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EventMarcus Garvey, Jamaican-born Black nationalist who advocated the departure of African-Americans back to Africa, is born.
… as a young man developed a love for reading. At the age of 14, Garvey went left for Kingston to work in a printing … where some years later he was elected…
Hugh Masekela: the horn player with a shrewd ear for the music of today, not yesterday, 29 October 2017
… cancelled his appearance at the recent Johannesburg Joy of Jazz Festival and his remaining October shows, taking time … were forced to return to his recorded…
Address by President Thabo Mbeki at the Opening Ceremony of the President’s Cup 2003 Fancourt 20 November 2003
… Honorary Co-Chairman of the President’s Cup, President George Bush, President … FW de Klerk, Honourable Ministers, Distinguished Members of the President’s…
Passive Resistance 1946 - A Selection of Documents compiled by E.S. Reddy & Fatima Meer - Support from persons and Organisation - 1948
… From the book: Passive Resistance 1946 - A Selection of Documents compiled by E.S. Reddy & Fatima Meer 1948 Speech … you this information. Those Indians…
EventWorld War II: The evacuation of Allied forces from Dunkirk ends as German forces capture the beach port
… On 4 June 1940, the evacuation of Allied forces from Dunkirk ended as German forces captured … the beach port. The nine-day evacuation, the largest of its…
EventThe State President F.W. de Klerk issues a proclamation adopting the new national flag and National Anthem of SA
… In terms of section 248 (1) of the Interim 1994 Constitution, and acting on the advice of the Transitional Executive Council (TEC), former State … adopting…
Chief Albert Luthuli and the ‘gospel of service’ by Raymond Suttner (Daily Maverick), 12 March 2014, South Africa
… say that Africans are accepting fast enough the gospel of service and sacrifice for the general and larger good … dissociate me from him…” This raises an…
Timol: Salim Essop testifies of beatings, torture following arrest, News24, in Politics Web online, 27 June 2017
… Salim Essop takes centre stage during first day of inquest sitting into Ahmed Timol’s death Johannesburg – … Court in Johannesburg on Monday during the first…
EventSA experiences a monetary crisis due to the heavy drain of gold from the country during the Great Depression
… agricultural sector was hit especially hard, as the lack of demand destroyed prices on commodities that were … the mortgage on their farms and limited their…
EventWorld Food Program warns the UN that a record 38 million people are at risk of starvation in Africa
… child, woman and man to live an active life'. It is part of the United Nations (UN) program and works alongside its … and other UN partners. The WFP have…
EventHlubi Chief Langalibalele becomes one of the first Black activists to be tried and banished to Robben Island
… Drakensberg foothills, Langalibalele- a hereditary chief of the Hlubi- was summonsed to Pietermaritzburg for failure … firearms. The Hlubi had received these…
EventFormer City Press Editor Mathata Tsedu’s son is found burnt beyond recognition in the boot of his car
… The remains of Avhatakali Netshusaulu, accountant and son of the former City Press editor Mathata Tsedu, were found in the boot of his car after he had been…
EventGerman Field Marshal Erwin Rommel, famous German commander of German forces in North Africa, dies on this day
… in 1937. He was promoted major general on the eve of World War II. In 1941, with the rank of lieutenant general, he was given command of the German troops…
ArchiveComments on the financial allegations contained in the 4th interim report of the Schlebusch/le Grange Commission
… Comments by Finance Officer, elect, of the National Union of South African Students, refuting claims by the Schlebusch Commission of financial irregularities…
The non-governmental organisation Surplus People Project (SPP) says the department of land affairs should consider using expropriation
… Surplus People Project (SPP) says the department of land affairs should consider using expropriation as a part of its land reform programme. The proposal was…
A French minister, Pierre Simond, joins the Huguenots at the Cape by order of the Heeren XVII (Lords Seventeen)
… a minister at Montjoux and then at Embrun. After the edict of Nantes, which forbade the practice of the reformed Huguenot religion, he fled to Zierikzee in ……
EventEvidence found at Barberton confirms theory of life on earth as early as about 3.4 billion years ago
… geologists Michael M. Tice and Professor Donald R. Lowe of Stanford University in the United States, assisted locally … by South African geologist Nicolas…
EventNigerian terrorist, Henry Okah is found guilty of masterminding two car bombs in Abuja by a South African Judge.
… Henry Okah was the leader of a terrorist group in the Niger Delta region of Nigeria, the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND). The group…
EventUS Secretary of State Cyrus Vance travels to South Africa to promote transition to black rule in Namibia
… World War I and retained it after the war under a League of Nations mandate. In the years that followed, South Africa … passed resolution 2145 (XXI),…
Document 35 - Letter from John Gomas to the Executive Bureau, Communist Party of South Africa, 29 October 1930
… from John Gomas to the Executive Bureau, Communist Party of South Africa, 29 October 1930 Communist Party of South Africa … S. P. Bunting from the Executive…
ArchiveMemorandum presented by National Union of South African Students to the Select Committee on Certain Organisations - August 1972
… Official memorandum presented by the National Union of South African Students to the Select Committee on Certain … Organisations, including NUSAS (the…
EventThe district of Uitenhage is founded in the Eastern Cape and named after Jacob Abraham Uitenhage de Mist
… The town of Uitenhage in the Eastern Cape Province was founded when … there was a need to improve the colonial administration of the Cape areas. The new…
ArchiveDirector’s Report on the Activities of the Chris Hani Institute for the period October 2012 to September 2015
… Hani and others in their struggle to serve the aspirations of ordinary working people and the poor in Southern Africa. The CHI aims to engage in the…
EventVictor Sidney Norton, journalist and first South African-born editor of the Cape Times, dies in Cape Town
… to venture into South America, but were deterred by a bout of foot and mouth disease. The two of them got jobs at The Cape Times instead. By 1944, Norton was…
ArchiveVerwoerd lets loose terror on All-African Convention and Unity Movement of South Africa: the struggle goes on
… and the Unity Movement on the arrests and bannings of some members of these organisations. … loose terror on All-African Convention and Unity Movement of…
Peter Alroy Charles Hendrickse, ANC politician, member of parliament and Codesa delegate, is born in Uitenhage, Eastern Cape
… Peter Alroy Charles Hendrickse, ANC politician, member of parliament and Codesa delegate, is born in Uitenhage, Eastern Cape, as the son of Alan Hendrickse. …
ArchiveCommission of Inquiry into the riots at Soweto and other places in South Africa held on 1 December 1976
… Excerpts from the transcript of evidence from Mr Curry, to the Commission of Inquiry into the riots at Soweto and other places in South … Commission of…
Gender, Modernity & Indian Delights - The Women's Cultural Group of Durban, 1954 - 2010 by Goolam Vahed and Thembisa Waetjen
… 6: Bake, Jumble and Trust. Chapter 7: In the Family of Humanity . Chapter 8: Haven of our Dreams. Conclusion Notes Glossary References Index … Modernity &…
72. The Defiance Campaign, 1953
… From the book: A Documentary History of Indian South Africans edited by Surendra Bhana and … Pachai A joint planning council of the African National…
72. The Defiance Campaign, 1952
… A joint planning council of the African National Congress and the South African Indian … was the establishment of the South African Congress of Democrats, an…