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ArchiveHow history will judge FW de Klerk by RW Johnson, politicsweb (28 November 2021)
… and some were downright spiteful. It seemed to stick in the throat of many people to have to acknowledge that he … as the basis for everything, there is job…
EventThe Prohibition of Mixed Marriages Act commences
… between White people and people of other race groups in South Africa is passed. The law was introduced by the … as members of one of four racial groups as…
EventLondon hosts an international conference on the protection of the African elephant and rhinoceros
… On this day in history, and international conference was held to … Relative to the Preservation of Fauna and Flora in their Natural State (1933)" was put…
EventNelson Mandela celebrates his 90th birthday.
… social, economic, political and institutional rights of Black people. The commemoration of his birth this year (2008) … Prize and several other accolades,…
EventArtist, Thomas Trevor Motswai , award-winning South African artist is born
… international acclaim. Motswai was born on 27 May 1963, in Soweto, South of Johannesburg. Although he was born deaf, … things such as travelling on buses,…
EventSouth Africa’s first democratic elections
… struggle, the first democratic election was held in South Africa on the 27th April, 1994. This election … constitution for the country. For the first time…
South Africans commemorated Nelson Mandela with a day of prayer
… Africa following the death of Mandela, the country’s first black president. South Africans of all races mourned the … Madikizela - Mandela at the Bryanston…
South Africans commemorated Nelson Mandela with a day of prayer
… Africa following the death of Mandela, the country’s first black president. South Africans of all races mourned the … Madikizela - Mandela at the Bryanston…
South Africans commemorated Nelson Mandela with a day of prayer
… Africa following the death of Mandela, the country’s first black president. South Africans of all races mourned the … Madikizela - Mandela at the Bryanston…
South Africans commemorated Nelson Mandela with a day of prayer
… Africa following the death of Mandela, the country’s first black president. South Africans of all races mourned the … Madikizela - Mandela at the Bryanston…
South Africans commemorated Nelson Mandela with a day of prayer
… Africa following the death of Mandela, the country’s first black president. South Africans of all races mourned the … Madikizela - Mandela at the Bryanston…
South Africans commemorated Nelson Mandela with a day of prayer
… Africa following the death of Mandela, the country’s first black president. South Africans of all races mourned the … Madikizela - Mandela at the Bryanston…
EventSouth Africans commemorated Nelson Mandela with a day of prayer
… Africa following the death of Mandela, the country’s first black president. South Africans of all races mourned the … Madikizela - Mandela at the Bryanston…
EventMass protest against the circumstances of Neil Aggett’s death
… A call for a thirty-minute work stoppage in protest the death of Dr Neil Aggett , who allegedly committed suicide while in police detention, was supported by…
ANC Deputy President`s Election Campaign Programme, 6 May 2011
… Kgalema Motlanthe will on Sunday lead a campaign programme in Ekurhuleni as part of the organisation`s election programme to maximise ANC support in the…
EventZuma announces freeze on university fees increase
… When the government announced a 10.5% increase in tertiary education fees, due to the high inflation of the … The fee increase meant financial exclusion for…
EventZuma announces freeze on university fees increase
… When the government announced a 10.5% increase in tertiary education fees, due to the high inflation of the … The fee increase meant financial exclusion for…
ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 1980-1989
… The 1980s witnessed an increase in attacks launched by the ANC through its armed MK inside … uprising, police and troops cordon off Soweto and other black…
EventClampdown on 'conflict diamonds' begins
… to certify all legitimate shipments of rough diamonds, in an unprecedented effort to weed out the 'Black market' trade in gems that has been used to fund…
"Our struggle is for progress": Statement by Albert Luthuli, 15 June 1962
… peoples of South Africa, and because it may appear in the last issue of this most valuable fighter for freedom … to all sections of the South African…
Statement by Oliver Tambo on death sentences passed on three members of ANC and Umkhonto We Sizwe, 20 August 1981
… On Wednesday, August 19, 1981, a racist judge in Pretoria sentenced to death three ANC militants - Anthony … to death. But the cause of justice will never…
EventKing George V visits the SANLC
… Contingent were recruited and employed to assist Britain in the First World War with labour duties. Black South African men were shipped to France in…
ArchiveFirst Mafika Gwala Lecture: The Arts of Resistance - Mafika Gwala and South African Poetry by Ari Sitas
… a reading and a republishing of my Traditions of Poetry in Natal2 which attempted to situate Mafika Pascal Gwala’s work in the late 1980s would be…
Opening Address to the ANC National Consultative Conference by O. R. Tambo, Johannesburg, 14 December 1990
… Comrades and friends, Compatriots, I salute you all in the name of all patriotic South Africans, especially those … odds. It is thanks to you that today the…
EventFake tickets lead to stampede in Johannesburg
… fans pressed themselves against a gate, during the Carling Black Label Cup match between Kaizer Chiefs and Orlando Pirates at FNB stadium in Soweto ,…
EventANC's Walter Sisulu and Duma Nokwe rally support against Urban Bantu Councils Act
… Walter Sisulu and Duma Nokwe went from house to house in Orlando, Soweto near Johannesburg rallying support amongst … The Bantu Urban Councils Act, Act No 79…
EventEmperor Menelik II, emperor of Ethiopia dies
… defeating the Italian colonizers. He was also the first black African King to engage in slavery of white European war captives held as slaves …
EventMinister of Police and Prisons announces that twenty-one trade unionists have been detained
… Louis Ie Grange, Minister of Police and Prisons, stated in the House of Assembly that twenty-one trade unionists have … to curb the rapidly expanding and…
Eyewitness accounts of the Sharpeville massacre 1960
… That was how I managed to get away. People were running in all directions”¦some couldn't believe that people had been … and nobody seemed to be afraid”¦There…
ArchiveThe spear fights on: Isandlwana
… Black, red and white poster. Artwork of black spears, holding a black rifle, on top of a colonial soldier. …