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EventA Xhosa film wins Golden Bear award
The South African Xhosa film uCarmen eKhayelitsha became the second South African movie to compete and first to win the Golden Bear award as the best film at…
EventDr Manto Tshabalala-Msimang’s advice is criticised
The Sunday newspaper Sunday Independent reported that the special mixture prescribed by SA Health Minister Dr Manto Tshabalala-Msimang to fight HIV/AIDS, could…
EventSA athlete Ernst van Dyk is hard done by at Paralympic games
Wheelchair-bound South African athlete, Ernst van Dyk, was cut off from a certain gold medal by the Mexican Saul Mendoza during the 1 500m race at the Athens…
EventMarike de Klerk is found murdered
… theguardian, ' How South Africa's former first lady met a violent, lonely and bitter …
EventMoses Josiah Madiba is born
Moses Josiah Madiba, the author, educationist and first African chancellor of the University of the North, was born at Uitvlucht, Pietersburg (now Polokwane)…
EventLillian Ngoyi, well-known anti-Apartheid activist, dies
Anti-Apartheid activist and founder member of the African National Congress Women’s League (ANCWL), Lilian Ngoyi died on 13 March 1980. She was 68 years old. …
ArticleA Culture of Survival
It was a struggle to survive in the city. Workers' wages did not keep pace with the cost of subsistence, and most black families lived below the bread line. …
Chapter 6. Conclusion by Frantz Fanon, 1961
… would be almost an obscene caricature. If we want to turn Africa into a new Europe, and America into a new Europe, then …
ArchiveAppendix 8 Sam will never see his favoured son free of the traitor’s brand by Denis Goldberg
… after Dennis was arrested. She is not allowed into South Africa to visit her husband, but her children come …
Chapter 12 - Certification of the final constitution
… work began in the subcommittees on 25 Septening of South Africa's new and final Constitution. …
Marikana Commission of Inquiry
In 2012 the mining sector underwent intense waves of labour unrest. On 16 August 2012, the mining industry (Platinum Sector) received the world’s attention,…
Marikana Commission of Inquiry
In 2012 the mining sector underwent intense waves of labour unrest. On 16 August 2012, the mining industry (Platinum Sector) received the world’s attention,…
ArticleList of employers to whom Indentured Indians were assigned
PLACE EMPLOYER Calcutta Acutt, C & Co Madras Acutt, C & Co …
ArticleMarikana Commission of Inquiry
In 2012, the mining sector underwent intense waves of labour unrest. On 16 August 2012, the mining industry (Platinum Sector) received the world’s attention,…
EventBirth of Paul Kruger
… Rita M. Byrnes. One World Nations Online :History of South Africa. [Online], [Available: … https://www.nationsonline.org/oneworld/History/South-Africa…
Rixaka
Rixaka, the cultural journal of the African National Congress, was launched to establish a platform allowing full expression of the cultural voice in the…
EventUnited Front launch in jeopardy
The proposed launch of the United Front was threatened when the Azanian People's Organisation (AZAPO) denounced fourteen of the more than seventy-five…
EventCellist and music teacher Betty Pack is born
Cellist and music teacher Betty Pack, who started several youth orchestras, was born in Nylstroom, Transvaal. At the age of 16, she gave her first public…
EventNkomo, leader of ZAPU forms a coalition government with Robert Mugabe
Joshua Mqabuko Nyangolo Nkomo, leader of the Zimbabwe African People's Union (ZAPU) formed a coalition government with Robert Mugabe in Zimbabwe. Nkomo's party…
EventUp to 100 ANC members are reported to have been detained in Swaziland
Around 100 African National Congress (ANC) members were reported to have been detained in Swaziland. The arrests were confirmed by the Swaziland Police…
Bantu Authorities Act of 1951
This was the first piece of legislation introduced to support the government’s policy of separate development. It made provision for the establishment of…
EventANC’s Walter Sisulu and Duma Nokwe rally support against Urban Bantu Councils Act
… African History Guide , ‘Apartheid Legislation in South Africa’ , [online], Available at africanhistory.about.com …
PlaceSt. Wendolins Ridge, Pinetown
… [Accessed: 15 March 2013]| Forced Removals In South Africa – The Surplus People’s Reports, Natal, January 1983, …
The attack of Syria by Israel, 7 May 2013
The African National Congress condemns the attack on Syria by the Israeli government. We view this as provocation that can only escalate hostilities in the…
EventControversial ‘Black Jesus’ painter, Ronald Harrison, dies
Artist, Ronald Harrison caused controversy in 1962 when he painted African National Congress (ANC) leader, Albert Luthuli as Jesus. The painting, named Black…
EventAlbert Luthuli delivers his Nobel Peace Prize Lecture
Albert Luthuli delivers his Nobel Lecture after receiving the Peace Prize the previous day. Luthuli was the first South African to receive the Nobel Prize for…
EventCosatu calls for three days national protest against the Labour Relations Amendment Bill (LRA)
At its Special Congress in May, the Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) called for three days of national protest against the Labour Relations…
EventFlorence Josephine Zerffi, SA still life and landscape painter, dies
Florence Louise Josephine Zerffi was born in 1882, London, England. She came to Cape Town in 1916 after studying art in London and at the Arts and Crafts…
Inqaba ya basebenzi
Inqaba ya basebenzi, published in London by the Marxist Workers' Tendency of the African National Congress documents the workers' struggle for national…
EventMK soldiers threaten armed struggle
Having been dismissed from the South African National Defence Force (SANDF) for their illegal strike about their poor living standards in Wallmansthal military…