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Document 53 - Remarks of Comrade Dubois”, Internal Bulletin of the International Communist League (B-L), no. 2, May 1935
… stress the essential point of the question: that in the First place, it is a matter of attacking British … as the choice oftactics which are useful and…
PlaceStendahl Mission
… Mission Society, Gueldenpfennig, acquired the mission land in 1860. By 1924 the land was subdivided and the major share … Zululand. They also established the…
PlaceDurban, Kwa-Zulu Natal
… City and one of the fastest-growing urban Areas in the World. It's Port is the busiest in South Africa and also one of the 10 largest in the World. Durban is…
ArchiveMafika Gwala Second Annual Lecture and Book Launch, 5 October 2016
… lecture was initiated by South African History Online in 2015 and is run in partnership with both the University of Kwa Zulu Natal … and intellectual whose…
EventTrial of nine BPC and SASO leaders ends
… The next day they were driven from Pretoria to Cape Town in the back of a police van, and from there taken to Robben … Island. The nine were first detained…
EventZola Budd breaks a world record
… In a low key event in Crystal Palace, England, South African born athlete Zola … demonstrators as South Africa was banned from competing in any sporting code…
EventSouth Africa observes Armistice Day
… Armistice Day is observed annually in South Africa to commemorate the sacrifice of veterans and civilians in World War I. The day is observed world-wide,…
EventOmar Bongo, former president of Gabon is born
… making him one of the longest serving non-monarch rulers in the world. In 1990, under intense pressure from its citizens, Gabon … country under a one party…
EventChief Albert Luthuli is banned for a further five years
… African National Congress (ANC), led the Defiance Campaign in 1952, a non- violent protest against the pass laws. Yet … government hence they gave Luthuli…
EventEmperor Haile Selassie reclaims his Ethiopian throne
… After nearly five years in exile in Britain, Emperor Haile Selassie returned to Ethiopia to … with the help of the British. Selassie lost his throne in 1936…
Book 4: Industrialisation, Rural Change and Nationalism commissioned by The Department of Education
… "This first volume in the series, Turning Points in History, highlights two important events that occurred prior to the arrival of Europeans in South Africa …
EventLéopold Sédar Senghor resigns after twenty years as Senegalese president.
… who later became president of Senegal. He was educated in Paris where he got acquainted with Aimé Césaire. After his studies, Senghor remained in Paris and…
PlaceAmersfoort near Ermelo
… , on the banks of the Schulpspruit River. It was founded in 1876 and proclaimed a town in 1890. Named after the city in the Netherlands, by its Founder, F…
PlaceThe Durban Centre for Photography
… originally conceptualised and founded by Angela Buckalnd in 1995. The DCP opened at the BAT Centre, Durban, with an … the first public auction of…
ArchiveStatement announcing retirement, Nelson Mandela, 1 June 2004
… old man looks like. Having observed the media speculation in recent weeks about my retirement and pending demise, I am … present today for exactly that…
PlaceDutch Reformed Church, Johannesburg
… started off by having its meetings and services in the old Johannesburg church building on Von Brandis … newsletter, "Irenenuus", was published for the first…
Document 60 - Letter from the Workers’ Party of South Africa to the Communist League of South Africa, 3 March 1936
… owe you an explanation of the changed circumstances which in our opinion require that for the time being the Workers … for the benefit of all; the…
The fight against passes continues
… called the Congress of Mothers. We had a conference in Port Elizabeth in solidarity with that conference, and they had one in Johannesburg too. That was in…
XII - Unanswered Questions
… Despite limitations of method and purpose, the inquest had in some respects assumed the nature of a trial. The … of expression through the press equate with…
Statement by Oliver Tambo at the launch of the "Nelson Mandela: Freedom at 70" Campaign, 11 June 1988, Wembley Stadium, London
… Mandela: Freedom at 70 Campaign!" What exhilaration to see in front of us a hundred thousand people and to sense the … of a great human being who, for…
Statement at the Launch of the "Nelson Mandela: Freedom at 70" Campaign by O. R. Tambo, Wembley Stadium, London, 11 June 1988
… Mandela: Freedom at 70 Campaign!" What exhilaration to see in front of us a hundred thousand people and to sense the … of a great human being who, for…
Peace Treaty of Vereeniging - transcript
… SOUTH AFRICA General Lord Kitchener of Khartoum, Command in Chief AND His Excellency Lord Milner, High Commissioner, … agree on the following Articles. 1…
ArchiveFederation
… SOUTH AFRICA General Lord Kitchener of Khartoum, Command in Chief AND His Excellency Lord Milner, High Commissioner, … agree on the following Articles. 1…
ArchiveBiography of Naphtali Mbuti Nkopane
… was born on the 18th of August 1944 on a farm near Nigel in the Transvaal. In 1949 his family moved to Evaton in the Vaal, in August 1984 Naphtali was active…
Luthuli House to be auctioned over R25m debt?, 20 August 2017
… Johannesburg - The ANC headquarters in the Joburg CBD, Chief Albert Luthuli House, could be up … a R25-million debt owed to former spooks who were roped in…
Nomzamo Winnie Madikizela-Mandela on Fatima Meer
… a junior social work student and had just met and fallen in love with Nelson Mandela. From our first date on March 10 … Farm, he wanted to know if I would…
Address On World Aids Day, 1 December 1999
… we mark World AIDS Day. As South Africans, we participate in the World AIDS Day events as part of our ongoing support … of the dangers that HIV/AIDS poses to…
EventWorldwide speculation begins that a bright flash detected over the southern Indian Ocean was a South African nuclear test
… In the early hours of 22 September 1979, an American Vela … near the Prince Edward Islands, South African territory in the sub-Antarctic Indian Ocean, and…
Address at the Opening Session of the ANC Conference "Peoples Of The World United Against Apartheid, For A Democratic South Africa" by O. R. Tambo, Arusha,1 December 1987
… meet here today, an important conference is taking place in Addis Ababa. This is the Extraordinary Summit Meeting of … Mikhail Gorbachev, where vital…
Address by Oliver Tambo at the opening session of the ANC Conference, Arusha, 1 December 1987
… meet here today, an important conference is taking place in Addis Ababa. This is the Extraordinary Summit Meeting of … Mikhail Gorbachev, where vital…