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Freedom In Our Life Time - Foreword by Walter Sisulu
From the book: Freedom In Our Life Time by Anton Muziwakhe Lembede I knew Anton Muziwakhe Lembede for only four years before his tragic and untimely death…
ArchiveWinnie Madikizela-Mandela: Revolutionary who kept the Spirit of Resistance alive by Shireen Hassim (The Conversation), 3 April 2018
No other woman – in life and after – occupies the place that Winnie Madikizela-Mandela does in South African politics. A stalwart of the African National…
EventGovernment's final consolidation of 'homelands'
The Nationalist party government announced its intention to consolidate the total number of separate 'homeland' areas from 113 to 36. The homelands were…
PlaceKumalosville, Kwa Zulu Natal
… http://travelingluck.com/Africa/South+Africa/KwaZulu-Natal/_986379_Kumalosville.html … in what the National Government regarded as white South Africa. The…
The Fruits of the 1973 Durban Strikes: A Powerful Black Trade Union Movement. Are they still on track or are they off the rails? by Johann Maree
This paper was submitted to the 1973 Durban Strikes Celebrating 50 Years Conference Short Bio Johann Maree was one of the founders of the Western…
2012 ANC National Policy Conference: Statement on the update of Conference Proceedings,28 June 2012
The National Policy Conference of the ANC has resumed its third day and is proceeding according to schedule. Commissions have resumed on time this morning and…
Elections Programmes for Deputy President, Secretary General & Treasurer General, 16 May 2011
ANC Deputy President, Secretary General and Treasurer General will on Tuesday lead the movement`s election campaign in the Western Cape, Gauteng and the Free…
Matthews being used to turn SABC into a laughing stock: ANC (TMG Digital), 28 June 2016
The ruling party’s Zizi Kodwa attacked Matthews for playing the “victim game” and described as “opportunistic” the public announcement of his resignation as…
PlaceOppenheimer Gardens, Kimberley
The Diggers’ Memorial is one of the monuments that constitute part of this heritage, contributing to it in an important way. It depicts five life-sized miners…
Introductory Statement on the Presentation of the Statement of the National Executive Committee of the ANC on the 79th Anniversary of the ANC by O. R. Tambo, 8 January 1991
Compatriots, Today we mark the 79th anniversary of the formation of the African National Congress. We do so as a legal organisation for the first time in…
EventThe Bethal Treason Trial resumes
The trial of eighteen suspected Pan Africanist Congress (PAC) members, which began in December 1977 and had already taken over 100 court sessions, resumed in…
EventJohn Lawrence, Winnie Mandela’s bodyguard, dies after a shoot
On the evening of 10 November 1993, Winnie Mandela and her bodyguard, John Lawrence, were driving through the centre of Johannesburg, when Lawrence had an…
EventElectricity cut off in Tumahole township
Electricity in Tumahole Township, Free State was cut off after the Transvaal provincial authority decided that it would no longer provide municipalities facing…
EventAn ANC car bomb directed at the headquarters of the Wits Command, Johannesburg, kills one person and injures 68
On 30 July 1987, a car bomb was detonated outside the headquarters of Witwatersrand Command army base in Quartz Street, Johannesburg. The attack was executed…
EventSADF mounts raids on ANC targets in neighbouring states
Troops of the South African Defence Force (SADF) carry out raids on alleged ANC targets in Botswana, Zambia and Zimbabwe. Several people are left dead or…
EventStart of blood classification controversy
Poppie Bereng, who worked as a phlebotomist for the South African National Blood Service (SANBS) in Bloemfontein, was appointed permanently on this date, but…
EventThe Vereeniging peace conference begins
… al. (eds). Vol 1(1970). Standard Encyclopaedia of Southern Africa . Cape Town: NASOU.P 396| Potgieter, D.J. et al. … (eds). Vol 11(1970). Standard…
EventSir John Frederick William Herschel dies
On 11 May 1871 astronomer, Sir John Frederick William Herschel, died. Herschel began to take a serious interest in astronomy from about 1816. Herschel's father…
EventVoortrekkers are defeated during the Battle of Boomplaats
The Voortrekkers under Commandant Andries W. Pretorius were defeated during the Battle of Boomplaats (near Bloemfontein) by the British under Cape Governor…
EventLord Charles Somerset arrives in the Cape as Governor
Lord Charles Somerset was the Governor of the Cape Colony from 1814 to 1826. He arrived in the Cape on 6 April 1814 as Governor with a mandate to further…
EventMultiparty negotiating forum meets for the first time since December 1993
Despite the negative response from the Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) leader Chief Gatsha Mangosuthu Buthelezi, the multiparty negotiating forum met for the first…
EventAttempts of sabotage are made in Secunda
Two strategic acts of sabotage, supposedly by the Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK ), against the oil-from-coal plants based in Secunda failed to successfully hit their…
EventWinnie Mandela's Soweto home reported burnt down
The Sowetan reported that the Soweto home of Winnie Mandela, wife of an imprisoned leader of the African National Congress (ANC), Nelson Mandela, was burned…
EventSteven Biko is arrested.
Stephen Bantu Biko was the first president of South African Student Organisation (SASO), a black student’s organization that was focused on the resistance…
EventIan Smith of Rhodesia and Henry Kissinger meet in Pretoria
… Liebenberg, B.J. & Spies, S.B. (eds)(1993). South Africa in the 20th Century , Pretoria: Van Schaik Academic, … C.F.J. (ed)(1981). Five Hundred years: a…
EventThemba Sono is expelled from SASO
… Biko Brief Biography ', from Digital Innovation South Africa , 11 September, [online] Available at disa.nu.ac.za …
EventDr Chris Barnard performs the world’s first human heart transplant
On 3 December 1967, South African doctor, Dr Christiaan (Chris) Barnard, performed the world's first human to human heart transplant at Groote Schuur Hospital,…
EventDay of mourning held for Kinross mine disaster that claimed 177 lives
… Mail : Vol. 2. No 38., p.7 Time Magazine (1986). " South Africa Disaster in a Gold Mine ", Vol. 128. No 13 …
EventMuziwendoda Mdluli, National Intelligence Agency (NIA) security chief is found dead
Muziwendoda Mdluli, National Intelligence Agency (NIA) security chief, was found dead in his car parked near the Botanical Gardens in Pretoria, with a bullet…
EventThe Trojan Horse Massacre
In Athlone, Cape Town, Western Province (now Western Cape), the area bordered by Klipfontein Road, Belgravia Road, Thornton Road and Alexander Sinton High…