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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…
Chapter Four - The Years with the CPSA: 1925 - 1935
… Boer imperialism, but will lead the oppressed slaves of Africa in earnest struggle against the Pirowcratic Government of South Africa and its obnoxious laws…
BiographyNongqawuse
History is not kind to Nongqawuse. What we know of her is mainly related to the Cattle-Killing/Millenarian Movement of 1856-7 and her role and relations…
PlaceGeorge
… lies halfway between Cape Town and Port Elizabeth on South Africa’s ever-popular Garden Route . George Airport now … lies halfway between Cape Town and Port…
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…
EventAnti-Apartheid demonstration is held outside SA embassy in Washington
… Council to impose a mandatory arms embargo on South Africa in 1977. However, the Reagan and Thatcher governments, … engagement' with, rather than isolation…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
EventThe Asiatic Land Tenure and Indian Representation Act is introduced
… The Ghetto Act brought about a turning point in South Africa's international relations and standing in the world community. The position of Indians in South…
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…
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,…
EventFirst sextuplets in the world to survive their infancy are born in Cape Town
… their infancy on 11 January 1974, in Cape Town, South Africa. The three boys (David Peter, Grant Vincent and Jason … born at Mowbray Maternity Hospital, in…
EventLeague of Nations is formed
… Botha were the two representatives of the Union of South Africa. Smuts also played an important role in the drafting … of the Covenant of the League. Most…
EventThe World Health Organisation (WHO) declares Aids a worldwide epidemic
… (WHO) declared the disease a worldwide epidemic. Africa has the highest rate of infection than any continent, with South Africa having the highest of any…
Address by President Nelson Mandela at the State dinner hosted by the Governor-general of New Zealand, Dame Catherine Tizard Wellington, 15 November 1995
… business and interest groups on developments in South Africa. Wherever I went, I felt as if I was among citizens of … and social disintegration. But we have,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
ArchiveSpeech by President Nelson Mandela to the Angolan National Assembly Luanda, 29 April 1998
… dared to act upon the principle that freedom in Southern Africa was indivisible. Led by the founder of liberated … internationalist, Agostinho Neto, you…
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…
EventGifted writer and actor William Modisane is born
… was born in Sophiatown, Johannesburg. Modisane left South Africa in 1959 and while in exile he published his only and … of the educated Black man. The book…