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EventDjibouti, France’s last colony, gains independence
… Djibouti is a very small country located on the horn of Africa. It is so small that it has an estimated population of less than a million, one of the least…
EventSA withdraws from the International Labour Organisation
… (ILO) voted in favour of the suspension of South Africa from its Annual General Conferences. The ILO objected to South Africa's system of racial…
EventSA signs Nuclear Treaty
… Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty (NPT) on behalf of South Africa. This opened South Africa's nuclear facilities for inspection. South Africa became the first…
EventJan van Riebeeck, Dutch colonial administrator and first commander of the colony at the Cape of Good Hope, is born
… (DEIC) , van Riebeeck landed at the southern tip of Africa on 6 April 1652 in order to create a settlement for the DEIC. His arrival therefore opened South…
EventNew SA Constitution takes effect
… 1997, the new Constitution of the Republic of South Africa came into force. The country’s Constitution has been … of Rights, which is a cornerstone of…
Political Overview By The ANC Gauteng Provincial Chairperson, Comrade Paul Mashatile On The Occasion Of The Special Provincial General Council, Turffontein Racecourse, Johannesburg, 24 February 2013
… remains the only source of hope for a transformed South Africa. Its policies are made to benefit all the people of … South and East. In response to these…
Address at the official opening of the ASB Congress on 28 June 1971 in the Aula, Pretoria
… students today, not so much, I am happy to say, in South Africa, and when I talk to leaders of other parts of the … no reason whatsoever why Parliament could…
Chapter 2 - THE RECONSTRUCTION PERIOD
… secretary and the chairperson of the Party based in Africa, the meeting had to deliberate on the relationship … in the country. Thus it was decided that CC…
The Segregation Fallacy and Other Papers - The Disfranchisement of the Cape Native
… unduly intermeddling in the local affairs of South Africa; but a case of indepenÂdent external examiners … is to alter sub-section (2) of section 35 of the…
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…
ArchivePromise of hope
… crying; text: What is needed by the black people of South Africa is not sticking plaster; but the promise of hope for … in the wealth they have helped to…
EventKoeberg becomes operational
… at Koeberg, the only commercial nuclear power station in Africa, became operational on this date. On 21 August 1984, the French contractor turned Koeberg-1…
BiographyPaul Mokabe
Mokabe was one of the students who stood up against the introduction of Afrikaans as a medium of instruction in African schools in 1976. In 1977, Mokabe…
Ntombikayise Priscilla Ngocobo (née Khubeka)
… Truth and Reconciliation Commission of South Africa Report , Volume 6, chapter 4, 14. Ainslie, D. (2018), … death’, Available online: www.iol.co.za/news…
The Segregation Fallacy and Other Papers - The Segregation Fallacy
… the segregation of the Bantu in the Union of South Africa as a solution of what is called the Native question. … the Europeans and the Bantu in the Union of…
BiographyKrotoa (Eva)
… and the complexity of Coloured identity in South Africa. |Morris, M. (2004) Every Step of the Way : The journey to freedom in South Africa. Funded by the…
Nadine Gordimer`s key note speech - Amnesty International Ambassador of Conscience Award
… had created a vast non-criminal prison population in South Africa. While he and his comrades on Robben Island were sent … him to life imprisonment. But his…
Address to the National Council Of Provinces, 19 September 2003
… this very clearly, and I quote: We, the people of South Africa, Recognise the injustices of our past; Honour those … to build and develop our country; and…
XIII - The Courts
… book: No.46 - Steve Biko by Hilda Bernstein, 1978, South Africa In any society where courts exist they tend to play a … death of Biko, declared the SABC,…
Chapter 6 - The Birth of SACTU
… or hostility from older craft unions. In South Africa, where craft and race privilege have reinforced one … in our own workers that they will change the tide…
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…
ArticleChanges in modern forms of communication
… eventually airplanes were used to transport mail in South Africa. Image source The South African Post Office Limited … aeroplanes, only moto vehicles wold be…
Address at the Welcome Ceremony of the World Summit on Sustainable Development, 25 August 2002
… Honourable Kofi Annan, the government and people of South Africa, I am privileged to welcome you to Johannesburg and South Africa to the World Summit for…
EventWorld Aids Day is internationally observed for the first time
… only in certain regions of the world, Sub Saharan Africa for instance was considered the domain of the virus. … is “Getting to Zero – Zero AIDS-Related…
EventThe Kenya-Uganda railway is completed
… the controversy. The railway was built by the British East Africa Company and stretched from Mombasa to Kisimu. … The railway line, administered by a single…
Damon – The Malabar Slave (Historic Alleys)
… by the Dutch & Portuguese slave traders to Cape Town, Africa, Mauritius and many other places between the late … extent, but whatever happened to the many…
ArchiveChapter 14 Out of prison: 28 February 1985 as a free person by Denis Goldberg
… seat and I could see the drought ravaged land of Eastern Africa as we flew northwards. I felt ill as I tasted the … the state of Israel, be involved with…
Document 8 - S. P. Bunting, The “Colonial” Labour Front, 23 October 1922
… From: South Africa's Radical Tradition, a documentary history, Volume One … from their countries as dangerous competitors. In South Africa there is a great…
The Role of the Missionaries in conquest - Chapter XII - End and Beginning
… one purpose, to enslave the Non-European peoples of South Africa. This period, too, has required its special agents, … of the Africans, but of all the Non…
PlaceGeorge, Garden Route- Western Province
… , in 1813, wrote: "A more pleasant one I have not seen in Africa, it abounds with wood, water and majestic scenery". … activity. George being the only…