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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…
ANC Youth League Manifesto 1944
… Issued by the Provisional Committee of the ANC Youth League in March 1944. PREAMBLE WHEREAS Africanism must be promoted … briefly it is: The contact of the…
Passive Resistance 1946 - A Selection of Documents compiled by E.S. Reddy & Fatima Meer - Support from persons and Organisation - 1946
… Mahatma Gandhi It is my firm conviction that Indians in South Africa must Bt submits to the latest racial … of foreign control is achieved. A Member: Race…
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…
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…
Reginald Mabuza
… Died of natural causes in Angola on 11 November 1983 …
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
PlaceMendi Memorial, Eastern Cape
… The actual wreck lies off The Isle of Wight, in the English Channel. In Britain the story of the SS Mendi … service as a troop transport and was carrying 823…
BiographyTseko Naphtali Maine
… Tseko Naphtali Maine was killed in the Sharpeville Massacre on 21 March 1960. …
BiographyJohn Motsoahae Mailane
… John Motsoahae Mailane was killed in the Sharpeville Massacre on 21 March 1960. …
G. Abdulla
… Cape member of the South African Indian Federation (SAIF) in 1927. …
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…
Ronald Madondo
… the African National Congress (ANC). Missing as reported in the Motsuenyane Commission. … www.iol.co.za/pretoria-news/mk-activist-finds-peace-at-last-in…
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,…
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…
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…
Leocadia Lungi Majola
… Congress (ANC) and uMkhonto we Sizwe (MK). Was killed in Tanzania. … National Congress. (1996). List of ANC Members who Died in Exile from the ANC…
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…
ArchiveChief Albert Luthuli Lecture, Africa and Freedom, delivered by the patron of the TMF, Thabo Mbeki, 10 December 2021
… Museum for giving me the opportunity to deliver a Lecture in honour of that eminent leader of our people, Chief Albert … the ANC Youth League and Stephen…
Hendrik Verwoerd’s response to the ‘Winds of Change’ speech
… South Africa Parliament on 3 February 1960: The tendency in Africa for nations to become independent, and at the same … to do justice to all, does not only…
EventPresident F.W. de Klerk announces withdrawal of Internal Stability Units (ISU)
… unit within the police force and this had resulted in a constant outcry from the communities and political organisations. Many black communities raised their…
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…
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…