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ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 1970-1979
… 12 September, On the eve of the first anniversary of the death of Steve Biko, police arrest sixteen people including … and the IFP. 15 November, James Mange…
Article50 Facts on Africa
… Subject, he has also written books on everything from the death of African universities to the Rwandan genocide. Bessie … committing suicide on 12 August 30…
ArchiveAziz Pahad: Rest in peace by David Kenvyn
… in 1990 and served on the National Peace Accord and other bodies during the transitional negotiations. Following the …
PlaceDwarskerbos Beach and Pools, West Coast
Along the Western shores of South Africa there are many myriad fishing Villages which lie sleepily on the shores of the Atlantic Ocean. While Paternoster is…
EventSA's Fifa membership reinstated
Thirty-one years after being expelled, South Africa had its membership of the Football International Federation Association (Fifa) reinstated on 3 July 1992…
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…
Statement at Press Conference in Dar es Salaam Concerning Sentences in the Rivinia Trial by O. R. Tambo, 12 June 1964
… Africa moderation and reason leads only to Verwoerd's death cells and torture chambers, then moderation and reason …
PlaceMostert’s Mill, Rhodes Drive, Mowbray
… The farm Welgelegen was established by Bothma. After his death the farm changed hands a number of times until 1756, …
PlaceGroot Constantia, Constantia Valley
… African Artists, work! The land was sub-divided after the death of Simon van der Stel, in 1712 . His portion was … van der Stel in 1685. The land was sub…
EventAdolf Hitler opens the 11th Olympic Games in Berlin
… African Olympic boxer in 1936, was later condemned to death (but reprieved) because of his Nazi sympathies. …
EventFormer Kenyan President, Jomo Kenyatta, dies
… had a heart attack and was plagued by ill health until his death on 22 August 1978. He was buried on parliament grounds …
EventArchibald Campbell Mzoliza Jordan, Xhosa writer and linguist, dies
… and it was in Madison where he died in 1968. After his death his novel Ingqumbo Yeminyana (the The Wrath of the …
EventSlave rebellion at the Cape led by Louis of Mauritius. Over 300 slaves and Khoi Khoi servants from outlying farms marched on Cape Town demanding their freedom
… Mauritius and James Hooper. Another 11 were sentenced to death as well, for 'active particpation'. Many others were …
EventThomas Titus Nkobi is born
… of the ANC's National Working Committee (NWC) until his death in September 1994. In 2004, Thomas Nkobi posthumously …
The first Bram Fischer Memorial lecture, delivered by President Nelson R. Mandela Market Theatre, Johannesburg, 9 June 1995
… by the Government propaganda machine was likely to lead to death sentences being imposed on us. Naturally, they turned … despite the loss of life in that…
ArticleResponse to the June 16 Soweto Youth Uprising by organisations in exile
… the angry students. Many students were shot. The official death toll was 23, but it could have been higher than 200 …
ArticleBlack People’s Convention (BPC)
… when he was killed on 12 September 1977. No doubt his death left BPC and the entire BC movement rudderless. He was …
ArticleSlave Resistance
… Mauritius and James Hooper. Another 11 were sentenced to death as well, for 'active participation'. Others were given …
How the Ahmed Timol case was reported on at the time by South African Institute of Race Relations (Politicsweb), 28 June 2017
… Survey of Race Relations 1972: INQUEST FOLLOWING THE DEATH OF MR. A. E. TIMOL The death of Mr. Ahmed Essop Timol, one of the detainees, was … were numerous…
Rivonia: Telling it as it was, 2 July 1988
… and even more draconian sentences including sentences of death. And still Rivonia holds a special place in the tale. … indeed of their existence until the…
The Spirit of Bandung - Address to the International Conference in Support of the Liberation Movements of Southern Africa and in Support of the Frontline States by O. R. Tambo, Lusaka, 10 April 1979
… his grave shall remain forever a secret, because, in his death the spirit of Solomon Mahlangu towers still like a … to be as we know him, brave, confident…
History of Muslims in South Africa: 1700 - 1799 by Ebrahim Mahomed Mahida
… as the first madrasah in this country. Tuan Guru, on his death-bed, appointed Achmat as his spiritual successor and … and a qadi and thereafter, as an imam…
82. The President’s Council
… the Afrikaners for having ousted them from power in 1948, and that many Afrikaners have not yet forgiven the oppression wrought upon them by the English…
First National Consultative Conference: Extracts from the Political Report of the National Executive Committee, 25 April 1969, Morogoro
… participates as fully as it can in the activities of these bodies and in many instances serves on their executive bodies. This apart from the bitter struggle…
Africans’ Claims in South Africa, 14 December 1943 by Alfred Xuma
… Agriculture, Domestic Service and in Public institution or bodies. COMMERCE 1. We protest very strongly against … we demand increased and direct…
African Claims in South Africa by Dr Xuma, ANC Conference, 1943
… Agriculture, Domestic Service and in Public institution or bodies. Commerce. (1) We protest very strongly against all … we demand increased and direct…
EventRobert Sobukwe is sentenced to three years' imprisonment
… arrest in his home in Galeshewe, Kimberley, until his death. …