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EventANC members meet with Adriaan Vlok and Gen. Magnus Malan
… An African National Congress (ANC) delegation headed by Walter Sisulu, met with two government officials, Minister of Law and Order Adriaan Vlok and Defence…
EventCOSATU withdraws from parliamentary session on budget
… The Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU) walked out of a parliamentary budget session on the grounds that its … Keesing's 's Record of World…
EventNatoo Babenia is born
… Road, Bellair, Durban. In South Africa he was a member of the African National Congress (ANC), South African Communist Party (SACP) … Island. Babenia passed…
EventIFP makes election threat
… Officials of the Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) announced that they would not present their list of election candidates to the Independent Electoral ……
EventDr. Andries P. Treurnicht is re-elected NP leader in the Transvaal
… Dr. Andries P. Treurnicht, Minister of Public Works, Statistics and Tourism, was unanimously … As the chief spokesman for the conservative wing of the NP, he…
EventUganda gains independence
… Bunyoro and Toro receiving federal status and a degree of autonomy. Buganda, under the leadership of Sir Edward Mutesa, was the most powerful kingdom. Milton…
EventJapanese attack American Naval Forces at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii
… before 8AM on a Sunday morning. Within a short time five of eight battleships at Pearl Harbor were sunk or sinking, … Franklin Roosevelt, addressing a joint…
EventExpelled ANC leader abandons court action
… Supreme Court action aimed at forcing the African National Congress (ANC) to reinstate him as a member. He aimed instead … organise a national conference to…
EventFirst democratic election results for SA
… in the 1994 election in which the African National Congress (ANC) gained an overwhelming victory during the … gained 62.60% while the National Party (NP)…
EventNgoako Abel Ramathlodi is born
… Ngoako Ramathlodi, former premier of the Northern Transvaal Province (now Limpopo) and current Africa National Congress (ANC) National Executive Committee…
EventThe TRC report points out culprits
… prominent leaders from across the political spectrum of human rights violations, was published. The report singled out former president P. W. Botha, minister…
EventCOSATU issued a statement on Marikana Massacre
… On 24 August 2012, Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU) issued a statement … ones in their grief and the country that was in a state of shock over…
EventMaluzi Gigaba is born
… South Africa's youngest cabinet member and deputy minister of home affairs, Malusi Knowledge Nkanyedzi Gigaba, was born … elections. Previously, he had been…
EventThe Pretoria Minute is agreed upon
… The government and the African National Congress (ANC) reaffirmed their commitment to the Groote … group reached consensus on several issues such the release…
EventCharges against Cape Times editor, Mr Anthony Heard are dropped
… Mr Anthony who was convicted for publishing an interview of the African National Congress leader, Oliver Tambo were withdrawn, after PFP … justice, Mr Dave…
ArchiveA vote for SAIC is a vote accepting racial inferiority. Reject Aparthate!
… inferiority; Reject Apartheid; text on ballot box: At the congress of the ASB held in Pretoria on 28 June 1971 the Prime … in GENETIC FUSION* - NJ Rhoodie,…
EventThe People’s Progressive Party (PPP) is banned
… People Progressive Party (PPP) under the leadership of the former African National Congress (ANC) member Rocky Malebane-Metsing, was banned in … coup attempt…
ArticleThe Western Cape Farm Workers Strike 2012-2013
… population in the Western Cape make up the highest number of workers in South Africa in the fruit and wine industry. In … to have no involvement in the…
1973: Neo-apartheid and the Sleeping the Giant by Mbuso Nkosi
… the giant. Mbuso Nkosi (Sociology Lecturer-University of Pretoria) [email protected] The sociologist Michael Burawoy argues that the production politics…
ArchiveHistory for the Future by Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Mpilo Tutu
… was a unique political compromise forged during the years of negotiations between the liberation movements, civil … government that led to the first…
EventAllan Boesak's plea for the acquittal on fraud charges is rejected and the case is postponed to the following year
… South. Boesak rose to prominence when he became the head of the World Alliance of Reformed Churches in 1982. He used this platform to speak out against the…
PlaceSol Plaatje University
… (SPU) opened in 2014 (AS SEEN IN PHOTO) , the first of two new universities to be established in post-apartheid … as a niche university, SPU offers academic…
EventClarence Makwetu Expelled from PAC
… The Chairman of the Pan-Africanist Congress and disciplinary committee …
EventChurch leaders initiate peace summit in Durban
… an end to the violence between local warring factions of the African National Congress (ANC) and the Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) in the … Southern African…
EventNelson Mandela is inaugurated as South Africa’s first black president
… democratic elections held in April 1994, the president of the African National Congress (ANC), Nelson Mandela, was sworn in as South …
EventFormer ANC president, Z.R. Mahabane, is born
… Clergyman, teacher, politician and president of the African National Congress (ANC) Zaccheus Richard Mahabane, who combined … and during the 1950s he was…
OR Tambo lecture by Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa
… The Deputy President of the ANC, Comrade Cyril Ramaphosa, will deliver a lecture to celebrate the life and times of Oliver Reginald Tambo during the Mid-term…
National spokesperson to address a lecture on OR Tambo
… This month, October 2014, the African National Congress pays homage to our late former President, … Comrade Oliver Reginald Tambo. As part of the month long…
EventBantu Holomisa is dismissed
… Tourism Minister after revealing that the African National Congress (ANC), received a sum of R2 million from former Prime Minister of the Transkei, Stella…
EventANC's Walter Sisulu and Duma Nokwe rally support against Urban Bantu Councils Act
… African National Congress (ANC) leaders, Walter Sisulu and Duma Nokwe went … Councils Act. The Bantu Urban Councils Act, Act No 79 of 1961 created black…