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Chapter 9 - Negotiating the transition
… On 10 April 1993 Chris Hani, one of the most popular ANC leaders in the country, was assassinated, and the country was … the reserves. An appeal for calm by…
"Should we get rid of the whites?" - Albert Luthuli answer to a question, 5 March 1959
… [Drum, a Johannesburg monthly, asked a number of African leaders, "Do we really want to get rid of the white man?" The …
EventP.W. Botha launches CONSAS at the Carlton Conference to eliminate “Marxist threat”
… South African prime minister P. W. Botha gathered business leaders together in a conference at the Carlton Hotel in …
PlaceRed Location Museum
… years of Apartheid. Many prominent Political and Cultural leaders were either born or lived in Red Location. (Some … History and Art. Many prominent…
EventFatima Meer, South African anti-Apartheid activist is born
… that time she was the one of the most prominent women leaders in South Africa. She published more than forty books, …
EventFIFA World Cup is staged in Africa for the first time
… every week and 100.000 yellow cards sent to international leaders. The dramatic victory of Spain over Holland saw them …
EventAfrican National Congress Youth League is founded
… rather sceptical of the ANCYL and their ideas. The leaders who formed the ANCYL were, among others, Anton …
EventThe Bisho Massacre occurs
… was led by several senior African National Congress (ANC) leaders, including South African Communist Party Secretary …
EventMass Democratic Movement (MDM) begins their Defiance Campaign
… - thereby crippling the apartheid system. Among the leaders of the UDF were Rev. Alan Boesak, Desmond Tutu, …
EventAppearance of former ministers before the TRC
… by Archbishop Tutu, Chairman, TRC, Military and Political leaders to give evidence before the TRC, 30 September 1997. … [Accessed: 7 October 2013]| info,'…
Class, Consciousness and Organisation:Indian Political Resistance in Durban, South Africa, 1979 - 1996 by Kumi Naidoo
… not extend beyond a relatively small band of progressive leaders. Various objective factors, such as the structural …
Women’s Resistance Against the Pass Laws
… policy, who took part in its campaigns, who elected their leaders, who became the spokespeople for their cause. When I … apartheid laws. To see how heartless…
ArchiveThe Emperor has no Clothes by Liz Timbs
… Although multiple news outlets published photos of the two leaders side-by-side, rumors spread that tensions were … of traditional authorities once…
ArticleThe National Council of Trade Unions (NACTU)
… of the federation posited that Black workers were to be leaders and to have no formal affiliation with political …
Yusuf Dadoo Timeline: 1910 - 1919
… from owning shares in limited companies. Indian leaders in the Transvaal sign a covenant, pledging civil …
ArticleHIV/Aids in South Africa
… leadership in the response to the epidemic and society leaders dying and leaving a generation of children growing up …
ArticleIndian South Africans timeline 1930-1939
… also produces a signed document by South African Indian leaders, including Advocate Albert Christopher, P.R. Pather … Governments of India and South Africa…
EventNigerian Federal troops begin a major offensive in Biafra.
Nigeria's Federal Troops launched a major offensive against multiple targets in Biafra on the 19th of August 1968. Despite claims that scores of people were…
Press Statement by O. R. Tambo, December 1964
… in the presence of Mr. Diallo Telli or at all. The PAC leaders, showing reckless disregard for the ultimate …
PlaceCity Hall, Pretoria
… Municipality. The two other statues are of the Voortrekker leaders Andries Pretorius and his son Marthinus Pretorius. …
EventThe UN General Assembly adopts resolution 1881, requesting South Africa to release all political prisoners
… 1961. By 1963, the headquarters of MK were raided and its leaders were arrested. The Rivionia Trial followed in October …
EventThe Anglican Bishop of Johannesburg, Bishop Ambrose Reeves, resigns
… included St Peter's in Johannesburg, where many Black leaders, among them Oliver Tambo, had been educated. Reeves …
EventStudents at Lovedale strike against new Code of Conduct
… Board was not officially recognised by the school and its leaders were excluded from the school or imprisoned after the …
EventChurch Council meets PW Botha over unrest
… (SACC) met with President P W Botha and other government leaders, following calls by the church for urgent discussions …
EventThe United Democratic Front (UDF) is dissolved
… emergency and the subsequent arrest of several affiliate leaders. By 1986, the UDF had held talks with the African …
EventSouth Africa closes its borders with Lesotho
… government and prominent Basotho, including opposition leaders and the heads of the armed forces in Lesotho. On 15 …
EventUS Secretary of State Colin Powell is heckled by activists on the closing day of the World Summit.
… development by the United Nations, and gathered numerous leaders from business and non-governmental organizations. …
EventThe trial of Dr Allan Boesak on charges of theft and fraud starts
… Boesak quickly became one of movements the most popular leaders. Boesack was one of the founders and prime movers of …
Book 6: Negotiation, Transition and Freedom - Timeline
… 12 September, First official meeting between exiled ANC leaders and NP, Lausanne 1989 14 September, F.W. de Klerk …
”On the Organisations of the African People”, from I. B. Tabata to Nelson Mandela, June 16, 1948
… It is not even a question of the good intentions of the leaders. What is of paramount importance is the programme and … it another way, it is not the…