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Yusuf Dadoo Timeline: 1910 - 1919
… of the Coloured people May 31, The Union of South Africa is formed on the 31st May 1910. Joseph Royeppen … attends Madressa. 1917 – 1918 Just prior to the…
ArticleHistory Grade 10 - Topic 3 Essay Questions
… monarch”. [7] His involvement in the Seven Years War (1756 – 1763) drained France’s treasury. [8] While the … legacy (or consequences) had a significant…
EventJack Penn, sculptor and one of the world’s best plastic surgeon is born
… in the United States of America (USA), before returning to South Africa to lecture Clinical Anatomy at WITS. During WWII, he … of the Union Defence Force. He…
A chronology of meetings between South Africans and the ANC in exile 1983-2000 by Michael Savage
… decade preceding the dramatic February 1990 unbanning of South Africa’s black liberatory movements, many hundreds of … Villa-Vicencio met with members of the…
BiographyAnn Tobias
… Ann Tobias was a member of the Liberal Party of South Africa during Apartheid. The party strongly opposed Apartheid … than a third of the banned members…
BiographyAndrew Sibusiso Zondo
… apartheid government. The 1980s was a turbulent time in South Africa, and after reading a report about the December 1985, …
ArticleLesotho Timeline
… against the will of the people. 1881 Basuto chiefs go to war against the Cape Colony over the right of Africans to … Zimbabwe to lessen economic dependence…
EventNuclear Reactor At Pelindaba Goes Critical
… located in Pelindaba, near Pretoria, went critical and South Africa entered the nuclear age. The US firm Allis … to fuel it. South Africa's nuclear program…
”Apartheid Over Our Dead Bodies:” Speech, July 1948
… walls of prison had cut us off completely from the outside world. We did not know what was happening in South Africa. We only knew of the food we got, the…
Address by President Nelson Mandela on the occasion of the 75th anniversary of the South African Communist Party Cape Town, 28 July 1996
… to be part of this celebration of a historic day in South Africa's political calendar. The 75th anniversary of … shaping the national liberation movement…
Address to the Anti-Racist Day Meeting of the Greater London Council by O. R. Tambo, London, 21 March 1984
… brutally murdered in the black township of Sharpeville, South Africa, when police fired on unarmed and peaceful … such criminal action, that massacre…
Statement by Oliver Tambo to the anti-racist day meeting of the Greater London Council, 21 March 1984, London
… brutally murdered in the black township of Sharpeville, South Africa, when police fired on unarmed and peaceful … such criminal action, that massacre…
Statement by Oliver Tambo at the meeting of the Special Committee against Apartheid, 12 January 1982
… Mobilise the world for sanctions against Apartheid We owe the United … International Year of Mobilisation for Sanctions against South Africa. This is a…
Statement by Oliver Tambo at the meeting of the United Nations Special Committee against apartheid, 12 January 1982
… Mobilise the world for sanctions against apartheid! We owe the United … International Year of Mobilisation for Sanctions against South Africa. This is a…
BiographyAndrew Clement Verster
… Reading University. He taught at Fine Art institutions in South Africa for a number of years before becoming a full-time … in SA and abroad. As a writer he…
Virgile Joseph Bonhomme
… in politics.An affiliate of the Trades Union Council of South Africa (TUCSA). In 1972 he mobilised workers at all furniture … was against the American singer…
BiographyDr Gurunathen (Guru) Kistnasamy
… 1966, Dr. Hendrik Verwoerd , the prime minister of South Africa, the architect of apartheid was assassinated. Soon … His first brush with the notorious…
'The People Accept the Challenge of the Nationalists' Statement issued by the National Executive of the A.N.C., April 6, 1963
… of the Africans, other Non-Whites and all democrats in South Africa. The Government has equipped itself with … of the policies of this Government by the…
Albert Luthuli’s Acceptance Speech, on the occasion of the award of the Nobel Peace Prize, Oslo, December 10, 1961
… his life. How many times his decisions helped to avert a world catastrophe will never be known. But there are many of … Executive of the world. As you may…
Speech at the Meeting of Representatives of the Parties and Movements Participating in the Celebration of the 70th Anniversary of the "Great October Socialist Revolution" by O. R. Tambo, Moscow, November 4-5, 1987
… in this country in 1917 resulted in the emergence, on the world scene, of a reliable base and spearhead in the struggle … and racist domination, against…
Mxolisi Moyo
… at the Open School, Johannesburg. He has worked for Post, World and the Tembisa Times . He works mostly in Alexandra … 1981 Staffrider Vol.4 No.4 Mar , 1982…
ArchiveOne hundred years of an air force inspired by General Smuts, by John Kane-Berman (PoliticsWeb), 18 July 2018
… London and elsewhere in the penultimate year of the First World War. This was the first time aircraft, only a recent … a dozen different nations, among them…
Cecil John Rhodes, warts and all by Tim Crowe (Politics Web), 22 December 2015
… In his own words: the English “are the finest race in the world and that the more of the world we inhabit the better it … Rule because it fit in with his…
The Reunited National Party is founded by Malan and Hertzog
… D.F. Malan were the most prominent White politicians in South Africa. In 1933 Hertzog and Smuts formed an alliance … alternative for the Afrikaner community…
Whither Palestine? by Ronnie Kasrils, 19 May 2015, London
… I was fortunate to have known albeit briefly. We met in South Africa at an international conference on Palestine in … mark him out as a prodigious scholar…
ArchiveRootedness and Openness in The Life and Works of Véronique Tadjo (b. 1955) by Tim Steckler
… being rooted in a home culture, yet still open to the world. [2] Tadjo, as an afrocentric writer, balances her … with deep origins throughout the continent,…
ArticleLife Timeline of Jacob Zuma
… the ANC Youth League (ANCYL). 1959 Zuma joins the South African Congress of Trade Unions (SACTU) and becomes … Khoza, the daughter of Irvin Khoza, chairman…
BiographyStanley Bongani Nkosi
… Gallery, Glenhazel (solo). Gallery Elysia, Johannesburg (Africa Art Project-group). 1972: Gallery 21 (solo). 1974: ABC … Art competition in Atlanta, USA…
BiographyJoey Fourie
… Workers in Cape Town, and later, the secretary of the South African Hairdressers’ Union, a position she held until … Fourie was also an active member of the…
BiographyWalter Battiss
… to an English Methodist family in 1906, and became one of South Africa’s first and most important abstract painters. He first …