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EventAn intricate prisoner exchange takes place in Maputo, Mozambique
… information on "hostile elements which threaten the Safety of South West Africa (Namibia) and South Africa". These included SWAPO, the African National…
EventAfrikaans Writer Breytenbach is sentenced
… apartheid in exile and was intended to be the White wing of the banned African National Congress (ANC). He remained a political prisoner until his … (1999)…
EventMandela and De Klerk hold emergency talks
… as long standing political feud between the supporters of African National Congress (ANC) and Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP). Mandela was … Nelson Mandela…
EventANC’s economic plans
… African National Congress (ANC) Deputy President Nelson Mandela stated that … his party was prepared to abandon its long-held policy of nationalisation if…
EventJohannesburg Magistrate court is bombed
… police officer at John Vorster Square at the time, was one of the personnel who attended to the first explosion not … it was a decoy. The second explosion…
EventThe Security Council begins deliberations on the situation in South Africa
… under an agenda item entitled: "The situation arising out of the large-scale killings of unarmed and peaceful demonstrators against racial … the event of 21…
EventFormer anti-apartheid activist, Allan Boesak accuses ANC
… Dr Allan Boesak, former anti-apartheid activist, leader of the World Alliance of Churches and patron of the now disbanded United Democratic … to himself as…
EventNUSAS disbands
… The National Union of South African Students (NUSAS) elected to disband on this day. Founded in 1924, the aim of the organisation was to represent and…
ArchiveSouth Africa and the Communist International : A Documentary History, Volume 1 : Socialist Pilgrims to Bolshevik Footsoldiers 1919-1930 edited by A. Davidson, I. Filatova, V. Gorodnov and S. Johns
… and Bolshevik Realities South Africa and the Archives of the Communist International Document 1 Report of M. … [July–August 1921] Document 12 Official Report…
EventMthunzi Njakazi, ANC member, is killed in shooting after returning from exile
… On this day, Mthunzi Velemseni Njakazi an African National Congress (ANC) member was shot in the legs and chest … by askari (former ANC member who defected…
ANC NDC moves hearing venue to another location, 6 September 2011
… The African National Congress (ANC) National Disciplinary Committee (NDC) following the disruption last week of businesses situated around ANC headquarters…
EventPolitical activist Mohammed Shaik is born
… Mohammed Iqbal Shaik, political activist and member of the Dolphin Unit of the Special Operations Unit, Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK), was … way to achieve maximum…
EventSA is suspended from World Meteorological Organization
… facilitate international cooperation in the establishment of meteorological and related services and observations, … The decision to suspend SA was taken at…
PlaceDurban International Airport
… Airport, was the major airport servicing the Area of Durban until 2010. The Durban Airport opened in 1951 and … carried the name Louis Botha Airport until…
Siyanqoba Bafana-Bafana Siyanqoba!!! Siyavena Bafana Bafana Siyavena!!!, 3 June 2010
… The African National Congress joins all soccer loving Africans, and South Africans … Street Bash, tomorrow, Friday, the 4th June 2010, in front of the ANC…
EventANC co-founder and journalist Pixley Seme dies
… a political activist, journalist, lawyer and a co-founder of the African National Congress (ANC). His funeral service was conducted by the bishop of…
EventHarold Strachan is served with restriction order
… South African Air Force pilot in World War 2 and member of the Communist Party of South Africa (CPSA) and Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK), the armed wing of the…
EventBilateral talks to continue
… was reached following the fall-out between the leaders of the African National Congress (ANC) and government over the continuation of talks toward a…
EventProposal for a new constitution
… Minister of Constitutional Development, Gerrit Viljoen on 27 August … and be completed within two years. The African National Congress suggested that equal…
EventEleven people are killed in eSikhawini township
… Eleven people were killed in the township of eSikhawini in northern Natal by unknown killers armed with … a few hours after approximately one thousand…
EventDulcie September is assassinated in Paris
… On 29 March 1988, Dulcie September, the African National Congress (ANC) representative in France, Luxembourg and … government in South Africa. Sergeant…
EventJustin Alexander (Alex) La Guma, SA novelist, short story writer and political activist, is born in Cape Town
… Town on 20 February 1925. His father, Jimmy La Guma was of Cuban descent, which made him mixed race in South Africa … was also a talented writer and wrote…
EventChief Albert Luthuli is banned for a further five years
… Chief Albert Luthuli, President General of the African National Congress (ANC), led the Defiance Campaign in 1952, a non- … area. Again in 1959 he was banned…
ArticleTreks & Land conflicts timeline 1602-1966
… comes into being. 1652 Jan van Riebeeck, a representative of the Dutch East India Company (VOC), establishes a station at the Cape of Good Hope, at the…
EventClarence Makwetu Passes Away
… At the age of 88, Clarence Makwetu passed away in Queenstown Private … at 13:30 after a long illness. Makwetu was born on the 6th of December 1928 in the…
EventDr. Albert Hertzog is attacked by Ben Schoeman
… During his first speech as a member of Herstigte Nationale Party (HNP) a far-right political … Dr. Albert Hertzog was scornfully attacked by the Minister of…
EventNelson Mandela announces intentions on nationalisation policy
… The African National Congress (ANC) Deputy President Nelson Mandela stated that … his party was prepared to abandon its long-held policy of nationalisation…
ArticleRivonia Trial 1963 - 1964
… South Africa,” in October 1963, ten leading opponents of apartheid went on trial for their lives on charges of … rights by the Apartheid regime made the…
EventANC founder John Dube’s daughter passed away
… The youngest daughter of the former African National Congress leader John Langalibalele Dube died in Durban at the age of 84 years. Lulu Joan Dube passed…
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