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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 …
Amulets & Dreams by Omar Badsha and Guy Tillim
… ancient parchments Dreams flew with an army of children on UN flights, hid in adoption wards in LA and Johannesburg. …
Yusuf Dadoo Timeline: 1970 - 1979
… October 11, Dadoo submits a report to the UN Special Committee , in New York, in which he raises the … of political prisoners in South Africa asking that…
EventMazisi Kunene, Zulu poet and ANC activist, is born
… became a representative of the ANC in the United Nations (UN). At the end of his studies he was appointed professor of …
ArticleUnited Democratic Front timeline 1983-1990
… in Soweto. While there, Zindzi Mandela reads Mandela's response to the government's offer to release detainees. 18 … Year of the Youth, as proclaimed by the…
The ANC’s attempt to become the sole legitimate representative of the people of South Africa by Martin Plaut
… measure dawned on me. The Labour Party, in line with the UN and the Organisation of African Unity, recognised both the … pass the resolution would put us at…
ArticleCODESA 2 Timeline
… going again. August 1992: A special representative of the UN, Cyrus Vance, is sent to visit South Africa, amidst …
ArticleThembisile Chris Hani Timeline 1942 - 2003
… 1973 Member of the ANC delegation to the United Nations (UN)/Organisation of African Unity (OAU)Southern Africa … The first state of emergency is put into…
ArticleAfrican Resistance Movement (ARM)
… Sharpeville Massacre and its aftermath. The heavy-handed response of the state saw thousands of activists detained and … with IDAF in Britain and travelled…
ArticleWomen’s Workplace Oppression in 1970s South Africa by Cait Chapman
… between the needs of the people and the government’s response to those needs. Conclusion: Historically, women in …
Liberation
… informal rights in the communal areas (the former reserves/homelands) are less developed. The only communal land tenure … with state support. In relation to…
ArticleNdebele
… lived in urban centres throughout South Africa and in homelands other than KwaNdebele through the 1980s. During the … These disputes were overridden by the…
PlaceButterworth, Wild Coast
Butterworth is situated in the Eastern Cape of South Africa and is one of the oldest towns in the Eastern Cape's Wild Coast (the former Transkei - a black…
ArticleFatima Meer Timeline 1928-2010
… a creche and milk distribution. This was in direct response to the race riots against Indians, manipulated by … gatherings. She initiated a research project…
ArticleThe Anti-Apartheid Movement Abroad 1906 - 1990
… National Congress (ANC) sends a delegation to the UK in response to the implementation of new land laws in the Orange … and receiving lukewarm reception in…
ArticleHerero Revolt 1904-1907
… annihilating both peoples. The survivors lost their homelands, their cattle and their freedom. They became …
ArticleRace and ethnicity in South Africa
… of different ethnic groups located in different rural homelands . They were peasants or self-providing groups and …
ArticleA history of Apartheid in South Africa
… people (who comprised the vast majority) to form their 'homelands'. This Act also got rid of 'black spots' inside …
Conflict among civic organisations
… regulate the movement, residence of African people outside homelands and to increase the powers of African municipal …
EventBritish pop star, David Essex, claims to have been quoted out-of-context regarding his return to perform in South Africa.
… speaking in relation with the issue of the United Nations (UN) blacklist and on whether he'll return to South Africa. …
EventEquatorial Guinea gains Independence from Spain
… sentiment and escalating pressure from the United Nations (UN) General Assembly, the journey to independence was …
EventWorld Population Day
… World Population Day (Online), available at: http://www.un.org [Accessed 28 July 2010] World Population Day (Online), …
EventThe United Nations adopts a resolution establishing an eleven member United Nations Council for South West Africa
… the US,, Great Britain and France. At the time of the UN’s resolution the political situation in South Africa was …
ArchiveClass Consciousness and Migrant Workers by David Hemson (University of Warwick)
… only be allowed to exercise political rights in their "homelands”. The regime was consolidating its rule aiming to … deportation from the urban areas was the…
ArticleThe Establishment of the Afrikaner Broederbond in May 1918.
… The formation of the AB was one specific organisational response to the social and political crisis that the …
ArticleStudent Protests at Tshwane University of Technology - Timeline
… that was handed over to the University’s management. In response, protesting students were told that NSFAS funds had … the University’s main campus in…
Biography of Michael Scott from an email contribution by Lorna Richmond, 25 November 2015
… mandate, South Africa was refusing to let it transfer to UN Trusteeship. Scott duly met Herero Chief Hosea Kutako and … to travel, so begged him to take…
PlacePhiphidi Falls, Limpopo Province
The vhaVenda clans of northern South Africa, in present-day Limpopo Province, are among the nation’s most traditional, hewing to rituals and practices passed…
EventANC's Walter Sisulu and Duma Nokwe rally support against Urban Bantu Councils Act
… in urban areas that were linked to authorities in the homelands. The secret activity by Sisulu and Nokwe was …
PlaceNdabeni
… ‘rural homes’ in the Transkei - the first of the four homelands to be granted independence in 1976. …