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EventJohn Lawrence, Winnie Mandela’s bodyguard, dies after a shoot
… On the evening of 10 November 1993, Winnie Mandela and her bodyguard, John Lawrence, were driving through the centre of Johannesburg, when Lawrence had an…
EventNamibia gains Independence
… called while it was a German territory was placed under the South African administration by the League of Nations after the First World War. When the United…
EventPope John Paul II appoints 31 cardinals, three from Africa
… new cardinals; three of them were from Africa. These were the Nigerian Cardinal Anthony Olubunmi Okogie, Ghananian Peter Turkson, and the Sudanese Gabriel…
EventRebels take control of Kinshasa, Zaire
… On 18 May 1997, Laurent Kabila, at the head of a rebel army, overthrew the despotic regime of Mobutu Se se Seko. For the people of the Democratic Republic of…
EventSmuts becomes Prime Minister
… Smuts started his first term as prime minister of the Union of South Africa after the death of General Louis Botha on 27 August 1919. Smuts was … esteemed…
PlaceAhrens, Kwa-Zulu Natal
… Railway Siding 16 km west of Greytown, on the route to Kranskop. It was named in honour of Wilhelm Ahrens, Principal from 1880 to 1906 of the School at…
PlaceWupperthal Mission Station, Clanwilliam
… since 1865, although its origins are actually Rhenish . The name ``Wuppertal" derives from the Wupper River in Germany , from where two Rhineland … of…
PlaceuMnambithi was called Ladysmith
… Ladysmith today acts as a commercial centre for the large surrounding farming district became the centre of attention during the Anglo Boer War. After it it…
Freedom for Namibia by Toivo Herman Ja Toivo (1968)
… By 1968 the freedom struggle for Namibia was a two year old guerilla war against South African control of the region. That struggle was directed by the…
ANC Gauteng Province pays tribute to Comrade Lawrance Phokanoka,15 July 2005
… as Comrade “Phokes”. Comrade Phokes, who was based in the Limpopo Province, passed away on the afternoon of Thursday 14th July 2005. He contributed a lot to…
SA's Zuma 'showered to avoid HIV' (BBC News), 05 April 2006
… Aids educators. More than 5m South Africans have HIV - the highest number in the world. Mr Zuma - previously seen as a possible future … - retains…
EventWaaihoek women embark on anti-pass passive resistance campaign
… In 1913, Black women in Bloemfontein were experiencing the culmination of heavy pass laws being implemented to control the mobility of the Black population…
Killings at Ntshanga, 29 December 1996
… The ANC in KwaZulu Natal strongly condemns the killing of our people in an ANC stronghold at Tin Town, … 4. Mike Luthuli 5. Makhekhe Hlophe 6. Bongani Hadebe…
Letter from Oliver Tambo to Ayatollah Khomeini, 13 February 1979, Iran, Maputo, People`s Republic of Mozambique
… Khomeini, Teheran Islamic Republic of Iran On behalf of the African National Congress and the oppressed masses of South Africa we express to you our immense…
ArchiveAfrican Communist, 1959 - 1994
… The SACP did not publicly announce its existence until the state of emergency was declared by the government after the police massacres of Sharpeville and …
EventANC launches mass boycott of Bantu Education
… boycott of Ba ntu Education. Bantu education referred to the administration of education for blacks under the Apartheid system of racial discrimination. High…
EventANC calls on International community to save lives
… At the end of the Soekmekaar and Silverton trial in Pretoria, three young … 20, and Naphtali Manani were found guilty of high treason, the murder of two…
EventRhodesia adopts new constitution
… Chief among the factors that led to the adoption of a new constitution in Rhodesia on the 30 January 1979 (now Zimbabwe) was that Ian Smith, the … ,[Accessed…
EventANC Constitutional proposals are disclosed
… After a three day meeting of the National Executive Committee (NEC) of the African National Congress (ANC), the meeting adopted a new strategic policy, which…
EventHarms releases his report
… The one-man Harms commission released its report on its investigations in the activities of South African Defence Force Army and South … units. Supreme Court…
EventTruck drivers strike in major cities
… into a countrywide truck drivers' strike on 1 March. The strike involved over 35,000 workers, who were demanding a wage increase of 9 percent across the…
EventCharles Swart, a student ranger from Mangosuthu Technical College, is killed by a leopard
… in Durban, Charles Swart,was attacked bya hungry leopardon the bridge crossing the Matjulu River near Malelane Camp,the Kruger National Park. The young Swart…
EventLocal government elections thrown in disarray
… The Constitutional Court's ruling against the use of decree powers by President Nelson Mandela, threw the preparations for the local elections scheduled for …
Dawn
… The official policy of the African National Congress was one of non-violence. … non-violent struggle, Umkhonto we Sizwe (meaning Spear of the Nation) was…
EventWaluz and Derby-Lewis are sentenced to death
… C.F. Eloff sentenced Polish immigrant and supporter of the Neo-Nazi Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging (AWB), Janusz … politician Clive Derby-Lewis to death for…
EventNUSAS disbands
… The National Union of South African Students (NUSAS) elected to disband on this day. Founded in 1924, the aim of the organisation was to represent and…
EventSouth Africa’s new constitution is approved
… The adoption of the South African Constitution on 8 May 1996 was one of the turning points in the history of the struggle for democracy in South Africa. …
EventShaba War in Zaire comes to an end
… The first Shaba war (also referred to as Shaba I) broke out on 8 March 1977 in the Democratic Republic of Congo, when Angola-based guerrillas of the Front…
EventSouth Africa readmitted to United Nations
… For South Africa this date signaled the end of decades of international isolation . The General Assembly of the United Nations (UN) recalled resolution 48…
"Form united front now": Interview with Albert Luthuli, 5 May 1962
… "The violence and terror that could be unleashed by the Government against all its opponents once it is armed with the draconian powers implicit in the…