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EventWinnie Mandela attacked by a group of people
… eggs and cool drink cans while leaving the Supreme Court in Cape Town. She blamed the attack on the apartheid … trial was a smear campaign by the government…
ArchiveEFF 2019 Election Manifesto
… A PLAN OF ACTION FOREWORD BY THE PRESIDENT AND COMMANDER IN CHIEF JULIUS MALEMA FOREWORD The year 2019 marks exactly … hardly translated into observable…
Introductory Statement on the Presentation of the Statement of the National Executive Committee of the ANC on the 79th Anniversary of the ANC by O. R. Tambo, 8 January 1991
… We do so as a legal organisation for the first time in thirty years. We do so inside the country together with … fighters, some of whom have spent almost…
EventPaarl Riots report submitted
… weapons, marched from the Mbekweni location to Paarl in its most determined effort to destabilise South Africa and … and killed a man and a woman before…
EventAfrikaans is declared an official language of South Africa
… This is substantiated by the variety of influences present in Afrikaans. These would include Khoisan, Malaysian, French, … language of a region influencing…
January 8th Statements - Statement of the National Executive Committee on the occasion of the 69th Anniversary of the ANC - 8 January 1981
… a new time-span which will, this day next year, culminate in the epoch making 70th anniversary of the African National … party`s Transvaal Congress that to…
PlaceSastri College, 1 Winterton Walk, Durban
… Indian High School and Teachers Training College, built in South Africa , was opened in October 1929. This double-storey Complex was founded by … College ,…
EventHendrik Verwoerd becomes Prime Minister
… ratified the Promotion of Bantu Self-Government Act in 1959. The Act classified black people into eight ethnic groups, each with its own … his plea for a…
Bishop Tutu’s 1999 interview on NewsHour
… with some background on this crusader against apartheid in South Africa, including a reprise of several of his … that it showed the world cared about his…
EventThe introduction of new South African flag 1994
… same time the country held its first democratic elections in which African National Congress (ANC) won. Nelson Mandela … of six colours: chilli red, white,…
New Age
… to the African National Congress and its' leadership. In 1954, Govan Mbeki joined the editorial board of New Age, … and Sonya Bunting and others. The…
EventVaal Uprising Begins as Sharpeville Residents Resist Rent Increases
… R5.90 rent increase imposed by the Lekoa Town Council. The Black Local Authorities, established by the Apartheid … no real political representation. The…
EventIgnatius Iggy Mthebule remembered
… associated with the Azanian Student Organisation (AZASO) in 1975. Iggy’s brother, Samuel Mthebule, testified before … was expelled from University of the…
PlaceRocher Pan Nature Reserve
… and June. Rocherpan was established as a nature reserve in 1966, and the adjacent section of the Atlantic Ocean was declared a marine reserve in 1988…
EventWinnie Madikizela Mandela, a stalwart in the fight against apartheid, passes away
… nation, passed away at the age of 81, at Milpark hospital in Johannesburg. She passed away in the morning surrounded by her family and loved ones. … at a…
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…
ArchiveExtracts of 3 Interviews from the 1956 Women’s Anti-Pass March
… In the year, 2000, four young oral historians interviewed … I felt as an African woman I should to do something. I'm Black when I feel to be. What will I…
Statement of the African National Congress and the South African Tamil Federation National Working Committee, 14 November 2014
… community was here to stay and to be part of the solution in South Africa to build a strong state and a South African … first organisations to meet the ANC…
EventSteven Biko is arrested.
… president of South African Student Organisation (SASO), a black student’s organization that was focused on the resistance against and liberation from…
EventWWI: battalion consisting of ‘Cape Coloured men’, called the Cape Corps, is established
… with the view of being dispatched to East Africa in 1916 to fight on the side of the Allies in World War One. The corps was made up of coloured members ……
ArchiveThe Final Prize: Family - chapter 1
… the Johannesburg Municipal Council. Her words, belted out in an unfamiliar English accent, somewhat clipped and … meeting of a dozen or so individuals, most…
PlaceCity Hall, Cape Town
… This is a large Edwardian building in the centre of Cape Town city. It was built in 1905, on the Grand parade, West of the Castle of Good … Grand Parade…
Address by President Jacob Zuma on the occasion of the release of the 20 Year Review: South Africa 1994 to 2014, Sefako Makgatho Presidential Guest House, Pretoria, 11 March 2014
… milestone of twenty years of freedom and democracy in our country. It is an occasion to reflect on what has been … the Bantu education system which was…
2002 Introduction By Jordi Martorell
… It deals with the experience of the liberation struggle in the 1950s, not from an academic point of view, but in … of the majority of the population, the…
ArchiveThe sad secret kept by the trailblazing South African Steve Mokone
… seasons playing for Egbers’ hometown club Heracles Almelo in Holland’s third division. But in 1993 no one had heard … player who joined the club in the 1950s…
EventThe Federation of South African trade unions
… organisation that could coordinate the movements of Black trade unions. The Federation came into being after the … of Free African Trade Unions (FFATU)…
EventThe United Arab Republic is proclaimed by Egypt, Iraq, and Syria
… a United Arab Republic. The first two countries to engage in this initiative were Syria and Egypt on 22 February 1958. … of Syria and Nasser of Egypt, after…
ArticleLouis van Mauritius and the Slave Revolt of 1808
… The unique nature of slavery in the Cape Colony hindered many attempts at wide-scale … colonial authorities who were more often than not greater in number…
EventNamibian artist, John Ndevasia Muafangejo, dies
… Muafangejo died suddenly of a heart attack at his home in Katutura Township, Windhoek. He was 44 years old. Muafangejo was born on 5 October 1943 in Etunda…
PlaceThe Bag Factory
… is known as one of the leading visual arts facilities in Johannesburg . Since its’ inception in 1991, the non-profit organisation functions as a residency ……