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EventA South African Defence Force Capt. Wynand du Toit is captured in Angola
… two other South African commandoes were killed. The rest of the commando unit evacuated successfully. According to sources this mission was part of an…
EventGovernment admits responsibility for Mdluli’s death
… African government admitted responsibility for the death of the African National Congress (ANC) member, Joseph Mdluli (50), on 19 March 1976 … and agreed to…
EventBishop Tutu receives Martin Luther King Award
… the anti-apartheid movement, Tutu attended the launch of the National Forum, an umbrella body of Black Consciousness groups and the Pan Africanist Congress …
New Age
… publication. New Age was linked to the African National Congress and its' leadership. In 1954, Govan Mbeki joined the editorial board of New Age, together…
Appeal to the British public by Dube
… Dube President, South African Native National Congress [This extract from the appeal was published by … with the following editorial note: “The Native Land…
Address by ANC President Jacob Zuma to National Worker`s Day Rally, 1 May 2011, Athlone Stadium, Cape Town
… President of COSATU, comrade Sdumo Dlamini, ANC chairperson, Comrade … of the working class led firstly by the South African Congress of Trade Unions and…
EventLucas Mangope, Bophuthatswana homeland leader is deposed
… On 13 March 1994, Lucas Mangope was ousted as President of the homeland of Bophuthatswana. Mangope came to power in Bophuthatswana … Government in…
EventAdelaide Tambo returns to South Africa after 30 years
… active after her grandfather's arrest at the age of ten. While she attended high school, she started to work as a courier for the African National Congress …
EventIFP proposes truce with ANC
… Party (IFP) proposed a truce with the African National Congress (ANC) as an effort to calm violent clashes between members of the two parties. The Secretary…
EventInkatha Freedom Party boycotts parliament
… Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) announced the suspension of its active participation in both chambers of parliament and in the constitution-making process. IFP ……
Appeal for action against Apartheid - Statement issued jointly by Chief Albert Luthuli and Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr,10 December 1962
… King, Jr., 1962 In 1957, an unprecedented Declaration of Conscience was issued by more than 100 leaders from every … took the following measures: BANNED the…
EventCollen Chauke, infamous escapee, is captured
… late on Tuesday evening. Chauke, a former member of the African National Congress ' armed wing Umkhonto we Sizwe , was arrested in … He died in 2003 in…
Statement on ANC central number and information line, 10 October 2005
… The African National Congress has launched a telephone information line which … about the organisation. By dialling one number, members of the public can…
EventANC calls on International community to save lives
… At the end of the Soekmekaar and Silverton trial in Pretoria, three … Tsepo Mashigo 20, and Naphtali Manani were found guilty of high treason, the murder of…
EventKhotso House is bombed
… The South African Council of Churches (SACC) headquarters, Khotso House, based in … harbouring anti-apartheid groups a year after a blast at Congress of…
EventStudents at Durban
… During ongoing unrest at the University of Durban-Westville (UDW) owing to political activism and a … membership was mostly South African National Students…
EventIFP declares attacks on UDF as self-defence
… in this war that started shortly after the emergence of the UDF as a front for the African National Congress. The IFP saw the emergences of the popular UDF…
EventPW Botha refuses to testify before the TRC
… assault" on the Afrikaner by the African National Congress (ANC) led government. Botha, who became Prime Minister of the Republic of South Africa in 1978 and…
EventGandhi leads Satyagraha Passive Resistance Campaign
… in Transvaal (now known as Gauteng Province), Union of South Africa. The campaign was prompted by the introduction of the Asiatic Law Amendment Ordinance in…
EventEllen Kuzwayo becomes the first Black woman to receive an honorary degree from Wits University
… woman to receive an honorary degree from the University of the Witwatersrand on 2 April 1987. Kuzwayo was born into a … The family had very strong ties…
EventANC’s chief representative in Swaziland, Stanley Mabizela, writes a letter to the ANC following a visit by Thabo Mbeki and Max Sisulu
… On 12 March, 1975, Stanley Mabizela the African National Congress (ANC) Chief representative in Swaziland wrote a … be visited by comrade Thabo and Max. It…
EventBanned PAC leader Sobukwe is admitted as attorney
… Robert Sobukwe, former leader of the banned Pan-Africanist Congress (PAC), although still … Southern African Political History: a chronology of key political…
ArticleSouth African Students Movement (SASM)
… The South African Students Movement (SASM) an organisation of mainly high school students was formed to represent … the period before the banning of the …
African and Indian in Durban by Fatima Meer
… by the Editor to commemorate one hundred years of Indian settlement in South Africa. The large number of … of Natal. Her husband, a prominent Indian lawyer…
EventANC wins the second democratic election
… The African National Congress won the second democratic election by 266 seats. The …
EventNP presents its revised constitutional proposals
… The proposals were based on a NP two-phase plan of transition. It suggested the appointment of multiparty transitional councils by CODESA during the … to the…
Interview with Oliver Tambo by Randall Robinson, Executive Director, Transafrica Forum, 2 March 1983, Washington, DC
… How would you assess the current state of affairs in South Africa? TAMBO: The South African regime … in spite of their aggression, the African National…
ArticleDurban Timeline 1497-1990
… 1497 - 1699 1497 24 December, A flotilla of three Portuguese ships under the command of Capt Vasco da … African Indian political organisation, the Natal…
EventGwala and Mothopeng are released from Robben Island
… Two members of the banned liberation movements, Harry Gwala, a member of the African National Congress (ANC) and Zephania Mothopeng a member of the Pan…
Africans’Claims in South Africa,
… pages the reader will find what has been termed "Bill of Rights" and "The Atlantic Charter from the African's Point … adopted by the Annual Conference of the…