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EventClarence Makwetu announces the PAC’s suspension of its armed struggle
… activity officially limited to government-appointed bodies in the homelands, young people sought alternative means to … PAC and ANC respectively. The armed…
EventGeneral Lothar Neethling sues Vrye Weekblad and the Weekly Mail
… 5 million. The lawsuit was sparked by newspaper reports in which former police captain Dirk Coetzee alleged that … on anti-apartheid activists. Justice…
Toast Remarks of the President of the Republic of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki, at the State Banquet in honour of the President of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, Hugo Chávez, Tshwane, 2 September 2008
… of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki, at the State Banquet in honour of the President of the Bolivarian Republic of …
Toast remarks by the President of South Africa, Mr Thabo Mbeki, at the State banquet in honour of President Sellapan Ramanathan of the Republic of Singapore, Presidential Guest House, Tshwane, 19 April 2007
… of South Africa, Mr Thabo Mbeki, at the State banquet in honour of President Sellapan Ramanathan of the Republic of …
Remarks by President Thabo Mbeki at the Consultative Meeting of African Governors on Voice and Participation of Developing and Transition Countries in the Bretton Woods Institutions: Sandton Convention Centre, Johannesburg, 12 March 2004
… and Participation of Developing and Transition Countries in the Bretton Woods Institutions: Sandton Convention Centre, …
Toast Remarks of the President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki, at the State Banquet in honour of the President of the Republic of Botswana, His Excellency, Festus Mogae, Cape Town, 25 October 2005
… of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki, at the State Banquet in honour of the President of the Republic of Botswana, His …
ArchiveZuma's rape accuser questioned (BBC News), 07 March 2006
… President Jacob Zuma of rape is being cross-examined in court. The judge has agreed to the defence's request to … the woman. Under cross-examination by the…
Maqubela and Dyandyi are sentenced for necklacing
… Maqubela and Neliswa Nohnuhna Dyantyi Busika, accused in a necklace trial in Stutterheim, Eastern Cape, and found guilty of public … human rights abuses that…
EventMandela reshuffles the cabinet
… Keys from the private sector when he joined the government in 1994. He was replaced by Trevor Manuel who was then the …
ArticleCulture and Resistance Conference, Botswana, 1982
… hundred artists and activists from South Africa living in exile and within the country, as well as foreign … nationals, were hosted by the Botswana National…
EventNP demands apology from TRC
… In a letter to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC), … ordered the elimination of state opponents. De Klerk, in his earlier applications to the TRC,…
EventFifty killed over three days during Inkatha
… Fifty people were killed over three days in battles between Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) and United Democratic Front (UDF) supporters in Natal, South Africa,…
Freedom Part to Host Ken Oosterbroek Legacy Exhibition
… and João Silva documented the bloody chaos that took place in South African townships in the early 1990s. In memory of Oosterbroek, who was … supporters of…
JANAM People’s Theatre Group Tour!
… seeks to raise topical issues and engage participants in critical debate towards action for change. Street theatre … a dynamic example of popular pedagogy…
Document 58 - Letter from the Communist League of South Africa to the Workers’ Party of South Africa, 18 February 1936
… International Movement would be enormously strengthened in this country if we combined our efforts. There can be no doubt that the original split in our…
ArticleThe San
… The San, the first people in South Africa The earliest hunter-gatherers in southern Africa were the San people. The San were also … (DF Bleek: 1956). South…
ArticleMangosuthu Buthelezi: the Zulu nationalist who left his mark on South Africa’s history
… Mangosuthu Gatsha Buthelezi played a prominent role in South African politics for almost half a century. He was … segregation under apartheid. As Minister…
EventPretoria is proposed as the new capital of ZAR
… Transvaal, was transferred from Potchefstroom to Pretoria in 1860. With the city becoming the capital, it marked the … capital when the Union of South Africa…
EventThe Government Gazette publishes a Proclamation that dissolved KaNgwane Legislative Assembly
… the South African government conceded another legal defeat in its attempts to transfer the KaNgwane 'homeland' to … dissolving the Legislative Assembly of…
EventSouth Africa’s TRC begins its formal hearings into Human Rights Violations
… Archbishop Desmond Tutu, began its first formal hearings in East London City Hall. The South African TRC was set up by … of National Unity (the democratic…
Address at the University of The State of Bahia Brazil, 14 December 2000
… his views as ordained truths and deemed himself to be in sole and exclusive possession of the ultimate truth, … logical fantasy... buffoonery pretending to…
Media briefing statement by ANC National Chairperson, Comrade Baleka Mbete, following the occasion of the Republic of South Sudans 9th July Independence Day Celebrations
… for our delegation that reminded us of our own 27 April 1994 - Freedom Day - and 10 May 1994 when Comrade Nelson Mandela was inaugurated as the first … as…
PlaceDwarsvlei Farm, Karoo
… but it is believed the Farm 'Dwarsvlei', was established in the middle of the 19th Century. The first Homestead, has … was born on the 23rd April 1857 on the…
References and links: Local History
… Carolina Press. McMahan E. M. (ed), Rogers K. M. (ed) 1994. Interactive Oral History Interviewing. New Jersey: … Kruger's Pretoria: Buildings and…
PlaceSomalia
… vying for power. The arrival of European Colonists in the late 19th Century led to the division of Somalia … creating a short-lived ‘Italian African Empire’…
PlaceSarepta
… river Rhine) was one of the largest Missionary Societies in Germany. Formed from smaller Missions founded as far back … a Century, changing over to the…
EventThree AWB members shot and killed during the invasion of Bophuthatswana
… On 11 March 1994 hundreds of Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging … members drove into Bophuthatswana, a Bantustan homeland in the north western region of South…
EventInkatha Freedom Party boycotts parliament
… (IFP) announced the suspension of its active participation in both chambers of parliament and in the constitution-making process. IFP leader Chief Gatsha ……
EventChief Mangosuthu Buthelezi calls for National Convention
… Buthelezi, called for a National Convention of all races in South Africa to make a decision on the country's future … United Party (UP) and the Progressive…
EventSouth Africa’s first democratic elections
… struggle, the first democratic election was held in South Africa on the 27th April, 1994. This election changed the history of South Africa. It ……