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EventThe MK and ZIPRA formally announce that they had formed a military alliance
… [Accessed: 16 August 2013] |Mwakikagile Godfrey (2009), ‘Africa 1960-1970 Chronicles and Analysis ’ , (New Africa Press), p. 518 …
EventSADF responds to allegations by FAPLA
Following a press conference of General Staff Lieutenant-Colonel Antonio dos Santos Franca Ndalu, Chief of ForÁƒÂƒÂ§as Armadas Populares de LibertaÁƒÂƒÂ§ÁƒÂƒ£o…
EventNelson Mandela is acquitted of high treason
Nelson Mandela, leader of the Transvaal branch of the African National Congress (ANC), was acquitted of treason charges after a four year long trial. Mandela…
EventCelebrated nurse, Constance Nothard, is born
Constance Annie Nothard, nursing sister and recipient of the Florence Nightingale Medal, the highest award of the International Red Cross Society, was born in…
ArchiveAlliance paper: the alliance in the Western Cape
Assessment on the alliance in the Western Cape between the African National Congress, the South African Communist Party and the Congress of South African Trade…
EventFEDSAW Western Cape Region launched
… Cape Region launched on 29 August 1987’ , from South Africa: Overcoming apartheid Building Democracy , [online], …
EventProposal for a new constitution
Minister of Constitutional Development, Gerrit Viljoen on 27 August 1990 said that negotiations for a new South African constitution should begin in 1991 and…
EventPresident Mbeki opens the second sitting of PAP
The South African state president, Thabo Mbeki, opened the second sitting of the Pan African Parliament (PAP) for the first time at its new permanent seat, the…
ArchiveReport of meeting with HM
Report from H. Makgothi to the African National Congress National Executive Committee on a meeting with Ntatho Motlana, regarding the South African political…
Resignation of Cde Zweli Mkhize a Premier of Kwazulu-Natal, 22 August 2013
The African National Congress is grateful to Comrade Dr Zweli Mkhize for the immeasurable role he has played as Premier of KwaZulu-Natal since 2009. Comrade…
ArchiveMeeting between the Honorable R F Botha, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Ambassador H Nickel of the United States: Cape Town, 12 March 1984
Minutes of a meeting between the South African Foreign Affairs Minister, Pik Botha and the American Ambassador, Mr H Nickel, about a statement made by the…
Chapter 5
The Significance of the All-African Convention Notwithstanding the temporary vicissitudes, which overtook the Convention, the indubitable fact remains that the…
EventPhakisa Freeway opens
… |Phakisa Freeway, https://www.racingcircuits.info/africa/south-africa/phakisa-freeway/#.WIsgklN96Uk …
From Durban Falkirk to Defy: Changing sources of workers’ power in the metal industry by Andries Bezuidenhout and Edward Webster
… stage begins in the 1990s with globalization and South Africa embrace of neo–liberal economic orthodoxy. Defy …
PlaceBalfour, near Johannesburg
… Manor – the architectural landmark built by one of South Africa's greatest architects – both of which lie quietly in …
PlaceCango Caves, Oudtshoorn
… from the 1980s. They were somewhere near the tip of South Africa in the Cango Valley, a region streaked with outcrops …
PlaceNelson Mandela University, in Gqeberha
… EQUITABLE AND EFFICIENT SYSTEM TO MEET THE NEEDS OF SOUTH AFRICA IN THE 21ST CENTURY! NMMU brings this together in the …
PlacePort Shepstone, South Coast of KZN
… largest Towns of the KwaZulu Natal South Coast in South Africa . Port Shepstone is a popular tourist destination and … largest Towns of the KwaZulu Natal…
Mission Stations - G-H
… were nearly eight hundred miles deep in the interior of Africa, I could not but look upon every object of their … that Christianity had advanced thus far…
EventKwame Nkrumah is released from jail
Kwame Nkrumah was arrested for leading a disturbing ‘positive action’ campaign in Ghana against British rule in 1950. He was released to lead the newly formed…
EventJames La Guma dies
James Arnold (Jimmy) La Guma, trade unionist and political activist, member of the South African Communist Party (SACP) and president of the South African…
EventAbolition of Internal Security Act
The multiparty negotiating forum agreed to repeal section 29 of the Internal Security Act (ISA), which allowed for detention without trial. This measure had…
EventApartheid bomb kills Zimbabwean and injures six ANC members
… Stanford.edu , ‘The State outside South Africa between 1960 and 1990’ [online] Available at …
EventLouis Raymond, an Olympic tennis singles gold medalist is born
Louis Bosman Raymond was born in Pretoria on 1 January 1895.[i] Raymond won a gold medal in the men’s singles at the Olympic Games in 1920, hosted in Antwerp,…
EventTwo rival movements merge in Zimbabwe
Two rival political organisations in Zimbabwe, the Ndebele-dominated Zimbabwe African People's Union (ZAPU), led by Joshua Nkomo, and the Shona-dominated…
ArticleThe Pietermaritzburg Treason Trial, 1984
Context In the early 1980s the government took steps to control the level of resistance in the country. Its solution was to arrest key people and charge…
Author uncovers Gandhi’s links with early ANC leaders by Anelisa Kubheka (Daily News), 02 March 2012, Durban
Research done by a New Delhi advocate and author has shown that Gandhi had close ties and friendships with some of the ANC’s early presidents when he was still…
ADDRESS AT THE UNVEILING OF THE COAT OF ARMS, Kwaggafontein, 27 April 2000
Today, on our Freedom Day, we are also gathered here to unveil yet another symbol of our national identity, our new Coat of Arms that now stands before us for…
EventIndian people march in Durban to protest against the Ghetto Act
A 6 000 strong march supporting the South African Indian Congress resolution for Passive Resistance against the Asiatic Land Tenure Act, or Ghetto Act takes…
EventReginald (Reg) September, prominent trade unionist and anti-apartheid activist, is born
Reginald 'Reg' September was a prominent trade unionist, the leader of the South African Coloured People's Organization and an executive member of the South…