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The Convention for a Democratic South Africa (CODESA): CODESA 1
… the first real vision of a transition to democracy”. [iv] The Harare Declaration was drafted soon after Namibia was … concerned with the liberation of the…
PlaceStikland Cemetery
… by the Mvalwana family who were enquiring about the death and burial of their father and grandfather, Zincwasile … not been sent home and no records were…
BiographyCecil John Rhodes
… the Jameson Raid and he continued as its member until his death. The chief preoccupation of the Cape Parliament when …
Black consciousness and the land question by Pandelani Nefolovhodwe, 17 March 2015, South Africa
… to create an egalitarian society as envisaged by Steve Biko, we will need to develop rural areas and rural …
Book 5: People, Places and Apartheid - Introduction
… introduces us to some of the younger leaders such as Steve Biko and Rick Turner but also those who had been pivotal in …
Speech by Oliver Tambo on behalf of the Liberation Movements, at the twenty-third session of the assembly of Heads of State and Government of the Organisation of African Unity, 27 July 1987, Addis Ababa
… Summit of the OAU held since the untimely and lamentable death of that outstanding African revolutionary, patriot and … terrorism whose criminal activities…
PlaceCircle of Kramat's, Cape Town
… were ill. Tuan Matarah died on Robben Island. Upon his death, his grave soon became a respected shrine. Here those … was followed by other prisoners who…
The Many Faces of Apartheid Repression
… been executed by hanging and currently there are 84 on death row awaiting execution, including the Upington … latter number represents nearly one third of…
PlaceIziko South African Maritime Centre
… at the Centre namely, “The Last Voyage of the Mendi: Death in Foreign Waters” which provides an overview of the SS …
ArticleGrey Street Complex timeline 1800-1999
… ICU Hall in Prince Edward Street. They beat an African to death and attempt to storm the beer hall, as they believe … passed away last Sunday after a long…
Funeral arrangements afoot for Mama Dideka Mhlaba, 20 January 2010
… stalwart Raymond "Oom Ray" Mhlaba. Since the news of her death, tributes have been pouring from throughout the …
PlaceThe Owl House
… and the relief sculptures that cover the House. After her death in 1976, the Owl House fell into disrepair, and as a …
Call for Papers ‘Rethinking “Apartheid’s Golden Age”: South Africa, c1966-1979’, Colloquium to be held at the University of Pretoria, 20 June 2016
… ‘long 1970s’, defined as the period stretching from the death of Hendrik Verwoerd (1966) to the Soweto uprising and …
PlaceSouth African National Archive in Cape Town
… Documents pertaining to Titles Deeds, Wedding, Birth and Death Certificates. The South African National Archive has … Documents pertaining to Titles Deeds,…
EventViolence breaks out at the University of Zululand
… to use the campus for a ceremony to commemorate the death of King Cetshwayo. In the aftermath of the 'Ongoye …
EventMiriam Makeba, South African singer, dies
… for Roberto Saviano, an Italian writer threatened with death by the Mafia after he exposed their underground …
EventVaal Uprising Begins as Sharpeville Residents Resist Rent Increases
On this day, residents of Sharpeville and surrounding Vaal Triangle townships rose up against a R5.90 rent increase imposed by the Lekoa Town Council. The…
EventPresident Cyril Ramaphosa appears before protesters against gender- based violence in South Africa
… activists, politicians and academics called for the death sentence to be reinstated for those who commit violence …
EventTryphina Mboxela Jokweni is honoured by the ANC
… three children. She was 77 years-old at the time of her death. On 29 August 2012, the ANC commemorated Jokweni and …
EventWinnie Madikizela Mandela, a stalwart in the fight against apartheid, passes away
On 2nd April 2018, Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, also known as the mother of the nation, passed away at the age of 81, at Milpark hospital in Johannesburg. She…
Statement at the Swedish People's Parliament Against Apartheid by O. R. Tambo, Stockholm, 21 February 1986
… are facing charges of treason and may be sentenced to death simply because they have struggled for a political … African and Namibian refugees resident in…
Address at the Opening of The XIII Summit Conference of the Non Aligned Movement 24 February 2003
… former Yugoslavia, Chechnya in Russia and Afghanistan, the death and destruction in Timor Leste, and the apparently … including AIDS, that spells suffering…
Address by President of the Republic Commander-in-Chief of SANDF and Patron-in-Chief of Military Veterans at the funeral of Major General (retired) Mongameli Johnson Tshali (aka Lennox Lagu), Thaba Tshwane, 17 September 2011
… South Africa towards which he remained loyal until his death. At a time in our history when the ANC leadership … for the triumph of victory, and that all…
Speech by President Mandela at the Funeral of Nokukhanya Luthuli, 22 December 1996, Groutville
… wise counsel that she has left us: Let there be peace! One death on account of political differences, is one too many! … and that we shall always be there…
PlacePretoria Boys High School
… representative peer at Westminster, from 1722 until his death. Lord Hopetoun acted as Lord High Commissioner to the … was Governor of the Bank of Scotland…
PlacePacaltsdorp
… a mission to this people, and continued with them till his death ... On revisiting this kraal in 1819 ... I found the … the house for 30 years. After both Mr…
Address by ANC President, Nelson R. Mandela, to the Ruth First tenth anniversary commemoration trust Cape Town, 17 August 1992
… refusal to abandon her principles. Her life, and her death, remains a beacon to all who love liberty. Many of you … now that information is beginning to come…
PlaceChris Hani Baragwanath Hospital, Johannesburg
… and preparations for the first Democratic Elections . His death on 10 April 1993 left the nation with a great loss. … to Chief of Staff of MK - a post he…
EventRobert Sobukwe is sentenced to three years' imprisonment
… arrest in his home in Galeshewe, Kimberley, until his death. …
PlaceVergelegen Wine Estate
… been in charge of the estate since 1941, a Year after the death of Lady Florence Phillips, whose husband Sir Lionel …