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Dr Petrus Stephanus Zacharias Coetzee, first assessor of the Dutch Reformed Church (DRC), is born at Blaauboschfontein, Boshof
… Human & Rousseau | Kruger, D.W. (ed)(1972). Dictionary of South African Biography, Cape Town: Human Sciences … Dr Petrus Stephanus Zacharias Coetzee, first…
The Minister of Bantu Administration and Development leaves Malawi after a four-day visit during which cooperation between nati
… The Minister of Bantu Administration and Development leaves Malawi after a …
Crucial Stage in the Struggle for Liberation of Southern Africa - Statement at the World Conference for Action against Apartheid by O. R. Tambo, Lagos, Nigeria, 23 August 1977
… Distinguished guests and delegates, In the evolution of mankind, humanity came to realise that life for each one of us can be full only if it is based on the…
ArticleCape Town Timeline 1300-1997
… Photograph of a Khoisan lady. Source: unknown 1300-1599 c.1300-c.1500 … the Dutch as "Herry". He is later returned to the Cape to act as the resident agent…
From Segregation to Apartheid
… achieved by the White minority in the first four decades of the 20th century were, by the 1940s, increasingly under … crisis was brought to a head by the…
ArticleThe Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) 1995
… After the end of apartheid, as well as the release of political prisoners in the early 90s and the country’s … under the Promotion of National Unity and…
ArticleHigh Farce in the House
… an NPP minister signed a bill favouring the Group Areas Act because he wanted to leave the chamber, which remained … proved to be a corrupt politician:…
ArticleCato Manor timeline 1650-2007
… are replaced by the Ntuli clan - it is unclear what became of the Ntuli clan 1843 George Cato, the first Durban mayor, … sell plots to Indian market…
Chapter 14
… at disruption The farcical elections were over. Most of the old M.R.C.s had been returned to the dummy council, … all men irrespective of race, colour or…
EventRhodes statue removed at UCT
… Maxwele’s radical protest through a political performance of throwing human excrement at the statue of Cecil John Rhodes situated on Rugby Road of the campus…
Chapter 3
… The Formation of the All-African Convention: The Background In 1935 the … the three "Native"Bills. This they did in 1936 (Native Representation Bill and the…
EventCar bomb explodes outside Air Force headquarters
… On the afternoon of 20 May 1983, two African National Congress (ANC) cadres, … in Pretoria and parked their vehicle in close vicinity of the building which…
EventSecurity Council examines violence in South Africa
… At the instigation of a letter titled the Question of South Africa from the Charge D'affaires of the permanent … such as Bantu Holomisa and Lucas Mangope to…
Statement by Oliver Tambo on death sentences passed on three members of ANC and Umkhonto We Sizwe, 20 August 1981
… their opposition to the racist and colonial domination of the people of South Africa by an increasingly fascist white minority. … these police statements,…
PHOTOGRAPHY REVIEW; Apartheid, Reflected in an Inventory of Simple Objects by Sarah Boxer (The New York Times), 24 July 1998
… to become a photographer in 1962. But the pictures he made of the nation under apartheid suggest that there was one … in the rag trade he refused to leave…
Address to the nation by ANC President, Nelson R. Mandela, on the assassination of Martin Thembisile (Chris) Hani 10 April 1993
… has been committed. The calculated, cold-blooded murder of Chris Hani is not just a crime against a dearly beloved son of our soil. It is a crime against all…
Document 47 - “International Communist League Formed in South Africa”, International Bulletin of the International Communist League, New Series, 2, September 1934
… League Formed in South Africa", International Bulletin of the International Communist League, New Series, 2, … letter from our newly constituted Communist…
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 … and other left-wing members who had been driven…
Statement at the Launch of the "Nelson Mandela: Freedom at 70" Campaign by O. R. Tambo, Wembley Stadium, London, 11 June 1988
… Archbishop Trevor Huddleston, Dear friends of the British Anti-Apartheid Movement, Esteemed cultural … workers and artists, Dear friends, youth and…
Address by President Jacob Zuma at the launch of COP 17 Legacy Projects in Groutville, Kwazulu-Natal, 08 December 2011
… Deputy Ministers, Mayors and councilors, Representatives of United Nations agencies, Representatives of the private sector, Good afternoon to you all. We…
Speech at the Final Conference of International Defence and Aid Fund for Southern Africa by O . R. Tambo, London, 24 May 1991
… Participants at the tenth and Final Conference of the International Defence and Aid Fund for Southern … African National Congress and indeed for all the…
Address by President Nelson Mandela on the occasion of the president’s budget debate in the National Assembly 20 June 1996
… Quite often, our national parliament has become the centre of attention. But alas, not seldom this has been for the … personally convinced that the session…
I have written it by E.S. Reddy & Fatima Meer - International Support: UNO - 1946
… From the book: Passive Resistance 1946 - A Selection of Documents compiled by E.S. Reddy & Fatima Meer United … in recent enactment of Asiatic Land Tenure…
Address by President Mandela at the opening of the 36th Annual World Boxing Council Convention Johannesburg, 26 October 1998
… champion, which I never achieved, is to have the privilege of opening a prestigious annual boxing convention. I thank … and you may need to exercise all the…
Address by President Jacob Zuma to the Indian community Mount Edgecombe, Durban, KwaZulu-Natal, 18 April 2014
… The Minister of Justice and Constitutional Development, Mr Jeff Radebe, … Broad Based Black Economic Empowerment, Employment Equity Act and others, we…
ArchiveFrom the margins to the mainstream: the anti-apartheid movement and the politics of agenda-setting in the United States
… School, New Brunswick, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey in partial fulfillment of requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy Graduate…
Letter to Sir Geoffrey Howe, United Kingdom Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs by O. R. Tambo, 21 July 1986
… H.E. Sir Geoffrey Howe Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs London. Sir Geoffrey, I am most grateful for your kind letter of 18 July…
EventOne-fifth of SA’s military infected with HIV virus, so HIV positive people are no longer accepted into their ranks
… It was announced that at least one-fifth of South Africa's military was infected with the HIV virus … 1999 the SANDF reportedly stopped donating blood…
EventGovernment declares that five ‘non-White’ South African University Colleges will be entities separate from the University of South Africa
… be released from their association with the University of South Africa (UNISA). Henceforth the University College of Fort Hare, University College of Durban…
ArchiveLeadership and conflict in Bushbuckridge: struggles to define moral economics with the context of rapidly transforming political economies (1978-1990)
… Thesis has been submitted for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy at the University of the Witswatersrand. This thesis analyses the effects of … struggles to…