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EventUgandan President Idi Amin releases political prisoners
… On 28 January 1971, just three days after General Idi Amin … Ministers. Amin overthrew his long time ally turned enemy on 25 January 1971, while attending a…
EventBritish racing driver Tom Pryce dies in a freak accident during the South African Grand Prix at Kyalami
… Welsh racing driver Tom Pryce died on the tracks during the South African Grand Prix in Kyalami on 5 March 1977. The horrific accident left two people dead;…
EventA two-day All-in African Conference starts in Pietermaritzburg, Natal
… race, colour or creed. The Republic, it declared, "rests on force to perpetuate the tyranny of the minority". If the … people were called upon to organise…
Event270 workers charged with Marikana Massacre
… On 30 August 2012, two hundred and seventy workers were … were connected with the fateful event that took place on the 16 August 2012,whereby the South…
EventCaptured Gen. Cronje and his wife are shipped to St Helena
… his commando of 4 000 men to British forces at Paardeberg on 28 February 1900 and was banished to St Helena, an island … off the west coast of Africa. The…
EventAhmadou Kourouma, Ivorian novelist dies in France
… Kourouma eventually left his home country. He went on to write three more books after his debut novel, all of … Prix Renaudot and the Prix Goncourt des…
EventTakudzwa Ngwenya, Zimbabwean-born American rugby player, is born
… Takudzwa Ngwenya was born in Harare, Zimbabwe on 22 July 1985. He played for the Mashonaland Club and for … USA, where he played for Plano Rugby club before…
Student Politics in the Era of Democracy
… ideas of freedom and demands such as a South Africa based on the Freedom Charter, in which 'the people shall govern', … such a student movement. What SASCO…
Speech at Meeting to Commemorate South Africa Freedom Day and to Condemn the 600-year Alliance between Britain and Portugal by O. R. Tambo, London, 20 June 1973
… the epoch-making International Trade Union Conference on Apartheid, held in Geneva, (3) which brought into the … the international conflict between…
Address to Extraordinary Summit of the World Economic Forum 21 June 2003
… by ending all conflicts through negotiations based on the principle of justice and peace for all." By rallying … a working group was established to make…
"Future of the Africanist Movement" Questions and Answers Y R. M. Sobukwe, in The Africanist, January 1959
… to the entire nationalist movement in Afrika, our stand on the question of Race in general and the so-called racial … chemistry and physics-all these, mean…
A.I. Kajee His Work for the Southern African Indian Community - Chapter 11
… set out to force a congress election on the issue of the Pretoria Agreement and the leadership of … the rebels while offering them some representÂation on…
Address by President Jacob Zuma to the 12th International meeting of the Communist and Workers Parties, 3 December 2010, Centurion, Pretoria
… to by leading communists in the past. Speaking, in Moscow on June 16, 1969 as part of his final contribution and … the Alliance – each in his or her own way…
OAU-AU 50th Anniversary Lecture by ANC President Jacob Zuma East London, 26 October 2013
… of the OAU. The theme takes us back to that historic day on the 25th of May 1963 in Ethiopia, when prominent and … fathers of the African liberation…
Address to the 21st Session of the Assembly of Heads of State and Government of the OAU by O.R. Tambo, Addis Ababa, 19 July 1985
… Distinguished Leaders of Delegations, Excellencies, On behalf of the National Executive Committee of the African … militants and combatants inside and…
Interview: The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Navanethem (Navi) Pillay
… torture and helping establish key rights for prisoners on Robben Island. After the end of apartheid, Ms Pillay was appointed as Acting Judge on the South…
Archive”I am Albertina Sisulu”, Interview from Blue Portraits
… Metetiwe. Born in the Transkei, in the district of Tsomo on twenty-first October 1918. Educated in a lower primary … as a midwife. In those days we were…
42. Petition from Indians at the time of Union
… time that a closer union of the South African colonies was on the point of being achieved. There were fourteen major … when the closer union of the South…
A.I. Kajee His Work for the Southern African Indian Community - Chapter 7
… allowances to two hundred of their employees who were way on active service. There were other matters causing … union". A hundred and fifty Indian workers…
PlaceClaremont, a Suburb of Cape Town
… officials. Social activities most commonly were centred on cinema visits to establishments like the Luxurama in … by residents for ‘window shopping’, most…
Address to the Congress of the People - Libya Tripoli, 19 March 1999
… apartheid rule. It remains in our memories and spurs us on to help lighten the plight of our Libyan brothers and … I am very happy to note my Brother Leader…
ArchiveCHAPTER 4 - A turn to masses by Howard Barrell
… 1979, the ANC tried to understand how its very emphasis on armed activity was undermining its efforts to mount a … strategy between the early 1960s and 1978…
The Johannesburg Biennale by Bisi Silva (Artnet), 1998
… a series of national pavilions, Enwezor collaborated on a series of diverse exhibitions with six international … Gu. Called United Nations Project 1993-2000,…
Links & Partnerships
… with Possibility, the official Gateway. This site touches on everything South African, including South Africa's … is a freely accessible online scholarly…
Address by President Nelson Mandela at the closing ceremony of the 19th meeting of heads of government of the Caribbean Community and Common Market (CARICOM) St Lucia, 4 July 1998
… Africa with them and made the Caribbean a part of Africa. On this occasion I can think of no better way of evoking what … by all who wish to see those whom…
Search for a United Front against racism
… Secretary of the Natal Indian Congress, who was released on Tuesday morning, after serving his term of imprisonment as … Conference of the Anti-Pass…
Document 27 - Letter from E. R. Roux to Douglas Wolton, 5 September 1928
… appeal by the time this reaches you. I hope to see S.P.B. on his return to England and get acquainted with the final … class. We have got to put forward…
Passive Resistance 1946 - A Selection of Documents compiled by E.S. Reddy & Fatima Meer - Search for a United Front against racism
… Secretary of the Natal Indian Congress, who was released on Tuesday morning, after serving his term of imprisonment as … Conference of the Anti-Pass…
Chapter 5. A Rebel’s Daughter - Garment Workers in Action by E. S. Sachs
… for him. To feel near him, I used to put his jacket on, with the excuse that it was cold. My mother must have … we were at my grandmother's farm, a neighbour…
PlaceKwazulu Natal Province
… of the Zulu) was granted self-government under apartheid on 1 December 1977. According to the apartheid social … along the Coast what is now Durban . This…