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EventDefiance campaign leadership meets with SAIC
… began with a commitment to militant African nationalism and mass action and to tactics of boycotts, strikes and civil disobedience. It was the largest scale…
After Apartheid - Social Identities in the New South Africa Vol. 1
… than ever before to structuring their society, forging and assuming a multiplicity of new identities which together … form what has come to capture much of…
EventGertrude Shope, former president of the ANC Women’s League, is born
… but grew up in Zimbabwe. She was trained as a teacher and went on to teach in Natal and Soweto. When she was 29 years old she decided to join the African…
EventThe Second Basotho War, known as Siqiti war, breaks out
… Between 1858 and 1868 no less than three battles were fought between the Basotho and the Boers. All three wars were the result of conflict … the Basotho in…
EventMogadishu seaport is handed over to the combined task force by UN
… over to the combined United Nations Organisation (UNO) and the Organisation of African Unity (OAU) task force and closed to commercial traffic. This…
EventSA artist Anthony Nkotsi is born
… Anthony Molebatsi Nkotsi, South African artist and the head of the Printmaking Department in 1988 at the … spend any money that his mother gave him on art…
EventThe SA 6th Division enters Florence in World War II
… the vote to fight on the side of the Allied powers was won and South Africa declared war on Germany. Approximately 135 000 white South Africans fought the…
EventFifth Constitution Amendment Bill is introduced
… on the country's future constitutional, economic and social development, was introduced in Parliament. The … majority of recommendations of the Schlebusch…
EventUnrest breaks out at Naledi High School as Security police confront learners
… Security police arrived at Naledi High School and attempted to arrest the leader of the local branch of the … Movement (SASM). In retaliation students stoned…
EventBlack People Convention is formed
… after the banning of the African National Congress (ANC) and Pan Africanist Congress (PAC), a new political movement, … about seventy different black…
Event26 parties meet to discuss future negotiations
… the political parties were able to restructure the process and address some of the previous objections to CODESA. They … parties comprising political…
EventMalebane Metsing stages a coup in Bophuthatswana
… A dissatisfied faction of the Bophuthatswana Defence Force and some members of the National Executive Committee of the … further requested the then S.A…
EventGeneral Motors fails to leave RSA quietly
… pulled out of the country amidst a series of disputes and strikes from workers fearing for their future. The … sanctions against South Africa. The National…
EventAmanzimtoti blast kills five
… Five civilians were killed and forty injured in a bomb explosion in the Sanlam shopping … executed by hanging in 1986. In a submission to the Truth and…
EventANC claim responsibility for a land mine explosion which kills six
… Six people, including three children aged between three and nine, were killed and three seriously injured in a landmine explosion on the … (now Limpopo)…
EventSouth Africa approves the Constitution of the African Civil Aviation Commission
… on 8 March 1996. AFCAC was established on 15 June 1947 and its constitution, signed on 17 January 1969, only came … before ratifying the constitution. AFCAC…
EventFrederik Willem de Klerk is elected President of South Africa
… de Klerk was elected State President of South Africa and was officially inaugurated on 20 September. De Klerk had … on 02 February, 1990 to release Nelson…
EventProfessor Bob Hepple is born
… Alex Hepple, was a trade unionist, Labour Party member and Chairman of the Treason Trial Defence Fund. From the … was joint editor of the SACTU newspaper,…
EventThe trial of Fred Carneson, a listed communist begins at the Supreme Court in Cape Town
… member of the banned South African Communist Party (SACP) and former editor of the New Age began at the Supreme Court … in Cape Town. Carneson faced three…
EventThe Simelela Rape Survivors Centre in Cape Town reports on rape in Khayelitsha
… girls under fourteen, with the youngest survivor aged one and the oldest a grandmother aged seventy-six. From August … to the high degree of sexual violence…
EventThe death of Andries Tatane
… State policemen were arrested on charges of assaulting and killing Tatane. The eight accused were Nicodemus Israel … Olebogeng Mphirime, Solomon Moeketsi,…
ArchiveDraft theses: The Workers Party of South Afr
… The theses is written on the basis of both the economic and political conditions of South Africa and serves as a programme for the Workers' Party of South ……
ArchiveCost of apartheid: GST
… Cream poster with title in red and black letters. Black and white artwork of men, sweating, pulling a rope dragging a large platform with bags of money,…
ArchiveMemorandum to the Minister of Plural Relations from the Congress of the Ciskei National Independence Party held at Ntabakandoda, Zwelitsha as from 13 - 15 April 1979
… Independence Party condemning the Development Trust and the Land Act, of 1936 and its method of application. The memorandum also condemns the unreasonable…
PlaceAnzac, a Railway Siding near Brakpan
… A Railway Siding, on route between Germiston and Brakpan. The name is derived from all the Australian and New Zealand troops who landed at Anzac Cove in…
EventEight British tourists are killed
… Eight British tourists, five men and three women, were killed on their way to the Royal Natal … to avoid a pedestrian on the R74 between Harrismith and…
PlaceDemocratic Republic of the Congo
… serves as the country’s official administrative, economic, and cultural centre. The country is often referred to by its … which is officially called the…
South Africa Communists Speak Documents from the history of the South African Communist Party 1915 - 1980
… African Communists speak 1915 - 1980) Section 1 Socialist and Internationalists: Introduction Document 1: Extracts … 16, 1917. Document 13: Statement …
ArchiveConscripts to their age: African National Congress operational strategy, 1976-1986 by Howard Barrell
… Introduction Acknowledgements CHAPTER 1 - Old Battle-Cries and Borrowed Language CHAPTER 2 - You only win once CHAPTER 3 … CHAPTER 4 - A turn to masses…
ArchiveProgramme of action for the ANC
… upcoming campaigns: Violence, Constituent Assembly, Land and Housing, Building organs of people's power, Gangsterism, Living Wage, Privatisation and Labour…