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PlaceBotshabelo Mission Station, near Middleburg
… Alexander Merensky and Heinrich Grützner, arrived in South Africa from the Berlin Mission Society during the 1860’s, to …
PlaceSt. Wendolins Ridge, Pinetown
… [Accessed: 15 March 2013]| Forced Removals In South Africa – The Surplus People’s Reports, Natal, January 1983, …
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 …
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…
Launch of the ANC Volunteer Corps and Visit of the President, 19 June 2013
The President of the African National Congress Comrade President Zuma will be visiting Upington as part of the launch of the Luthuli Volunteer Corps on the…
EventAmy Biehl’s murderers receive amnesty from TRC
The four murderers of Amy Biehl, American Fullbright exchange student, are granted amnesty by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC). They appealed to…
EventuMkhoto weSizwe (MK) launches its first acts of sabotage
… Turn to Armed Struggle ' in The Road to Democracy in South Africa, Volume 1 (1960-1970) [online]. Cape Town: Zebra Press …
Freedom In Our Life Time - Acknowledgements
From the book: Freedom In Our Life Time by Anton Muziwakhe Lembede We first met each other in 1984 at A. P. Mda's law office in Mafeteng, Lesotho, and we…
EventANC revolutionary propaganda leaflets exploded in Cape Town, Johannesburg, and Durban
… and Durban’ [Available at the National Library of South Africa, Cape Town Campus] pg1.| Ashata Shakur Forums , Spear …
EventThami Mnyele, SA artist and member of MK, is killed in Gaborone
Thamsaqa 'Thami' ka Mnyele was a talented graphic artist and a political activist. Due to his political activities, Mnyele was forced to leave his family in…
EventSA artist Anthony Nkotsi is born
Anthony Molebatsi Nkotsi, South African artist and the head of the Printmaking Department in 1988 at the Johannesburg Art Foundation, was born in Johannesburg…
EventVerwoerd’s grandson joins ANC
In a historic move, Wilhelm Verwoerd, grandson of former South African Prime Minister, Hendrik Verwoerd, main architect of apartheid, joins the African…
EventAmanzimtoti blast kills five
Five civilians were killed and forty injured in a bomb explosion in the Sanlam shopping centre in Amanzimtoti, Natal South Coast. Umkhonto we Siswe (MK) cadre…
EventPresident George W Bush announces his HIV/AIDS Plan
The American president, George W Bush, announced his five-year $15 billion Emergency Plan for HIV/AIDS prevention and treatment in twelve African and two…
EventAllan Boesak guilty on charges of fraud
Allan Boesak, liberation theologian, chairman of the Western Cape region of the African National Congress (ANC) and director of the Foundation for Peace and…
EventNP holds federal congress
Following its withdrawal from the African National Congress (ANC)-led Government of National Unity, the National Party held its federal congress (1 - 3 August)…
EventIndustrial and Commercial Workers Union is founded under Clements Kadalie
… a documentary history of African politics in South Africa . Stanford: Hoover Institution, v. 1, … et al. (eds) (1970). Standard Encyclopaedia of Southern…