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EventNelson Mandela celebrates his 90th birthday.
… next year will publish a full history of this great South African, as well as histories of the movements and comrades …
EventPrime Minister Verwoerd’s assassin transferred from prison to a mental asylum
… him on death row for nearly 25 years. On 30 June 1994, the African National Congress Government, moved Tsafendas to the …
EventAthlete Mathews Motshwareteu enters the annals of the country’s athletics history after only five weeks of track athletics
… On 15 April 1978, Motshwareteu entered the annals of South African athletics when he broke the national 5 000m record at … Mathews ''Loop-en-val''…
Document 26 - Letter from Patrick Duncan to John Gomas, 3 October 1956
… should come down, not only in the future South African state, but also in the struggle that is going to …
EventNelson Mandela and Walter Sisulu on Robben Island 5 August 1982
… The twentieth anniversary of the arrest of Nelson Mandela, African National Congress (ANC) leader and first … www.nelsonmandela.org.za (Accessed: 19 July…
EventThe Government Gazette publishes a Proclamation that dissolved KaNgwane Legislative Assembly
… of the Legislative Assembly. Five months later, the South African government conceded another legal defeat in its … at www.nelsonmandela.org.za (Accessed: 22…
EventGeorge Pemba, artist and playwright is born in Port Elizabeth
… South African artist George Mnyaluza Pemba (also documented as …
EventAn inquest into the death in detention of the white trade union leader, Dr. Neil Aggett opens
… organiser of the Food and Canning Workers Union and African Food and Canning Workers Union, allegedly committed … [Accessed: 26 October 2012]| South African…
EventConservative Party leader, Dr Andries Treurnicht, dies in Cape Town.
… constitutional talks with the ANC and its South African Communist Party allies. … J.A.; Schoeman, E. & Andor, L.E. (eds)(1999). Southern African Political…
EventHastings Banda, former president of Malawi, is born.
… He declared Malawi a one party state led by the Malawi African Congress. The congress made him its president for …
EventConstruction of the Victoria Falls Bridge and the railway line are completed
… armed cadres of liberation movements, particularly of the African National Congress’s (ANC) uMkhonto we Sizwe and …
EventKenya is granted independence
… the 1940s before Kenyatta became the leader of the Kenya African Union (KAU) in 1947 and birth of the Mau Mau rebel …
EventTwo psychiatrists give evidence on the proceedings of David Beresford Pratt’s case
… farmer was accused of the attempted murder of the South African Prime Minister, Dr. H. F. Verwoerd at the Milner Park …
PlaceWarriors Gate: MOTH Museum of Militaria
… and M.O.T.H. Shrine was Built in 1936 and focuses on South African involvement in the two World Wars. It has Military …
Foreword
… Committee wishes to express its appreciation to the South African Commissioner and the staff of South Africa House for …
EventPolice increase their presence in Soweto
… guns and carbines, patrolled the vast township. The South African Defence Force army was also on standby in case the …
Media briefing statement by ANC National Chairperson, Comrade Baleka Mbete, following the occasion of the Republic of South Sudans 9th July Independence Day Celebrations
… General Council took a resolution, encouraging the South African government to appoint a Special Envoy for Sudan. … July 2011 as part of our mission to…
ANC Gauteng Centenary Month to celebrate Oliver Tambo, 18 October 2012
… years, the City of Reggio Emilia provided support to the African National Congress. This historical relationship was … and others. The ANC in collaboration…
PlaceNiger
… the spread of Islam , was also the source of some of these African country names. Niger officially; 'Republic of Niger'. Is landlocked by 7 other western…
Baroness Castle of Blackburn opened an exhibition on the history of the Anti-Apartheid Movement at the opening session of the Symposium
… say 'Where are these from?' knowing that they were South African. 'Oh! South African, no thank you' walking out as though the shop stank. … of the Community…
ArticleCOVID-19: The Whens and Whats of the Deadly Virus
… The first “big” change was initiated by South African President, Cyril Ramaphosa , on 15 March 2020 when the President addressed the South African nation and…
ArticleThe Founding of the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF)
… his public statements had gotten him suspended from the African National Congress (ANC) for 5 years. Malema was found …
Address by President Nelson Mandela at the inauguration of the National Council of Traditional Leaders Cape Town, 18 April 1997
… to do: to defeat, to subjugate and to dispossess the African people;to plunder their land and usurp its wealth. We … of the fact that, valiant though their…
ArchiveThe Black Consciousness Movement and Steve Biko By Jonathan Ansumana
… see themselves as inferior. Steve Biko was a black South African and advocate of anti-apartheid. He is known for … but inferior educational opportunities to…
ArchiveSpeech by President Nelson Mandela to the Angolan National Assembly Luanda, 29 April 1998
… Led by the founder of liberated Angola, that great African patriot and internationalist, Agostinho Neto, you … development. The first state visit to Angola…
Cecil John Rhodes, warts and all by Tim Crowe (Politics Web), 22 December 2015
… of the Harlem Renaissance. Jan H. Hofmeyr (1910) South African educationalist and liberal politician who anticipated … of the Brookings Institution Edwin…
Dr. Nelson Mandela’s acceptance address at the Clark University Investiture Atlanta, Georgia, 10 July 1993
… but rather as an accolade bestowed on our movement, the African National Congress for the role it has played to … in the world was in the balance, the ANC…
A chronology of meetings between South Africans and the ANC in exile 1983-2000 by Michael Savage
… distances to hold meetings in Europe or in independent African countries. Some of these “treks”, as they came to be … Africans from within South Africa and…
ANC Deputy President`s Election Campaign Programme, 6 May 2011
… Community radio, Spruitview Shopping Centre Issued by: African National Congress Chief Albert Luthuli House …