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Say It out Loud - The 1935 Presidential Address, Cape Town, 2nd January, 1935
… 1935 1 Another year has just closed, but the lapse of time really never ends, it is but the year that ends. The … that it would come from one who came from…
EventDr. Federik Van Zyl Slabbert leads delegation to meet ANC
… On 6 July 1987, Dr. Federik van Zyl Slabbert led a group of fifty-two mainly Afrikaans-speaking intellectuals, to meet … however saw it as a betrayal not…
Hendrik Verwoerd: 10 quotes by Hendrik Verwoerd (Politics Web), 20 September 2016
… The 6th September 2016 was the 50th anniversary of the assassination of National Party Prime Minister Hendrik … of South Africa Below are the possible ways…
29. Removal to locations: the people are terrified
… From the book: A Documentary History of Indian South Africans edited by Surendra Bhana and … to register their leases. 6.The people were and are in a state…
EventThe first ‘Bantustans’ or ‘homelands’ comes into existence when the Transkei Regional Authority is instituted
… On 11 December 1963 the first of the 'Bantustans' or 'homelands' came into existence when … own governments, led by chiefs controlled by the apartheid state…
ANC NEC meets (30th November, - 2 December 2001), 29 November 2001
… from Friday, the 30th November until Sunday, the 2nd of December, 2001. The meeting will be opened by a political … to address amongst others, issues of the…
IFP 2019 Election Manifesto
… A GROWING ECONOMY The development of an inclusive economy is an absolute priority. This is … sectors. Public private partnerships with a focus on State-Owned…
Document 139 - “The coming Anti-African Bill”. Workers’ Voice.6.2. December 1947
… Bill whic8 is to be discussed at the next session of Parliament must surely rank as the most viciously … of their unions in the interests of the bosses and…
PlaceThe Queen’s Fort Military Museum, Bloemfontein
… the Orange River Sovereignty, covering a broad area of land over the Gariep River. In July the British Resident … rains in 1850 and when the Republic of the…
Book 6: Negotiation, Transition and Freedom - Timeline
… Transition and Freedom commissioned by The Department of Education 1902 Treaty of Vereeniging 1910 31 May, Adoption … and NP, Lausanne 1989 14 September, F.W…
EventKarel Schoeman, well known Afrikaans author, is born
… was born on 26 October 1939 in Trompsburg, Orange Free State. He matriculated from the HoÁƒÂƒÂ«r Jongenskool in … in 1956, obtained a BA in languages at the…
Document 44 - Letter from Leon Trotsky to T. W. Thibedi, 4 September 1932
… that the material hindrances would be great in this time of deep crisis, Are many negro comrades unemployed in … and in South Africa in general? The…
Work In Progress
… The context in which the first issue of Work In Progress appeared was one in which the embryonic … issues about the centralisation and changing nature of…
EventThe Dutch Indiaman, the Nieuwe Haerlem, is wrecked in a storm in Table Bay
… 1488 in an attempt to find a sea route to the spice lands of East Asia, numerous Dutch ships, called Indiamen, dared … the course of history, leading to the…
ArchiveCHAPTER 5 - Armed Propaganda and Non-Colaborattion, Rationalising weakness, August 1979 - December 1980 by Howard Barell
… in 1979 that it had to take one step back in the conduct of armed operations if it was eventually to be able to mount … January 1978 - August 1979 The South…
EventEgyptian President Sadat formally accepts an invitation to visit Israel. The Egyptian foreign minister and his deputy resign over the proposed visit to Israel and the Arab nations are in uproar
… Fahmy's job to Egypt's second-ranking diplomat, Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Mohamed Riad. But he too resigned. … hopeful that at anytime since the…
Thanks, Jimi, this is good for you and the broader SA (The Times Editorial), 28 June 2016
… Matthews joins a long list of staffers who are not prepared to stomach nonsense and take … voices in favour of those who defended the apartheid state. Now,…
ArticlePass Laws and Sharpeville Massacre
… resistance during the 20th century. But earlier forms of passes, had in fact been used in various instances since … by African and Coloured women was…
ArticleThe Azania Liberation Support Committee and its publications
… around 1983 by Roseinnes Phahle and other individuals of various broadly leftist political tendencies. The ALSC … (October 1988). Martin Murray, a sociology…
ArticleAnti-South African Indian Council (SAIC) Campaign
… Indians were officially recognised as a permanent part of the South African population and the Department of Indian … of government nominated individuals…
EventThe first regular jet flight leaves London for Johannesburg
… Overseas Airways Corporation (BOAC) was the British state airline from 1939 until 1946, and the long-haul British state airline from 1946 (later merged with…
PlaceKhami Ruins, Zimbabwe
… Monument and World Heritage Site, is located to the west of the Khami River, 22 km from the City of Bulawayo. The property, located on a 1300 m hilltop ……
Countdown to the elections July 1993 – April 1994
… From: A Crime Against Humanity - Analysing the Repression of the Apartheid State edited by Max Coleman In July 1993, the date for South … nation had been…
PlaceOld Locomotive “Emil Kessler”, Johannesburg
… 1936. (Note the National Monuments plaque on the side of the loco.) The engine weighs 12,7 tonnes and was … of rolling stock to pave the way for the Royal…
2012 ANC National Policy Conference: Opening Address by President Jacob Zuma, Midrand, 26 June 2012
… Comrade Kgalema Motlanthe, ANC Officials and Members of the National Executive Committee, ANC leadership of all … management of the interface between the…
Documents, speeches, Awards, and articles relating to Desmond Tutu
… voice against apartheid, first Black Secretary General of the South African Council of Churches , first Black Archbishop of the Anglican Church … Town. 1996 …
ArticleA Land Dispossession History 1600s-1990s
… Anyone who travels over the vast expanse of South Africa is immediately struck by the great variations … under which Black rural people live. The picture of…
ArticleYusuf Dadoo Centenary Celebrations
… West Rand on 5 September. Today, he like many activists of the South African socialist movement and other stalwarts of the liberation struggle, such as…
Intensify the Revolution by O. R. Tambo The 'Morogoro Conference', Morogoro, Tanzania, 25 April – 1 May 1969
… Contents Extracts from the Political Report of the National Executive Committee to the Consultative … unequal trade agreements, the export of both private…
Pravin Gordhan on a leash by Daniel Silke (Politics Web), 16 May 2016
… the status quo. How apt therefore that the current saga of Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan fits so well into this … more authoritarian regimes like China and…