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… Marius Phillip Olivier Burgers (53), dies of a heart attack while recording a tribute to the late …

… Potgieter, D.J. et al. (eds)(1970). Standard Encyclopaedia of Southern Africa, Cape Town: NASOU, v.  10, p. 491. … The first  Thirstland Trek, exodus of Boer families through Northern Bechuanaland to Angola that …

… Willem Frederick Gerard Nicolai (66), Dutch composer of the Free State anthem, dies in the Netherlands.   He never …

… Potgieter, D.J. et al. (eds)(1970). Standard Encyclopaedia of Southern Africa, Cape Town: NASOU, v. 8, p. 123 | Kruger, D.W. (ed)(1972). Dictionary of South African Biography, Cape Town: Human Sciences … Ndlambe, regent of the AmaRarabe, influenced by his sangoma Makana (Nxele, …

… High Commissioner to Uganda, Bavumile Vilakazi, dies of a heart attack in Kampala. He was involved in the United …

… Southern African Political History: a chronology of key political events from independence to mid-1997, … Coloured schools’ boycott is joined by pupils at a number of Indian schools in Pretoria and Natal. Black Consciousness …

… Anglo-Boer War 2: Angus Hamilton of The Times criticises Baden-Powell’s harsh ‘leave …

… worker in Idutywa, Eastern Cape, receives the Order of the Baobab for her servi …

… colony, taking the new name Zimbabwe. The 1972-1979 war of independ …

… Monument by the architect C.P. Walgate, with the image of a woman by sculptor Coert Steynberg, is inaugurated in F …

… delegation proposes that thirty representatives from each of the two Boer republics meet in a ‘na …

… van Zyl (72), biggest tomato farmer in the world and owner of tomato farm ZZ2, dies in a Pretoria hospital. …

… Two youths are arrested at Bloemhof for the killing of two white rhinos en five eland at the Aventura            …

… (1999). Southern African Political History: a chronology of key political events from independence to mid-1997, … A second series of meetings is held between South Africa and Mozambique in …

… Notes of the meeting between a South African and an American …

… ba batla meputso e lekaneng bakeng sa ho phele ho Chamber of Mines (article written in Xhosa language) …

… Mayibuye Uprising-black South Africans, slaves in the land of their birth, rose up to peacefully throw off their shackles …

… The crucual question of Black/White power-sharing needs to be tabled and the State …

… Minister, Mr P W Botha, and the Honourable Chief Minister of KwaZulu, Dr M G Buthelezi is deteriorating …

… racial conflict in South Africa - a critical assessment of the Churches response from 1960 to the present …

… the revolutionary processes that resulted in the formation of new states. State formation in nineteenth-century South … or named themselves (identity formation). The processes of state formation refer to the political and military struggles that resulted in the rise of new states and the downfall of others in the period 1800 …

… It was to be expected that this year's debate on the State of the Nation Address should be especially enthusiastic. This being the last session of the first democratic Parliament, we naturally cast our mind's eye back on the whole short life of our democracy. And in doing so, it was all too natural for …

… The time has come for all of us to leave this friendly city which has been our home for a few days, and return to our respective theatres of struggle. The sadness we might feel at this parting is lessened by the knowledge that we leave as emissaries of a common cause, committed to energise all humanity …

… 1907 - 1950, by Allison Drew Document 92 " Communist Party of South Africa Plenum Held from 5th to 8th April 1936", … Umsebenzi, and 16 May 1936 RESOLUTIONS 1. That this Plenum of Activists decides that immediate steps be taken to give every assistance in the formation of an Anti-Imperialist and national Liberation movement on …

… historic moment. We have brought together under the aegis of the United Democratic Front the broadest and most significant coalition of groups and organisations struggling against apartheid, … happy to note that this meeting is not merely a gathering of loose individuals. No, we represent organisations deeply …

… privileged to be able to celebrate the 90th birthday of such a giant and a cornerstone of our movement. Our movement has made its name in the history of liberation movements, not only of Africa but the entire … Address during the 90th Birthday Celebration of Mr Walter Sisulu 18 May 2002 Mr President, Ladies and …

… South African Institute of Race Relations, Survey of Race Relations 1971: It was announced on 28 October that Mr. Ahmed Timol [arrested on the night of the 22 October 1971 with Salim Essop] had died the … was reported on at the time by South African Institute of Race Relations (Politicsweb), 28 June 2017 …

… Please allow me yet again to react to the spasms of abject annihilation of sense, meaning and self-respect being played out around the question of the vanishing artworks at the University of Cape Town. If … Breyten Breytenbach writes to the editor of the Daily Maverick on vanishing UCT artworks and blank …

… Honourable Justices, Leaders and Members of all delegations present here today. We have reached the end of an era. We are at the beginning of a new era. Whereas apartheid deprived millions of our … Address by Nelson R. Mandela to the plenary session of the Multi-Party negotiations process World Trade Centre, …

… in a conversation with Nadine Gordimer for publication of his 1973 monograph On the Mines. His family first arrived … South Africa around 1893, having fled from the persecution of Jews in Lithuania. Also: Secret Histories | The Real South … as Seen by the Man They Called “Kitty” The youngest of three sons, Goldblatt was 18 years old when the South …