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EventANC becomes signatory to the Geneva Convention of 1949 and Protocol 1 of 1977
… the African National Congress (ANC) President, Oliver Tambo, declared the organisation a signatory to the Geneva …
EventRichard Maponya, one of South Africa's richest businessmen, is born
… He then went on to bigger ventures such as setting up a funeral parlour, bus services, motor dealerships, a BMW …
PlaceWave Crest, 181 Main Road, Kalk Bay
… National Monument under old NMC legislation on 15 October 1982. …
EventDr Ernst Gideon Malherbe, SA educationist, is born in Luckhoff, OFS.
… to emerge from South Africa. He died in Durban in 1982. …
EventSwazi King Sobhuza II dies
… In 1982, the small kingdom of Swaziland was shocked when His …
Book 5: People, Places and Apartheid - Chapter 4 - The Township Uprising, September-November 1984 by Noor Nieftagodien
… were in the forefront of these shop floor struggles. In 1982 FOSATU unions organised 145 strikes, involving about 90 … in the struggle against apartheid…
Chapter 4 - The Township Uprising, September-November 1984
… were in the forefront of these shop floor struggles. In 1982 FOSATU unions organised 145 strikes, involving about 90 … in the struggle against apartheid…
ArchiveThe student movement in the struggle for democracy
… Speech by the guest speaker, Joe Phaahla, President of the …
EventNelson Mandela is inaugurated as South Africa’s first black president
… leader F.W. de Klerk. Click here to read Mandela inaugural speech. …
ArchiveEducation, development and change in Africa
… The speech delivered by Murphree places emphasis on education and …
Address by ANC President Jacob Zuma at the Second Annual Raymond Mhlaba Memorial Lecture, Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, 12 October 2009, Port Elizabeth
… Govan Mbeki, Nelson Mandela, Harry Gwala, Oliver Tambo, Ahmed Kathrada, Ruth Mompati, Gertrude Shope and a … SACP and the SA Congress of Trade unions…
ArticleArmed Struggle, the anti-apartheid struggle accelerates 1984-1990
… he was elected deputy president of the ANC. Following Tambo’s illness, he assumed leadership of the ANC. …
PlaceThe Pines, Parktown, Johannesburg
… National Monument under old NMC legislation on 4 December 1982. …
EventKaiser Matanzima of Transkei announces his intention to retire from the Presidency
… his intention to retire from the Presidency in February 1982, to devote more time to traditional and family affairs. …
EventWole Soyinka is born
… Committee in 1986. Click here to read the presentation speech by Professor Lars Gyllensten, of the Swedish Academy …
EventPresident Nelson Mandela announces his intentions to promote national unity
… amongst political organisations. Click here to view the speech by Nelson Mandela announcing ANC Election victory … Mandela, N., Speech by Nelson Mandela…
Trade Union Council of South Africa (TUCSA)
… compelled them to join TUCSA and accept its policies. In 1982, TUCSA distanced itself from the work stoppage organised …
ArticleAfrapix
… were not fulltime photographers. From its inception in 1982 to its dissolution in 1991, the Afrapix collective had …
Biography of Miriam Makeba by Narcy Negrete
… against the apartheid government when she delivered a speech at the United Nations. The African National Congress … it’s not natural to want to be oppressed…
EventPolice swoop down on the homes of Congress of the People leaders across the country, the arrests led to the Treason Trial
… African National Congress), Prof. Z.K. Matthews, Oliver Tambo, Walter Sisulu, Nelson Mandela and many more. They were …
Death of ANC Education Secretary, Seretse Choabi, 29 August 1991
… in pursuance of his duties as an ANC functionary. The funeral will take place on 31 August, 1991. There will be a …
EventSouth African Communist Party leader Abram Fischer is sentenced to life imprisonment on charges of communism
… The prison had Fischer's ashes returned to them after the funeral, and have therefore never been found. …
PlaceMkumeni Location, Flagstaff
… ) is a Category B Municipality located within the OR Tambo District in the Eastern Cape Province. It is bordered … is a Category B municipality located…
PlaceKimberley Airport
… flights in South Africa between Cape Town Airport and O.R Tambo Airport in Johannesburg. The Airport is used … flights in South Africa between Cape Town…
EventFifteen English cricket players are prohibited to play for three years in England because of their rebel tour of South Africa
… the tours continued to take place for years. After the 1982 English tour, fifteen players who took part in it …
EventJudas Mahlangu, South African graphic artist, is born
… was born in Brakpan, on the East Rand (now Gauteng). In 1982 Mahlangu started working at the South African …
EventZimbabwe’s interior minister Joshua Nkomo is dismissed
… the ruling Zimbabwe African National Union (ZANU). Between 1982 and 1985 the military brutally crushed armed resistance …
EventCapital City of Zimbabwe is renamed
… rule. On the second anniversary of independence,18 April 1982, Zimbabwe renamed its capital city Harare, after the …
ArchiveFrom the Archive | The workers’ struggle by Joe Foster (New Frame),28 Feb 2019
… In April 1982 Joe Foster, the General Secretary of the Federation of … worker-controlled and militant industrial unions. The speech given by Foster, and…
The Black Face of Apartheid
… In 1978 in Graaff Reinet, at PAC leader Robert Sobukwe's funeral, Buthelezi was jeered at and stoned by young Black …