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PlaceNewlands Cricket Stadium
… Newlands hosted its first test match in March 1889, only five years after test cricket was first … - easily a record at the time. England won at Newlands in…
EventParliament convenes to consider the resignation of President Thabo Mbeki
… The defeat of the FF Plus motion paved way for the voting in of the new president by parliament through secret ballot … 11 cabinet ministers and three deputy…
EventCODESA’s starting date is set
… from twenty groups agreed, after preparatory talks in Johannesburg, on a date for the start of substantive … a Democratic South Africa (CODESA). Its' opening…
ArticleWalter Sisulu Timeline 1912-2003
… 1912 18 May, Walter Ulyate Max Sisulu is born in Engcobo District in the Transkei, in the same year, the … version of Marcus Garvey’s Pan-African liberation…
The Boerenvereenigingen: precursor to the Afrikaner Bond
… In the 1870s a series of farming associations emerged in the Cape, both in the west and in the east. While both … of the movement, encouraged the development…
ArticleBiography of Lindiwe Mabuza by Kayla Johansen
… Born : 1939, Newcastle, Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal) In Summary : Poet, African National Congress Chief … Mabuza had a childhood no different from the majority…
Chapter IV - A meaningful life
… was a new decade. I did not know what it would bring to us in South Africa. The 1950s had come and gone, leaving great … They were resettled on bare,…
Article1967 Terrorism Act, No. 83 of 1967
… Terrorism Act reported abuse by police forces. Others died in detention. As law professor John Dugard wrote in 1978: … 1968, 54, 60-62; Carlson, 1973: 170…
Interview with Africa Report by Oliver Tambo, 01 March 1981, New York
… The wrath of the people is growing and certainly in time, there will be more than 20 policemen and soldiers … liberals, the Pan Africanist Congress, Inkatha,…
Congress of the People - I was there
… liberation of their country from the yoke of apartheid. In the Freedom Charter they set out the details of the kind … the country comprising the African…
PlaceIziko South African Maritime Centre
… The Iziko South African (SA) Maritime Centre opened in 1990. It is based at the … , Western Cape. The museum provides a history of shipping in the City and…
Kora: A Lost Khoisan Language of the early Cape and the Gariep by Menán du Plessis - Acknowledgement
… my way from members of the Koranna and Griqua community in Bloemfontein in whose midst the book was first conceived; … Hippisley, Mel Coffee, Carol Wilcher,…
Speech by Oliver Tambo at the meeting of Representatives of the parties and movements participating in the celebration of the 70th anniversary of the “Great October Socialist Revolution”, Moscow, 4-5 November 1987
… Representatives of the parties and movements participating in the celebration of the 70th anniversary of the “Great …
Testimony of the Rev. Samuel Jacobus Brander, the Rev. Joshua Mphothleng Mphela, and Stephen Nguato of the Ethiopian Catholic Church in Zion, before the South African Native Affairs Commission, October 4, 1904 [Extracts]
… (Published in Minutes of Evidence, South African Native Affairs … and Stephen Nguato of the Ethiopian Catholic Church in Zion, before the South African…
Toast Remarks of the President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki, at the Official Dinner in Honour of HE Kofi Annan, Secretary General of the United Nations, Tuynhuys, Cape Town, 14 March 2006
… of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki, at the Official Dinner in Honour of HE Kofi Annan, Secretary General of the United …
Statement of the President of the Republic of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki at the Commemoration of the 10th Anniversary of the Commencement of the 1994 Genocide in Rwanda, Kigali 7 April 2004
… 10th Anniversary of the Commencement of the 1994 Genocide in Rwanda, Kigali 7 April 2004 …
Toast Remarks by the President of South Africa, T Mbeki, at the Official Banquet in Honour of President Abdelaziz Bouteflika of the People’s Democratic Republic of Algeria: Presidential Guest House, Pretoria, 5 October 2004
… of South Africa, T Mbeki, at the Official Banquet in Honour of President Abdelaziz Bouteflika of the People’s …
Fortieth Anniversary of the 1946 Mine Strike
… by the South African Communist Party to South Africa's Black Mine Workers Published by the South African Communist … the African National Congress, paid a…
PlaceThe SAS Somerset Museum
… during World War II and is the only ship of its kind still in existence. The ship was previously called Ship No 280, since 15 April 1941, when it was built…
74. The Freedom Charter, 1955
… Freedom Charter embodying the hopes and aspirations of the black people. The aim of the Congress was to publicise the Freedom Charter and thus awaken…
2012 ANC National Policy Conference: Statement by the head of the ANC NEC policy sub-committee on the release of Policy Discussion documents, 05 March 2012
… will form the basis of our policy conference to be held in June this year. I am joined here by the chairpersons of … context of these documents is that they…
ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 1940-1949
… In the 1940s the ANC rejuvenated itself and began to work … for government to “abolish the colour bar and enable the black peoples of South Africa to play…
Eye of the Needle - Chapter 8 - The Impracticality of Realism
… Certain kinds of social institutions make people unfree in themselves by subjecting them to hidden conditioning … all other things will remain equal: that…
Conservative Revolutionaries - Anti-Apartheid Activism at the University of Cape Town 1963-1973 by Robert Erbmann, Oxford University, 2005
… 1960s are often described as a unique period of activism, in which students were to find themselves at the cutting edge … context of being 'the seedbed in…
Insurrections III: The Storming
… national and political storms. The event is curated by the SA History Online in association with the Centre for Humanities Research at the … as much as you…
PlaceTsitsikamma National Park, Eastern Cape
… known as: ' the Garden Route '. This region is found in the Southern Cape of South Africa. The Park incorporates … for their survival. Cormorants, Kelp Gulls…
South African Youth Revolutionary Council (SAYRCO)
… by some student leaders who were actively involved in organizing the event. Other student leaders were critical … criticised by political formations…
EventDeath in detention of Imam Haron
… Imam Haron was born on the 8th February 1924 in Claremont, Cape Town. He was influenced by the various progressive political trends in South Africa and…
Neville Alexander interviewed by Rupert Taylor and Adam Habib,25 April 1998, Cape Town
… own conceptions of what they feel the conflict was about in South Africa, and who they think the major protagonists … strata of the working class, with the…
Oliver Tambo interview to Sechaba, 01 March 1976
… of liberation movements bound by the same objectives in their struggle. The victory of these liberation movements … several times. Even more significantly,…