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ArchiveAppendix 5.1 The First Anniversary of the Declaration of the State of Palestine by Denis Goldberg
… to the day when the world community and the great powers in particular, will come to fulfil their duty in terms of the rights of nations to self…
Document 47 - “Answer to Government’s Apartheid Unions”, The Citizen. 1 3, 30 April 1956
… MAKE THEIR VOICES HEARD AND THEIR ORGANISED STRENGTH FELT IN BOTH THE ECONOMIC AND POLITICAL FIELDS" SAID MR. JOHN … unions, the labour movement must…
PlaceEshowe, Northern Kwa-Zulu Natal
… Eshowe, a Town in the Kwa-Zulu Natal Area is set on a Hill, is situated … an important contribution to employment, particularly in rural areas, to…
ArchiveSpeech of the President of the ANC, Nelson Mandela to members of the British parliament House of Commons, London, 5 May 1993
… our own. Thus history brought our peoples together in its own peculiar ways. That history demands of us that we … Ireland are all part of the main. The evil…
Document 19 - Communist Party of South Africa, Memo on S.A.F.N.T.U. (1930)
… Johannesburg) were before the Executive. One was contained in a note from T.W. Thibedi to the Secretary asking for the … the matter before this meeting. It…
EventSupreme Court changes ruling on forced removals, traditionally
… Government forcibly moved 3.5 million Black South Africans in one of the largest mass removals of people in modern history. There were several political and…
The Khoikhoi carry out a series of raids on the free burghers’ herds
… who feared that the settlement of free burghers (farmers) in 1657 would eventually deprive them of their valuable … who was sent to Batavia to learn to…
PlaceTsolo
… (prior to 1910) St Augustine's was established in 1865 by the Reverend Bransby Key as a station of the … the capital village of Chief Mhlonthlo of the…
PlacePrince Alfred's Guard Museum, Port Elizabeth
… The Prince Alfred's Guard Museum, located in Central Port Elizabeth's Prospect Road, was formed through … the amalgamation of a Military Museum formerly…
EventCecil John Rhodes, South African statesman, is born
… Cecil John Rhodes was born on 5 July 1853 in Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire, England. Rhodes was … him to Natal, South Africa, to live with his older…
EventIsmael Mahomed became first black judge appointed to the Supreme Court of South Africa
… African government and liberation movements were engaged in negotiations in a forum that came to be known as the Congress for a Democratic South Africa …
EventArchbishop Owen Cardinal McCann becomes South Africa’s first cardinal.
… first Cardinal when he was invested by Pope Paul VI in St Peter's Basilica. Early in Cardinal McCann's tenure as Archbishop, the South African … Catholic…
EventDutch Foreign Minister Luns is asked by the Johannesburg
… to see that Holland "casts the beam out of its own eye." In a letter to Luns the committee wrote that South Africa … Luns what the Dutch would do if South…
EventPrime Minister Vorster holds talks with Dr. Kissinger
… Secretary of State, Dr. Henry Kissinger, on 23 and 24 June in West Germany to discuss the Rhodesian issue. Despite the … the only key to solving the growing…
EventBram Fischer is sentenced to life imprisonment
… Bram Fischer, the former political activist was arrested in 1964 for being a member of the illegal organisation … of South Africa (CPSA). He was later…
EventThe Declaration of Windhoek
… May. This day was the culmination of a UNESCO seminar held in Windhoek, Namibia from 29 April 1991 to the 3 May 1991. … many dangers and pressures faced by…
EventOliver Tambo returns from exile
… one of the founder members of the ANC Youth League (ANCYL) in 1944 with Nelson Mandela and Walter Sisulu, and was … He was appointed as the Secretary General…
EventBafana Bafana loses to England
… team, Bafana Bafana played England star-studded team in a friendly international match at Absa Stadium in Durban. The match was to mark South Africa's…
EventEmily Hobhouse travels to South Africa
… Emily Hobhouse, renowned for her exposure of conditions in concentration camps for Boer women and children during the … first five months of 1901 she visited…
EventDennis Brutus is born
… Dennis Vincent Brutus was born on 8 November 1924 in Salisbury, Southern Rhodesia (now Harare, Zimbabwe) to … His parents moved back to South Africa and…
EventHarold Macmillan begins his “winds of change” tour of Africa
… Macmillan began his "winds of change" tour of Africa in Ghana. Ghana became the first country in Sub-Sahara to gain independence in 1957, with Kwame Nkrumah…
EventWinnie Nomzamo Madikizela-Mandela is sentenced to six years
… the then-wife of Nelson Mandela was sentenced to six years in jail by a Johannesburg court presided over by Justice Michael Stahl Stegmann for her…
Interview with Oliver Tambo to New African, 05 January 1980, London
… Unity in Action Decisive Question : How would you assess the … victory for the forces of progress and national liberation in southern Africa and Africa as a…
Black ViewPoint - The New Black by Bennie A. Khoapa
… not agree with me and he argued that there is some value in getting white students at least to be aware of some of the things that make people (black and…
Address on Behalf of the Graduating Class at Fort Hare College, delivered at the “Completers’ Social,” by M. R. Sobukwe, October 21, 1949
… Prof. Dent, Ladies and Gentlemen, I intend to follow in my opening remarks the conventional pattern. And for that … but with policies, and there has been no…
Robert Sobukwe Speech at the University of Fort Hare as President of the Students’ Representative Council, 21 October 1949
… Prof. Dent, Ladies and Gentlemen, I intend to follow in my opening remarks the conventional pattern. And for that … but with policies, and there has been no…
PlaceCaledon, Cape Overberg
… Caledon is situated on the N2 national road in the Overberg region in the Western Cape Province of South Africa, located about … As of 2011 it had a…
PlaceConstitution Hill Museum, Johannesburg
… Court, which endorses the rights of all citizens! Situated in the heart of Johannesburg, Constitution Hill is a living … South Africa’s Constitutional Court,…
PlacePretoria Correctional Service Museum
… The first prison building in Tshwane, built by Alexander Anderson at the corner of … the State and bargained that should he build the prison in under an…
PlacePreller-Rondawels, Pelindaba
… inherited the Farm. A portion was expropriated in 1920 for the building of the Hartbeespoort Dam and a Township development. The Township remained in the…