forces UNITA. The withdrawal came as a result of South Africa losing an interest to engage in battles in Angola and South West Africa (later renamed Namibia)…
EventCleric and anti-apartheid activist, Mpilo Desmond Tutu is ordained as Archbishop of Cape Town
… the first Black head of the Anglican Church in South Africa. Tutu was ordained as a deacon in 1960, and became a … Masters Degree in the Arts in 1966. On his…
EventMilner proposes conditional voting rights for ‘non-Whites’ in SA
… Anglo-Boer War 2, the British High Commissioner to South Africa, Lord Alfred Milner, proposed that educated and … four colonies that would later make up the…
EventJacobus Johannes (Jim) Fouché is born in Wepener in the OFS.
… Fouche was born in the Orange Free State (OFS) of South Africa. Fouche was elected as the second Sstate President of South Africa from 1968-1975. Fouche was…
PlaceSedgefield
… bearing testament to the ingenuity and perseverance of all the men involved in these massive projects . Thomas … Reserve, which stretches from the river of…
Apartheid
… Netherlands anti-apartheid campaign. Map of Southern Africa. Photographs of scenes of South Africa. Photograph of a pass book. Information on apartheid. …
Extract of an address given to the Transvaal United African Teachers Association by CF Beyers Naude during May, 1997
… ranging influence of christianity in the history of South Africa and christianity in South Africa. …
ArchiveEditorial: workers and economics
… The Worker movement in South Africa is now stronger and better organised than at any other time in South Africa's history. …
ArchiveSpeech by I B Tabata
… meeting of the African Peoples' Democratic Union of South Africa about imperialism overseas and in South Africa. …
ArchiveSome structural implications of education
… Paper by Jack Simons on the implications of education in Africa. Examines the history of education in Africa and suggests the way forward. …
ArticleThe Market Photo Workshop
… and photography as well as in the social context of South Africa. The Market Photo Workshop began operating in the old …