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January 8th Statements -Statement of the National Executive Committee on the occasion of the 90th Anniversary of the ANC - 8 January 2002
… Fellow South Africans: On the occasion of the 90th Anniversary of … and best wishes to you, to the peoples of Africa and the world. Together we have…
BiographyDr. Pholile Mpofu
… as a dermatologist through the College of Medicine in South Africa. … First Black women to qualify as a dermatologist in South Africa …
EventBattle of Vaalkrans begins
… Among the reasons for the South African War (Anglo- Boer War), 1899 - 1902, was that … also very skilled at guerrilla warfare, introducing the world to the…
BiographyBenson Tsele
… of military, political and physical training to return to South Africa, train recruits and help revive the underground … from the ever alert patrolling…
ANC Youth League Manifesto 1944
… their rightful and honourable place among nations of the world; AND WHEREAS African Youth must be united, … foundations of the said Youth League. STATEMENT…
Passive Resistance 1946 - A Selection of Documents compiled by E.S. Reddy & Fatima Meer - Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru
… Reddy & Fatima Meer Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru condemns the South African Government Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, commenting … in South Africa, but in Asia as a…
Intensify the Revolution by O. R. Tambo The 'Morogoro Conference', Morogoro, Tanzania, 25 April – 1 May 1969
… Enemies Our immediate enemies, the white fascist regime in South Africa, are an important and integral part of the … economic and military dominance over the…
ArchiveCourt Transcript of statement from the Dock of Nelson Mandela, Pretoria Supreme Court, 20 April 1964
… made by the State in its opening that the struggle in South Africa is under the influence of foreigners or … races of this country which is not produced even…
PlaceZonderwater
… one another! The Prison was once the largest prisoner of war camps by the Allies! Zonderwater was set up in 1941, during World War II, specifically for…
OAU-AU 50th Anniversary Lecture by ANC President Jacob Zuma East London, 26 October 2013
… emancipated continent at peace with itself and the world. This was a profound vision of a united Africa, totally … of peace-greater and more abiding than the…
EventSA Journalist James Gray is born
… South African journalist, newspaper proprietor and former … Evening Despatch and was wounded three times in the First World War before joining the…
Chapter 1: Introduction
… important aspect is why this period was so important in South African history and how it fits into the general … KwaZulu-Natal became an indication that the…
EventThe Second Battle of El Alamein starts
… B.L. Montgomery, the new commander of the Eighth Army in World War 2, initiated a second attack at El Alamein, a town in northern Egypt on the Mediterranean…
Into the Fifties: Defiance by Norman Levy
… opened with a wave of anti-communist legislation in which South Africa proved to be prominent but not alone. From the end of 1946 onwards, the Cold War…
Chapter 1 - Introduction
… From: The South African Communist Party In Exile 1963 - 1990 On 10 … This Constitution is one of the most advanced in the world, establishing a…
Book 6: Negotiation, Transition and Freedom - Chapter 1 - The Transition in Context by Christopher Saunders
… liberation, is one of the most important turning points in South Africa’s history. To establish what kind of turning … occurred relatively rapidly and…
BiographyDora Tamana
… many tasks demanded of a young girl growing up in rural South Africa. Tamana and her four sisters had to help work on their … Dora Tamana Biography: South…
UCT Summer School 2020
… will be offered at the 2020 UCT Summer School. Local and South African History MASSACRE ON THE FRONTIERS DURING THE … of European expansion, in particular…
ArticleRustenburg Timeline 1850-2001
… year. A treaty with the English is ratified to avert civil war. The Sand River Convention. 1853 Rustenburg’s first shop … a meeting in Rustenburg decide to…
BiographyPoomoney Moodley
… inherent in the political and economic system in South Africa, she quickly became involved in the most significant … pretty often and to the other living…
BiographyNoria Mabasa
… was born May 10, 1938 in Xigalo in the Limpopo Province in South Africa. She received formal education for only one year, … her the first black woman, and…
Appeal for action against Apartheid - Statement issued jointly by Chief Albert Luthuli and Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr,10 December 1962
… from every continent. That Declaration was an appeal to South Africa to bring its policies into line with the … Nations. The Declaration was a good start in…
Passive Resistance 1946 - A Selection of Documents compiled by E.S. Reddy & Fatima Meer - Foreword
… ushered in a glorious decade of liberation struggle in South Africa culminating in the adoption of the Freedom … United Front which was born on the eve of…
ArticleDurban Timeline 1497-1990
… East India Company ship Stavemisse was grounded some 112km south of the Bay of Natal. Forty-seven of the survivors … Terrace, where many of the casualties…
ArchiveChapter 3 University by Denis Goldberg
… big corporations and rose to the rank of captain in the South African Air Force during World War Two. He served in North Africa and Italy and on being …
Address at the French National Assembly Paris, 18 November 2003
… to be free, that dared to act boldly, to create a new world. We too have dared to absorb them into our own … the sincere sentiments of friendship of the…
EventSpecial Committee on Apartheid publishes its first Interim Report
… had broken off diplomatic and commercial relations with South Africa. The Committee also noted with regret that close … contested elections of 1948 following…
ArticleDrafting of the Final Constitution
… dispensation was a powerful and fundamental process for South Africans. With many hardships, violence and struggles … conducted (which was to agree on…
"United Nations must take Action to Destroy Apartheid": Statement at the Meeting of the Special Political Committee of the United Nations General Assembly by O. T. Tambo, New York, 29 October, 1963
… you and this Committee for this opportunity. In South Africa, since the earliest days of white rule, our … of organs of State, it is the governments of…
Extract from a speech by the Honourable the Prime Minister during the Cape National Party Congress at East London on 3 September 1975
… Vorster also referred to a few of the problems confronting South Africa. He considered it necessary to emphasise again … wrench themselves free in Africa and…