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EventSouth Africa's first democratic elections
… atmosphere, contrary to fears of political violence. The African National Congress (ANC) won the election with 62.65 % … (DP) 1.7 %, Pan Africanist Congress …
EventSir John Robinson forms Natal's first ministry as Prime Minister
… to the Legislative Council in 1863, and attended the South African federation conference in 1876. He also attended the …
ArchiveWebinar Programme: The SACP and Early Socialist Traditions. Convenor: Natasha Erlank
… in the 20th century. His current research focuses on African and Asian trade unions and the politics of free … of the Free State, has published widely on…
Speech on the Occasion of the Celebration of the Twenty-First Anniversary of the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa by O. R. Tambo, Lusaka, 21 April 1979
… SWAPO of Namibia, the Patriotic Front of Zimbabwe and the African National Congress of South Africa. We thank Professor … a necessary rather than an…
ArchiveConclusion by Howard Barrell
… land mines were laid only a few kilometres inside South African territory and were thus not long, if at all, at the … they originate from one of the…
EventPope John Paul II celebrates a papal mass in South Africa
… it." Four orphans representing different South African ethnic groups presented the Pope with a basket of … of apartheid," The main objective of his visit to…
EventAnti-Apartheid demonstration is held outside SA embassy in Washington
… by Randall Robinson, began to further isolate the South African regime. On 27 November 1984, 250 people demonstrated outside the South African embassy in…
Luthuli House to be auctioned over R25m debt?, 20 August 2017
… Limited. “We are instructed that during August 2013, the African National Congress Elections Secretariat issued a … one of the defendants, resigned as…
Nomzamo Winnie Madikizela-Mandela on Fatima Meer
… of Democrats, the Coloured People’s Congress and the African Native Congress. They were very active in forming an … that finally gave birth to our present…
Remembering Nadine Gordimer (The Conversation), 15 July 2014
… political world; the deeper texts and subtexts of South African life: these and more became her topics, her roving … but her post-apartheid novels continued…
Democracy - The only solution by Nelson Mandela, President of the ANC 1 July 1992
… occasions when whites amongst themselves adopted South African Constitutions by Referendum, the National Party has … to make sure that it happens. Time has…
PlaceRooigrond
… the farm land from President Paul Kruger of the South African Republic in return for its services during the first … while many were moved to Rooigrond…
EventThe Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging (AWB) invade the World Trade Centre, during constitutional negotiations, in Kempton Park, Johannesburg, Transvaal
… to the efforts that were being made to unify all South African’s under one banner. In 1993, South Africa experienced … uncertainty. The country faced violent…
Excavations: Shirts, Placards, Posters and the Remnants of Spectacular Protest in the LRS’s Collections by Lebogang Mokwena
… capitalism. A consequence of the leftist turn in South African sociology in the 1970s, this scholarship positioned South African sociology as a pre-eminent…
“Human beings with Souls”: Reconsidering The Durban Strikes Pamphlet by Alex Lichtenstein
… the process by which the multiple decisions made by African and Indian workers to down tools, the IIE activists … what would become the ‘workerism’ of the…
Address of the President of the Republic of South Africa, Nelson Mandela, at the Inaugural session of the Twelth Conference of Heads of State or Government of the Movement of Non-Aligned Countries Durban, 2 September 1998
… legacy of apartheid which defiles every aspects of South African life, sometimes in ways which even we, the natives of … among the nations of the world. In…
EventTwo actors, Athol Fugard and Zakes Mokae arrive in Cape Town to stage a play on the 'Colour-bar'
… which had a cast of only two characters, a White and African. The play was staged at Labia Theatre, Cape Town on … (Mokae) was dark-skinned. It was a second…
PlaceAnglo Boer War Museum, Bloemfontein
… events in the history of South Africa was the South African War of 1899-1902 . Although the protagonists were …
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
… General Secretary of the CPSU, The delegation of the African National Congress shares the views of all the foreign … threat of a nuclear war. It is in this…
PlaceKnysna, Garden Route- Western Province
… quietly thinking about what it means to me to be South African, a visitor to South Africa, or even African. So it seems easier to rather explain the effect…
Statement by President Mandela on receiving the report of the TRC Pretoria, 29 October 1998
… some of the harvest of what we sowed at the end of a South African famine. And in the celebration and disappointment … body politic;indeed the millions who…
Address by President Nelson Mandela at a breakfast meeting of the Foreign Correspondents Association 24 April 1995
… Loyalties were premised on racial factors. Being South African filled many with shame. Destruction of the state was … made, cannot subtract from the sea…
Memorandum of the National Committee for Liberation. London, mid-1963
… in excess of 150 persons waiting the end of [the Central African] Federation with a view to returning to South Africa. … appreciated-especially in relation…
Address at the Opening of the 24th General Assembly of the World Veterans Federation, 1 December 2003
… the trauma of war. Even as we speak there are a number of African countries that are not at peace. As with all military … legacy includes the anti-personnel…
Address at the Opening Ceremony of the 16 Days of Activism Campaign, Motherwell, 25 November 2004.
… fabric of our society. We must ensure that every South African makes an informed choice whether they are prepared to … and defeat of crime. As we all know,…
60. Congress and the Non-European Co-operation Conference, 1927
… Surendra Bhana and Bridglal Pachai Even though the South African Indian Congress was committed to a racially defined … by them, not exceeding three, as…
Conservative Revolutionaries - Anti-Apartheid Activism at the University of Cape Town 1963-1973 by Robert Erbmann, Oxford University, 2005
… in one of the last bastions of racist settler rule, South African English speaking society was heavily influenced by … 1963 and 1973 is an important part of…
PlaceAlgoa Bay, East Coast of Cape of Good Hope
… to Algoa bay. Algoa bay is a wide inlet along the South African, East Coast of the Cape of Good Hope. It is bounded … New Dictionary of South African Place…
ArchiveStaffrider Vol.10 No.1 1992
… Stinking System by Gamakhulu Diniso, Realism and the African Novel by Mbulelo Vizikhungo Mzamane, A new Beginning …