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BiographyCecyl Esau
… towns to demand their unconditional reinstatement. The response they received from the people and their perceptions …
EventWalvis Bay is handed over to Namibia
… international community as it fulfilled the provisions of UN Security Council 432 (1978), which declared Walvis Bay to …
EventZola Budd returns to SA
… SA permanently. In April 1988, her name was added to the UN blacklist and it seemed likely that the British Olympic …
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…
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, …
ArticleThe Group Areas Act of 1950
… was seen by Whites in South Africa as the appropriate response to what they perceived as their country's social … and created specific areas (which came to…
EventEx Defence Minister P.W. Botha denies arms purchase
… in the murky world of arms dealing began long before the UN arms and oil embargo on South Africa. According to the …
EventMandela suspends talks in the wake of Boipatong Massacre
… police reservists. Mandela requested the United Nations (UN) Secretary-General, Boutros Boutros-Ghali, to call a …
EventHaile Selassie, Emperor of Ethiopia, abolishes slavery.
… League of Nations, the forerunner to the United Nations (UN). …
PlaceWalvis Bay, Namibia
… international community as it fulfilled the provisions of UN Security Council 432 (1978) , which declared Walvis Bay to …
ArticleThe Union of South Africa: Movement towards Republic
… As this model informs more often than not the British response to the striving for independence by its colonies, … The Bambatha rebellion was a notable Black…
ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 1950-1959
… hold a ‘Defend Free Speech’ convention in Johannesburg in response to the Suppression of Communism Act and proclaim 1 … against holding the stay at home…
ArticleResponses in South Africa to the outbreak of WWI: Impact on the Indian Working class: the Growth of Indian trade unions
… municipal industries. A number of mass protest meetings in response to the steep rise in basic food prices were held in …
EventThe United Republic of Tanganyika and Zanzibar is renamed United Republic of Tanzania
… 1961 from a United Kingdom (UK) ruled United Nations (UN) trusteeship and Zanzibar gained its independence on 19 …
EventUnited Nations World Summit starts
… United Nations World Summit started at the United Nations (UN) headquarters in New York. The Millennium Summit was the … Nation, Millennium Summit ,[online]…
EventUnited Nations appoints Kofi Annan as secretary
… was appointed as secretary-general of the United Nations (UN) to replace the outgoing Boutros Boutros Ghali, whose term …
EventSouth Africa readmitted to United Nations
… isolation . The General Assembly of the United Nations (UN) recalled resolution 48/258 A and adopted by consensus an … United Nations General Assembly …
ArchivePeoples Courts in Port Elizabeth: Paper Pres
… 1991 discussing unemployment, wages, crime, lack of police response to crime, kangaroo courts, community response to crime. …
EventSouth African Defence Force (SADF) raid Maseru in an effort to kill suspected members of the African National Congress
… in South Africa against political leaders in the black "homelands" of Transkei and Ciskei. The SADF displayed a …
EventF.W. de Klerk announces the release of Nelson Mandela and unbans political parties
… groups to break away from South Africa and form their own homelands . Some scholars have argued that de Klerk narrowly …
PlaceDundonald, East Mpumalanga
… KaNgwane was dissolved in 1994 along with the other nine homelands, Dundonald residents remain isolated to this day. …
EventSAIC Executive meets in Cape Town
… to return without representing the Indian people at the UN General meeting. Click here and here to read more about …
EventSpecial Committee on Apartheid publishes its first Interim Report
… The United Nations (UN) Special Committee on Apartheid published its first …
BiographyAlfred Milner
… the Transvaal with its long desired access to the sea. In response to Milner’s demand that uitlanders be granted the …
Increasing repression and the turn to the armed struggle
… organizations such as the ANC and PAC. The violent response of the government forced liberation movements to … for morning raids in search of illegal…
ArticlePopular struggles in the early years of Apartheid, 1948-1960
… called for a stay at home campaign for 1 May 1950, the response was overwhelming. Maylam states that “large numbers … which started in April 1956 and lasted…
The Detention Weapon
… to combat terrorism in South West Africa (Namibia), a response to SWAPO guerrilla action. Within a year it was put … above, it must be mentioned that the…
EventAthanase Seromba surrenders to the ICTR after being accused of participating in the slaughter of the Tutsis
… himself over to the ICTR following pressure from the UN’S Chief War Crimes Prosecutor Carla Del Ponte. Seromba was …
ArticleKing Kong the Musical 1959 -1961
… show moved to Durban where once again the press and public response to the show was outstanding. The show was next … and the show was scheduled to open and…
Address of the President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki, on the occasion of Women’’s Day: Ga-Motlatla, Ditsobotla Local Municipality, North-West Province, 9 August 2008
… our own Judge Navi Pillay, who has been appointed by the UN Secretary-General, as agreed by the United Nations General Assembly, as the new UN High…