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EventIan Woodall and Cathy O’Dowd becomethe first official South African team to conquer the Mount Everest
… On 25 May 1996, two South Africans - Ian Woodall and Cathy O'Dowd, reached the summit … died on his descent. Until the end of apartheid, South Africans had…
Luke Mazwembe
Mr Luke Mazwembe, aged 32 , a member of the Western Province Workers Advice Bureau and of the South African Student Association,was detained under section 22…
BiographyJohn Smith Moffat
John Smith Moffat was born on 10 March 1835 in Kuruman, South Africa. He was the son of the missionary Robert Moffat, who was friends with Mzilikazi, the…
ArticleSouth Africa’s electoral history timeline 1910-2009
… government, and reforming local government in respect of Africans. 1989 Following the major political crisis of the …
Rejuvenation of the ANC and intensification of the struggle 1940s
… incorporate South West Africa (Namibia) into the Union. In 1947 the ANC signed an agreement with the Natal and Transvaal … Chairman. The report of this…
Statement by Albert Luthuli to the council of the Institute of Race Relations, 19 December 1960
… The Bantustan plans give the impression of providing Africans with an opportunity of "developing along their own … your own lines" can give the impression…
A New Era for Africa in a Globalizing World, Unesco, Paris, 19 November 2003
… Critical to this is the knowledge by these peoples (Africans) that they have made and still have a unique and … is what was presented as the subjective…
BUT NOT FOR BREAD ALONE
… majority were African workers. By 1966-67, 8,730 Africans, or 75 per cent of an those listed as eligible for … would seldom be assigned to a lighter job…
ArticleNational Party (NP)
… nationalistic. This offended English-speaking South Africans and stood in opposition to Botha’s policies of … above Britain’s and saw English and Afrikaans…
Message from President Jacob Zuma
… Comrade, friends, fellow South Africans, The ANC centenary represents a milestone … they view the ANC and also the values that bind us as Africans. The…
January 8th Statements - Statement of the National Executive Committee on the occasion of the 102th Anniversary of the ANC by Jacob Zuma
… best placed to unite the broadest cross-section of South Africans around the objectives of the National Democratic … for. Our emphasis on unity further…
ArticleTswana
… The four major ethnic divisions among Black South Africans are the Nguni, Sotho-Tswana, Shangaan-Tsonga and … In 2006 it was determined that over 3 million…
Women at the start of the 20th century
… South African women. It is high time that our young South Africans should put the record straight. By the beginning of … black people and whites, but between…
ArticleThe Land Act, Traditional Authorities and the Native Affairs Department (NAD) 1913-1953
… 1913 Natives Land Act is extensively covered in respect of Africans on white commercial farms. Studies on the struggles … Act. The Act created a legal basis…
"Racial Problems in South Africa": Speech at the Second Pan-African Youth Seminar by O. R Tambo, Dar es Salaam, 5 August 1961
… that was white. I am travelling with a number of people, Africans, and a very nice gentleman from Switzerland who … Southern Rhodesians, why can't we find a…
”Racial problems in South Africa”, Speech by Oliver Tambo at the second Pan-African Youth Seminar Dar Es Salaam, 5 August 1961
… that was white. I am travelling with a number of people, Africans, and a very nice gentleman from Switzerland who … or Southern Rhodesians, why can`t we find…
EventFirst celebration of National Heritage Day
… when it was decided to create a day where all South Africans could observe and celebrate their diverse cultural … initiative by the Braai4Heritage calls upon…
Book 3: Migration, Land and Minerals in the Making of South Africa - Chapter 2 - Imperialism and the Union in South Africa by Timothy Keegan
… for horses and firewood for fuel. So, at first, many Africans profited from opportunities presented by the … rule; together they began to undermine the old…
Presidential Address to the Twenty-Third Conference of the South African Indian Congress, Durban, September 3, 1961
… be, as in fact they are already being, felt by all South Africans, white and non-white. How true this is is borne out … We welcome the growing non-racial…
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1960s
… Africa and Natal Medical School. 24 January, Rioting by Africans in Cato Manor (Durban) results in the death of nine … an amendment to the air transport…
Speech by Albert Luthuli at a public meeting organized by the South African Congress of Democrats, 1 February 1958
… - in theory and in practice - is an effort, to make Africans march back to tribalism. Deceitful Concept Sometimes … The one that comes to my mind is the…
Our Vision is a Democratic Society, 1958
… - in theory and in practice - is an effort, to make Africans march back to tribalism. Deceitful Concept Sometimes … The one that comes to my mind is the…
ArticleNon-European Unity Movement (NEUM)
… federal basis, members of the three main 'ethnic groups' - Africans, Coloureds and Indians - irrespective of religions, … Even more erroneous was the…
De Klerk pays tribute to Mandela’s ‘unique contribution’
… in a balanced manner which will assure South Africans from all our communities that he has all their … did indeed use his great responsibility to assure…
Chapter 8- Gumede walks the ANC and SACP tightrope, 1930–46‘
… Hertzog and Pirow’ Bills were putting the Africans more and more into a state of slavery’. Gumede, … despite severe police harassment. Despite the lack of…
Address at the SANEF Conference on the Media, the AU, NEPAD and Democracy ,12 April 2003
… matter - what we might entitle "Reporting Africa to the Africans". During the years of our struggle against … this had encouraged a feeling of superiority…
BiographySaul Sibusiso “Minus Khosing” Mashinini
Sibusiso Mashinini was born to Johannes and Catherine. Unlike his brothers and sisters, he was very quiet and more helpful at home. He was remarkably…
BiographyStephen Zelwane Nkadimeng
Stephen Zelwane Nkadimeng was one of the founders and key leaders of Fetakgomo (an organisation of migrant workers and peasantsof Sekhukhuneland). On the last…
BiographyOupa Ronald Madondo
Oupa Ronald Madondo (known as MK Scorpion) was born on 20 May 1948 in Sophiatown, Johannesburg, Transvaal (now Gauteng). With the advent of forced removals…
BiographyDavid Moiloa
David Moiloa, a flamboyant, amusing orator often at the rear of events, had been imprisoned in Johannesburg during the 1952 Defiance Campaign. He was the…