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Report of the Joint Planning Council of the ANC and the South African Indian Congress, November 8, 1951
… people of South Africa to a Conference to place before them a programme of direct action, and, WHEREAS a … 3. Having given due and serious attention to the…
EventAlexis Preller, SA visual artist, dies
… Alexis Preller was born on 6 September 1911 in Pretoria. Before pursuing a career in art, he had worked as a clerk. He … School of Art. He returned to South…
EventCharges against 53 of the 76 Africans detained after the Sharpeville massacre are dropped
… still faced charges of public violence. Five months before the withdrawal of the charges, 52 Africans appeared before the Vereeniging magistrate and were…
Address by President Thabo Mbeki, at the University of Havana, Cuba, 27 March 2001
… Distinguished Guests; Comrades and friends: In 1940, the Office of Public Opinion Research in the USA … and South America had with Africa for millions of…
Address at the University of Havana, Cuba, 28 March 2001
… Distinguished Guests; Comrades and friends: In 1940, the Office of Public Opinion Research in the USA … and South America had with Africa for millions of…
Document 35 - “New Tactics Proposed for N.R.C. Boycott: Xuma’s Address to African Congress”, The Guardian, 18 December 1947
… to General Smuts' promise to place more concrete proposals before the whole N.R.C. "However, before long we heard it rumoured that it was Government … in the…
Event1300 Volkswagen workers dismissed for unprocedural strike against NUMSA leadership
… newly elected stewards. A month later the union obtained a court interdict to forcibly remove the stewards from their …
PlaceSt George’s Grammar School, 1 Queen Victoria Street, Cape Town
… and Resource Centre was opened, together with the Squash Court. The year 2000, brought further Development at St …
Document 47 - “Answer to Government’s Apartheid Unions”, The Citizen. 1 3, 30 April 1956
… Their organised strength should be the workers' final court of appeal in the struggle between worker and employer, …
The Afrikaner Bond
… the presence of the Bond in the Cape and in the Transvaal. Before he moved, Du Toit drew up a draft constitution for the … that independence for South Africa…
EventNP holds federal congress
… Robert Rosseau, argued that the NP was "putting the cart before the horse" by launching its anti-poverty strategy, announced by Mr F.W. de Klerk on August 1,…
ArticleApartheid and reactions to it
… of segregation of the South African government existing before the Afrikaner Nationalist Party came to power in 1948. … other countries were moving away from…
Devout domesticity? A century of African women's Christianity in South Africa by Deborah Gaitskell
… of economic support away from the African community. Before the Cape and Natal Nguni were militarily broken and … Insufficient evidence about weekly meetings…
An evening with FW de Klerk – the full event by Alec Hogg (Biznews London Forum), 15 September 2017, (interview transcript)
… politics. Well, I didn’t actually retire. Let me first say before I react to that, how good it is to see so many good … exactly which way. I think the…
The Life and Politics of Steve Biko by Yunus Momoniat, November 2014
… he didn’t complete enough courses to get his law degree before he died. The family moved to King William’s Town, and … people into the PAC. Steve, who was…
EventEleven people are killed at Donnybrook, Kwazulu
… violent clashes between IFP and ANC supporters that began before the 1990s. It is unclear whether these killings were … and a baby in an overnight attack in…
Student Politics in the Era of Democracy
… not as easy to mobilise and organise students as it was before 1994. Second, while some students have ongoing … may have operated under dangerous and harsh…
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: Pre-1500
… set foot on South African soil for the first time. BP = Before present, calculated backwards from the date AD 1950 4 … roamed the area much further back than…
ArticleIndian Indentured Labour in Natal 1860-1911
… women in every ship load and ships often waited for days before they could depart for Natal as it did not have the … 1859 The Natal Colonial Government…
ArticleThe History of Separate Development in South Africa
… had become central aspects of South African policy long before Apartheid started. The notorious 1913 Land Act , … (black spots) in the White areas which they…
ArticleExample of a local history: Pretoria
… outside Pretoria where the Voortrekker Monument stands. Before it was named Voortrekkerhoogte it was called Roberts … and include the events and people that…
ArticlePrehistory of the Pretoria area
… who moved into the area in about 1848. Some 20 years before that, Mzilikazi had stayed in the area and before then, it was home to the Southern Ndebele of…
ArchivePostscript Ante by Howard Barrell
… inside South Africa since July 1988 - for some 18 months before the ban on the ANC had been lifted. Before his disappearance from the ranks of ANC exiles in …
PlacePaul Kruger’s House, 60 Church Street West, Pretoria
… on the house, which was handed over to its owner on or before 14 August 1884. Electric lighting and a telephone were installed before 1899. Kruger occupied…
ArchiveSoldiers without reward- Africans in South Africa's wars
… capacity in the Union Defence Force (UDF) and thus in July 1940 four battalions of Native Military Guards were created. … the Officer Commanding the guards…
EventJoseph Engenas Lekganyane, founder of the Dove branch of the ZCC, is born
… the founder of the original Zion Christian Church before it was split into two branches. Barnabas chose and … brothers, elders and his advocate as his…
Interview with Archibald Gumede 29 July 1990
… Buthelezi. It opened my eyes politically because before that nobody talked about politics so when I joined … the Zulus, not created by Pretoria, but he was…
ArticleChieftaincy and Kingship in South Africa
… accountability. [i] As its authority places community before individuals, it constitutes a non-democratic form of … these decisions could bring his case to…
Khoisan Identity
… does not make provision for land which communities lost before the assigned cut-off date of 1913, with the … the Khoisan nation’ that was brought to the…
ArticleDecember 16 and the Construction of Afrikaner Nationalism
… The British made every inhabitant of the Cape equal before the law, and imposed a new rule of law that put … his Khoikhoi labourers, he was summoned to a…