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EventSelassie becomes emperor
… to read about his burial Click here to read more about the history of Ethiopia …
Celebrating 50 years of the Freedom Charter - June 26 1955-June 26 2005
… Researcher : Rita Potenza. Photos from Bailie’s African History Archives, Wits Archive, Mayibuye Centre, Sowetan, …
EventJan Volschenk, a well-known South African painter, dies
… On this day in history, Jan Volschenk, a prominent South African painter, …
EventDevastating storm hits Mount Ayliff, Eastern Cape
… On this day in history, at least 22 people were killed and 4000 left …
EventPresident Mandela reshuffles Cabinet Ministers
… E. & Andor, L.E. (eds)(1999). Southern African Political History: a chronology of key political events from …
Address of the President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki, at the SA-Mali Project Fundraising Dinner, Cape Town International Convention Centre, Cape Town: 8 April 2005.
… Castillo, "Decaying Manuscripts Reveal Africa's Literate History", www.chronicle.com , 6 Sept, 2002, p.3 of 4) Such is … and our understanding and…
May Day
… elections of 1994. South Africa's mining industry's history and the development of strong Trade Unions and … ideologies has largely determined the country's…
Say It out Loud - A letter to the Coloured People of South Africa
… of South Africa marks an important step in the political history of the country. The change that will be effected in … the day signified to us. A brief…
ArticleNapoleon Bonaparte
… Nationalism became a very important force in world history in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Before … decisions made at this conference profoundly…
ArticleSecond Anglo-Boer War - 1899 - 1902
… and destructive modern armed conflict in South Africa’s history. It was an event that in many ways shaped the history of 20th Century South Africa. The end…
ArticlePass Laws and Sharpeville Massacre
… now commemorated each year as Women's Day. Read about the history of pass laws Planning the 1960 anti-pass campaigns: … question that can only be answered by…
ArticleThe Conflict between the AZAPO and the UDF - popular violence in the 1980s and 1990s
… literature on this brutally violent chapter in the history of the liberation struggle focuses largely on the … unite different groups” (Seekings, Jeremy, The…
ArticleCongress of South African Students (COSAS)
… like. United Democratic Front logo. Source: South African History Online In 1983, the COSAS welcomed the formation of … it has been utterly scrapped, dumped…
Fifty Fighting Years by A. Lerumo. The Communist Party of South Africa, 1921 - 1971 - Foreword to Book, by Dr Yusuf M. Dadoo,1972
… come out with an Indian edition of Comrade Lerumo's book - History of the Communist Party of South Africa; Fifty … doubt, will be read with deep interest in…
EventThe first Gay Marriage in South Africa
… On this day in South African history, Vernon Gibbs and Tony Halls became the first same …
Umsebenzi
… African communists are included as are articles on Party history, trade unionism and workers' rights. Resistance …
ArchiveThe Government of divided communities
… economic development. The lecture focuses on the political history in communities as well as the variedness in which …
Culture in the New South Africa by Robert Kriger and Abebe Zegeye
… volume is a fist step in rewriting the cultural history of the country, towards a more unified Cultural and …
EventUN Special Committee releases its report
… Nations and Apartheid Chronology. Sources: South African History Online …
EventZwelakhe Sisulu is arrested
… E. & Andor, L.E. (eds)(1999). Southern African Political History: a chronology of key political events from …
PlaceFramesby, Port Elizabeth
… arrival of the Settlers in 1820 It is only in learning the history behind a building that it takes on a meaning of its … historical tours, and even those who…
PlaceCeres, Western Cape Winelands
… of South Africa's deciduous fruit . The Town is rich in History with many Historical Buildings to tell its story, … The farm holds a significant family,…
PlaceJames Hall Museum of Transport, Johannesburg
… . It is a museum, that aims to preserve and promote the History of over 400 years of transport! …
EventAssassination attempt on Kwame Nkrumah
… social opponents. Click here to read our past This week In History's entry on another assassination attempt on Nkrumah. …
EventIndia complains in 1946 against racism in South Africa
… For an excellent background history of this complaint by E. S. Reddy, and how it was …
EventChristian Institute declared an affected organisation
… E. & Andor, L.E. (eds)(1999). Southern African Political History: a chronology of key political events from …
EventBantu Holomisa is dismissed
… internal ANC disciplinary charges. Source: South African History Online …
EventMadalitso Muthiya becomes the first Zambian to play in the prestigious US Open Golf tournament
… 2005 Muthiya turned professional and a year later he made history when he became the first black African to qualify to …
Document 112 - Note from Claremont branch of the National Liberation League of South Africa, 26 March 1938
… From: South Africa's Radical Tradition, a documentary history, Volume One 1907 - 1950, by Allison Drew National …
Disbanding, 1990-1991
… organisations. This ushered in a new period in the history of the ANC and of the UDF . As the ANC moved back …