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We Shall Win. Joint Statement by Leaders of Liberation Movements at the fifth Session of the Assembly of Heads of State and Government of the Organisation of African Unity by O. R. Tambo, Algiers, 13 – 16 September 1968
… where the simple distribution of a leaflet carries the death penalty, as in South Africa under the "Sabotage" Act. … to parade under cover of mandates…
Address to the International Labour Conference Geneva, 8 June 1990
… denied them food and good health. None can tell how many bodies lie strewn across southern Africa, the victims of a … who refused to succumb to tyranny, who…
56. The Cape Town Agreement is welcomed
… (Further Provision) Bill. That Bill bade fair to sound our death-knell and it was only to be expected of us to put up a … met all responsible men,…
Address of the President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki, to the Joint Sitting of Parliament to Report on the Processing of Some Presidential Pardons: Cape Town, 21 November 2007.
… iAfrica. When he finished, he too was electrocuted to death. The fourth victim, Justice Mbizana, was arrested and … in Hammanskraal where he was tortured and…
Funeral arrangements afoot for Mama Dideka Mhlaba, 20 January 2010
… stalwart Raymond "Oom Ray" Mhlaba. Since the news of her death, tributes have been pouring from throughout the …
PlaceThe Owl House
… and the relief sculptures that cover the House. After her death in 1976, the Owl House fell into disrepair, and as a …
Call for Papers ‘Rethinking “Apartheid’s Golden Age”: South Africa, c1966-1979’, Colloquium to be held at the University of Pretoria, 20 June 2016
… ‘long 1970s’, defined as the period stretching from the death of Hendrik Verwoerd (1966) to the Soweto uprising and …
PlaceSouth African National Archive in Cape Town
… Documents pertaining to Titles Deeds, Wedding, Birth and Death Certificates. The South African National Archive has … Documents pertaining to Titles Deeds,…
EventViolence breaks out at the University of Zululand
… to use the campus for a ceremony to commemorate the death of King Cetshwayo. In the aftermath of the 'Ongoye …
EventMiriam Makeba, South African singer, dies
… for Roberto Saviano, an Italian writer threatened with death by the Mafia after he exposed their underground …
ArticleGrey Street Complex timeline 1800-1999
… ICU Hall in Prince Edward Street. They beat an African to death and attempt to storm the beer hall, as they believe … passed away last Sunday after a long…
EventVaal Uprising Begins as Sharpeville Residents Resist Rent Increases
On this day, residents of Sharpeville and surrounding Vaal Triangle townships rose up against a R5.90 rent increase imposed by the Lekoa Town Council. The…
EventPresident Cyril Ramaphosa appears before protesters against gender- based violence in South Africa
… activists, politicians and academics called for the death sentence to be reinstated for those who commit violence …
EventTryphina Mboxela Jokweni is honoured by the ANC
… three children. She was 77 years-old at the time of her death. On 29 August 2012, the ANC commemorated Jokweni and …
EventWinnie Madikizela Mandela, a stalwart in the fight against apartheid, passes away
On 2nd April 2018, Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, also known as the mother of the nation, passed away at the age of 81, at Milpark hospital in Johannesburg. She…
ArchiveThe Emperor has no Clothes by Liz Timbs
… “What does the world have to say?”) was born on July 14, 1948, the eldest son of Paramount Chief Cyprian Bhekuzulu and … Khethomthandayo royal residence…
”South Africa - Time of Challenge” - Report to the Plenary Session of the Central Committee of the South African Communist Party, October 1973
… of the Western Cape and at Fort Hare in which the student bodies refused to bow to authority, follows on earlier … first place, apartheid as understood by…
Women in the apartheid society by Fatima Meer
… she does not acquire any right over his property. On his death, the family estate, including her contributions to it, … of these are in fact subordinate…
ArchiveEleanor Kasrils: From Detainment to National Liberation by Nathan Greenhaw
… After the South African general election in 1948, the National Party , an Afrikaner political party that … era. Despite the tremendous risk of isolation and…
EventRobert Sobukwe is sentenced to three years' imprisonment
… arrest in his home in Galeshewe, Kimberley, until his death. …
PlaceVergelegen Wine Estate
… been in charge of the estate since 1941, a Year after the death of Lady Florence Phillips, whose husband Sir Lionel …
Address at the Opening of The XIII Summit Conference of the Non Aligned Movement 24 February 2003
… former Yugoslavia, Chechnya in Russia and Afghanistan, the death and destruction in Timor Leste, and the apparently … including AIDS, that spells suffering…
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1960s
… Rioting by Africans in Cato Manor (Durban) results in the death of nine policemen. Commissioner of Police subsequently … religious, cultural, peasant,…
Address by President of the Republic Commander-in-Chief of SANDF and Patron-in-Chief of Military Veterans at the funeral of Major General (retired) Mongameli Johnson Tshali (aka Lennox Lagu), Thaba Tshwane, 17 September 2011
… South Africa towards which he remained loyal until his death. At a time in our history when the ANC leadership … for the triumph of victory, and that all…
Speech by President Mandela at the Funeral of Nokukhanya Luthuli, 22 December 1996, Groutville
… wise counsel that she has left us: Let there be peace! One death on account of political differences, is one too many! … and that we shall always be there…
EventBreyten Breytenbach was born on this day
… from his mother, and allowed him no privacy to mourn her death. While in prison, he wrote Mouroir: Mirror Notes of a … Festival in Stellenbosch , near Cape…
PlacePretoria Boys High School
… representative peer at Westminster, from 1722 until his death. Lord Hopetoun acted as Lord High Commissioner to the … was Governor of the Bank of Scotland…
PlacePacaltsdorp
… a mission to this people, and continued with them till his death ... On revisiting this kraal in 1819 ... I found the … the house for 30 years. After both Mr…
Nelson Mandela and the last Afrikaner leaders by Hermann Giliomee (Politics Web), 12 May 2015
… of the unexpected National Party victory in the 1948 election. Privately Eben DÁ¶nges, who as Minister for … black organisation, there were mixed feelings…
Gandhiji and the struggle for liberation in South Africa
… speeches - at the prayer meeting in Delhi on January 28, 1948 - was devoted to the struggle in South Africa. He said: … while the regime tortured several…