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EventRenowned Nigerian writer, Chinua Achebe, is born in Ogidi, Nigeria
… wrote his first novel, Things Fall Apart (1958), partly in response to what he saw as inaccurate characterizations of …
PlaceJohannesburg Botanical Garden
… the feasibility of establishing of a botanical garden. In response, the management committee resolved that "a botanic …
Address by Nelson Mandela to the National Consultative Conference, 14 December 1990
… it has rendered these conventional methods ineffective. In response, elements within the apartheid power bloc, who are … sway at the highest reaches of the…
Article1967 Terrorism Act, No. 83 of 1967
… 1967 Terrorism Act was South Africa’s first legislative response to terrorism, the General Law Amendment Act, No. 76 … The Act, he urged, would be the South…
BiographyGeorge Gangen Ponnen
… all workers in any action they were going to take. The response from the women was good. The management learnt of …
ArchiveThabo Mbeki, Jacob Zuma, Cyril Ramaphosa: The people who killed Eskom over 25 years by Ferreira, Harper and Saba (Mail and Guardain), 20 January 2023
… era of the Zuma administrations — hampering the country’s response to an electricity crisis forecast in 1997. The … comes slap-bang in the middle of the…
Free Nelson Mandela - Margaret Thatcher
… in South Africa. I received a good deal of abuse in response, being accused of preferring British jobs to African … appropriate moment. The initiative would…
ArticleNatal Workers’ Theatre in the 1980s
… The majority of Indian workers who went on strike in response to this were retrenched and replaced with migrant … Unions (SACTU) started mobilizing worker…
Statement by Oliver Tambo to the Press, 16 November 1984, Addis Ababa
… confrontations with the apartheid regime. The African response to these struggles, as represented by the decisions …
Joint Statement by Chief Albert Lutuli, Dr. G.M. Naicker and Peter Brown appealing to the British People to Boycott South Africa, 5 December 1959
… have seen them destroyed one by one. What has been the response of Non-White South Africans to these attacks on …
Statement to the Press by O. R. Tambo, Addis Ababa, 16 November 1984
… confrontations with the apartheid regime. The African response to these struggles, as represented by the decisions …
Event1300 Volkswagen workers dismissed for unprocedural strike against NUMSA leadership
… disturbing production at the plant. [2] At the time, this response was considered by a number of labour analysts to be …
PlaceShri Jagannath Puri Temple, Tongaat
… too young to remember Conditions under Apartheid. His response was considerate - instead of distancing himself or …
Statement by Albert Luthuli on the "Sabotage Act", 6 June 1962
… name. The situation calls for more effective action by the UN and its member-nations, by organisations, groups, and …
PlaceSierra Leone
… 50,000 people dead after the decade-long civil war. The UN installed a large peacekeeping force and shortly after, … https://peacekeeping.un.org/sites…
”Policy of the Congress Youth League.” Article by A. M. Lembede, in May 1946
… they will be in a position to pilot their own ship and, unhampered, work toward their own destiny and, without …
History lesson: When Vorster stuck the knife in Ian Smith's back by Jamie Miller (Rand Daily Mail), 17 September 2016
… This was accepted.” On South Africa’s position at the UN, Vorster announced that Kissinger had committed to blocking any move at the UN to declare apartheid…
ArchiveBiography of Nawal El Saadawi by Sierra Hussey
… other Arab states scorned Egypt for relying too heavily on UN support for protection. Because of this, Nasser demanded the UN leave their border to appease…
EventNational Party refuses to serve on Buthelezi Commission of Inquiry
The South African Prime Minister, P.W. Botha lashed out on the Buthelezi Commission of Inquiry concerning the future of Natal. Botha said that the National…
Chapter IV - A meaningful life
… for two years, during which I was the Honorary National "Un-President" of NUSAS. After that I became a Hon. National Un-Vice President. I still am. Early in…
PlaceUgie, Eastern Cape
Ugie is a Town in the Joe Gqabi District Municipality, in the Eastern Cape Province of South Africa. Ugie is situated at the Southern foot of the Drakensberg,…
ArchiveBiography of Dorothy Nyembe by Thomas Boatman
… community for her efforts on the frontlines, the UN Unit on Apartheid’s document acknowledged that one of the … These brief statements by…
Biography of Mandla Langa by Carol Sale
… and others against apartheid to support one another in response to these difficulties, though they may have … people in his poem ask for help and meaning but…
EventPresident Cyril Ramaphosa calls for national lockdown for 21 days in South Africa
… 27 of the Disaster Management Act. This was an urgent response as the World Health Organization declared the Corona …
ArticleLiberation history Timeline 1940-1949
… to come into contact with the Indian delegation at the UN. The Natal Inter-Race Soccer Board is established with the … 1948. 20 November, The NRC meets to…
PlaceQueenstown, now known as Komani.
… as part of a master plan to move all Black people to the Homelands. It was incorporated into Queenstown after …
The Centenary Celebration of the February Revolution 8-12 March 2017
… killed by a training squad of the Pavlovski regiment. In response to this atrocity, workers approached the Pavlovski …
ArticleThe Landless People’s Movement
… by leaders of various landless people of South Africa in response to evictions of farm workers and labour tenants from …
ArticleEskom Energy Crisis: Will there be a “just transition” to renewable energy? by Kyla Jade Mc Nulty
… energy inequalities.” In its National Climate Change Response Strategy, the state acknowledged that it is a …
ArticleAnti-pass campaigns, 1910s
… process by both white and black constables. In an angry response to these prescriptive measures the women sent an …