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… During the month of May we celebrate Africa Month as a way to commemorate the creation of the Organisation of African Unity (OUA) in 1963.. As a way to value…
ArticleFreedom Day: 27 April
… Freedom Day on 27 April is an annual celebration of South Africa's first non-racial democratic elections of 1994. It is significant because it marks the end…
Document 90 - “Hertzog’s Native Bill Passed: Only 11 Oppose Reactionary Measure”, Umsebenzi, 1 1 April 1936
… was carried at its third reading by a joint sitting of both houses of Parliament last Monday night. The voting … override the provisions provided for the…
ArticleThe Wragg Commission (1885-1887)
… Within a decade, irregularities in the employment of Indians had increased to such an extent that that the … in 1885, to investigate the conditions and…
EventThe Natal Legislature plans to introduce the Indian Franchise Bill
… fighter, Mahatma Gandhi,sent telegrams to the Speaker of the Natal Legislative Assembly, Prime Minister Robinson, … In his telegrams Ghandi requested the…
EventP.W. Botha and Kenneth Kaunda in a historic meeting
… President Kenneth Kaunda of Zambia met the Prime Minister, P.W. Botha, in a mobile home that had been set down in the middle of the African bush across South…
EventEquatorial Guinea gains Independence from Spain
… The colonial history of Equatorial Guinea dates back to 1471 when Portuguese … way to India, Portuguese explorers discovered the island of Bioko, and later…
EventLucas Mangope, Bophuthatswana homeland leader is deposed
… On 13 March 1994, Lucas Mangope was ousted as President of the homeland of Bophuthatswana. Mangope came to power in Bophuthatswana … to change the view of…
EventInkatha Freedom Party boycotts parliament
… Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) announced the suspension of its active participation in both chambers of parliament and in the constitution-making process. IFP ……
ArticleDutch East India Company (DEIC)/VOC
… March 20, 1602 marked the beginning of the inexorable end for many a state in the then known world. On that day, four hundred years ago, a group of Dutch…
Yusuf Dadoo Timeline: 1910 - 1919
… Peoples’ Organisation (APO) resolution to declare the day of arrival of the Prince of Wales as a day of mourning in protest … A dozen Indian women leave…
ArticleKora
… a chief called Kora (or Gora), who was originally a leader of the Gorachouqua (`-qua’ meaning ‘people of’). This leader detached himself from this group with…
ArticleHIV/Aids in South Africa
… says the evidence that HIV is the underlying cause of AIDS is ‘irrefutable’. HIV was isolated and identified as the source of what came to be defined as AIDS…
His Life and Legacy - Oliver Tambo
… Oliver Reginald Tambo , leader of the African National Congress in exile for thirty years, … the ANC and the Pan Africanist Congress, and declared a state of…
EventThe European Community announces that it will lift economic sanctions against South Africa
… sanctions on South Africa, the growing social unrest and state brutality in the 1980s forced these countries to impose … against the South African government…
EventDaily Dispatch editor, Donald Woods is banned
… Newspaper and Imprint Registration Act no 19, a version of an earlier act that required that all newspapers be registered and conform to a strict code of…
EventKhotso House is bombed
… The South African Council of Churches (SACC) headquarters, Khotso House, based in … anti-apartheid groups a year after a blast at Congress of South African…
EventPW Botha refuses to testify before the TRC
… (ANC) led government. Botha, who became Prime Minister of the Republic of South Africa in 1978 and later its President from 1984-89, … had told the…
EventEllen Kuzwayo becomes the first Black woman to receive an honorary degree from Wits University
… woman to receive an honorary degree from the University of the Witwatersrand on 2 April 1987. Kuzwayo was born into a privileged family in the Thaba-nchu…
ArticleIndustrial and Commercial Workers Union (ICU)
… in 1923 - did not accomplish much to improve the lives of black South Africans. Short of funds and poorly organised, it was overshadowed by the … into rural…
ArchiveThe Final Prize - Contents and Preface
… The politics referred to is not about the science and art of government, but more often about the tensions between … 1940s and helped to rebut false…
ArchiveConcentration camps in the South African War? Here are the real facts by Fransjohan Pretorius, (The Conversation), February 18, 2019
… One of the Boer concentration camps. Photographical Collection … republics: the ZAR (Transvaal) and the Orange Free State. The scandalous campaign is back in…
ArchivePhotography and the Liberation Struggle in South Africa
… Introduction We are not dealing with sets of statistics. We are talking about people of flesh and … Questions I will pose include; how has the colonial state…
ABBREVIATIONS USED
… ICFTU - International Confederation of Free Trade Unions IDAF - International Defence and Aid … Metalworkers Federation ISCOR - Iron and Steel Corporation of…
EventConnie Mulder announces banning off WCC officials from SA
… The Minister of the Interior, Connie Mulder, announces that senior officials of the World Council of Churches (WCC) have been banned from … purposes', and…
Robert Sobukwe Inaugural Speech, April 1959
… Sir, Sons and Daughters of Afrika! Mr. Speaker as already informed you that we had … fact that the countries which pursue a policy of planned state economy…
Pretoria Socialist Society
… The Honourable the Prime Minister, Union of South Africa, House of Assembly CAPE TOWN Honourable Sir, … and the African people in particular. This…
PlaceAgtersuurberg, Eastern Cape
… attained Municipal status in 1895. Named after the owner of the land on which it was established, Johannes J.T. Venter. It is one of the smaller towns that…
EventFormer ANC President, Oliver ‘OR’ Tambo, is born
… Cape). During the 1940s, he enrolled at the University of Fort Hare where he became active in politics. Tambo was … student boycott at Fort Hare, calling for…
EventJ.M. Coetzee wins the Booker Prize
… languages. In 1968, he became an assistant professor of English at New York State University. A year later he began to write fiction, … published in 1974…