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Chapter 6 - No more suppers for my comrades
… thread between the 30 was the fact that they were all Black South Africans. Some were students at school in Lesotho. Some were visitors from South Africa…
EventNoble South Africans win Nobel Peace Prize
… occasions. Chief Albert John Mvumbi Luthuli was the first Black African to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize on 10 … National Congress (ANC), was awarded the…
EventThe siege of Mafeking starts
… forces besieged the small town of Mafeking (now Mafikeng) in the Northern Cape (now North West Province), situated on … town adjacent to Mafeking. Sol…
ArchiveThe South African Art Collective That Imagined the End of Apartheid by Keenan Teddy Smith, 27 August 2019
… Serote, poet and community organizer who became involved in the African National Congress in 1969, was arrested that … Medu members’ devotion to upending the…
Launch of uMkhonto weSizwe (MK)
… 16 December commemorated the Battle of Blood River where, in 1838, the Boers had defeated King Dingaan's Zulu impis. In preparation, night after night they…
Executive summary of the statement of the National Executive Committee of the ANC delivered by President Jacob Zuma at the 100th anniversary of the ANC, Mangaung 8 January 2012
… colonial oppression and apartheid, and are building in its ruins, a free, democratic, non-racial, non-sexist and … Charter: "... South Africa belongs to all…
January 8th Statements - Statement of the National Executive Committee on the occasion of the 100th Anniversary of the ANC - 8 January 2012
… colonial oppression and apartheid, and are building in its ruins, a free, democratic, non-racial, non-sexist and … Charter: "... South Africa belongs to all…
ArchiveLetter from Rev G Hawkes, to the Secretary, Van der Walt Commission of Inquiry into the Consolidation of the Ciskei
… Congregational, Lutheran, Methodist and Presbyterian)in the Ciskei. The letter is an urgent request to the commission to stop the wholesale removal of black…
PlaceUniversity of Stellenbosch
… Stellenbosch University the 2nd of the Universities in the picture in the Banner. With an interesting Link In … area formerly called ‘Die Vlakte’, from which…
EventThe apartheid government establishes a Department for Coloured Affairs' (CAD)
… Long before the inception of apartheid "Coloured" people in South Africa occupied this precarious position between White and Black South Africans. This…
Statement by Oliver Tambo at May day rally, 01 May 1987, Stockholm
… to participate with the Swedish labour movement and people in observing May Day. We greet this great gathering and the … not accept that any dignity attaches…
South African House of Assembly pays tribute to the SS Mendi
… 616 South Africans lost their lives, 607 of which were Black men serving in the South African Native Labour Contingent. On 9 March … White men who had lost…
EventSouth African House of Assembly pays tribute to the SS Mendi
… 616 South Africans lost their lives, 607 of which were Black men serving in the South African Native Labour Contingent. On 9 March … White men who had lost…
EventSouth African Parliament votes to repeal the legal framework of Apartheid
… For almost 350 years, Black people in South Africa had been subject to exceedingly unjust laws … elections in 1994, with Nelson Mandela as the first Black…
EventGeneral De la Rey protests British mistreatment of women and children
… The Anglo-Boer War broke out in 1899 and was the result of the British annexation of the … farm houses. Boer women and children, as well as their black…
PlaceKweneng, District of Botswana
… historical homeland of the Bakwena people, the first group in Botswana converted to Christianity by famed missionary … type, similar to Barotse and Tuli. Its…
Tribute to DR Nthatho Motlana by ANC President Jacob Zuma, 6 December 2008, University of The Witwatersrand, Johannesburg
… Africans, The national flags have been flying at half-mast in our country and diplomatic missions from the 3rd of … the gap between the students and parents,…
EventLeaders of six homelands reject new constitution
… still excluded Africans from parliament, leaders of six Black homelands issued a statement rejecting it. Their … Conference, the South African Council of…
Archive2012 - President Zuma, State of the Nation Address, 09 February 2012
… important day. It is an honour to speak to South Africans in this House and in their homes and viewing centres around … other components of the liberation…
EventThe apartheid government establishes a Department for Coloured Affairs’ (CAD)
… Long before the inception of apartheid "Coloured" people in South Africa occupied this precarious position between White and Black South Africans. This…
Apartheid power in crisis
… Max Coleman The year 1989 will go down as a watershed year in the struggle for a non-racial democracy in South Africa. … facilities open to all races. For…
'Presidential Address' by the Rev. J. A. Calata, ANC (Cape), July 1948
… the African National Congress was a live organization in that part of the country. His name and that of the late … South Africa is just as bad for the…
EventSouth African artist, Gerard Sekoto, dies
… South African artist and musician Gerard Sekoto (80) died in Paris. Often cited as the pioneer of urban black art and social realism, Sekoto studied to be a…
Draft Report of the National Executive Committee
… of the African National Congress, I have great pleasure in submitting to you, for your approval and adoption, the … the review has disclosed a most serious…
2. Potchefstroom: A Fighting Location
… In the mid-1920s African protest escalated throughout the … and growing unemployment, began clamouring for black organisations to assist them. Although the…
EventGovernment’s final consolidation of ‘homelands’
… from 113 to 36. The homelands were officially instituted in the 1950s as a form of apartheid separate development and a way to strip Black South Africans of…
Origins: Formation, Sharpeville and banning, 1959-1960
… approach. Africanist - An ideology that says that black people should determine their own future - Africa for … It was first expressed by a Xhosa missionary,…
Address by ANC President, Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela, at the opening of the 37th congress of the South African Jewish Board of Deputies Carlton Hotel, Saturday, 21 August 1993
… invited to make this keynote address to this congress. In the eighty one years of the life of our movement, this is … grievances of the majority of South…
Remembering Sol Plaatje as South Africa’s original public educator (The Conversation), 05 October 2016
… Solomon Tshekisho Plaatje was born 140 years ago in what is today South Africa’s Free State province. When he … Land Act. This legislation almost completely…
Reginald Mabuza
… Died of natural causes in Angola on 11 November 1983 …