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Witbank, Mpumalanga
… Hugh Masekela , (born April 4, 1939, Witbank, South Africa—died January 23, 2018, Johannesburg ) was a South … of Apartheid . He lived in the United States,…
EventGambia is admitted to the United Nations
… Situated on the west coast of Africa, the banks of the River Gambia have been inhabited for … by Hanno the Carthaginian of his voyage through West Africa…
An extract of the speech delivered by Albertina Sisulu on the first anniversary of the UDF
… Sons and daughters of Africa To me today I’m a great big mother For today our … baby is born For today our baby that will rule this South Africa in future is…
PlacePhoenix Settlement and Gandhi Trail
… Gandhi started his first newspaper in Durban South Africa in 1903 and in 1904 he moved the entire press to … the Satyagraha campaigns. Gandhi and his…
The Gandhi You May not Know by Rajmohan Gandhi
… was 23 on his third voyage, which was in 1893 and to South Africa. On being informed that all space in first class had … makes moves and counter-moves. When…
BiographyKhaya Biko
Early lifeKhaya Biko was born in Queenstown in the Eastern Cape in 1944, the second of four children of Mzingaye Biko, a police officer and later a clerk, and…
BiographyLawrence Ndzanga
Mr Lawrence Ndzanga,aged 53, a former secretary of the Railway Workers Union and a national executive committee member of the South African Congress Trade…
BiographySebitji Frans Matlala
Sebitji Frans Matlala’s wife recounted My husband was taken away by train fromMatlala's Location, Pietersburg District, Transvaal [now Polokwane, Limpopo]. I…
BiographyMhlabuvelile Hlamandana
Chief Mhlabuvelile Hlamandana (Faku), from Bizana District [Eastern Province, now Eastern Cape], refused to cooperate with the state around policies and…
ArchiveChapter 11 - SACTU in the Congress Alliance
… greatest national political strike ever witnessed in South Africa." [65] In Johannesburg, Durban, Port Elizabeth and … issued from the underground offices of…
"Attack, Advance, Give the Enemy No Quarter!" by O. R. Tambo, Message of the National Executive Committee of the ANC on the 74th Anniversary of the ANC, 8 January 1986
… from our goal of one person one vote in a united South Africa, or in any way cooperate with the Botha regime in the … unable to govern. Thus, we must…
January 8th Statements - Statement of the National Executive Committee on the occasion of the 74th Anniversary of the ANC - 8 January 1986
… from our goal of one person one vote in a united South Africa, or in any way co operate with the Botha regime in the … unable to govern. Thus, we must…
Chronology
… JPC December 20 , First conference of the Society of Young Africa 1952 January , Exclusive-minded Africans organize … to set up a Commission on the Racial…
Chapter 6 - No more suppers for my comrades
… of the 1982 Maseru Massacre) by Phyllis Naidoo, South Africa, 1992 The raid into Lesotho, not only killed 12 … at school in Lesotho. Some were visitors from…
Zambia, the ANC and the struggle against apartheid 1964-1990
… movements and the White minority governments in Southern Africa, and seeks to find out to what extent Zambia's commitment to the liberation of Southern…
EventPretoria is proposed as the new capital of ZAR
… Town being the legislative capital when the Union of South Africa was established in 1910. The city remained the administrative capital when South Africa…
EventMilner proposes conditional voting rights for ‘non-Whites’ in SA
… Anglo-Boer War 2, the British High Commissioner to South Africa, Lord Alfred Milner, proposed that educated and … four colonies that would later make up the…
EventBritish explorers, John Speke and J.A. Grant announce that Lake Victoria is the source of the Nile
… and James Grant, on their return from an expedition in Africa announced that Lake Victoria is the source of the Nile … doubt on his earlier findings. Speke’s…
EventJacobus Johannes (Jim) Fouché is born in Wepener in the OFS.
… Fouche was born in the Orange Free State (OFS) of South Africa. Fouche was elected as the second Sstate President of South Africa from 1968-1975. Fouche was…
ArchiveSonia Bunting: Continuous Compassion and Adamant Activism by Jack Lucas
… Europe to escape this brutal treatment, arriving in South Africa where they would establish a family. [1] In 1922, the … turbulent era in which internal…
PlaceThe Dakawa Arts and Crafts Centre
… Co-operation Agency (SIDA) . The project moved to South Africa in 1992, with Johannesburg and Cape Town organisations …
PlaceGreatmore Studios
… the world. These workshops were then brought to South Africa by British project initiator and current Board Member …
Death of ANC Education Secretary, Seretse Choabi, 29 August 1991
… in the underground movement of the ANC. Seretse left South Africa in 1968 where he read philosophy at Magdalen College, …
SABC CEO Jimi Matthews quits: ‘What’s happening at the SABC is wrong' (Tmg Digital), 27 June 2016
… no legal source' The complainants - the Media Monitoring Africa (MMA)‚ supported by the SOS Support Public …
PlaceNapier
… wheat and barley fields, at the Southern-most region of Africa. Napier is known as a village with the old world …
Beyond the Apartheid University?
… the production of knowledge for a post- Apartheid South Africa? Who is producing what and for whom? 2. The teaching …
PlaceLoftus Versveld Stadium, Hatfield
… preparation for the 2010 FIFA World Cup™, hosted by South Africa. It was built decades ago, and has seen a number of …
Document 21 - Letter from S. P. Bunting to E. R. Roux, 27 October 1930
… From: South Africa's Radical Tradition, a documentary history, Volume One … South Africa's Radical Tradition a Documentary History Volume 1 …
EventMapungubwe is ‘discovered’
… in the Limpopo Province. It is on the border between South Africa, Zimbabwe and Botswana and is located 75 km from … December 2013]| rebirth, 'Mapungubwe…
EventMother Teresa is buried
… headquarters of her charity. Mother Teresa visited South Africa in 1988. Further reading: Feature: The Nobel Prize and …