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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…
ArticleSocialism
… Engels, developed the idea of socialism and wrote about it in detail. The core tenets of socialism are that it advocates … a more equal and just society. The…
When Mandela's Predecessor toured the US to Expose Segregation back home by Matthew Blackman (www.ozy.com), 29 May 2018
… bearer was a British national and a resident of Toronto. In fact, he was Solomon Plaatje, the first secretary-general … and author one of the first novels…
Evidence before the Foreign Affairs Committee of the house of commons: Oliver Tambo, 29 October 1985, London
… care of all problems relating to the internal situation in South Africa; it plans and executes or plans and carries … ask you what your relationship in South…
EventAlbert Luthuli is elected as an ANC President
… African National Congress (ANC) was founded as the SANCC in 1912. John Dube was its first president, and the well … founding members. Formed in protest of…
PlaceLamu, Kenya
… is a Port, City, an Island just off the shore of Kenya in the Indian Ocean approximately, 150 miles from Mombasa . … Town is the oldest and best-preserved…
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. …
ArticleYoung Communist League of South Africa (YCLSA)
… History reveals that there is evidence of YCL activities in Johannesburg and Cape Town in 1921. Edward Roux , who was … strike, there were several clashes…
Johnny Gomas Voice of the working class: A political Biography by Doreen Musson
… must be heard, and old fighters given their rightful place in the annals of struggle in this country. As one of the … - The year with the ICU: 1921 - 1926…
EventRhodesian Prime Minister, Ian Smith, issues a Unilateral Declaration of Independence
… minister of the self-governing British colony of Rhodesia in 1964. In keeping with the postwar trend toward … independence, but only on the basis of giving…
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…
ArchiveSteve Fataar could have had a rock star ego but didn’t by Rafs Mayet, 24 January 2020
… and disc jockeys were unheard of. For us growing up in a youthful new era of popular culture and optimism, live … public music events and pernicious new laws…
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…
January 8th Statements -Statement of the National Executive Committee on the occasion of the 89th Anniversary of the ANC - 8 January 2001
… the African National Congress. On this important day in our country's history and our national calendar, the … had no health care facilities. It also entails…
EventUmkhonto we Sizwe bombs Church Street, Pretoria
… One of South Africa’s deadliest terror attacks took place in Church Street, Pretoria, in 1983, when Umkhonto we Sizwe … of 17 men and 2 women, of which 9…
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…
A growing urban African population
… of factories were being established and were growing in size. More and more Africans moved to the city. As the African working class grew in Johannesburg,…
ArticleGarveyism: Early 1900s philosophy
… the return of all Afro-Americans to their ancestral homes in Africa The majority of the political activists of the … he had founded the Universal Negro…
EventArthur Robert Ashe Jr, prominent African American tennis player and vocal protester of apartheid, dies
… African American tennis player who was born and raised in Richmond, Virginia died on 6 February 1993. He died of … This was after a number of refusals. He…
Bonakele Mali Khana
… of 616 South Africans that died when the SS Mendi sank in 1917. …
BiographyMargaret Mncadi
… Margaret Mncadi was born in the Eastern Transvaal, and obtained a degree at Fort Hare … first president of the ANC’s Women’s League in KwaZulu-Natal …
BiographyDr Martin Luther King jr
… American Civil Rights leader, influential and inspirational in many African lives For an excellent and richly linked … Civil rights activist in the United…
Philemon A. Mahlakola
… Congress (ANC) and uMkhonto we Sizwe (MK). Was killed in Mozambique on 11 November 1979. … National Congress. (1996). List of ANC Members who Died in…
Ben Vusi Mahlangu
… Congress (ANC) and uMkhonto we Sizwe (MK). Was killed in Angola on 11 November 1982. … National Congress. (1996). List of ANC Members who Died in Exile…
PlaceRed Location Museum
… The Red Location Museum is situated within the Black Township of New Brighton , of Port Elizabeth (now … red colour. These were part of a Boer concentration…
Prehistory of the Polokwane/Pietersburg area
… Africa Two places are of particular heritage interest in the Polokwane area: the BaKoni Malapa Museum south of the stadium and Makapansgat in the mountains…
Andrew Majane
… (ANC) and uMkhonto we Sizwe (MK). He was killed in Angola during a Unita raid. … Death in exile …