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ANC President Jacob Zuma to speak at the Imvuselelo one Million Membership Countdown Launch, 16 July 2011
… As part of the African National Congress (ANC) drive towards the one … and Campaigns Chairperson Fikile Mbalula and members of the ANC NEC sub-committee on…
ANC hard at work despite power failure and strike threat, 27 July 2009
… failure which today (27 July 2009) plunged most floors of Chief Albert Luthuli House - African National Congress headquarters – into darkness, and a threat…
PlaceOrkney, North West Province
… for, its gold mining opportunities, and lies on the banks of the Vaal River . Although a relatively quiet Town … just about 180 kilometres from the bustling…
Grassroots
… Grassroots was started in 1980 as the first of a series of community newspapers designed to give a voice to the 'voiceless' and oppressed peoples of South…
EventThe United Arab Republic is proclaimed by Egypt, Iraq, and Syria
… 1958. The agreement was signed by presidents Quwwatli of Syria and Nasser of Egypt, after a public referendum in both countries. These two countries adopted…
EventViolence erupts in Paarl
… Mbekweni, Paarl, met and resolved to attack the White town of Paarl. Over 200 men armed with axes, pangas, sticks, … police patrol vans. Three were shot dead…
EventThe Korean War ends
… The undeclared Korean War ended after three years of fighting between North Korean and Chinese Communists … Korean and American). The war started when armed…
EventIdi Amin, Ugandan dictator, flees after a seven year reign
… campaigns in Burma, Kenya, and Somalia. He was also one of two 'Black' Ugandan soldiers to be promoted to the rank of officer in 1961 just before Uganda…
EventSecurity Council examines violence in South Africa
… At the instigation of a letter titled the Question of South Africa from the Charge D'affaires of the permanent mission of Madagascar to the United Nations …
EventF.W. de Klerk announces Nelson Mandela will be freed on 11 February
… Apartheid government attempted to negotiate the release of Mandela before, but always with conditions. As de Klerk's … banned in 1960. ″It was only then,…
EventApartheid policemen apply for amnesty at TRC
… to bomb ANC offices in London in 1982 with the knowledge of Minister of Law and Order, Louis le Grange. This was in retaliation for the 1981 bombing of the…
EventAugustine Makalakalane, former SA National soccer team player is born
… soccer player who later became a coach. He spent most of his soccer career playing midfield for Cosmos, though he … teams like FC Zurich and FC Baden. He was…
Freedom In Our Life Time - Foreword by A. P. Mda
… by Anton Muziwakhe Lembede When I reflect on my memories of Lembede, two things stick out in my mind ”” his scholarliness and his innovative analysis of the…
ArchiveHugh Lewin obituary by Peter Hain (www.theguardian.com), 21 January 2019
… political party in the country, with the banning in 1960 of Nelson Mandela’s African National Congress. Frustrated … entire cell structure and its plans at…
PlaceBill Ainslie Studios, Johannesburg
… known as the Johannesburg Art Foundation. The core idea of a school was of a network of people, artists, writers and benefactors coming together …
PlaceAliwal Shoal, a Rocky Reef Off; Kwa-Zulu Natal Coast Coast
… The Aliwal Shoal is a rocky Reef which is the remains of an ancient sand dune, approximately 5 kilometres off the Coast of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. The…
EventThe energy and chemical company, Sasol, is registered
… The history of Sasol began in 1927 when a White Paper was tabled in Parliament to investigate the establishment of a South African oil-from-coal industry. It…
EventPrime Minister opens SA’s first atomic reactor
… Reactor Installation-1) at Pelindaba, about thirty km West of Pretoria. The installation was not intended for the production of nuclear energy on a…
EventNegotiations between SA, Cuba and Angola start in London
… Representatives of South Africa, the United States (US), Angola and Cuba met in London (3-4 May) in search of a solution to the Angolan war and independence…
EventMilton Obote (81), Uganda’s former dictator, dies in a South African hospital
… Obote, a member of the legislative council of Uganda from 1957, founded the Uganda People's Congress in … to Tanzania. He returned with the Tanzanian-aided…
EventEleven people are killed at Donnybrook, Kwazulu
… The killing of eleven people at Donnybrook, Kwazulu-Natal on the 21 March 1996 can be considered as part of the ongoing rivalry between supporters of the…
EventJan van Riebeeck’s statue, presented by Cecil John Rhodes, is unveiled in Cape Town
… On 18 May 1899, a statue of the first European to settle at the Cape, Jan van … the city by Cecil John Rhodes, a politician and financier of the late 19th…
EventThe first SARS case is suspected in South Africa
… man arrived in South Africa from Hong Kong with no signs of being ill but after seven days he started to show flu-like … results came back negative, although…
”A House in Harrington Street”, photographic exhibition by Nicholas Eppel
… exhibition reflects three years in the life and household of long-time Harrington Street resident, Elizabeth Barrett, … to community living against the rapid…
EventHelen Nontando Jabavu, author and periodical editor in London, is born in Middeldrift, SA
… in the Eastern Cape into a literary family. From the age of thirteen, she was schooled in England, and continued to live there for many years. She went on to…
EventRwandan and Burundian presidents J Habyarimana and C Ntayamira are killed in an air crash
… 0n 6 April 1994, an extraordinary event in the history of the African continent took place in Kigali, Rwanda when … from two countries were assassinated…
EventTwenty-four Kikuyu tribesmen are sentenced to death for the Lari massacre in Kenya
… Nine months after the Lari Massacre of 26 March 1953, twenty-four Kikuyu tribesmen were sentenced … event happened 10 years before the independence of the…
No.46 - Steve Biko by Hilda Bernstein, 1978, South Africa
… time, the inquest revealed full and horryfying details of how political detainees are treated. What exactly happened … known only to his interrogators. But…
PlaceMagnet Theatre, Cape Town
… with Jazzart Dance Theatre, Southern Edge Arts of Western Australia, Theatre Spirale as well as the University of Cape Town (UCT) Drama School amongst many…
Enuga S Reddy: Notes on meeting with Dr. Cassim Jadwat -1997
… a student at Sastri College in Durban. [A.I. Kazi, leader of the Natal Indian Congress for twenty years (from 1920s to … were fighting his conservative…