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ArchiveCosatu News
… Cosatu News, published by COSATU, the Congress of South African Trade Unions, documents the struggle of workers to …
EventSouth Africa Grants independence to Venda and Gazankulu homelands
… falling short of full diplomatic recognition. The African National Congress (ANC) objected to the creation of …
ArchiveStudent walkouts have changed history before. In South Africa, one helped end apartheid by DeNeen L. Brown (The Washington Post), 14 March 2018
… Hector Pieterson, a 12-year-old South African boy, was one of the first students to die. On June … Johannesburg, defiance came at a terrible cost. South…
“Let us dream you, forbidden landscape”: the Storming project sings change, 17 July 2017
… world, it can obscure as much as it reveals. Today’s South African political music is rarely written about: even when … ( Dubul’ iBhunu ), it is prosecuted…
Document 64 - Letter from the Workers’ Party of South Africa to the International Secretariat of the International Communist League (B-L), 1 July 1936
… time of writing there is being held in Bloemfontein an All African Convention to which all political organisations that … the Chamber of Mines, the bourgeois…
ArchiveThe Final Prize - Contents and Preface
… paternalism, condescension and political exclusion of the African representatives by government and white officials … within the system, thwarting future…
The Role of the Missionaries in conquest - Chapter XII - End and Beginning
… for the mines, the farms, the towns. In other words, African labour was to be exploited in order to build up the South African State, but the Black man was…
David Goldblatt’s Portraits of Ex-Convicts at the Scenes of their Crimes by Max Campbell, 6 October 2016
… at the Scene of the Crime,” a series by the South African photographer David Goldblatt, we see an older woman … Another subject, Hennie Gerber, joined the…
PlaceMapungubwe Cultural Landscape, Joining South Africa with Zimbabwe and Botswana
… State which at its height was the largest kingdom in the African sub-Continent. The establishment of Mapungubwe as a powerful state trading through the East…
Article20 Years of Democracy (1994 - 2014) - Profiles of the Presidents
South Africa’s advent to democracy was ushered through the 1993 Interim Constitution, drawn up through negotiations among various political parties,…
EventThe first Gay Marriage in South Africa
… On this day in South African history, Vernon Gibbs and Tony Halls became the first …
EventIan Roberts was born on this day
… The South African actor, playwright and singer was born on this day in …
ArchiveAPDUSA Bulletin 3: Dont help sellouts to get R40 000 a year
… about 90% of the people boycotted the elections. APDUSA (African Peoples Democratic Union of South Africa) is calling …
ArchiveAPDUSA Bulletin 2: Aug. 22 elections and you
… APDUSA (African Peoples Democratic Union of South Africa) is calling …
ArchiveInterview with Sibongile Mthembu Mkhabela
… Mthembu Mkhabela, conducted by a third year class in African Politics, University of the Witwatersrand, …
ArchiveSport: Threat to the security of the state
… harassment of people and events connected with the South African Sports Association (SASA) are mentioned. Brutus …
PlaceBlockhouse in Hekpoort, Krugersdorp
… The Building was erected during the South African Boer War by the British Military, under the guidance …
Place'Boekenhout' Farm in Rustenberg
… Click on image to enlarge South African Republic president Paul Kruger's farm was declared a …
EventDr. Andries P. Treurnicht is re-elected NP leader in the Transvaal
… later (1994) the NP lost control of the country to the African National Congress (ANC)and formed part of the … (Accessed: 15 August 2012) | South African…
EventCOSATU issued a statement on Marikana Massacre
… On 24 August 2012, Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU) issued a statement expressing … statement on Marikana Massacre , from Congress of South…
EventUN Special Committee releases its report
… United Nations and Apartheid Chronology. Sources: South African History Online …
EventUganda gains independence
… The East African country Uganda gained independence from Great Britain …
EventMacmillan’s 'winds of change’ speech in Parliament
… of Parliament in Cape Town . He suggested that the South African government had not yet appreciated the force of the …
EventZwelakhe Sisulu is arrested
… J.A.; Schoeman, E. & Andor, L.E. (eds)(1999). Southern African Political History: a chronology of key political …
EventBenjamin Tyamzashe dies in East London
… Sources: Verwey, E. J. (1995). New dictionary of South African Biography, Vol. 1 , Pretoria: HSRC, p. 247. …
EventThe Democratic Party is founded
… J.A.; Schoeman, E. & Andor, L.E.(eds)(1999). Southern African Political History: a chronology of key events from …
EventMaluzi Gigaba is born
… after the 2004 general elections. Previously, he had been African National Congress (ANC) member of parliament and …
EventIOC extends South Africa’s ban from Olympic games
… Olympic Committee (IOC) after serious threats by African nations and the Soviet countries. On 15 May 1970, the …
EventThousands protest the killing of Chris Hani
… commander of Umkhonto we Sizwe, the armed wing of the African National Congress (ANC). The protesters called for …
EventThe Pretoria Minute is agreed upon
… The government and the African National Congress (ANC) reaffirmed their commitment …