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… A year after the Treaty of Vereeniging, which signalled the end of the Anglo-Boer War 2, the British High Commissioner to … Blacks was postponed until such self-rule was returned. Of the four colonies that would later make up the Union of …

… on a reef opposite Danger Point, the southern point of Walker Bay, at present day Gans Bay in the Western Cape . … available while the men stood in line on deck. Some of the men managed to reach the shore and a number of the survivors settled there, existing on gardening and …

… anti-apartheid Labour Party (LP). The LP won thirty-one of the fourty elective seats in the Council.. The leader, … as complete economic and political freedom. On the day of the elections the minister of Coloured Relations, Hennie Smit, gave notice of a Bill … Southern African Political History: a chronology of key political events from independence to mid-1997, …

… on trial at the Supreme Court in Grahamstown, accused of having conspired to take over a town and kill Whites, were … from seven to one year's imprisonment for being members of the illegal organisation Poqo, armed wing of the Pan Africanist Congress (PAC) and forerunner of the …

… England. The Commonwealth Games was to commence in July of the same year (1986) in Edinburgh, Scotland. The governing body of Games were already faced with the boycott of five black African nations - Nigeria, Ghana, Kenya, Uganda …

… a grandiose Edwardian style heralding the subsequent pomp of the Georgian era. The Duke of Connaught and Strathern, laid the corner stone on 29 … It took over an area previously used by the citizens of Johannesburg as their Market Square, and the residual …

… town in Mpumalanga near Pretoria and is the spiritual home of the Ndebele tribe that settled here in the early 18th … the government administration for the North Western Region of the Mpumalanga Province. To the North of KwaMhlanga, on the R568 near the village of Klipfontein, …

… sentences on fourteen Blacks (Upington 14) for the murder of Lucas Tshenolo Sethwala, a Black police constable who … his home with stones on 13 November 1985. The rest of the twenty-five accused, the largest group ever to be convicted of murder in a single SA trial, received sentences ranging …

… David Goldblatt was honoured for his portrayal of social and political life in the country of his birth. David Goldblatt received the 2006 Hasselblad … acute historical and political perception provides a sense of the texture of daily life, and an important piece of …

… Following the unanimous adoption of resolution 765 by the UN Security Council, Cyrus Vance was dispatched to South Africa as Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General, Boutros Boutros-Ghali. During … his visit, Vance held deliberations with a broad array of political, religious, business and labour leaders in an …

… President F.W. de Klerk announces the calling up of military reservists to curb political violence will top the agenda of the forthcoming multiparty political talks. He further … asserted that he personally supported the reinstatement of the death penalty for murder and other serious crimes and …

… Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Centre for the Creative Arts of Africa/Wits Art Museum. For a few decades, the concept of decolonisation has become a clarion call in the academic … this presentation, Effiboley will discuss what the concept of decolonization means in terms of collections and …

… later and admitted his role in the raid. This was one of many cross border raids by the SADF in the 1980s. Some of the cross border raids include Matola, Botswana and the bombing of two houses in Manzini. The attacks in Manzini claimed the … |O’Malley, P. ‘1983’ , from the Nelson Mandela Centre of Memory, [online], Available at  www.nelsonmandela.org …

… 1952 in Durban. He studied Fine Arts at the University Of KwaZulu-Natal and later went on to teach the subject at … years. Botha’s  first job as a lecturer led to a string of others in the visual art industry, including founder and director of a gallery, founding a community art workshop and being …

… Zimbabwe was suspended from the Commonwealth of Nations after the country’s 2001 elections were found to … motivated violence. The announcement was made by a troika of Commonwealth leaders that included then President of South Africa Thabo Mbeki. The suspension meant that the …

… 20 October 1988  She grew up on a farm and had aspirations of becoming a ballerina. Swanepoel did not think of herself as beautiful, even though she was thin and tall. She never dreamed of becoming a model. At the age of fifteen she was scouted in …

… Lansana Conte’ was the second president of Guinea.  On 3 April 1984, a week after the death of President Ahmed Sékou Touré, Conte’ who was a Lieutenant … to be chosen. Two days later, he was proclaimed president of Guinea. Conte’ was president of Guinea up until his death …

… when two Kenyan jets bombed the southern Somali town of Jilib. This was an attempt by east African nation to rid Somalia of the Islamic al Shabaab rebels.     Kenya moved its troops into Somalia in mid-October in pursuit of Somali insurgents it blamed for a series of kidnappings on …

… Djibouti is a very small country located on the horn of Africa. It is so small that it has an estimated population of less than a million, one of the least populous in Africa. France, which had colonized … US department of State (2012) Background Note: Djibouti  [online] Available …

… a discussion document, which to some extent had the effect of shifting public focus away from the prospect of a total breakdown. Among the things that the discussion … called for was a non-racial democratic state with a Bill of Rights, the independence of judiciary and other related …

… meaning We shall all die), community leader, founder of the Sofasonke Party and a champion for better housing for … Johannesburg's Blacks, was born in Georgedale, today part of Cato Ridge. Mpanza was the only member of the Orlando Advisory Board on which the Communist Party …

… P." Mda (1916-1993) who grew up in the Herschel district of the Transkei. He was prominent among the founders of the ANC Youth League in 1943-44, and served as its president after the death of Anton Lembede in 1947. He opposed the influence of the …

… and having obtained an M.A. Degree at the University of South Africa in 1944, he was appointed to the Department of African Languages at Fort Hare. In 1946 he accepted a post as lecturer in the School of African Studies at the University of Cape Town, the first …

… This handwritten statement of condemnation contains eight points including that of the detentions of BPA members and the violent actions of the police force. …

… White, black and red poster. Two photos and artwork of women. Artwork of a crowd of women. List of dreams and demands for equal opportunity. …

… Black and white poster. Notice of International Women's Day - March 8th. Collage of photographs of women and artwork of women. Symbol for female. …

… Yellow poster with black lettering. South African Council of Churches, Division of Refugee Ministries. Circle in centre of poster with five coloured photographs of refugees. …

… with black lettering. Five black and white photographs of women. List of aims of Ecumenical Decade. Words of poem from Judith 9 : 11-16. …

… Black and white background of mass of people. Five small blocks of multicoloured artwork. One of a white dove, the others …

… White, black and red poster. Photo of a conscript. Issued by the Progressive Society, PFP. National poster campaign of the Young Progressives. Photos of protests of SADF. …