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Address by Selby Msimang, President, Industrial and Commercial Workers’ Union of South Africa, July 23, 1921
… movement. That conference had been a very important one in that it had been composed of several independent unions … the same ideals, with the same ideas and…
Address at the Commonwealth Local Government Forum, 4 March 2003
… from the different Commonwealth countries has gathered in our country today. I am told that we have amongst us, … Creative Cities'. Introducing articles on…
14. Suicide among indentured
… By far the largest number of Indians (152 184 in all by 1911) who came to South Africa were indentured. … There are hundreds of medical and employer reports…
Tribute to President Reginald Oliver Tambo by ANC Treasurer General Dr Mathews Phosa on the occassion of the OR Tambo Lecture, 27 October 2011, Kimberly, Northern Cape Province
… Tambo was born exactly 94 years ago, 27 October, 1917 in Bizana Pondoland, in the now Eastern Cape. At 16 years old OR was already … his studies and finally…
PlaceAlfred Nzo District Municipality, Kwa-Zulu Natal/Eastern Cape
… District in the Alfred Nzo Municipality, of which Harding is the … of Canterbury, William Howley, at the Private Chapel in Windsor Castle on 6 September…
PlaceRoyal baFokeng Stadium
… the Royal Bafokeng Sports Palace, this Stadium is situated in Rustenburg, which is a charming Town at the foot of the Magaliesberg Mountain Range in the…
”The African Mine Workers’ Strike-A National Struggle.”flyer issued by the ANC Youth League, August 1946
… The African Mine Workers have risen in revolt against the most brutal, callous and inhuman exploitation of man by man in the history of mankind. Their…
Document 61 - Minutes of the meeting of the Workers’ Party of South Africa, Johannesburg Branch, held at 90 President Street, Johannesburg, 25 March (1936) at 8.30 p.m.
… he had spoken on trade unionism. Com Gosani reported that in his weeks organising tour he had visited in turn Benoni Location, West Springs, Daggasfontein,…
EventArthur Robert Ashe Jr, prominent African American tennis player and vocal protester of apartheid, dies
… African American tennis player who was born and raised in Richmond, Virginia died on 6 February 1993. He died of … apartheid, was approved a visa to visit…
EventThe Angolan-Namibian peace plan is accepted
… The Angolan Civil War began in 1975, with the end of Portuguese colonial rule. This civil … providing SADF troops to fight alongside UNITA. This was in an…
EventVanessa Brereton, former human rights lawyer, admits that she was an Apartheid spy
… Vanessa Brereton worked as a human rights lawyer in South Africa, taking on high profile cases under the … When the African National Congress (ANC) was…
EventThe South African Air Force is established
… was formed as part of the Active Citizen Force (ACF). In April 1914, six pupils (with the probationary ranks of lieutenant in the ACF) were sent to England…
PlaceRiverside
… purchased by James Cole, an eccentric trader who settled in Griqualand East in the 1860s and made his home at Riverside. A notorious … a string of trading…
EventFormer Ivorian president is extradited to the ICC
… by the Office of the Prosecutor for Gbagbo's involvement in the 2010 post-election violence. Gbagbo had refused to relinquish power following his defeat in…
Interview with Oliver Tambo by Stanley Uys, 01 August 1983, Londo
… For decades we did not think violence had a role to play in the ANC`s struggle: not until the National Party came into power in 1948 and was physically…
Pravin Gordhan vs the Law, as defined by clichés by Mervyn E. Bennun (Politics Web), 08 September 2016
… of course that zero tolerance does not mean that you in particular may ever be faced with the full might of the … trivialises matters) and you’re home and…
African National Congress Women's League Constitution
… our struggle been part of the national liberation struggle in South Africa; Whereas : In the course of fulfilling this historic task of the women, South…
Address by Nelson Mandela to the closing session of the 50th National Conference of the ANC Mafikeng, 20 December 1997
… and celebrate the decisions that you have taken to put in place a national leadership collective that will take the … ANC into the new millennium. You…
ArchiveBlack Sash / Sash
… the modus operandi of their desire to bring about change in the legislation which was, in their opinion, discriminatory and the cause of untold … trial,…
EventThe Liquor Laws Amendment Bill comes into effect
… Location: back to this day in history search archive The Liquor Act, which was passed on … by licence holders. Many people already employed in the liquor…
EventANC receives letter of gratitude from the British Prime Minister, Herold Macmillan
… days after he made his famous speech "Winds of Change In Africa" in Cape Town. In the letter he was sending his gratitude to the ANC for … BBC NEWS , (1960),…
EventUDF members challenge the government to arrest them on charges of high treason
… campus of Natal University. Boesak said "If what I did in helping found the UDF and in speaking out against Apartheid and the government was treason, then I…
EventThe National President of the Black People’s Convention, Kenneth Hlaku Rachidi, declares that riots have lead to a new era of political consciousness
… Convention (BPC), announced that the riots had ushered in a new era of political consciousness. The Soweto Uprising, … to apartheid amongst the black youth…
EventReport on ANC detention camps is released
… appointed to investigate detainee abuse allegations in ANC camps abroad. The members of the Commission, Louis … had been committed at the Quatro…
EventSir Benjamin D’Urban accepts the Mfengu as British subjects
… The Mfengu (or Fingo in the colonial lexicon) were defeated and left landless by King Shaka's Zulu army, and slowly arrived in Xhosa territory over a period…
EventApartheid policemen apply for amnesty at TRC
… dirty tricks campaign against liberation organisations, in particular the African National Congress (ANC). During … application Coetzee outlined a plot to…
EventFrederick Lugard, British colonial administrator, occupies Kano, West Africa
… the Crown. Lugard employed this system with great success in West Africa. However in reducing traditional systems of governance to a subordinate position in…
EventFirst United Nations General Assembly opens
… the end of World War I. The League of Nations was put in place to ensure that war is avoided at all costs globally. … between countries by either engaging…
Opening Statement at the Second National Consultative Conference of the ANC by O. R. Tambo, Kabwe, Zambia, 16 June, 1985
… month the South African racists killed yet another comrade in Gaborone. Today is June 16th, the ninth anniversary of the … deaths must be suppressed. To…
Closing Speech at the ANC Conference "Peoples Of The World United Against Apartheid, For A Democratic South Africa" by O. R. Tambo, Arusha, 4 December 1987
… here during this week which will go down as a watershed in the history of our struggle. Apartheid is Death As we … destruction directed against a people who…