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EventDate is set for constitutional talks
… to be part of CODESA and accused the government and the African National Congress (ANC) of secret collaboration. Both …
EventAdriaan Vlok, Minister of Law and Order, announces a ban on the carrying of pangas, bush knives and axes weapons in “conflict situations”
… The ongoing violence between African National Congress (ANC) and Inkatha Freedom Party …
EventMigrant workers ransack Phola Park
… migrant workers to damage ongoing peace talks between the African National Congress (ANC) and the government. The Civil …
EventElectricity cut off in Tumahole township
… the Township residents because since their inception the African National Congress (ANC) and United Democratic Front …
EventAn ANC car bomb directed at the headquarters of the Wits Command, Johannesburg, kills one person and injures 68
… by Heinrich Grosskopf, under the instructions of the African National Congress (ANC). Grosskopf had joined the ANC …
EventSADF mounts raids on ANC targets in neighbouring states
… Troops of the South African Defence Force (SADF) carry out raids on alleged ANC …
EventBessie Amelia Head, SA novelist dies
… Head was a prolific writer and was also the first South African Black woman to publish a collection of short … Verwey, E.J. (ed)(1995). New Dictionary of…
EventStart of blood classification controversy
… Poppie Bereng, who worked as a phlebotomist for the South African National Blood Service (SANBS) in Bloemfontein, was …
Event60,000 delegates attend the World Summit on Sustainable Development
… available at un.org [accessed: 13 August 2010] South African History Online …
EventSmuts becomes Prime Minister
… Party (NP), agreed to join forces against the South African Party (SAP) in the next election. When his party lost …
EventBattle of Delville Wood starts
… and heroism and remained the most costly action the South African Brigade fought on the Western Front. A memorial site …
EventAlan Paton is born
… by Jonathan in 1936. In 1930 Paton joined the South African Institute of Race Relations. Paton wrote Cry, the …
EventThe Vereeniging peace conference begins
… After the Second Anglo-Boer War (South African War), which had started on 11 October 1899, there …
EventGideon Scheepers executed
… commanding officer during the Second Anglo-Boer War (South African War) was executed by a firing squad beside an open … & Rousseau.| Kruger, D.W. (ed)(1972)…
EventSir John Frederick William Herschel dies
… here.Source: 1. S2A3 biographical database of southern African science, s2a3.up.ac.za/bio/Main.php, as on Tuesday 06 …
EventVoortrekkers are defeated during the Battle of Boomplaats
… the Battle of Boomplaats, 29 August 1848’ from The South African Military History Society [online]. Available at …
EventLord Charles Somerset arrives in the Cape as Governor
… to produce crops for export. In 1818 he launched the South African public library in Cape Town. He mediated between …
EventSir Patrick Duncan, Governor-General of the Union of South Africa, is born
… the Unionist Party before resigning to join the South African Party (SAP). He was minister of internal affairs, …
EventB.J. Vorster, Minister of Justice, announces extensive security measures following the Sharpeville Massacre
… of the security police, strengthening control of South African borders, the establishment of special mobile units …
EventSA Police kills eleven Pondo tribesmen when they revolt against the imposition of Bantu authorities.
… two sides. On the one hand, there were the people of the African National Congress and the Pan Africanist Congress, …
EventMultiparty negotiating forum meets for the first time since December 1993
… met for the first time since December 1993 to discuss the African National Congress (ANC)'s proposals. The ANC had … as a democracy from the crises of the…
Say It out Loud - The 1912 Presidential Address, Johannesburg, Transvaal, 1st January, 1912
… feel as all human beings must feel. " The brutallest black African " says Carlyle, "cannot bear that he should be used … South Africa has, except in a very…
The Colors of Resistance in Apartheid South Africa: Black Consciousness Poetry and the Racial Elusiveness of Wopko Jensma
… South Africa alongside the protest poetry of white South African poet Wopko Jensma. It is argued that while the racial … apartheid racial categories, as well…
The Road to Durban: Workers’ struggles, student movements, and the resurgence of resistance politics in Namibia and South Africa by Heike Becker
… broadened into a generalised revolt against the South African regime. A close look at the Namibian events and their … helps to understand the entangled…
’UNITE! MOBILISE! FIGHT ON! BETWEEN THE ANVIL OF UNITED MASS ACTION AND THE HAMMER OF THE ARMED STRUGGLE WE SHALL CRUSH APARTHEID!’
… the ANC at the time. When did the ANC get the message. The African National Congress brings you this URGENT CALL TO … guns the ferocity of their fire has…
Address by the President of South Africa, Mr. Thabo Mbeki, at the Opening of Civil Society Forum of the WSSD, Johannesburg, 23 August 2002
… underdevelopment and environmental degradation. As an African, I must also say that it is also important that the … in Africa just as we are celebrating the…
Mandela’s membership of the Communist Party: what needs to be reassessed by Tom Lodge
… rigidities of organisational “discipline”. In his pan - African travels between January and July 1962 amongst the … the Alliance and that it should project a…
63. Colonisation scheme: the colonial-born Indians respond - From the book "A Documentary History of Indian South Africans" edited by Surendra Bhana and Bridglal Pachai
… among some, especially the colonial-born, that the South African Indian Congress did not sufficiently represent their … Source: Indian Opinion , 5 January…
Early Beginnings
… as a subject race and the natives as members of the S. African working class. We have got to put forward definite … do so. It was 'an independent workers'…
EventThe ANC calls for a day of protest and observes this day as 'South Africa Freedom Day' for the first time
… and the Suppression of Communism Act. In March 1950 the African National Congress (Transvaal), the Communist Party of South Africa, the Indian Congress and…