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54. South African Indian Congress: first annual report, 1924
… Pachai The South African Indian Congress was formed in 1923 to fight the 'principle of segregation' embodied in the Class Areas Bill. The first move to form…
Address to Foreign Correspondents association Johannesburg, 26 November 1998
… part of our annual calendar, I have noted, though, that in some years I am given dinner and in others merely breakfast. I must have done something right ……
Address by President Nelson Mandela at a breakfast meeting of the Foreign Correspondents Association 24 April 1995
… - especially when one is dealing with a profession in which timing is as important as content. As Scott MacLeod … But I should also commend you for one thing…
Chapter 12 - Certification of the final constitution
… the process of testing the adopted text was dealt with in the same open manner as the drafting. The test of … text. It was as important to the ANC, who had…
Constitution of the ANC
… (a) To protect and advance the interest of all Africans in all matters affecting them. (b) To attain the freedom of … work for the unity and co-operation of…
”Report on Talks between the PAC and the OAU liberation Committee Sub-committee” by Potlako K. Leballo, Dar es Salaam, November 20,1968
… At their 13th Ordinary session in Algiers, last July, the OAU Committee of Eleven adopted … unity has been restored to the Movement. (Their emphasis). In the…
ArchiveReport on Talks between the PAC and the OAU liberation Committee Sub-committee by Potlako K. Leballo, Dar es Salaam, November 20,1968
… At their 13th Ordinary session in Algiers, last July, the OAU Committee of Eleven adopted … unity has been restored to the Movement. (Their emphasis). In the…
ArchiveThe Congress of the people
… happening at that time, and some very good things too. In 1955 a very great thing happened. We organized the … the Indian Congress and the Congress of…
PlaceZonderwater
… Situated in the Highveld of Gauteng, just outside Cullinan near … of war camps by the Allies! Zonderwater was set up in 1941, during World War II,…
PlaceDutch Reformed Mission Institute, Cape Town
… South African Missionary Society, established a ministry in Wagenmakersvallei in 1796 and ministered to slaves and to detribalised Khoikhoi … people who…
EventPatrice Emery Lumumba, first Prime Minister of an independent Congo, is born
… of the Tetela ethnic group, Patrice Emery Lumumba was born in the Katakokombe region of the Kasai Province of Belgian Congo. Lumuba became involved in…
EventCongolese activist,Patrice Lumumba is briefly arrested
… two nights of unrest on charges of inciting riots in Stanleyville. He was then set free in time to attend the Round Table Conference in Brussels, where his…
EventThe official launch of the SABC
… In 1934, General James Barry Munnik (JBM) Hertzog, prime … an official investigation into all aspects of Broadcasting in South Africa. The investigation…
EventPresident John Vorster resigns
… On retiring as prime minister after twelve years in office, B.J. Voster was elected to the unprecedented … honorary position of State President. However, his…
EventHezekiel Sepeng is born
… The athlete Hezekiel Sepeng is born in Potchefstroom, North West (then Western Transvaal). The ‘Potchefstroom Express’, as he was known, was scouted in one…
EventPresident Mbeki opens the second sitting of PAP
… new permanent seat, the Gallagher Estate conference centre in Midrand, Gauteng. The parliament was established in March 2004, by Article 17 of The…
EventNelson Mandela marries Graça Machel on his 80th birthday
… Nelson Mandela first married in 1944. He and his wife Evelyn had 2 children and divorced in 1957. A year later, he married Winnie Madikizela-Mandela . Their…
EventCharles Taylor wins presidential election
… rebel leader Charles Taylor ascended to presidential power in a peaceful election following a seven-year civil war, launched from neighbouring Cote d'Ivoire…
EventThe League of Nations hands over German colonies
… colony Deutsche Ostafrika, was transferred to Britain and in 1961 became independent as Tanzania. The greater part of … Britain respectively. The Togo colony…
EventGeorge Christopher Cato (79), Natal pioneer and first mayor of Durban, dies
… Cato, Natal pioneer and first mayor of Durban, dies in the city on 9 July 1893. Cato was born in London, England in 1814. He came to South Africa as a…
EventEarly Xhosa author William Gqoba dies
… wagon-maker William Wellington Gqoba (Mbaba, Goba) died in Lovedale, Eastern Cape. He was born in Gaga, near Alice, and was one of the earliest authors in…
EventAfrikaner patriot Danie Theron is killed
… Danie Theron, an Afrikaner patriot believing in the just and divine right of the Boer to stand against … interference, died during the Second Anglo-Boer War…
EventBritain and Egypt agree on independence for Sudan.
… countries’ rule over Sudan dates back the 19th century. In 1823, Egyptians founded Khartoum as their headquarters and developed Sudan's trade in ivory and…
Fighting Talk
… of the Springbok Legion of ex-servicemen and women, until in February 1954 when the "Fighting Talk Committee", in Johannesburg, took over the responsibility…
EventYusuf Dadoo, political activist, is born
… and social liberation, Dr. Yusuf Mohamed Dadoo was born in Krugersdorp, Johannesburg. According to Essop Pahad, the … groups of Indian, African and Coloured…
Speech by Nelson Mandela at Zionist Christian Church Easter Conference Moria, 3 April 1994
… his mouth, and taught them saying, 3 Blessed are the poor in spirit: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven, 4.Blessed are … for they shall obtain mercy. 8…
Jail
… this time we were working with the M-Plan and we had cells in the ANC. This man who was giving evidence against me was … magistrate said, 'Well, since you've…
Birthday message by Albert Luthuli to Dr. Yusuf M. Dadoo, 2 September 1955
… (Extracts) In sincerely wishing you good health, strength and longevity … as to what the attainment of freedom would cost us in pain and suffering before…
Letter to U Thant, Secretary-General of the United Nations by O. R. Tambo, 29 June 1968
… In the course of my address to the session of the Special Committee on Apartheid in Stockholm, I asked the Chairman, Ambassador Marof, to … your vigilance…
Speech at the Funeral of M.P. Naicker, London by O. R. Tambo, 8 May 1977
… pay our last respects to a man who because of his belief in the freedom of the people of his country was robbed of the … ago to liberate Germany, he was…