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January 8th Statements - Statement of the National Executive Committee on the occasion of the 71th Anniversary of the ANC - 8 January 1983
… set our-selves new tasks which we should strive to achieve in the coming year. We are marking this important occasion in the history of our protracted…
PlaceUniversity of Stellenbosch
… Stellenbosch University the 2nd of the Universities in the picture in the Banner. With an interesting Link In Further Reading. This University was developed…
PlaceUmlazi
… ) and created a number of ‘Native locations’ for the Zulus in the Natal region. A year later, Sir Theophilus Shepstone , a settler in his capacity as a…
PlaceKhayelitsha Township
… 19km east of Wynberg and 25 km of south-east of Cape Town in the Western Cape . The name is of Xhosa origin and means … Botha promised fair treatment for…
PlaceSignal Hill
… at the Cape of Good Hope was founded by the Dutch in 1652 and the signal guns were originally part of the regular artillery at the Imhoff Battery at the…
Press Conference by O. R. Tambo, Lusaka, 25 June 1985
… for united action. We have called on our people in the various organisational formations, in different political units, to fight on their own fronts; but…
The Segregation Fallacy and Other Papers - The Bantu and the Gospel
… an obsession with the great masses of unthinking people in this land with reference to the Natives: The first is, … the Europeans are two thousand years…
Farewell To His Comrades: Message, September 19, 1983
… Committee. Furthermore, since my election as Chairman in 1972, this will be the first time I am deprived of the … parties, governments, liberation movements,…
Death of ANC Education Secretary, Seretse Choabi, 29 August 1991
… announce the untimely and sudden death of Seretse Choabi in London on August 19, 1991. Seretse was born on 16 May 1936 in Bothaville, Kimberley. He attended…
PlaceNgcobo
… On 1 November 1859, a day known in the Christian calender as All Saints Day, Chief Fubu of … Gordon of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in…
Chapter 2 - From Crisis to Stability to Crisis
… and collective actions of SASO which are examined in the next three chapters. The focus here is on the social … of the period from the crushing of mass…
Message to the Seventh Congress of the South African Communist Party by O. R. Tambo, April 1989
… our country, on behalf of its entire membership and in particular, the heroic cadres-in-arms of the people's army, Umkhonto we Sizwe, and our … country which…
Address by President Jacob Zuma to the Informal Ministerial Consultations on COP 17, O.R. Tambo Building, Tshwane, 09 September 2011
… informal Ministerial consultation on climate change here in the O.R. Tambo Building in Pretoria. The fact that we are gathered here is an … as we prepare for…
Address by President Nelson Mandela on the occasion of his acceptance of an honorary doctorate of the University of Stellenbosch Stellenbosch, 25 October 1996
… Speech originally delivered in Afrikaans Mister Chancellor; Mister Vice-Chancellor; … Guests; Ladies and Gentlemen, As the Rector has noted in his address of…
2002 ANC National Policy Conference: Closing Statement by Jacob Zuma, 30 September 2002
… was preceded by a comprehensive process, and it serves, in turn, as a major step towards our 51st National Congress to be held in December in Stellenbosch…
Chapter 7. An Afrikaner Working Mother
… Anna Sophia Swanepoel (Told in 1950) I was born on 2nd April 1893, on Tapfontein Farm, … When I was three years old, the family went to live in Thaba 'Nchu…
Eye of the Needle - Chapter 7 - Participatory Democracy for South Africa
… inequalities are the result of the skilful use of power in their own inÂterests by whites, who acted thus because … Christianity. Political and economic…
PlaceAdams Mission, Kwa-Zulu Natal
… Settlement West of Amanzimtoti and South of Durban, in the Umlazi district. Established in 1836, it was destroyed by Dingaan, but rebuilt in 1839. Named…
EventThe SS Mendi began its journey from Cape Town to Plymouth
… In 1916, the South African government agreed to recruit Black people to assist the British in World War 1 by providing labour. There were to be 10 000 people…
EventHerman Charles Bosman guilty of murder
… African author Herman Charles Bosman visited his parents in Johannesburg during the June school holidays, his visit ended in tragedy in the house of his…
EventHaile Selassi I, Emperor of Ethiopia, is born
… Haile Selassi was born as Lij Tafari Makonnen in the village of Ejersa Gor, in the Harar province of Ethiopia. Heir to a 13th century dynasty, he ascended to…
EventSir Percy Fitzpatrick, author of ‘Jock of the Bushveld’, is born
… On 24 July 1862, Sir Percy Fitzpatrick was born in King Williams Town. He was the eldest son of James Coleman … Ireland. James Fitzpatrick served as a…
Chapter 3 - The Rise of the ANC
… National Congress. Though the CP leaders played a role in the 1950-51 general strike calls, it was also leaders of … a radical departure for the ANC. From…
Address by the Chancellor of the University of Zululand, Mr Jacob Zuma, at the Gala Dinner of the First International Co-Operatives Conference, Kwazulu Natal, 24 February 2009, Inkosi Albert Luthuli International Convention Centre, Durban
… Gumbi Distinguished delegates from our sister countries in the continent Ladies and gentlemen It is an honour and a … Conference of Co-operatives, the first…
Address by President Nelson Mandela at the commemoration of the twentieth anniversary of Steve Biko’s death East London, 12 September 1997, South Africa
… greatest sons of our nation, Stephen Bantu Biko. His hope in life, and his life of hope, are captured by his resounding words: "In time, we shall be in a…
PlaceJohannesburg Art Gallery
… Art Gallery was first commissioned to be built in 1910, and was initially housed on the campus of … District. The Johannesburg Art Gallery was constructed…
Address to United Nations Security Council, by Nelson Mandela, 15 July 1992, New York United States
… leading to the democratic transformation of our country. In the meantime an extremely critical situation has arisen. Whereas in the Declaration of Intent…
Address by the President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki, to The Joint Sitting of Parliament, Palais Du Parliament, Brazzaville, Republic of Congo, 1 December 2005
… President Sassou-Nguesso said last night it was in this very city that in 1986 the Organisation of African Unity launched the Africa Fund which played a…
77. The South African Indian Council: an assessment from within, 1978
… Africans edited by Surendra Bhana and Bridglal Pachai In 1966, the Government appointed a National Indian Council, … of twenty members. This was given…
A.I. Kajee His Work for the Southern African Indian Community - Chapter 11
… turned from his opponents, the Europeans, to is opponents in his own community. He was faced with a rising storm of … from he anti-segregationalists led by…