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ArticleNelson Mandela Timeline 1980-1989
… freedom provided he unconditionally rejected violence as a political instrument. 10 February, Zindziwe Mandela read out … condition that ‘he unconditionally…
ArticleLiberation history Timeline 1940-1949
… characterised by changes that had a profound effect on the political landscape in South Africa. There was closer … two organisation during the 1920s and…
10 YEARS PROJECT
… Minute . 2. The final report of the Working Group on political offences dated 21 May 1990, as amended, was … as speedily as possible towards a negotiated…
Address by President Jacob Zuma at the launch of COP 17 Legacy Projects in Groutville, Kwazulu-Natal, 08 December 2011
… to receive the Nobel Peace Prize. He left behind a rich political legacy and a collection of wisdom that we continue … as a legacy of COP17 to the people of…
Cosatu march: For Who, for What? by Simelane and Nicolson (Daily Maverick), 8 October 2015
… Marcher Nokulunga Khoza said the national strike wasn't a response to the anti-corruption march led the week before. … with the turnout. “The message sent to…
PlaceDorkay House (1952)
… with the help of Ian Bernhardt. The Union was formed in response to the apartheid government’s restrictions on …
EventA blaze destroys Wanderers Cricket Club
… council's public safety committee, admitted Johannesburg's response times lagged behind those of the rest of the …
EventBoers occupying Magagabe Hill shell Rhodesian positions at Basuto Kop
… and the Rhodesians escaped unscathed. The Rhodesian response was to shell Boer positions from Spitzkop, which led …
EventSouth African Committee investigates the Jameson Raid report
… that Britain sought to annex their territory. In response to public outcry, the British Colonial Office in …
EventSouth African woman, Janice Bronwyn Linden, is sentenced to death in China for smuggling drugs
… December 2011, Linden was executed by lethal injection. In response, The South African International Relations …
EventKaunda calls for Thatcher's exclusion from talks on South African sanctions
In protest of the system of apartheid, economic sanctions against South Africa had been advocated from the 1960s onwards. However, it was only in the 1980s…
Say It out Loud - The 1923 Presidential Address, Cape Town, 3rd April, 1923
… to 1910, during which years the non-European races enjoyed political privileges. But with the exception of that … war, the non-European of the Cape has been…
Memorandum from Nelson Mandela to F. W. de Klerk, 26 June 1992
… extremely dangerous. The NP government is placing party political interests above national interests by trying to … violence ravaging our country. We are of…
PlaceThembuland
… the Thembu by aggressive settlers, however in the ensuing political upheavals, the law was badly enforced. From the … in 2009, by calling for secession from…
ArchiveCHAPTER 4 - A turn to masses by Howard Barrell
… - The Quest for a Political Base, October 1978 - August 1979 [I]f our own … efforts would reach a dead end unless they had a broader political base. - Joe…
ArchiveChapter 7 - Planning for people's war `Blow on the embers and it will catch alight', January 1983 - March 1984 by Howard Barrell
… Nzo. Like the RC, it had two main operational arms, one political and one military. On the political side, the PMC hierarchy consisted of a political ……
ArticleWomen’s Workplace Oppression in 1970s South Africa by Cait Chapman
… women played were changing dramatically under the immense political, domestic and economic pressures of apartheid. The … Africa, but the global economy and…
PlaceDoornkop/Doornsluiten
… residents to leave by the end of July that same year. In response to this, residents opted to buy individual plots … why the government had refrained from…
Speech at the Tenth General Conference of the United National Independence Party by O. R. Tambo, Zambia, August 1988
… and internationally. With characteristic clarity and broad political vision, President Kaunda has outlined in his report … process not only the further…
ArchiveCHAPTER 6 - Towards a Broad Front and Other Desirable Accidents, January 1981 - January 1983 by Howard Barrell
… for the first time, military work was a complement to political work... [V]isibly through the media, the matter … as a unified thing: that military action…
Book 6: Negotiation, Transition and Freedom - Chapter 4 - The Fruits of Freedom by Eddy Maloka
… South Africa shifted towards the construction of a new political, social and economic order. The transition involved political freedom for the Black majority…
Document 28 - Letterfrom E. R. Roux to the Central Executive, Communist Party of South Africa, 25 September 1928
… while in Moscow may in part have been due to the sort of political intimidation to which we were subjected - an … of colonial type. This national struggle is…
Document 18 - The Pretoria Minute
… of the legal proceedings of the Treason Trial or of its political meaning and implications. Suffice it to say that … Defiance Campaign of 1952, it was a…
BiographyEla Gandhi
… I used the office to interact with different people on a political level”. At this time labour unions for African …
BiographyPaul Weinberg
… High School, and obtained his undergraduate BA degree in political science, economic history and law from the …
EventChad gains its independence
… the changes that needed to be made to the French empire in response to the military, economic and population losses …
EventSA and British governments clash over interpretation of the Simonstown Agreement
… the agreement by continuing the arms embargo. The response was presented to Hendrick Lutting, the South African …
EventMass protest against the circumstances of Neil Aggett’s death
… 50 000 workers taking part in the protest. This was in response to a call for a nationwide work stoppage from the …
EventSuppression of Communism Act 44 of 1950 severely limits what the media could report
… seats in the Assembly and Cape Provincial Council. In response to this, the government amended the act in 1951 to …
EventJ.J. Hadebe replies to Thabo Mbeki’s plea
… could rather further his graduate studies. His plea was in response to a call made by the ANC, that the timing was right …