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Dr Yusuf M. Dadoo's Statement In Court In Trial For Passive Resistance, June 1946
… (Dr. Dadoo was sentenced in June 1946, at the beginning of the passive resistance campaign, to three months` … the Court in order to clarify the situation…
EventKhayelitsha becomes the first township in the Western Cape to confirm a COVID-19 case
… Cape was the first township to confirm positive case of Covid- 19 virus. The Western Cape province was the second province in the number of infected cases…
PlaceSenteeko Dam
… , Mpumalanga, South Africa, is facing an imminent risk of failure due to severe erosion and undercutting of its spillway after heavy rains, prompting urgent …
Culture from Exile: Dakawa Art Centre By Jongikaya Mene
… With the dawn of democracy, Grahamstown became the new home of a special cultural centre. It had started in Tanzania in 1986 as part of the African National…
ArticleAlbertina Sisulu and the organisations she was connected to
… ● Federation of South African Women The Defiance Campaign of 1952 would catapult the ANC Women’s League into a new era of action and multi-party interaction…
EventSudanese-born basketball player and political activist, Manute Bol is born
… Turalei, Sudan on 16 October 1965. He came from a family of tall people; both his parents were over two metres tall. … sport for basketball. An American…
Excerpts from discussions between a South African delegation led by Minister R F Botha and a United States delegation led by Deputy Secretary of State, Frank Wisner, on questions affecting South West Africa and Angola: Cape Town, 13 March 1986
… Minutes of a meeting between a South African delegation and a United … and a United States delegation led by Deputy Secretary of State, Frank Wisner, on…
EventMK soldiers threaten armed struggle
… responded with a strongly worded statement promising firm action against anyone who would become involved in such a … proper structures. He also berated the…
EventGoldstone Commission confirms SADF complicity in violence
… The Commission of Inquiry Regarding the Prevention of Public Violence and Intimidation (Goldstone Commission), … army officers in December alleged to be…
EventKwame Nkrumah is released from jail
… Nkrumah was arrested for leading a disturbing ‘positive action’ campaign in Ghana against British rule in 1950. He … People's Party (CPP), won the 1951…
ArticleAzanian Students Organisation (AZASO)
… Organisation (AZASO): A summary Following the banning of the South African Student Organisation (SASO) a new … by students from five black universities and…
ArticleEskom Energy Crisis: Will there be a “just transition” to renewable energy? by Kyla Jade Mc Nulty
… renewable energy sector and the now highly visible effects of pollution and climate change, as seen in the recent … swept through Southern Africa and left…
PlaceKoffiefontein, Free State Province
… War II, with up to 2,000 Italian and German prisoners of war being held there, along with around 800 South Africans … own coffee beans (often with a spoon)…
Segregationist Legislation Timeline 1950-1959
… Immorality Amendment Act, Act No 21 of 1950 This Act was one of the most controversial pieces of Apartheid legislation. It … finally passed it suffered…
ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 1920-1929
… anthem and a flag, and significantly adopting the Bill of Rights. Another significant development was the formation of the Communist Party of the South…
ArticleNelson Mandela Timeline 1950-1959
… Centre. He excelled at boxing and shared his love of the sport with his son, Thembekile. He enjoyed visiting the cinema and became secretary of the multi…
EventSouth African Police (SAP) is founded
… both enacted and the authorisation for the establishment of a national police force was given. The South African … Police (SAP) was the successor to the…
EventGandhi demands end to White ‘hooliganism’
… stopped only on 24 June when the Smuts government took action after wide protests. …
EventNigeria gained independence from the United Kingdom
… 1 October 1960. And an Executive Council, made up entirely of Nigerians, was led by a Prime Minister, Alhaji Sir … Tafawa Balewa. Its first government was a…
EventMartin Luther King, Junior, is born
… Georgia. Martin Luther shaped and articulated the message of the American civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s. King led blacks in the Montgomery bus…
EventAt least 150 people die in clashes between the ANC and IFP
… most affected. The violence took place under the State of Emergency, which was declared in 1985 by President PW … was extended for another two years in 1987…
To All Fathers and Mothers, Brothers and Sisters, Friends and Workers, in All Cities, Towns and Villages in the Republic of South Africa. Flyer in English and Sesotho by the Soweto Students’ Representative Council, 15 October 1976
… Workers, in All Cities, Towns and Villages in the Republic of South Africa." Flyer in English and Sesotho by the Soweto … Soweto and all Black townships are…
EventThambi Naidoo mobilises the Indians
… Mahatma Gandhi. Naidoo was hailed by Gandhi as one of the most important figures in the history of passive resistance and probably, with A.M. Cachalia, saved…
2002 ANC National Policy Conference: Closing Statement by Jacob Zuma, 30 September 2002
… This National Policy Conference of the ANC, held over the four days of September 27th to 30th … such as the child support grant and the school nutrition…
2003 New Year Message, 30 December 2002
… The year 2002 is rapidly reaching a close. The last month of this year will be remembered in the Southern hemisphere … and take control of their lives. As…
ArchiveThe 1957 Alexandra Bus Boycott and its unsung heroes by Roseinnes Phahle, June 2019
… This essay discusses my experiences and recollections of the 1957 bus boycott in Alexandra, the township in which I … Nosipho Majeke) and others. The…
EventBlacks in South Africa protest against segregation
… On the 300 anniversary of the arrival of Jan van Riebeeck in Table Bay, the African National … Square, Fordsburg announced its campaign to mount a mass…
EventSchools closed in the Western Cape
… Carter Ebrahim, Minister of Education and Culture for the mixed race community, announced that 454 out of a total of over 900 schools were going to be closed…
EventANC leads march through central Durban
… The march was the first event in the ANC's mass action campaign in Kwazulu-Natal. … Keesing's Record of World Events , News Digest for March 1994, p. 39894…
EventResolute Treurnicht rejects waiving language policy
… Despite the indications of African unrest at Soweto schools being noticed by … authorities on 4 June, who reported it to the Minister of Bantu Administration…