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EventPope John Paul II visits Africa
… in this case the Africans. Source: http://africanhistory.about.com/library/thisday/bl-ThisDay0502.htm …
EventAmerican Troops pull out of Somalia
… Click here to read more. Click here to read more about American troops pulling out of Somalia …
EventRamaphosa and Motlatsi are arrested
… workers in breaking the strike. Click here to read more about the South African labour history. Sources: Pretoria …
EventWinnie Mandela’s Soweto home reported burnt down
… club had allegedly attacked a Soweto schoolgirl. When told about the incident, Nelson Mandela did not make a statement …
EventBus drivers strike because of lack of protection
… Inkatha supporters. Between May 1987 and February 1988 about eight TGWU bus drivers of the Sizanani MaZulu Transport …
EventConstable Vlotman is given a R500 fine and a five year suspension sentence
… the impression that the Apartheid government was concerned about threats to media freedom. However, the sentence meted …
EventDesmond Tutu is elected Archbishop
… Related Links: http://www.tutu.org/ - Go to 'Menu: About Desmond Tutu' for information on his life, his …
EventA Xhosa film wins Golden Bear award
… of Khayelitsha. The musical, sung entirely in Xhosa, is about an HIV-positive rural woman and has already won two …
EventMakgatho Mandela dies
… that his son had HIV/Aids. He stressed that being open about HIV/Aids was the only way to stop people "regarding it …
EventSix SA Tsunami survivors arrive at Lanseria
… west of the Indonesian island of Sumatra. They have left about 125 000 people dead along the shorelines of the Indian …
EventReport released on the Waratah steamship's disappearance
… A report was released in London about the disappearance of the Waratah between Durban and …
EventMa Tambo dies in Johannesburg
… rest beside her late husband in the Tamboville Cemetery at about 1pm. …
EventUnrests break out in the Coloured townships
… African educational and political systems. Students from about sixty Coloured high schools, teacher training …
EventUN and OAU take a stand against Apartheid policy
… at UNESCO House in Paris, France. The UN had been vocal about the apartheid policy since the early 1950s. On 1 April …
East Cape Update
… with high rates of unemployment, information about the suffering experienced at the hands of the state and …
EventTryna du Toit, Afrikaans novelist, is born in De Aar, Karoo
… Tryna du Toit. Throughout her writing career, she produced about 40 novels. One of her novels, Groen koring, was made …
Tell no Lies, Claim no easy Victories by Thabo Mbeki, 4 April 2016
… concern that if the negative things repeatedly said about him and the Governments he led are false, the failure … the approach I am trying to explain is my…
Book 2: The Impact and Limitations of Colonialism - Chapter 3 - What is Your Name, Age, and Whose Slave are You? by Rayda Jacobs
… were inherited by the owner's children. Little is known about the personal lives of slaves - who they were, how they had come to be in the Cape, their real…
Chapter 14 - Epilogue: lessons from the negotiating table
… participation. To each party the negotiations were as much about constitutional change as pursuing the interests of its … issues, and it is consequently easy…
ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 2011 - 2020
… ANCYL NEC member to speak to ANCYL president Julius Malema about a supposedly lavish three-day safari he took before the … repute of the organisation, by…
ArticleUniversity of Pretoria 2015-2016 Student Protests Timeline
… [102] and petitions signed by students, to management about the fee increment. ‘ The statement goes onto say, ‘The … and allow student registrations to…
Address by his excellency, President Jacob Zuma at the 50th Anniversary of the Mpondo Revolt of 1960, 07 June 2010, Ingquza Hill, Lusikisiki, Eastern Cape
… apartheid and to liberate this country. Therefore it is about our heroes and heroines that we are gathered here … of the many wars fought in the eastern…
Obituary: Dr Hastings Banda by Richard Dowden (Independent), 27 November 1997
… in triumph but he asked British friends to advise him about whom to trust. After mass African protest broke the … Kamuzu is Malawi. So be frank when you are…
ArchiveEmily Hobhouse - Beloved Traitor by Elsabe Brits(The Heritage Portal), 14 September 2016
… Once back in Britain her report was published and she set about touring to raise both relief funds for the women in the … unforgotten heroine. There have…
ADDRESS AT THE OPENING CEREMONY OF THE 24TH REGULAR MEETING OF THE CARICOM CONFERENCE, Montego Bay, Jamaica, 2 July 2003
… in sight. We knew that many centuries of suffering were about to come to an end. We knew that the cause for which we … new challenges confront us together,…
A common purpose: the Commonwealth’s support for the AAM
… Commonwealth's agenda. Many countries were also outraged about South Africa and were determined that the association … with the then South African Foreign…
46. The Gandhi-Smuts compromise explained
… VERSUS COMPULSORY REGISTRATION READER: I am still confused about the difference between voluntary and compulsory … to dispel the suspicion that the…
ArticleSouth African Student Organisation (SASO)
… community-cum-political projects to spread its ideas about self-reliance and Black Consciousness. These projects … students broadly radicalised into self…
ArticleConvention for a Democratic South Africa (CODESA)
… Petrus Shabort and Ismail Mohamed as presiding judges. About 228 delegates from nineteen political parties attended … of our country, declare our solemn…
ArticleDrum Magazine
… last week. Wherever it stopped, hundreds of people swarmed about it, buying the magazine: The African Drum.' - extract … preaching and folk tales, and…