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Chapter 4 - The Township Uprising, September-November 1984
… The Soweto uprising of 1976 placed students in the frontline of the battle against apartheid. Over the next … of a serious crisis. They were overcrowded and…
Book 5: People, Places and Apartheid - Chapter 4 - The Township Uprising, September-November 1984 by Noor Nieftagodien
… The Soweto uprising of 1976 placed students in the frontline of the battle against apartheid. Over the next … of a serious crisis. They were overcrowded and…
PlaceNigeria
… of the 11th century, seven independent Hausa city-states were founded in Northern Nigeria. They were, Biram, … show up. Among the Igbo and Ibibio a number of…
EventThe Luanda International Jazz Festival is launched in Luanda, Angola
… brought together jazz artists from Angola, Brazil, United States, South Africa and many other countries. Amongst the …
EventSA tenor Johan Botha is born
… He travels extensively in Europe and the United States and is a popular performer at the world's major opera …
EventUN warns Africa of the scourge of HIV
… The United Nations states in Addis Adaba that more than eighty million Africans …
Extract from a speech made in the House of Assembly on 15 September 1970 during the Prime Minister’s Vote
… of Churches, the Republic's policy in respect of the Black states in Africa and the arms sales to the Republic. In a … I have only read part of that pamphlet…
ArchiveColour and Christian community
… community and their political condition in the United States of America again, with reference to the colour line. …
EventUN Special Committee on Policies of Apartheid appeals for assistance to families of apartheid victims.
… on the Policies of Apartheid issued an appeal to member states and organizations to assist families of persons …
EventThe League of Nations officially dissolves
… the brainchild of President Woodrow Wilson of the United States of America (USA), was weakened by the failure of that …
EventJournalist Percy Qoboza is released from detention
… government pressure and left the country to live in United States. …
EventThe Ciskei homeland is established
… The Ciskei and the Transkei were two designated "states" for the Xhosa speaking people in the Eastern Cape. In …
EventEuropean Community lifts sanctions against SA
… oil and arms embargoes, the Commonwealth and other foreign states pledged to lift their sanctions against SA. The …
EventNelson Mandela was issued with his first passport after being released from prison
… that he used to embark on a tour of some of the African states that had supported the South African liberation …
EventMbeki and his entourage arrive in Abidjan, Ivory Coast
… general of the Economic Community of West African States (Ecowas), Mohammed Ibn Chambas, as well as local …
EventThe Minister of the Interior warns that re-registration of the Post newspapers would be banned
… on 13 January 1981 and left immediately for the United States, was quoted as saying in Washington; “in the light of …
EventFilm producer, Jamie Uys passes away
… three years of uninterrupted screening in the United States of America. Jamie Uys passed away on 29 January 1996, …
EventWorld TB Day, observed to create public awareness that tuberculosis remains a global epidemic
… Europe and the African, Caribbean and Pacific Group of States (ACP countries) can strengthen each other in the fight …
ArticleVlakplaas and the History of Apartheid's Death Squad
Vlakplaas is the name of an undercover counterinsurgency division of the apartheid police that operated in the 1980s. Vlakplaas is also referred to as C, C1…
"Future of the Africanist Movement" Questions and Answers Y R. M. Sobukwe, in The Africanist, January 1959
… contemporary international politics, our relation to the states of Afrika, both independent and dependent, our … for Afrika and both the Soviet Union and the…
Letter to Sir Geoffrey Howe, United Kingdom Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs by O. R. Tambo, 21 July 1986
… that the European Community, and possibly even the United States Government, have since assumed responsibility for the … at various levels of governments…
Letter from Oliver Tambo to Sir Geoffrey Howe, United Kingdom Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, 21 July 1986
… that the European Community, and possibly even the United States Government, have since assumed responsibility for the … at various levels of governments…
EventFive American nuns are shot to death in Liberia
… was to serve as the home of freed slaves from the United States. Although Liberia has an indigenous population, these … raged, they were moved behind rebel…
ArticleBlack Consciousness Movement Timeline 1903-2009
… supporter of the ‘Back to Africa’ movement in the United States of America, Marcus Garvey founds the African … James Cone, the originator of Black Theology…
Document 58 - Robert Mangaliso Sobukwe, “The Opening Address at the Africanist Inaugural Convention”, 4 April 1959 [….]
… for Africa, and both the Soviet Union and the United States of America are trying to win the loyalty of the African states. Afrika is being wooed with more…
Statement by Oliver Tambo on the occasion of the eighth anniversary of the Triumph of the Sandinista Revolution, 01 July 1987, Managua
… to end the oppressive and exploitative rule of the United States-imposed Somoza dynasty. It is especially significant … some of Augusto Sandino`s greatest…
Telegram to Gamal Abdel Nasser, President of the United Arab Republic by Oliver Tambo, 27 May 1967
… to resist Anglo-American Machinations to recolonise Arab States. War threat in Middle East is being directly …
EventOlympic games end in Athens
… The overall winner of the 2004 Games was the United States with 103 medals, followed by Russia with 92 and China, …
EventCaribbean countries refuse to send troops to Haiti
… He claimed that he was abducted at gunpoint by United States Marines. After two-and-a-half-months' exile in …
EventAmina Lawal is freed
… the plight of women in Nigeria's northern Muslim states, which were given self-autonomous status …