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A New Era for Africa in a Globalizing World, Unesco, Paris, 19 November 2003
… food deficits and have become net food importers. The post-colonial period has not changed this situation fundamentally. … and servant, could not be altered…
BiographyPatrick Chamusso
… come under his care. From Robben Island to red carpet. History always depends on who writes it - one man’s terrorist …
Statement of the African National Congress by Oliver Tambo, 18 March 1980
… lieutenants have at last recognised the iniquity of the colonial and racist apartheid system and acknowledged the … but whose real and sole intention is to…
Forward to a People's Government by O. R. Tambo - Statement of the ANC, 18 March 1980
… lieutenants have at last recognised the iniquity of the colonial and racist apartheid system and acknowledged the … but whose real and sole intention is to…
Term 1:THE HUNTER GATHERERS OF SOUTHERN AFRICA
… USA Through archaeological research and San oral history or storytelling there were a lot of San groups living … which plants to use as medicine. In…
ArchiveDeputy President Cyril Ramaphosa: Memorial Service of Steve Mokone
… was a racially segregated sport. So committed were the colonial and apartheid masters to segregation that they would … scored would be a step closer to his…
Nelson Mandela Letter to Mrs. Manorama Bhalla, secretary of the Indian Council for Cultural Relations, 3 August 1980
… number has been selected to join the distinguished men and women who have been similarly honoured in the past. I recall … peace and the brotherhood of man…
EventGeneral De Wet is defeated by British forces
… African War became one of the most important events in the history of South Africa. On 31 March 1900 De Wet dealt the … died on 23 February 1922 and was…
Chapter 1 - Striking a balance between Tribalism and Christianity
… for his close identification with Zulu tradition and history, had his ancestral home outside Zululand. 2 Gumede … like teaching, interpreting, policing,…
PlacePort St. Johns
… colour is contrasted with some crumbling reminders of a colonial History. In the streets you will hear Xhosa, Afrikaans and …
PlaceGreytown, Kwa-Zulu Natal
… and decided on 'Pretorius' after Andries Pretorius . The Colonial Government however refused to allow this, … of note. There are lots of scenic drives…
PlaceNewlands Cricket Stadium
… Bill Lawry’s 1970 Australians. While Newlands is rich in History it is peppered with exceptional cricket memories, it was also blemished by Colonial and…
Address on The African Renaissance to the Ghana-South Africa Friendship Association, Accra 5 October 2000
… it is necessary to take a brief journey back into our history, into some of the many monumental and epoch-making … This is the spirit with which we have to…
Statement by Oliver Tambo on death sentences passed on three members of ANC and Umkhonto We Sizwe, 20 August 1981
… on charges arising from their opposition to the racist and colonial domination of the people of South Africa by an … gruesome atrocities on innocent…
ArticleYusuf Dadoo Timeline: 1940-1949
… to intervene to hasten the independence of India from colonial rule. July 28, Dadoo opens a two-day conference of … Indian Congress. They also campaign to…
Event1 575 people are detained under a state of emergency
… Sharpeville sixty-nine Blacks were killed, including eight women and ten children, while 178 were wounded. At Langa two … March, provoked one of the largest…
ArticleSecond Anglo-Boer War - 1899 - 1902
… and destructive modern armed conflict in South Africa’s history. It was an event that in many ways shaped the history of 20th Century South Africa. The end…
ArticleThe Zulu kingdom and the colony of Natal
… beliefs. The first Indians arrived during the Dutch colonial era, as slaves, in 1684. A conservative calculation … that the indentured Indians were to work…
Robert Sobukwe: What a sense of mission! By Sibonginkosi Mazibuko, 19 February 2015, South Africa
… the apartheid regime. The march culminated in the settler-colonial regime massacre of people at Sharpeville and Langa … be able to hear Sobukwe’s voice again…
ArticleFatima Meer Timeline 1928-2010
… Group Areas Act. Meer and Dr. Goonam were the first women to be elected on to the Executive of the Natal Indian Congress. Founded the Durban and District…
ArticleIndian South Africans timeline 1654-1899
… 1872. 1874 At a time of extreme labour shortage, the Cape Colonial Government investigates the possibilities of … attempts to provide a platform for the…
EventEllen Johnson-Sirleaf, becomes the first woman to be Head of State in Africa
… the prestigious Nobel Prize for Peace with two other women, fellow Liberian Leymah Gbowee and Tawakkul Karman of Yemen. History repeated itself when she was…
EventThe ANC celebrates its centenary anniversary in Bloemfontein
… Tambo, Nelson Mandela, Thabo Mbeki and Jacob Zuma. The history of the ANC dates back to 8 January 1912 when it was … tribal and class associations defined…
PlaceHeritage Route of Transvaal, Limpopo and Mpumalanga
… the Republic of South Africa in 1961 . The Transvaal’s History in the rest of the 20th Century was primarily … NATIONAL PARK . An extraordinary and very…
Speech by Oliver Tambo at funeral in Maseru, 05 December 1982
… courage that is part of their tradition and part of their history. You, yourself, led the nation in the battle in … They are killing everyday: the…
ArchiveAppendix 2 The Political Landscape of Cape Town, by Dr Z. Pallo Jordan
… The first conflicts between the European settlers and the colonial authorities in their mother countries broke out at … rather sleepy port city. In certain…
ArchiveAfrican languages should be at the center of educational and cultural achievement by Abdi Latif Dahir (Quartz Africa)
… and importance of indigenous African languages in post-colonial modern societies has proved to be a contentious … at home and in school. Decades after…
ArticleSixteen Days of Activism
… awareness-raising campaign for No Violence Against Women and Children. It takes place every year from 25 … (International Day for the Elimination of Violence…
Speech by President Mandela at the Funeral of Nokukhanya Luthuli, 22 December 1996, Groutville
… guests; Friends; comrades and fellow South Africans. In history, men and women of rare qualities make a mark that the scorched-earth … beings to come out and…
ArticleWalter Sisulu Timeline 1912-2003
… a Xhosa organization, which prompted an interest in tribal history and encouraged economic independence from whites. … basic unit of the organization, full…