SAHO global search
3,351 records
Oliver Tambo, 1 October 1987 - Reproduced in Oliver Tambo and the Struggle against Apartheid, edited by E. S. Reddy
… Congress, who has been in exile since 1960, and Nelson Mandela and Walter Sisulu who have been in prison since 1962 … - but the continuity of leadership…
Oliver Tambo, October 1987
… Congress, who has been in exile since 1960, and Nelson Mandela and Walter Sisulu who have been in prison since 1962 … - but the continuity of leadership…
Benjamin Johnson Langa
Benjamin (Ben) Johnson, Langa’s father, was a Minister of Religion and his mother was a housewife who was also intensely involved in the church. There were…
EventPresidential Job Summit is held
… In response to a call by President Nelson Mandela, representatives of government, business, labour and … by the high rate of crime and violence. Click here…
The Final Prize by Norman Levy book review by Chris Saunders, 1 June 2014
… of his book he includes an important few pages on Nelson Mandela’s relations with the SACP (268ff). What he does not …
EventAnti-apartheid activist Sister Bernard Ncube dies
… 1980s, Sister Ncube was one of the founding members of the Mandela Crisis Committee alongside Reverend Frank Chikane and … Committee was formed in response…
ANC Statement on the 40th anniversary of Chief Albert Luthuli`s death, 20 July 2007
… edition contains tributes from ANC leaders like Nelson Mandela, Thabo Mbeki, Jacob Zuma and Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, and includes contributions from…
EventMiriam Makeba returns to South Africa
… white minority rule. Following the release of Nelson Mandela in February 1990, Mandela personally encouraged her to return. She arrived at …
Thabo’s pen versus perceptions by Tinyiko Maluleke (Sunday Independant), 24 January 2016
… to be the first to lap up his first tweet. Next to Nelson Mandela, Mbeki has arguably been the most influential … all that came before them, he was, in…
EventMemorial service for the victims of mining disaster
… . The Union Secretary-General, Cyril Ramaphosa, and Winnie Mandela , the wife of Nelson Mandela, the imprisoned leader of the banned African National …
EventNP set to withdraw from GNU
… clear the ANC, and particularly President Nelson Mandela, had decided the time for majority rule had arrived. … was the appointment of Trevor Manuel as…
EventThe SA government presents a promotion of Constitutional Development Bill
… leader of the African National Congress (ANC), Nelson Mandela. On 2 February 1990, de Klerk lifted the ban on the … and the Pan Africanist Congress (PAC). On…
EventLady Diana Spencer is killed in a car accident in Paris
… In 2002, former president of South Africa, Nelson Mandela announced the Mandela Children’s Fund would launch a joint venture with …
ArticleDemocratic Alliance (DA)
… other liberation organisations, and the release of Nelson Mandela, the process of negotiating a peaceful solution to … with other parties in Tshwane ,…
Chapter 1: Introduction
… during the Easter of 1985, the release in 1990 of Nelson Mandela (ANC leader who was imprisoned for 27 years), and the … alliance and the IFP failed, until…
EventResumption of talks
… African National Congress (ANC) President Nelson Mandela accepted an invitation for urgent talks with State … that the talks had progressed well, paving the…
Event46664 concert is held in Fancourt
… being the prison number of South African president Nelson Mandela during the apartheid era, was staged at the exclusive … 100% of the ticket revenue could be…
ArticleSouth Africa’s electoral history timeline 1910-2009
… elections held in post apartheid South Africa with Nelson Mandela being elected as President. 1999 The second non …
Rejuvenation of the ANC and intensification of the struggle 1940s
… leaders who formed the ANCYL were, among others, Nelson Mandela , Oliver Tambo , Walter Sisulu and Anton Lembede . …
EventFifty killed over three days during Inkatha
… in Natal, South Africa, following the release of Mandela on 11 February 1990. One of the reasons advanced for … considered an Inkatha stronghold. The…
Biography of Eli Weinberg by Karen Folz
… with communism and anti-apartheid causes. [xxxi] Nelson Mandela reaffirms this idea in his autobiography – since a … willingly took him on as a clerk despite…
ArticlePretoria Timeline 1800-2009
… Trial begins, in which 30 of the accused, including Nelson Mandela were only released in March 1961 because the State … suburb of Silverton, demanding the…
ArticleMiriam Makeba: Activist on Two Fronts by Connor Kirkpatrick
… finally allowed to return to South Africa. Shortly After Mandela was released he had a meeting with Makeba in Sweden. … and was very emotional that night…
Side By Side: The Autobiography of Helen Joseph
… of gaol bird Chapter VII - The 1980’s Chapter VIII - The Mandela’s – family extraordinary Chapter IX - Return to my …
PlaceKing Williams Town, Amatola
… Ginsberg and is now a Garden of Remembrance. Nelson Mandela and Thabo Mbeki hail from the area (it is just a … the N2 to Umtata ) and many tourists now…
ArchiveA Speech to Displease All Parties by Imraan Coovadia, 11 October 2021
… mentions in Sonnet 111. How disfigured have we been? Mandela’s real contribution to this country was as a careful … to the cost of moving parliament from…
EventHelen Suzman is born
… of prisoners. She visited former President Nelson Mandela several times at Robben Island. When Nelson Mandela signed the new constitution in 1996, Suzman was…
EventThe introduction of new South African flag 1994
… in which African National Congress (ANC) won. Nelson Mandela became the first democratic president. It replaced … 1994.The national flag first flew on 10…
Keeping a cool head amid flying bullets: A tribute to Juda Ngwenya by Joseph Oesi (City Press), 26 October 2016
… Picture: Janice Keogh South African President Nelson Mandela and American pop star Whitney Houston smile for … Juda Ngwenya/Reuters South African President…
EventMourners are shot at Ntuli’s funeral in Thokoza
… the police denied the allegations, ANC president Nelson Mandela attacked President F.W. de Klerk for his continued … on alleged co-operation between the IFP…