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… Rijkloff van Goens leaves Table Bay after a stay of one month to report on what has been accomplished at the …

… in Congo to pay tribute to 109 people killed in a series of mysterious airp …

… During the second invasion of Abyssinia by Egypt, the Egyptian forces are defeated at …

… The trial of eighteen suspected PAC members which began in December …

… Joyce: The Rise and Fall of Apartheid … Government’s decision not to allow the Indian golfer of Natal, Papwa Sewgolum permission to play in the 19 …

… Rijst (’Oom Willem’), activist for Afrikaans and author of the first Spelling and Reading book for Afrikaans …

… SASO: Minutes of the National Executive meeting held at the Lay Ecumenical …

… 16th June 1986, South African Youth Day at the Cathedral of the Holy Cross, Lusaka, Zambia …

… Kruger, D.W. (ed)(1972). Dictionary of South African Biography, Cape Town: Human Sciences … A great gathering of Xhosa chiefs occurs in King Williams Town, where Cape …

… Liberation, Non-Racialism and 'Indianness' the 1947 visit of Dadoo and Naicker to India by Goolam Vahed and Ashwin Desai …

… Tengo (D. D. T.) Jabavu, Prixley Ka Isaka Seme, President of the African National Congress (ANC), Africans from different political spectrums … on 8 January 1912 that the South African National Native Congress (SANNC) was founded. (This happens at the same time …

… 9 July, The Executive of the South African Indian Congress (SAIC) meets in Durban … Isaka Seme, the founding father the African National Congress (ANC) is elected president and replaces Josiah …

… sanctions. Further urging from then U.S. Secretary of State, Henry A. Kissinger led Smith agree on a plan to … as a ploy because it enabled whites to retain control of the army, economy and legislature. The agreement won no … However, his reception was chilly at best.  Even most of the Senators with whom he met were reportedly unimpressed. …

… wasn't long before the company looked into the feasibility of settling other areas along the peninsula. Van Riebeeck had … arriving, he named it 'T'Houtbaaitjen' (Dutch for 'Bay of Wood'), noting in his journal that its mountainous slopes …

… When the African National Congress (ANC) was formed in 1912, it did not accept women as … laws for women a these had been relaxed after the success of earlier resistance to passes. In the light of these … Maxeke . The ANC only accepted women as members at the Congress's 1943 conference and in 1948, the ANC Women's …

… studied physics in Germany where he obtained a Masters of Arts and Doctor of Philosophy degree at the University of Leipzig. Van der Bijl returned to South Africa in 1920. He … who laid the foundation for the establishment of Escom and Iscor, is born in Pretoria …

… A survey of the history of photography in South Africa reveals, broadly, three … History Online (SAHO) is showcasing the different genres of photography that has been practised over the decades in … History of Photography in South Africa …

… Internal discussion document proposing a code of conduct in the light of impending elections for a Constituent Assembly. … Draft Code of Conduct for SACP members in an election list and serving …

… around 1983 by Roseinnes Phahle and other individuals of various broadly leftist political tendencies. The ALSC … Worker and Azania Frontline as publications that were part of the South African liberation movement but independent of … publications enthusiastically hailed the formation of the Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU) as they …

… Excerpts from the transcript of evidence from Mafiison Morobe; Seth Sendile Mazibuko; … David Kutumela, all school students, to the Commission of Inquiry into the riots at Soweto and other places in South … Commission of Inquiry into the riots at Soweto and other places in South …

… Excerpts from the transcript of evidence from Ezra Mandikole Mantini, Mangaliso Alf Kumalo … from the Sunday Times newspaper, to the Commission of Inquiry into the riots at Soweto and other places in South … Commission of Inquiry into the riots at Soweto and other places in South …

… his speech at Columbia University on “The Regeneration of Africa” which wins him the University’s highest oratorical … of Africans to form the South African Native National Congress(SANNC). Bantu/Batho (people) a newspaper that serves … 22 March, An article on the South African Native National Congress authored by Seme appears on the Natal newspaper …

… to Muizenburg. The mail bag was fastened to the back of his seat as he flew the Bleriot monoplane. The plane … the South African post office commemorated a hundred years of this event by printing special post cards. … Cape Point Route 100 year anniversary of the 1st airmail delivery [online] Available at: …

… from tuberculosis.   1944 2 April, The African National Congress Youth League (ANCYL), the youth wing of the African National Congress is formed. 1946 African Miners Union (AMU) organises …

… Letter relating to the eviction of farm workers from Wolseley Estate and the church's … Church Kei Road describing events leading to the eviction of farm workers from Wolseley Estate …

… on bantustans: An address by Govan Mbeki on the role of the bantustan in the current debate for a negotiated … on bantustans: An address by Govan Mbeki on the role of the bantustan in the current debate for a negotiated …

… and provincial leadership, ANC NEC Members, Leaders of the Tripartite Alliance, The Luthuli Family, I am greatly … that, under the auspices of the African National Congress, I have joined my people in the new spirit that … his speech to a meeting of the South African Congress of Democrats in 1958. He said: "I am not prepared to concern …

… (ed.) in A Crime Against Humanity, the mutilated body of Toto Roy Dweba, member of the United Democratic Front (UDF) and of the Natal Freedom … of being a courier of guns for the African National Congress (ANC) from Swaziland. The Commission found that …

… 1994. There is little doubt that coming from a history of a racially divided society, people voted for their skin … years leading to 1994. They include the African National Congress (ANC), Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP), the National … Party (NP), the Democratic Party (DP), The Pan Africanist Congress (PAC) and the Azanian Peoples Organisation (AZAPO). …

… SASO is officially inaugurated at the Turfloop campus of the University of the North (UNIN) with Steve Bantu Biko … and emphasized the Black Consciousness doctrine.   AZASO-Congress Of South African Student (COSAS) lead Anti-Republic … AZASO president Joe Phaahla addresses the NUSAS National Congress held in Cape Town. 1982  AZASO-COSAS begin the …