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Food distribution to 350 000 Rwandan refugees in camps in Congo is suspended because of riots and thefts by machete-wielding ga
The biggest gathering of world leaders in history takes place at the United Nations Millennium Summit in New York 150 heads of
De Beers SA, the world’s largest producer of diamonds, agrees to pay $250m to settle four US class-action lawsuits that accused
BiographyMike Terry
Terry was an active member of the British Anti-Apartheid Movement (AAM), which was born in 1960 after theSharpeville Massacre and succeeded the Boycott…
Document 50 - Lenin Club, Draft Thesis: The Trade Union Question (No division On this question) (1934)
From: South Africa's Radical Tradition, a documentary history, Volume One 1907 - 1950, by Allison Drew Document 50 - Lenin Club, Draft Thesis: The Trade Union…
SPEECH BY PRESIDENT NELSON MANDELA AT THE OPENING OF THE 350TH CLINIC BUILT SINCE SOUTH AFRICA’S FIRST DEMOCRATIC ELECTION 20 September 1997
The Castillo de Bellver spills 250 000 ton of oil in the sea at Cape Town after it caught fire in Saldana Bay.
Dr. Verwoerd is buried in Hero’s Acre, Pretoria. A crowd of some 250,000 people watches the mile-long cortege on its three-mile
Anglo-Boer War 1: A Boer force of 150 men storms Majuba and drives out 400 British troops in the decisive battle of the Anglo-T
Egypt’s first Aswan Dam is unveiled 950 kilometres (590 miles) south of Cairo. The 40 meter (130ft) high Aswan Dam, designed to
Theoria: a journal of studies in the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences No.50 1978
The making of the working class: Part 14 - Resistance during the 50`s and 60`s
Address by President Thabo Mbeki at the Celebration the 50th Anniversary of the Freedom Charter, Kliptown, Johannesburg, 26 June 2005
Director of Ceremonies, Veteran volunteer organisers of the Congress of the People, Deputy President of the Republic, Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, Our dear…
The Gambia: 50 years of independence, 20 years of terror by Fatou Diagne (Pambazuka News), 17 March 2015
He claimed to be a different kind of soldier and promised not to hang on to power, and never to install a dictatorship. Who said that power corrupts and that…
Kaizer Chiefs are handed a R250 000 fine suspended for a year and a one match lock out for their next home PSL match at a disci
Merchant Jan van Riebeeck is appointed commander at the Cape at a salary of 90 Dutch guilder per year and not 150, as was his r
Minutes of the 50th Annual Congress of the National Union of South African Students, University of the Witwatersrand, 7-15 July, 1973
Minutes of the 50th Annual Congress of the National Union of South African Students, University of the Witwatersrand, 7-15 July, 1973. Includes resolutions…
Document 50 - Socialist League of Africa , “South Africa: Ten Years of the Stay-at-Home”, International Socialism, 5, Summer 1961
From: South Africa's Radical Tradition, a documentary history, Volume Two 1943 - 1964, by Allison Drew Document 50 - Socialist League of Africa , "South Africa…
BiographyGerard Bhengu
Gerard Bhengu was born on 6 September 1910 in Outstation of Mariannhill Mission Station, Centecow, Bulwer district, Southern Natal. Bhengu received his early…
Stephan Bouwer (50), author of television productions, cabarets and lyrics, dies in his sleep in Johannesburg.
Prof. Izak Daniël Bosman (50), professor of history at the University of Pretoria, dies in Pretoria.
The coup that set Ghana and Africa 50 years back by Charles Quist-Adade (Pambazuka News), 02 March 2016
Nkrumah wanted to industrialize Ghana within a generation, and everything was on course until the Americans and their British cousins used some disgruntled and…
BiographyPixie Benjamin
Pixie Benjamin was a strong anti-apartheid political activist and prisoner banned from South Africa during Apartheid. She endured harsh punishment under…
Diamonds to the worth of about £50,000 are stolen from the post office in Cape Town.
ArchiveCommemoration of the 50th Annivesary of the Natal Sabotage Trial (Little Rivonia)
Statement at the 50th Session of the OAU Coordinating Committee for the Liberation Of Africa by O. R. Tambo, Harare, 13 May 1988
Comrade Chairman, Your Excellencies, Honourable Ministers, Distinguished delegates to this historic session of the OAU Liberation Committee, Your…
BiographyBarney Barnato
Barney Barnato was born in 21 February 1851, Whitechapel slum of London. His original name was Barnett Issacs but changed it to Barney Barnatto when he was…
BiographyWilliam Andrew ‘Willie’ Hofmeyr
William Andrew Hofmeyr, popularly known as Advocate Willie Hofmeyr, was born on 22 November 1954 in Cape Town, South Africa[i] . After matriculating from…
Sir Richard Bourke, acting governor of the Cape, issues Ordinance 50, abolishing the Hottentot (Khoi-Khoi) legislation. Accordi
Address by Nelson Mandela to the closing session of the 50th National Conference of the ANC Mafikeng, 20 December 1997
My President, Comrade Thabo Mbeki; My leaders: the Officials, members of the NEC, PEC's, and BEC's; Colleagues and comrades; Dear Guests. The time has come…