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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…
EventTruck drivers strike in major cities
… Action started on 27 February developed into a countrywide … over 35,000 workers, who were demanding a wage increase of 9 percent across the board and 10…
EventThe UN Special Committee on Apartheid reports on SA
… The final report of the United Nations Special Committee on Apartheid, released on this date, gave a detailed review of developments in South Africa's racial…
PlaceFort Wynyard
… On June 11, 1795, a squadron of British warships anchored in False Bay. In reaction the commander of the Cape forces ordered that a new battery, Kijk-in-de…
EventChief Malaboch is taken prisoner
… In April 1894, Chief Malaboch (Mmaleboho, Mmaleboxo) of the Bahananwa (Xananwa) people refused to leave his traditional mountain kingdom of Blouberg as…
ANC National Working Committee statement following its meeting held on the 20th January 2014, 21 January 2014
… The National Working Committee of the African National Congress met in its ordinary meeting … Chief Albert Luthuli House, Johannesburg; the Headquarters of…
Document 90 - “Hertzog’s Native Bill Passed: Only 11 Oppose Reactionary Measure”, Umsebenzi, 1 1 April 1936
… was carried at its third reading by a joint sitting of both houses of Parliament last Monday night. The voting was: 169 for, 11 … Senator F. S. Malan and M…
EventAfrica Women’s Peace Train leaves Kampala for Johannesburg
… 2002. The train, leaving Kampala on 16 August, was made up of women from across Africa who wanted to raise awareness around the impact of civil wars,…
ArticleYouth and the National Liberation Struggle
… The participation of young people in the liberation struggle preceded the … in schools and increasing government control of the school programme. Towards the…
Appeal For United Front, July 1948
… Yusuf Dadoo and Dr. G. M. Naicker, respectively Presidents of the Transvaal Indian Congress and the Natal Indian … all over the Union were now faced with the…
Document 118 - Johannesburg District Communist Party, Call to a Non-European United Front!
… people into locations! It proposes to push them into a set of special areas for residence and trade! It intends to allow … attacked in the FAGAN BILLS which…
EventSenzo Mfundo Vilakazi, the South African hip hop artist and lyricist is born
… “Flava”.[ii] The track “Stomp” was used in the soundtrack of the American action film Death Race 3: Inferno.[iii] Kwesta has also … DaKar” in 2012. His…
EventRev. Michael Scott besiege the UN for justice regarding Herero people
… got sympathy from the U.N., but did not get any concrete action on behalf of the Herero. The Reverend was supported by an Indian … and the New York-based…
EventThe African National Congress is found guilty
… a report published by The Star on this date , the report of the Motsuenyane Commission, published the previous day, confirmed the findings of the previously…
EventCosatu and TAC table a National HIV/AIDS plan
… On 28 June 2002 the Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) and the Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) tabled a national HIV/AIDS treatment … be no…
EventMartin Luther King is arrested for his role in a bus boycott
… and spends six months in prison. King is recognised as one of the greatest human rights leaders of all time. His moving speech, "I have a dream", spoke to ……
ArticleuMkhonto weSizwe (MK)
… 1961, Umkhonto weSizwe (MK) was launched as an armed wing of the African National Congress (ANC). The formation of the MK Umkhonto weSizwe ("Spear of the…
EventMau Mau political prisoners escape from Mageta Island, Lake Victoria
… to death a fisherman, Onimbo Haulu who refused them use of his canoe for escape. Haulu’s action imperilled the escapees as his refusal could … they hid his…
ArticleThe Pietermaritzburg Treason Trial, 1984
… early 1980s the government took steps to control the level of resistance in the country. Its solution was to arrest key people and charge sixteen of them for…
EventThe PAC is formed
… Leballo were frustrated by the multi-racial character of the African National Congress (ANC). They echoed the sentiments of Anton Lembede, one of the…
EventGoldstone Commission investigate the Bisho Massacre
… At the request of President F. W. de Klerk, the commission of inquiry, headed by Judge Richard Goldstone, started the … The Commission recommended that the…
South Africa’s policy towards Zimbabwe: synopsis by Thabo Mbeki 22 February 2016
… with ZANU when it broke away from ZAPU. This was a product of a continuous process in Zimbabwe which had started with … the Government of Zimbabwe should not…
STRIKES AND INDUSTRIAL ACTIONS
… A strike teaches workers to understand what the strength of the employers and what the strength of the workers consist in: it teaches them not to think of ……
ArticleGarveyism: Early 1900s philosophy
… Marcus Garvey, preaching the unity of all blacks, claimed that liberty would come about only through the return of all Afro-Americans to their ancestral…
ArticleKora
… a chief called Kora (or Gora), who was originally a leader of the Gorachouqua (`-qua’ meaning ‘people of’). This leader detached himself from this group with…
"We have Decided to Liberate Ourselves": Address to the Royal Commonwealth Society by O. R. Tambo, London, 23 June 1986
… eight months ago to the day, in Nassau, the capital of the Bahamas, Heads of State and Government of the Commonwealth countries … United Nations Security…
Chapter 13. General Strike, 1932
… association before the agreement expired in the middle of August 1932, but these proved futile. The employers again demanded a reduction of the workers'…
NUM le Chamber of Mines li ne li nkile leeto mmoho ho ea ithuta ho hong mane Geremane. presidente oa NUM le oa com ba hlalosa tsa leeto la bona (article written in Sotho language)
… National Union of Mineworkers … NUM le Chamber of Mines li ne li nkile leeto mmoho ho ea ithuta ho hong mane …
EventBoers occupying Magagabe Hill shell Rhodesian positions at Basuto Kop
… The action that culminated with the Boers shelling Rhodesian … this quarter while they were besieging it. The positions of the Boers were firstly detected…