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EventA cargo plane crashes into a market in Kinshasa, Zaire, killing at least 350 people
… On 8 February 1996 an Africa Air Antonov 32 cargo plane crashed into a market made … It later came to light that the flight had been illegal as Africa Air…
PlacePretoria National Zoological Gardens.
… at 323 Boom Street, the zoo is the largest in South Africa and rated as one of the top zoos in the world and is … Zoo was established in 1899 and is the only…
Dr Yusuf M. Dadoo's Statement In Court In Trial For Passive Resistance, June 1946
… has the support and consent of the Indian people in South Africa, and is a struggle which has the widest support in … to all true democrats and fighting for…
PlaceSkukuza Airport, Mpumalanga
… role, Skukuza Airport stands as a testament to South Africa's commitment to conservation. The airport management, … grab hold of a shiny object if you're not…
Black Renaissance: Papers from the Black Renaissance Convention, December 1974
… Convention: The educational world of Blacks in South Africa; The Christian challenge of Black Theology; Towards … of Black Consciousness; The Black women in…
EventDiplomatic relations between SA and Iraq annoys USA
… Relations between South Africa and the United States of America (USA) became strained by South Africa's announcement that it was going to normalise…
ArchiveJock Strachan: Artist, guerilla, fighter pilot, bomb maker, fisherman, humourist, writer, hero
… in Hugh’s book add to the immortal expression of South Africa’s labour system in Gerard Sekoto’s painting Song of … – tending other artists’ work, not his…
Draft Declaration by ANC, 20 December, 2012, 53rd ANC Annual Conference, Mangaung
… non-racial, non-sexist, democratic and prosperous South Africa as enshrined in the Freedom Charter. These include the … democratic, non-racial, non-sexist…
PlaceCape Winelands Airport, Fisantekraal
… for Cape Winelands Airport, is a heavyweight in South Africa's construction sector and one of the country's largest … is one of the largest construction…
ArchiveNote on sources and footnoting by Howard Barrell
… pro-ANC `mass democratic movement' who lived inside South Africa over that period; and with the South African Security … its huge popular legitimacy and…
Silent Cries from a Beloved Country by Ken Johnson, 20 August 2009
… Born in 1930 to Lithuanian Jews who had moved to South Africa to escape religious persecution, he is internationally … read his labels and didn’t know…
BiographyTheresa Solomon
Theresa Solomon was born in District Six, Cape Town, Western Cape, in 1945. Solomon lived in Mitchells Plain, Cape Town, where she worked as a community…
BiographyBongani Mnguni
Bongani Mnguni was a South African photographer and photojournalist who dedicated his life to exposing the brutality of the apartheid system. Mnguni was…
Chapter 4 - The role of the Communist Party in the ANC by Richard Monroe
… its long-term mission of winning a socialist South Africa based on workers' power, and also to ensure the … perspective. A democratic workers' state in…
EventPresident Robert Mugabe defends land reform programme
… feet of the Mugabe regime, who despite mediation by South Africa, has failed to come to a politically equitable … that the Zimbabwean economy, once among the…
Document 9 - First letter from Nelson Mandela to Hendrik Verwoerd
… standing preference of the majority of the people of South Africa to arrive at a political settlement. 15. We would therefore encourage the people of South…
PAC Constitution - Extract from Karis & Carter
… and promote the concept of the Federation of Southern Africa, and Pan Africanism by promoting unity among peoples of Africa. 3. MEMBERSHIP: (a) Any African…
ArchiveAPDUSA Bulletin 9: The Kennedy visit, the truth
… discusses the visit by Senator Edward Kennedy to South Africa, and one question which stands out and that is, Why was he visiting South Africa? APDUSA also…
PlaceChris Hani Municipal Region, Eastern Cape
… lies at the heart of the Eastern Cape province of South Africa. It is the second largest of the Eastern Cape … Mountain Zebra National Park near Cradock, one…
Say It out Loud - The 1909 Presidential Address, Cape Town, 13th April 1909
… that he meant everyone who was a British subject in South Africa, and who was not a European. (Cheers). He must ask … REVOLUTIONARY CHANGES But in the…
ArchiveSPRO-CAS Occasional Publication Number 6: Towards social change
… on social change and ethnic politics in apartheid South Africa. Content include: Social forces and social change in South Africa; Cultural and ethnic…
Archive2001 - President Mbeki, State of the Nation Address, 9 February 2001
… THE STATE OF THE NATION ADDRESS OF THE PRESIDENT OF SOUTH AFRICA, THABO MBEKI, AT THE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY CHAMBER, Cape … of crime, violence and corruption. It…
PlaceO.R. Tambo International Airport, Johannesburg
… to O.R Tambo International Airport in Johannesburg, South Africa, October 27, 2006. Oliver Reginald Tambo was President … at the height of the anti-apartheid…
ArchiveWebinar Programme: Debating Socialist Lineages. Convenors Shahid Vawda and Lungisile Ntsebeza
… Ntsebeza The Making of the Trotskyist Tradition in South Africa: A Reading of 'The Spark', 1935-1937 by Crain Soudien Between 1935 and 1937 the Workers Party…
EventArthur Conan Doyle, medic during the Second Anglo, is born
… Holmes crime novel series, he also spent time in South Africa during the Second Anglo Boer War. Doyle was a trained … Thanks to his qualifications, Doyle was…
ArticleDutch East India Company (DEIC)/VOC
… and slavery four hundred years later. Present-day South Africa is no different in this regard. In 1649 a … from the VOC project. Four hundred years later,…
In the enduring spirit of President O.R. Tambo: Good luck to all matriculants, 22 October 2012
… Undeniably a matric certificate in South Africa symbolises aspirations of posterity while it … emulate that lasting spirit of this revolutionary son of…
EventWalter Sisulu, co-founder of the ANCYL and Umkhonto we Sizwe, is born
… Walter Sisulu retired on the eve of South Africa's first non racial elections in 1994. He died at his …
PlaceEquatorial Guinea
… investment. As a result, Equatorial Guineans became one Africa's most educated population. In the 1950s a move …
ArchiveThe arch agitator of the Union by Shula Marks, 31 January 2019
… as “the arch agitator of the Union”, (whether of South Africa or the workers is not clear), had been a thorn in the … developed into a mass protest movement…