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BiographyAlex la Guma
… was continuing to ripen deep down within him. (la Guma, 1982:1). JM Coetzee elucidates this point in his 1971 essay …
ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 1990-1999
… in Lusaka. 2 February, President F. W. de Klerk makes a speech at the opening of Parliament, announcing the lifting … Thousands of Alexandra townships…
BiographyTeboho MacDonald “Tsietsi” Mashinini
… on his face, including a large scar on his forehead.At his funeral service, held at the Amphitheatre Stadium in …
BiographyArthur Albert Hugh Adams
… shown in Cape Town in the year it was made, a recorded speech sent by Kokoschka was played at the opening. His work …
BiographyTaubie Kushlick
… had furnished the queen with an impassioned harangue a speech lasting an uninterrupted twenty minutes of fine, …
BiographyMary Dorothy Benson
… standing in front of her. She had been expecting Oliver Tambo and was surprised to see Mandela, who had illegally …
The Rise of Women’s Trade Unionism in South Africa by Peter LaNasa
… were 15,273 women employed in industrial jobs. (Walker, 1982 58) While in these early years South African society was … in a miners’ strike on the Rand in…
Yusuf Dadoo Timeline: 1970 - 1979
… in South Africa. 1972 August 11, Dadoo delivers a speech at the funeral of J. B. Marks at Novodovichy cemetery in Moscow. … meeting and asks him to…
BiographySydney Kumalo
… of the arts community were among those who spoke at his funeral, including Cecil Skotnes, Linda Givon, Ezrom Legae …
BiographySunny Girja Singh
… could not come home. He was unable to attend his mother’s funeral, although he was in Maputo, when he received news …
ArticleCongress of South African Students (COSAS)
… support to trade unions and community organizations. In 1982, COSAS adopted the theme; “Student-worker action†… a principal at a school in Graaf-Reinet…
Grade 4 term 2 Timeline: Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela
… He Opens South Africa’s first black law firm with Oliver Tambo 1956 Mandela isarrested and later joined 155 others on … guilty of sabotage and sentenced to…
BiographyMoosa “Mosie” Moolla
… Afro-Asian People’s Solidarity Organisation (AAPSO). In 1982 he was reposted to New Delhi. In November 1989 he was …
BiographyPetrus Nzima Nyawose
… to be returned by the apartheid government. On 4 June 1982, Petrus ‘Nzima’ Nyawose and his wife, SACTU …
BiographyMakhosi “Tholi” Nyoka
… community movement, KwaMashu Youth Organisation. On 18 May 1982, facing constant harassment from the police, Nyoka fled …
ArticleuMkhonto weSizwe (MK) Timeline 1961-1990
… limpet mine explosion which fails to set off fires. Oliver Tambo , President of the ANC, claims that both attacks were … continued support for the ANC in a…
Conflict among civic organisations
… various African civic organisations known as the WCCA in 1982. The WCCA represented civic organisations from African … Bills Action Committee (DBAC). The…
BiographyWilliam Andrew ‘Willie’ Hofmeyr
… of the Economic History Research Group, from 1979 to 1982, to produce a popular history of South Africa for …
ArchiveAddress to the staff and students of the Lenin Party School
… Speech made by Jack Simons to the staff and students of the Lenin Party School at the closing ceremony of the 1981-1982 academic year and in celebration of…
BiographyImam Abdullah Haron
… at the Cape Town Drill Hall, in an emotionally-charged speech the Imam described the Group Areas Acts as "inhuman, …
Speech by the President of the Republic of South Africa, Nelson Mandela, at the closing session of the Summit Meeting of Heads of State and Government of the Countries of the Non-Aligned Movement Durban, September 3, 1998.
… Speech by the President of the Republic of South Africa, …
Speech by the President of the Republic of South Africa, Nelson Mandela, at the closing session of the Summit Meeting of Heads of State and Government of the Countries of the Non-Aligned Movement Durban, September 3, 1998.
… Speech by the President of the Republic of South Africa, …
BiographyJacob Gedleyihlekisa Zuma
… in South Africa. After the intervention of Oliver Tambo, who sent Moses Mabhida and Thomas Nkobi to assist, … with Mbeki, Zuma formed part of the ANC…
EventSamora Machel pledges solidarity with the people of South Africa
… the African National Congress (ANC) President, Oliver Tambo was addressing mourners at the funeral of the victims of the Matola raid in Mozambique …
PlaceWonderboom National Airport, Tshwane
… the Airport being able to receive its first Boeing 737 in 1982. Wonderboom was originally only an airstrip owned by the … Pretoria residents that do not wish…
EventLady Diana Spencer, Princess of Wales, is killed in a car accident in Paris
… her companion Dodi Fayed in a car accident in Paris. Her funeral was broadcast in South Africa by the SABC. The Funeral Speech (Eulogy) to Diana Princess of…
ArchiveStatement of the National Executive Committee on the occasion of the 79th anniversary of the African National Congress, January 8, 1991
… Speech made by Deputy ANC President, Nelson Mandela, on the … anniversary. Includes an introductory statement by Oliver Tambo. …
BiographyPeter Clarke
… New York, US (group) 1979: Pratt Institute, New York 1982: South African Art, National Gallery, Gaberone, Botswana …
ArticleLesotho Timeline
… as king. 1997 Lesotho soldiers put down a police mutiny in Maseru in February. Prime Minister Ntsu Mokhehle forms the … to restore order; scores die in…
ArchiveHistory of Black Consciousness and the student movement
… Speech delivered at the July 1982 Festival of the National …