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EventThe Declaration of Windhoek
… is a statement of press freedom principles put together by African newspaper journalists. The context for this …
EventChief Mhlabunzima Maphumulo is shot dead
… of the traditional leaders organisation CONTRALESA and African National Congress (ANC) stalwart, Chief Mhlabunzima …
EventOliver Tambo returns from exile
… Oliver Tambo, former President of the African National Congress (ANC), returns to South Africa …
EventMandela visits Zambia
… His first foreign destination was the headquarters of the African National Congress (ANC) in Lusaka, Zambia, where he …
EventRiots erupt in Soweto
… rent boycott. According to reports at the time, the South African Police threw teargas at the crowd. Police claimed …
EventNdaweni Mahlangu causes a storm in political circles
… and strong dissatisfaction was expressed within the African National Congress (ANC) hierarchy by those who felt …
EventViolence erupts in Richmond
… Underlying political tensions between supporters of the African National Congress (ANC) and Inkatha Freedom Party …
EventA book claims that SA’s Nuclear weapons programme has continued since 1993
… He said those connected to the programme had assured the African National Congress (ANC), everything had been …
EventThe Second General Election is held in the Union of SA
… for the other political parties counted as follows: South African Party fifty-four seats; the Unionists thirty-nine; …
EventNkosi Sikelel’iAfrica composer, Enoch Sontonga dies
… date was 18 April 1905. Seven years after his death the African National Congress launched his hymn into prominence …
EventBritish presents final Peace proposal
… peace proposals to the Boer negotiators after the South African War. Milner announced the proposal as final, and … Boer War : a chronology. P 330.| Evans, A…
EventHunter and politician Johannes Viljoen dies
… and Pretoria. He led a Boer commando in the First South African War (First Anglo-Boer War) against Montshiwa. …
EventGen. Louis Botha, soldier, statesman and first prime minister of the Union of South Africa, is born.
… Africa during the South West Africa campaign and the South African Rebellion. He was responsible for the infamous Native … of Southern Africa, Cape Town:…
EventGrammy Award winner Miriam Makeba is born in Johannesburg
… had been cancelled. She lived in the US and in several African countries before she returned to South Africa in …
EventJudith Mason, SA artist, is born in Pretoria.
… 1990’s. Mason’s work is represented in all major South African National Art Collections and museums. She …
EventPortuguese explorer Bartholomew Dias anchors at Walvis Bay
… was a German colony. During the First World War South African Forces led by General Louis Botha eventually ousted …
EventOlive Schreiner, noted SA author, dies in Wynberg, Cape Town
… day South Africa. Her first book about the story of an African farm became a sensation. However, Schreiner could not …
Event”Unknown” White man is hanged in Pretoria
… For the first time in the South African criminal history a man was hanged with his name known …
EventThe Sebokeng Massacre of mourners leaves more than 30 dead and 40 more injured
… community leader, Chris Nangalembe who was a member of the African National Congress (ANC). Nangalembe died on 5 January … South African History Archive , …
ArticleFirst Anglo Boer War
… colonies, independent Boer republics and independent African groups in South Africa under British control. By 1876 … aftermath of the War In the aftermath of…
Margaret Thatcher's role in SA's transformation by FW de Klerk, 5 December 2016
… that we call South Africa was only 69 years old. Like most African countries it was an artificial construction of … and Africa. As Harold Macmillan pointed…
Opening Address to the Conference on "Whites in A Changing South Africa", Convened by the Five Freedoms Forum and the ANC by O. R. Tambo, Lusaka, 1 July 1989
… On behalf of the National Executive Committee of the African National Congress, and on my personal behalf, I greet … representing various contingents from…
Address to the Joint Session of the houses of Congress of the U.S.A. Washington, D.C., June 26, 1990
… that opulence. The process of the reconstruction of South African society must and will also entail the transformation … that the fact of the apartheid…
ArchiveHow colonial violence came home: the ugly truth of the first world war by Pankaj Mishra (The Guardian), 10 November 2018
… Weber wrote in September 1917, there “stands a dross of African and Asiatic savages and all the world’s rabble of … lumpens.” Weber was referring to the…
EventJohn Langalibalele Dube is born
… Bantu Teachers Association, which was known as the Natal African Teachers Union (NATU) for professional Black … South African History Online, John…
We are no longer in France - Book Launch
… The analysis is enriched by comparisons with the South African communist movement. During the anti-fascist struggle …
EventProfessor John Fleming “Jack” Brok dies
… References: Verwey, E.J. (1995). New Dictionary of South African Biography, v.1, Pretoria: HSRC. JN The journal of …
EventNelson Mandela receives a hero’s welcome in New York
… barricades. Mandela, who was deputy president of the African National Congress (ANC) at the time, was received at … Boddy-Evans A. (2011), ‘This Day in…
EventThe first flight in Kimberley takes off
… Weston flew the first flight in Kimberley creating a South African a flight record of eight-and-a-half minutes in his … flight in Kimberley breaks the…