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ArchiveRadio Freedom: A History of South African Underground Radio by Chris A. Smith
… decades, Radio Freedom was the voice in exile of Nelson Mandela’s African National Congress, the longtime resistance … to be known, prompted the ANC to…
EventStompie Seipei’s murderer goes to jail
… Seipei was a child activist and member of the infamous Mandela Football Club established by Winnie Mandela as a front for the political mobilisation of…
ArticleSouth Africa needs a national holiday on 16 November to acknowledge its indentured
… of others”. While South Africa is a secular state, Nelson Mandela emphasised that within the nation “there shall also … in Robben Island in 1976 in a cell…
EventStompie Seipei's murderer goes to jail
… Seipei was a child activist and member of the infamous Mandela Football Club established by Winnie Mandela as a front for the political mobilisation of…
Article20 Years of Democracy (1994 - 2014) - Profiles of the Presidents
… events such as 2010 Fifa World Cup and so on. Nelson Mandela (1994 - 1999) Thabo Mbeki (1999 - 2008) Kgalema …
People associated with Yusuf Mohamed Dadoo
… Ngwevela Ismail Bhoola Bram Fischer A. O’Dowd Nelson Mandela Chief Albert Luthuli Johannes Nkosi Oliver Tambo …
ArchiveCHAPTER EIGHT: Indian Resistance Politics In Transition, 1990-1996 by Kumi Naidoo
This chapter comes from the book
ArticleAlbertina Sisulu Timeline 1918 - 2011
… the Bantu Men's Social Centre in Johannesburg where Nelson Mandela was the best man and Albertina's friend Evelyn (at the time married to Mandela) was one of…
BiographyOscar Dumisani Dhlomo
Oscar Dhlomo was born on 28 December 1943 at Putellos, Umbumbulu, about 30 kilometers South East of Durban, the fifth of the 11 children of Flora and Isaac…
ArticleHistory Grade 11 - Topic 4 Source-based Questions
… THE 1950s? SOURCE 3A Below is a source which illustrates Mandela’s understanding of Ghandi’s policy of non-violence. Nelson Mandela describes a discussion…
ArticleThe 1992 Whites only referendum ‘For’ or ‘Against’ a negotiated constitution
… the referendum as it was for White people only. But Nelson Mandela persuaded the ANC to throw its support behind a “Yes” … lose everything under an ANC- or…
List of people who died in exile
… Xola Nkabinde, Elias Nkabinde, Simion Nkadimeng, Elija Mandela Nkadimeng, Vernon Nkilash, Shani Nkolonga, Daniel …
The Convention for a Democratic South Africa (CODESA): CODESA 2
… with the racial exclusivity of the referendum but acceded. Mandela called on the white population to vote yes, warning … process for as long as possible…
Four important figures in the South African Film Industry
… in his own right - Jemina and Johnny (1966, UK), Nelson Mandela: Struggle is my Life Ngakane has been hailed as a …
Interview with Lulu Dube by Sbongiseni Dladla, Ohlange, JL Dube House, 21 March 2011
… LD: One of the biggest moments was when Dr Nelson Mandela walked in here to cast his election vote. That was a … and people from the area came in numbers…
ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 1950-1959
… in the burning of passes in Port Elizabeth. Nelson Mandela succeeds Ashely Peter Mda as president of African … by the ANC Secretary-General and initialled by…
ArticleYusuf Dadoo Timeline: 1960 - 1969
… to the impending declaration of a republic. Nelson Mandela appears at the convention after his banning orders … of mobilising people in the face of…
EventLady Diana Spencer, Princess of Wales, is killed in a car accident in Paris
… March 1997. She met former South African President Nelson Mandela during this time. Princess Diana was, best known for … destruction of landmines. On 2…
Images That Preserve History, and Make It : ‘Rise and Fall of Apartheid’ at Center of Photography by Holland Cotter (The New York Times), 20 September 2012
… 30 miles south of Johannesburg. Everything changed. Nelson Mandela, already a veteran activist, proposed a move to armed … in the bloody years leading up to…
PlaceVictor Verster Prison
… chiefly because this was the last place in which Nelson Mandela was incarcerated and it was through these gates, that Mandela walked to freedom in 1990 …
BiographySipho Gumede
Sipho Gumede was born in Cato Manor, a then mainly Indian area in Durban. From a young age he showed interest in music, playing on a homemade guitar. He was…
ArticleUnited Nations and Apartheid Timeline 1946-1994
… U Thant to help obtain the release of Nelson Mandela. In a statement, they condemned the arrest on 5 … October - June, The Rivonia Trial, which ended in…
ArchiveOxford: 1990s: the move to democracy
… Brown, black, red and white poster. Photograph of De Klerk, Mandela and Mbeki, past, present and future presidents, with hands held high at Mandela's…
South Africa in the 1900s (1900-1917)
… a half centuries prior to the birth of Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela , Jan Van Riebeeck and his expedition of Dutch … later the Xhosa people (a Bantu-speaking…
The Freedom struggle in Rustenburg
… worker. Conditions in the area didn't improve, and Nelson Mandela, speaking at the Conference of the Pan-African … Letsie's house was referred to as Shell…
EventZelda la Grange was born on this day
… of the first Democratic Presidency. In 1999 President Mandela hand-picked her from his personal staff to remain in … his services beyond his retirement. She…
Re-emergence of resistance, 1980-89
… Nchabaleng, an activist who had been involved with Nelson Mandela in the 1950s. But in the Apel/Nkwana area, 32 people … the very chiefs who had been reviled…
List of Robben Island Political Prisoners
… Ntshilele Malefetsane Malta Maltema Ngoma Maluse Nelson Mandela Msondo Mandla Shabalala Mandla Cele Mandla Lekalakala …
Article2016 in Review
… government elections - The ANC lost three metros (Nelson Mandela Bay, City of Tshwane and City of Johannesburg), and … Nana Akufo-Addo. - 10th - 20 years…
ArticleAll Members of South Africa’s 5th Democratic Parliament 2014
… William DA Madella Andrew Frans ANC Madikizela-Mandela Nomzamo Winnifred ANC Madisha William Mothipa … Mduduzi Comfort ANC Manana …