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1947-Joint Declaration of Cooperation
… Congress to convene an All African-Asian Conference. Before arriving at the decision the Congress carefully … the Joint Secretaries of the SAIC against the…
The Legal Veneer
… legislation. At the end of its labours a report was tabled before parliament on 3 February 1982, which culminated in the … vanished altogether. 2. Homelands…
ArchiveHow history will judge FW de Klerk by RW Johnson, politicsweb (28 November 2021)
… and it has had no difficulty in packing the Constitutional Court to ensure it can get away with that. Indeed, to a very … preferable if all the major SOEs…
Statement of the NWC on the organisation`s readiness for the upcoming election, 10 May 2011
… on other important matters. With only few days remaining before the crucial 2011 local government elections, the ANC … programmes in all nine provinces on 17…
PlaceDu Toit's Kloof Pass and the Huguenot Tunnel
… has a long and interesting History that dates back to long before the Italian Prisoners of War , during World War 11 , … slope, then turning north-east…
Rivonia: Telling it as it was, 2 July 1988
… of times, because the ANC had been outlawed three years before during the country's first state of emergency, and no … and the directing spirit of the ANC…
EventA 19 year old Mzwandile Kekana is testifying at the trial of 14 Cookhouse people charged with murdering a teacher.
… a 19 year old boy, testified in the Port Elizabeth Supreme Court that the people who accused him of being a police … Mnyalatyo in the bedroom and killed him…
PlaceOrkney, North West Province
… and its International Airport . The Town was proclaimed in 1940 on the Witkoppen Farm. It was here that mining pioneer, …
EventMadagascar adopts its second constitution
… the colonial French Protectorate in 1890. By the late 1940's, the Malagasy had started to demand independence. A …
ArticleTruth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC)
… The Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) was a court-like body assembled in South Africa after the end of …
Remembering Sol Plaatje as South Africa’s original public educator (The Conversation), 05 October 2016
… throughout his life. He practised lifelong learning long before it became a policy buzzword. In his various professions - post office messenger, court…
An interview with Mr. A.W.G. Champion
… lawyers in every one of these towns to take matters to court. When a native worker who was our member was dismissed … many farmers who were members of the…
Thirty years ago by Raymond Suttner (extract from 'Inside Apartheid's Prison')
… was happening. I raced back onto the highway, sped along before turning up again at one of the off-ramps near … the UDF. Rev Frank Chikane was there and this…
EventWinnie Mandela attacked by a group of people
… with eggs and cool drink cans while leaving the Supreme Court in Cape Town. She blamed the attack on the apartheid … provoked the attack on her. Mandela was…
English Settlement in South Africa
British presence in the Cape between the 1600s and 1795 was largely confined to the shores of the Cape and Table Bay as a halfway stop by the East India…
ArticleMoses Kotane Timeline
… Kotane is also voted in as General Secretary of the party. 1940 22 June 22, Kotane and his wife Sophie have their first …
Nelson Mandela by O. R. Tambo - Extract from "No Easy Walk to Freedom: Articles, Speeches and Trial Addresses of Nelson Mandela edited by Ruth First", 1965.
… a shabby building across the street from the Magistrates' Court. Chancellor House in Fox Street was one of the few … could hire offices: it was owned by…
Appeal for Action to stop Repression and Trial in South Africa: Statement at the Meeting of the Special Political Committee of the United Nations General Assembly by O. R. Tambo, New York, 8 October, 1963
… considerable reluctance that I applied for leave to appear before this Committee, recognising, as I did, the supreme … to abandon. Today some thirty…
This item by Oliver Tambo was published as the introduction to the book "No Easy Walk to Freedom" by Ruth First, 01 June 1965
… a shabby building across the street from the Magistrates` Court. Chancellor House in Fox Street was one of the few … could hire offices: it was owned by…
Passive Resistance 1946 - A Selection of Documents compiled by E.S. Reddy & Fatima Meer - Special Focus: Wrangling between political groups - 1947
… South African Indian Congress should have been consulted before such a statement was made. Even India should have been … Congress and the wing led by Dr…
Nelson Mandela by Oliver Tambo
… a shabby building across the street from the Magistrates' Court. Chancellor House in Fox Street was one of the few … could hire offices: it was owned by…
‘Wash Me Black Again’: African Nationalism, the Indian Diaspora, and Kwa-Zulu Natal, 1944-1960 by Jon Soske
… Africa,” in Saul Dubow and Alan Jeeves, South Africa’s 1940: World of Possibility (Cape Town: Double Storey: 2005), … of the pre-1948 city (and, more…
Biography of Michael Scott from an email contribution by Lorna Richmond, 25 November 2015
… which he did wholeheartedly. Shortly before the outbreak of WW2 he returned to England and joined … he felt it necessary to live among them. …
ArticleThe Azania Liberation Support Committee and its publications by Allison Drew
… & Allied Trades Union (EATUSA) led by Brian Williams before it merged with the Electrical & Allied Workers Union …
ArticleHistory Grade 11 - Topic 4 Essay Questions
… overview: There was no South Africa (as we know it today) before 1910. Britain had defeated Boer Republics in the …
EventDemonstrators close down businesses and government offices in Lesotho
… of the elections, 200 opposition candidates filed a High Court application to challenge the electoral process and demand access to electoral papers. When the…
EventMandela signs SA Constitution into law
… and on 8 May and forwarded to the Constitutional Court for ratification. The Constitutional Court ruled in September 1996 that the new constitution … a…
ArchiveMandla Mandela wants inquest into deaths of Stompie Seipie, Dr Asvat, 19 January 2018, South Africa
… 1989. He made the call in a statement welcoming a Supreme Court of Appeal judgment on Madiba's Qunu home. Seipei was a … to his third wife, Graca Machel ,…
EventLiberian President, Samuel Kanyon Doe publically offers to resign
… of crimes against humanity at the International Criminal Court (ICC), became head of the Provisional Government. In … On 26 April 2012, Taylor was found…
EventGen. J.B.M. Hertzog is forced to resign as premier after his motion of neutrality in World War II is defeated in parliament
… formed in 1914. However, Hertzog left the HNP in November 1940 after internal strife. At the same time he also left his …