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EventWorld Food Program warns the UN that a record 38 million people are at risk of starvation in Africa
… UN Security Council on 3 December 2002, that 38 million Africans were at risk of starvation. The sub-Saharan …
EventAfrikaans is declared an official language of South Africa
… a schism with regard to language and race among South Africans, Afrikaans is widely spoken by Black people. …
EventSA author, Nadine Gordimer, is born
… has been the effect of apartheid on the lives of South Africans, the moral and psychological tensions of life in a …
EventBattle of Delville Wood starts
… covering the flanks of the British Brigade. The South Africans occupied the wood on that day, but the problem was …
EventA Pilot Cellular phone project is launched
… The basic concept of cellular phones began in 1947, when researchers began to examine crude mobile (car) … phone technology provides internet access to South…
16. Advice to a son about coming to Natal
… From the book: A Documentary History of Indian South Africans edited by Surendra Bhana and Bridglal Pachai Madline …
BiographyWolfie Kodesh
… after the war and took up fulltime work for the CPSA in 1947. He wrote for the Guardian exposing the poor and …
BiographyRichard Owen Dudley
Richard Owen Dudley was born in Cape Town and grew up in the house bought in 1852 by his great-grandfather in Palmboom Road, Newlands. The large house was…
Margaret Thatcher's role in SA's transformation by FW de Klerk, 5 December 2016
… process: - The first was how the right of white South Africans to self-determination could possibly be maintained … on the continent. Despite their sins,…
Address by ANC Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa at Freedom Charter Forum, 29 September 2015, Pietermaritzburg City Hall
… point the way to a new world order, the ANC produced the Africans' Claims in South Africa. In keeping with this … Albert Luthuli. The Congress Alliance…
Address of the President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki, to the 118th Inter-Parliamentary Union Assembly: Cape Town, 13 April 2008
… and attain the goal of a better life for all. As South Africans and Africans we are happy that you have chosen to focus on this … fight against poverty,…
Archive`The struggle is my life`- Nelson Mandela press statement
… call a National Convention before the end of May, 1961, Africans, Coloureds, Indians and European democrats would be … to assert our claims and aspirations?…
Address to Beijing University Beijing, 6 May 1999
… as our century draws to a close. With democracy, South Africans gained the chance to address the basic needs of all … improvements in the lives of the…
Address by President Nelson Mandela at the South African freedom day celebrations Cape Town, 27 April 1998
… obstacles lay ahead, because the great majority of South Africans had recognised that they had a common future. Four … of the goals that define us as a…
Address by President Nelson Mandela at the South African freedom day celebrations Cape Town, 27 April 1998
… obstacles lay ahead, because the great majority of South Africans had recognised that they had a common future. Four … of the goals that define us as a…
A message to the African people and their allies in the struggle for freedom in the Union of South Africa, June 1953
… rights and our freedom. On this day in every place where Africans foregather at home, at work or at play they are … the recent campaign. It is a day of…
January 8th Statements -Statement of the National Executive Committee on the occasion of the 83th Anniversary of the ANC - 8 January 1995
… its institutions, on meeting the basic needs of all South Africans, and on the consolidation of our own organisation. … front. For the first time, millions…
Address of the President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki, at the SA-Mali Project Fundraising Dinning, St. Georges Hotel, City of Tshwane, 27 September 2005
… At the same time, a team of academics, including South Africans, are busy studying the manuscripts. Preparations to … been 'hidden' from outsiders as well as…
ArchiveCHAPTER SEVEN: Resistance Politics In Retreat: Cablism, The ANC Underground And Gandhi, 1985-1989 by Kumi Naidoo
This chapter comes from the book
THE LIBERATION STRUGGLE IS ON IN EARNEST, Durban, 12 December 1959
… churches are greatly hampered in their ministry among Africans in urban and rural areas by apartheid laws and … with state schools, but not in the Union in…
January 8th Statements - Statement of the National Executive Committee of the African National Congress On The Occasion Of the 105th Anniversary of the African National Congress Presented By President Jacob Zuma
… the party political spectrum. We can disagree as South Africans but still engage one another respectfully as … between the people based on race and ethnicity…
Archive2010 - President Zuma, Response to the State of the Nation Address, 16 February 2010
… This was deliberate. Around one-third of all South Africans are under the age of 15. Half of all South Africans are under the age of 25. And nearly 70% of…
Statement of the African National Congress and the South African Tamil Federation National Working Committee, 14 November 2014
… a strong state and a South African nation comprised of Africans, Coloureds, Indians and Whites. The ANC acknowledged …
Statement on naming of OR Tambo International Airport, 31 October 2006
… to a better understanding and appreciation among South Africans of the critical role of Oliver Tambo in the …
PlaceTable View
… on the National Racing Map! Du Noon is what South Africans call an "informal settlement". It's situated to the …
PlaceVenda
… The Homelands were supposedly created to allow Black South Africans to Govern themselves and to preserve their Culture, …
EventImperial German Forces forced to unconditional surrender by Union of South Africa Forces during World War I
… year, German troops sought a treaty with the South Africans that would permit them to keep the northern area of …
EventSimon Petros Matseke, prominent in African social and political life, dies in Pretoria
… became prominent in the social affairs of black South Africans after joining the Pretoria Location Advisory Board …
EventWiehahn Commission Report tabled in parliament
… rights and political participation of Black South Africans in the economy and politics of the country, the …
EventFree, compulsory education for Black children
… (ed) Apartheid and Education: The Education of Black South Africans, Johannesburg: Ravan. …