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EventJohn Langalibalele Dube is born
… Inanda Mission station of the American Zulu Mission (AZM) in Natal to James and Elizabeth Dube. His father, James Dube … where his father served as a…
ANC statement on the passing of Epainette Mbeki, 7 June 2014
… Epainette Nomaka Mbeki this morning at St Dominic hospital in East London following her sickness. Her passing has made … given her long history of activism…
PlaceAdelaide, Eastern Cape
… inhabited by Bushmen , estimated about the year 1530-1760. In the late 18th and 19th Century the Xhosa and White … arrived. The Bushmen were displaced and no…
ArchiveZambia, the ANC and the struggle against apartheid 1964-1990
… A short dissertation submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Magister Artium in History in the Faculty of Arts, at the Rand…
B.J. Vorster - Select Speeches
… B. J. Vorster is not only one of the most active speakers in the Republic of South Africa, but also one of the most sought after. As a speaker he is equally…
EventWinnie Mandela at Johannesburg Magistrate’s court
… This was a poignant day for Winnie and she faced a future in which her husband’s arrest was inevitable and the … children would endure without him while…
EventDisbanding of Communist Party is announced
… Party of South African (CPSA) and natives' representative in parliament, announced in parliament that the party has disbanded. The announcement … Suppression…
EventPolitical activist, Dr Yusuf Dadoo is re-elected President of Transvaal Indian Congress
… lived under during segregation and apartheid. Educated in London, and later Edinburgh, Dadoo returned to South Africa in 1936, well-versed in Marxist…
EventCharles Nqakula , Minister of Safety and Security and Chairperson of the SACP, is born
… Party (SACP), Charles Nqakula, was born to a poor family in the Eastern Cape. Nqakula, like his peers, developed political consciousness in the 1970's when…
EventMaria Mary Burton, former national president of the Black Sash, is born
… Maria Burton was born on 19 January 1940 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. She moved to South Africa in 1961, and upon witnessing the injustices of Apartheid,…
EventJeannette Schoon and her daughter are killed by a letter bomb
… daughter, Katryn, were killed by a letter bomb at Lubango, in northern Angola on 28 June 1984. Anti-apartheid activist … the target of the bombing because of…
EventPrime Minister B.J Vorster supports changes to Black labour
… taking the necessary steps to bring about improvements in the productive use of Black labour. The government would not obstruct changes in the country's…
EventPresentation of South African National budget of 1991
… Finance Minister Barend du Plesis presented in parliament a budget offering a large tax incentive to … Domestic Products (GDP), which had fallen by 1 per…
EventUnited Democratic Front member Pearl Tshabalala assassinated
… and member of the United Democratic Front (UDF) in Clermont, Durban, who had resisted moves to incorporate … they were not familiar with Clermont. Tshabalala…
EventBritish create the settlement of Sierra Leone, for freed slaves
… and abolitionists as a home for African slaves freed in England. A Temne king sold a strip of land on the north … of the empire. Sierra Leone became a…
EventUN spokesman comments on Mugabe’s eviction campaign
… Mugabe's May 2005 eviction campaign remained homeless, in resettlement camps or were living without food, safe water or sanitation. "It is as bad as it can…
EventM.K. Gandhi is forcibly removed from a whites-only train carriage
… forcibly removed from a whites-only carriage on a train in Pietermaritzburg, for not obeying laws that segregated … to race. Gandhi was practising as a young…
PlaceRosmead
… Railway Systems, the village played an important role in the Military and Economic affairs of the Region. In 1898 it was renamed Rosmead in honour of Sir…
EventFormer MK members are dismissed from SANDF
… 2,221 trainees who had gone absent without leave in October from the newly instituted South African National … the slow pace of integration into the SANDF…
EventJohnny Clegg, South African musician is born
… Johnny Clegg was born in England in 1953 to an English father and a Zimbabwean mother. He left … music and mixed race public performances. Juluka split in…
EventOlaudah Equiano, enslaved person and writer dies
… Olaudah Equino was born in the region that is now known as Nigeria in 1945. At the age of 15, he was kidnapped and sold into … Indies. He later managed to…
EventKenya is granted independence
… was declared a Republic. The campaign for independence in Kenya dates back to the 1940s before Kenyatta became the leader of the Kenya African Union (KAU) in…
PlaceQueens Fort Military Museum, Bloemfontein
… The Queens Fort Museum fort erected in 1848, originally housed the Artillery Unit of the Free … the apartheid struggle. The Queen’s Fort Military Museum, in…
Address of the President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki at the Millennium Debate of the Joint Houses of Parliament, Cape Town, 19 November 1999
… today on the premises of the National Assembly to join in what has been described as the "Millennium Debate". This … reality. When we spoke at the United…
Address to the Joint Session of the houses of Congress of the U.S.A. Washington, D.C., June 26, 1990
… each shall, like a meteor, a mere brief passing moment in time and space, flit across the human stage and pass out … to immolate life itself. And so we have…
Address of the president of the republic of South Africa, Nelson Mandela, to the summit meeting of the OAU heads of state and government Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, June 8 1998
… and Members of the Diplomatic Corps;Ladies and Gentlemen: In Tunis, among the ruins of historic Carthage, in the year of our liberation from the yoke of…
Business leaders pay tribute to Mandela by staff writer, December 8 2013
… of our time," CEOs Sim Tshabalala and Ben Krugersaid in a statement. "Tata Madiba chose to sacrifice everything to … and his respect for every human being…
XI - The Verdict
… Deputy Attorney General also made a closing submission, in which he stated that no one could be blamed for the death … Your Worship, this is a rather sad…
Document 42 - “Boycott the Dummy Elections: 2 000 Demonstrate AT Mass Rally”, The Torch , National Edition, 1 April 1958
… pavements at the greatest political rally on the franchise in the history of the Coloured people. It is conservatively … other of solidarity from 43…
EventClive Derby-Lewis dies
… cancer. He died at the age of 80 at Eugene Marais Hospital in Pretoria after he was released on medical parole from Kgosi Mampuru II Correctional Centre in…