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Memorandum from Nelson Mandela to F. W. de Klerk, 26 June 1992
… Document 23 26 June 1992 Introduction 1. The Declaration of intent which we adopted at Codesa 1 committed us to the … police in the violence as well as…
FREEDOM IN OUR LIFETIME, Durban, December 12-14, 1958
… Presidential Address to the 46th Annual Conference of the African National Congress, Durban, December 12-14, … as the preserve of the whites only. His Bantu…
ArticleSharpeville Timeline
… Albert Luthuli declared that 1960 would be the "Year of the Pass", with a nation-wide anti-pass campaign to start on 31 March - the anniversary of the 1919…
A.I. Kajee His Work for the Southern African Indian Community - Chapter 6
… The man and the woman were sentenced under the Immorality Act, the man to six months and the woman to three months. There were two children of the marriage…
ArticleHarriet and the Bolton Hall Four
… Cheadle were banned for five years under the Suppression of Communism Act on 1 February 1974. Harriet organised a meeting to … protest meeting. After the…
ArticleRand Rebellion 1922
… The Rand Rebellion of 1922 was an armed uprising that is also referred to as the Rand Revolt or Red Revolt. It occurred during a period of economic…
ArticleSouth African Student Organisation (SASO)
… Organisation (SASO) was formed in 1968 after some members of the University of Natal’s Black Campus SRC (Student Representative Council) … blacks from…
Address by President Mandela on Heritage Day Robben Island, 24 September 1997
… Minister of Arts &Culture, Science &Technology; Distinguished Guests; … shown as people locked in time? Such degrading forms of representation inhibit our…
54. South African Indian Congress: first annual report, 1924
… From the book: A Documentary History of Indian South Africans edited by Surendra Bhana and … and thus became the foundation members thereof with equal…
Tribute to the United Nations Special Committee Against Apartheid - Statement at the Meeting of the Special Committee on its Tenth Anniversary by O. R. Tambo, New York, 2 April 1973
… representatives, Today, we, black and white, peoples of many nationalities and continents, representatives of different social systems, are met here as one…
Freedom In Our Life Time - African Nationalism
… Association] Bulletin, 1, 2. (July 1944). On the 9TH of April the inaugural meeting of the African Youth League … and man ”” the African Native or Aborigine…
EventSlave rebellion at the Cape led by Louis of Mauritius. Over 300 slaves and Khoi Khoi servants from outlying farms marched on Cape Town demanding their freedom
… at the Cape, and suggests a deep awareness around issues of abolition and freedom held by slaves and servants throughout the Cape Colony. The timing of the…
ArticleThe Information Scandal
… person throughout the scandal. Dr. Mulder was the Minister of Information in John Vorster's government. Moreover, he was … in the scandal were, General…
ArticleThe World and South Africa when Nelson Mandela was born
… Nelson Mandela was born into a world of war, revolutionary upheaval and a worldwide influenza … end in sight. In January General T.E. Lawrence led an army of…
Freedom In Our Life Time - Debates and Relations with Other Organizations
… But he appears to have found a new recruit in the ranks of the African National Congress. A correspondent who was … of attainment for the following reasons: …
ArticleTimeline Interim Constitution 1991 to 1993
… November at the World Trade Centre in Kempton Park, east of Johannesburg, Gauteng Province, and the Convention for a … I) started its first plenary meeting…
PlaceRorke's Drift, KZN
… Rorke's Drift, situated 46 km South East of Dundee , on the Battlefields Route . Is the site of one of the most famous battles of the Anglo-Zulu War . Years …
ArticleMahatma Karamchand Gandhi Timeline 1910-1919
… their conversations with Lord Selborne, High Commissioner of the Transvaal. In letter to J. C. Gibson, Gandhi refuted … demands. January13, Gokhale wrote to…
ArchivePersonal notes of the conversations with his Excellency President Jose Eduardo Dos Santos on 23 September 1988 to be conveyed directly to His Excellency President Pieter W Botha
… A translation of the personal notes of President Dos Santos answering questions presented by President P W Botha regarding the withdrawal of Cuban and South…
Education for Service
… We, the duly authorised representatives of political parties, political organisations, … African Government, coming together at this first meeting of the…
PlaceShri Jagannath Puri Temple, Tongaat
… the Historic Indian temple thereon, being the remainder of Lot 79, Tongaat Township, situated in the Township of Tongaat, Province of Natal, and measuring …
ArchiveBlack Peoples Convention: Minutes of the 4th National Council Meeting held at the St. Anscars LP studios from the 16th to 17th March 1974
… Minutes of the 4th National Council Meeting of the Black Peoples Convention held at the St. Anscars LP … Black Peoples Convention: Minutes of the 4th…
ArchiveSoweto Students Representative Council: To all fathers and mothers, brothers and sisters, friends and workers, in all cities, towns and villages in the Republic of South Africa.
… Students Reprsentative Council, calling on residents of Black townships to boycott Christmas shopping and shebeens as a show of solidarity with those killed…
Indian immigrants engaged in non-sugar growing activities
… From the outset a large number of Indians were employed in non-sugar growing activities. A … was tea growing, which according to the Clayton Report of 1909…
BiographyAdelaine Florence Hain
… Stocks in Port Alfred, South Africa, on 16 February 1927 of British 1820 settlers. The family of her father Gerald Stocks hailed originally from South West ……
BiographyShirish Nanabhai
… Shirish was born one of eight siblings on 1 March 1938 at 51 Commercial Rd, … Shirish J. Nanabhai’s father, was from the village of Karadi/Matvad in Gujarat,…
BiographyAbdullah Abdurahman
… 1872 and graduated as a medical doctor from the University of Glasgow in 1893.He return to South Africa with his … by their hostility he in time won the…
BiographyGovin Reddy
… a farming area next to Claremont on the outskirts of Durban, Natal (now known as KwaZulu-Natal - KZN). The seeds of Reddy’s activism were sown as a…
“The most patient of animals, next to the ass:” Jan Smuts, Howard University, and African American Leadership, 1930 by Robert Edgara and Myra Ann Houser
… “The most patient of animals, next to the ass:” Jan Smuts, Howard University, …
ArchiveOff-the-record statement by Minister R F Botha at a meeting between the Minister and representatives of the South African media in Washington on 16 May 1981
… at a meeting between the Minister and representatives of the South African media in Washington on 16 May 1981 …