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Joseph Masobila Mdluli portrait

Joseph Masobila Mdluli

"Umkhonto we Sizwe - Born of the People": Statement of the National Executive Comittee of the ANC on the 25th Anniversary of the Formation of Umkhonto we Sizwe by O. R. Tambo, 16 December 1986

… of Umkhonto we Sizwe. Not since the Bambata Uprising in 1906 had patriots taken to arms in an organised form. The …

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Sing Me a Song of History: South African Poets and Singers in Exile, 1900–1990 by Marian De Saxe, University of Sydney (2010)

Address by President Nelson Mandela at the unveiling of the mural celebrating the adoption of the new constitution Cape Town, 8 May 1996

Address by President Nelson Mandela on the occasion of the 34th independence celebrations of the Republic of Uganda Kampala, 9 October 1996

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The General Laws Amendment Bill of 1966 is published. The bill entitles police officers to detain up to fourteen days anyone su

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John Ndevasia Muafangejo, SA artist and teacher, is born in Etunda lo Nghadi, Angola. He moved to South West Africa in 1956

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Germany apologises for the massacre of some 65 000 Hereros in South-West Africa (Namibia) by their soldiers during the 1904 reb

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The South African Broadcasting Corporation is inaugurated, set up in terms of the Broadcasting Act (Act no 22 of 1936). It broa

Petition to the Governor of the Colony of the Cape of Good Hope, from the Traskeian Territories General Council, June 21, 1909

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Robert Van Tonder, founder of the Boerestaat Party in 1986 to fight for the restoration of the old Transvaal, Northern Natal an

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The monument at Delville Wood, unveiled on 10 October 1926 to honour the thousands of SA soldiers who were killed there during

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Dr Fabian Defu Ribeiro, medical practitioner assassinated with his wife by state agents in 1986, is awarded the Order of the Su

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Albert John Mvumbi Luthuli, the first Black African to win the Nobel Peace Prize, collects his prize for 1960 in Oslo, Norway.

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Bruce Fordyce, legendary Comrades Marathon winner, is born in Hong Kong. He came in 1956 to South Africa with his parents and i

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Schalk Willem Burger, vice-president and acting president of the ZAR after President Kruger left for Europe in 1900, dies at Go

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Defence Minister Roelf Meyer (1991-1996) says that the ANC’s proposals on joint control of security forces and on a role for th

The minutes of for the meeting where the South African team to participate in the Olympic Games in 1908 was decided on

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The Department of Bantu Development is planning for the consolidation of the ‘homelands’ by buying land in terms of the 1936 legislation

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For the next month, until May 25, a comet known only as “The Great Comet of 1901’ is visible over most of SA.

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The government admits responsibility for the death of the Black leader, Joseph Mdluli on 19 March 1976 and agree to pay damages

Report on the second general assembly of the ecumenical association of third world theologians (EATWOT), held in Oaxtepec, Mexico, December 7-14, 1986

Report on the second general assembly of the ecumenical association of third world theologians (EATWOT), held in Oaxtepec, Mexico, December 7-14, 1986

Dimitri Tsafendas portrait

Dimitri Tsafendas

Teboho “Tsietsi” Mashinini portrait

Teboho “Tsietsi” Mashinini

Speech by Oliver Tambo at the World Conference on Sanctions Against Racist South Africa: Victory is within our grasp, 16 June 1986, Unesco House, Paris

Sydney Alex Kumalo portrait

Sydney Alex Kumalo

Hilary Mutch portrait

Hilary Mutch

Elmon Malele portrait

Elmon Malele

Thomas Titus Nkobi portrait

Thomas Titus Nkobi

Vernom ‘Rogers’ Nkadimeng portrait

Vernom ‘Rogers’ Nkadimeng