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EventThe North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) is founded.
… The North Atlantic Treaty Organisation was formed at the end of World War II. European countries needed insurance and security against The Soviet Union…
PlaceUniversity of the Free State, Main building, Bloemfontein
… The cornerstone of the building was laid on 19 December 1907 by Sir Hamilton … Gould-Adams, and was officially opened on 16 October 1909. The North and South…
EventUN warns Africa of the scourge of HIV
… The United Nations states in Addis Adaba that more than eighty million Africans may die from Aids by 2025. The numbers could soar to ninety million, or more…
ArchiveStrategies of Repression in the State of Emergency
… Article by the United Democratic Front on the State of Emergency and the counter-revolutionary forces in the townships. … Strategies of Repression in the…
EventTwelve Africans are acquitted at the Supreme Court
… Twelve Africans on trial at the Supreme Court in Grahamstown, accused of having conspired … to take over a town and kill Whites, were acquitted on the charge…
For Africanisation of the Party Letter from Moses M Kotane in Cradock to Johannesburg District Party Committee dated February 23, 1934.
… South African Communist Party 1934 For Africanisation of the Party Letter from Moses M Kotane in Cradock to … Editorial Note: The Independent African…
ArchiveReflections on the political situation in South Africa
… Opening address by the Chairperson of the Natal Indian Congress at the 57th Annual Congress of the National Union of South … Reflections on the political…
ArchiveMinutes of the 2nd General Students Council
… Minutes of the SASO Meeting including the Agenda, Members of the Executive Committee for 1970/1971, Resolutions and … Minutes of the 2nd General Students…
Presidents address to the 51st NUSAS Congres
… Address by the President of the National Union of South African Students to the 51st Congress of the National Union, University of Natal, … Presidents…
ArchiveThe Chairman and Comrades ANC SA Consultative Conference ...
… Address by leader of the South African Congress of Trade Unions to the African National Congress Conference in Morogoro, Tanzania. Speaks about the virtual…
ArchiveThe Ten Point Programme: a review of ten years
… Paper delivered by Dr G H Gool, Chairman of the Anti-CAD and Vice-President of the Non-European Unity Movement, at the conference of the All-African…
ArchiveNational detainees day: public meeting: free the children
… White, red and black poster. Notice of a meeting at the Central Methodist Church, Pritchard Street, Johannesburg on the 12th March. List of speakers. Issued…
ArchiveFacts 2: Covering The Wages Commissions: how they started
… Fact sheet giving information about the origin, purpose and activities of the Wages Commissions which had been established on the five campuses affiliated to…
Place'Amphlett', a Hill Which Forms Part of the Drakensberg
… Hill on the Ridge, leading to 'Cathkin Peak', in the Drakensburg, some 50 km West of Escourt. Named after GT Amphlett who was the President of the local…
ArchiveThe expresion Bloody Boer cannot be without significance
… Statement by the Honourable Prime Minister, Comrade R.G. Mugabe, at the opening session of the International Conference on children,repression and the … The…
EventEfforts to End the Anglo Boer War fail
… meets with General Louis Botha in an effort to end the Anglo-Boer War, but Botha finds the British conditions unacceptable. The battle of Wolwekuil is fought…
ArchiveLetter from Oliver Tambo to the NEC Secretariat
… Letter from Oliver Tambo to the NEC Secretariat regarding the NWC agenda, giving the Zambian Security adequate notice of the ANC's intention … Letter from…
EventMiners strike at the Van Rhyn Deep mines
… 2,800 South African miners embark on a strike at the Van Rhyn Deep mines in a bid to redress some of their grievances. Located at Vanrhynsdorp, the mines…
Document 18 - Letter from S. P. Bunting to the South African Federation of NativeTrade Unions, 20 September 1930
… by Allison Drew Document 18 - Letter from S. P. Bunting to the South African Federation of NativeTrade Unions, 20 … September 20th 1930. The S…
ArchiveOpening address to the 56th NUSAS Congress
… Opening address at the 56th Annual Congress of the National Union of South African Students, Durban, … November 1978. Refers, inter alia, to challenges faced…
ArchiveResistance politics will never be the same again...
… Article by the United Democratic Front on the seven-month state of emergency, leaders who were in … gone underground to avoid detention were re-emerging and…
ArchiveStatement of the South African Council of Churches
… containing a statement by various church bodies including the South African Council of Churches, the Christian Institute, IDAMASA, the World Council of…
ArchiveDecember 16 to 26: Xmas against the emergency
… an image of a mans hand in a fist; holding barbed wire and the logos of NECC, SACC, UDF and COSATU on the fingers. The other image of people behind prison…
ArticleTowards a people’s culture - Art and Resistance under Apartheid
… Art in the state of siege The Sharpeville Massacre was one of the … from the 1960s to the 1990s gave rise to a number of schools of thought on the role of…
EventManilal Gandhi leads a resistance group across the Natal
… Certificate given to active supporters of the Passive Resistance Campaign During the Defiance Campaign, Manilal Gandhi leads a batch of Passive Resistors…
EventThe United States shuts its embassy in Nairobi
… The United States (US) shut down its embassy in Nairobi, Kenya, after a terrorist threat. Following the threat, the US and British governments warned their…
ArchiveBriefing by Mr D Simpson, Head of the State D
… African office in London where Mr Simpson explained the context of talks with the Soviet Union in December 1982 and that the Soviet Union would lilke to see…
ArchiveBantu Education: Yet another assault on the people!
… Call to the people to adopt the policy of the All-African Convention and oppose Bantu Education. … Bantu Education: Yet another assault on the people! …
ArticleAlbertina Sisulu Timeline 1918 - 2011
… 1918 21 October Nontsikelelo Thethiwe was born in the village Camama in the Tsomo district of the Transkei to a … left for Mariazell College in Matatiele in…
ArchiveUnity Movement members charged under the Terrorism Act
… Statement by the Unity Movement on the political trials of members of the movement who had been arrested and charged. … Unity Movement members charged under…