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The ANC’s attempt to become the sole legitimate representative of the people of South Africa by Martin Plaut
… African National Congress launched an attempt to receive international recognition as the “sole legitimate … Wolfers. [2] The resolution was to be considered…
EventSA signs treaty with Great Britain on the supply of military equipment to South Africa
… Government consolidated white rule in the face of growing international pressure and condemnation. The events of … to the expulsion of South Africa from…
EventFifteen African states tabled a draft resolution at the UN denouncing racial discrimination
… - Britain, France and Spain opposing the resolution. The International Day for the Elimination of Racial … the Day in 1966, the General Assembly called on…
EventSA signs Safeguards Agreement with the IAEA
… entered into a Comprehensive Safeguards Agreement with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). The Safeguards … Agreement ensures that member states…
EventMandela asks for commitment to fight AIDS
… Former President Nelson Mandela, speaking in a meeting of international dignitaries in Bangkok, Thailand, said he could … against Aids. This was Mandela's…
EventSouth African cricketer, AB de Villiers is born
… Smith and became captain of the South African One Day International (ODI) team. He is a right-handed batsman with a … He is also regarded as one of the best…
EventWorld Cancer Day is instituted as an annual world-wide cancer awareness campaign
… World Cancer Day was founded by the Union for International Cancer Control (UICC) to raise awareness and to … by more people that the previous year…
Opening Statement at the Second National Consultative Conference of the ANC by O. R. Tambo, Kabwe, Zambia, 16 June, 1985
… organisations and peoples and produced a degree of mutual solidarity which those of our comrades who live and work in … see from the messages that will be…
Op-Ed: The Zuma rape trial and its bearing on the post-Zuma era by Raymond Suttner (Daily Maverick) ,17 August 2016
… wrap, as an invitation to have sex. This fed into the “international convention” that responsibility for rape lay in … the debate we need in order to build…
Address by President Nelson Mandela at the commemoration of the twentieth anniversary of Steve Biko’s death East London, 12 September 1997, South Africa
… mass action, underground organisation, armed actions and international mobilisation - the people would most readily … whose song `Biko' helped keep the flame…
Address by President Nelson Mandela at the SA freedom day celebrations Pretoria, 27 April 1996
… future. Again on this our Freedom Day, we should thank the international community for the solidarity they continue extending to us as we proceed with …
Address by President of the Republic of South Africa, Nelson Mandela, at the World Economic Forum, Southern Africa summit Cape Town, 9 June 1994
… business leaders and the world at large for the generous solidarity you extended to us during the dark days of … to say, that modern economic planning…
2012 ANC National Policy Conference: Statement by the head of the ANC NEC policy sub-committee on the release of Policy Discussion documents, 05 March 2012
… editors and editors of the South African media and the international media. The ANC is launching its discussion … the ANC committing to macro- economic…
ArticleTruth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC)
… and request amnesty from prosecution. The hearings made international news and many sessions were broadcast on …
ArticleThe Anti-Pass Campaigns 1960
… two days later. The Sharpeville Incident resulted in international criticism and concern and increased suppression …
Archive2005 - President Mbeki, State of the Nation Address, 11 February 2005
… New steps are also being considered together with international investors to improve foreign capital inflows. … in the near future. Last year we hosted the…
Address of the President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki at the Second Joint Sitting of the Third Democratic Parliament Cape Town: February 11 2005
… New steps are also being considered together with international investors to improve foreign capital inflows. … in the near future. Last year we hosted the…
86. Non-racial sport
… on Sport (SACOS), submitted a long memorandum to the International Cricket Conference in June 1979. The SACB … on a non-racial basis, but by the desire to…
EventNew Zealand imposes a blanket ban on sports teams from South Africa
… including the country’s apartheid policies. The story of international sanctions against South Africa dates back to … from the Olympics. From 1970 the…
EventBafana Bafana play 2-2 draw with Cameroon
… After being readmitted into the international fold, the newly formed South African soccer … one of the African soccer giants, Cameroon, in three…
EventFamine anniversary in Ethiopia
… day was used to mark the end of famine and the successful international food aid. More than 50 000 people had a already … close to six million Ethiopians…
ArticleA History of the South African Film Industry timeline 1895-2003
… op Kariba. The same year saw the successful local and international release of Emil Nofal's The Winners. It was one … was successfully released overseas. It…
ArticleYusuf Dadoo Timeline: 1940-1949
… Conference discusses the dissolution of the Communist International as well as the upcoming parliamentary elections … the boycotters and walks to the City as…
ArticleHistory Grade 10 - Topic 6 Glossary
A map representing the ‘new’ Union of South Africa of 1956 (The British Cape Colony and the two Boer Republics: The Transvaal and the Orange Free State). …
EventTwo top SA scientists are refused entry into Russia.
… were refused entry into the Soviet Union during the International Science Congress in Leningrad. The scientists … Prof. Wells and Tobias were invited to…
EventNelson Mandela marries Graça Machel on his 80th birthday
… liberation struggle, Graca Machel is known as an international advocate for women and children rights, and … at his birthday celebration, which was attended…
EventMiriam Makeba returns to South Africa
… her passport in 1960. During her exile she built an international career, addressed the United Nations twice on … encouraged her to return. She arrived at…
EventMarsha Cox, the South African hockey player is born
… World Cups. Marsha was nominated for the Federation of International Hockey’s XI in 2007, 2009 and 2010. In August … 2015, Marsha announced her retired from…
EventLadysmith Black Mambazo, male choral group, win a Grammy Award
… is considered to be Scathamiya and Mbube. They rose to international stardom when they collaborated with Paul Simon … highlights in their career including…
EventSouth African boxers,Zolile Mbityi and Peter Malinga both win world titles
… titles. Mbityi, South African (SA) flyweight, won the International Boxing Organisation (IBO) flyweight title, while Peter Malinga, SA welterweight, won the…