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EventArmscor’s Chairman announces the production of a record breaking South African artillery system
… On 28 March 1982, the Chairman of Armscor announced that South Africa had …
EventThe South African security police bombed two houses in Manzini, Swaziland
… Angola; Ruth First who died in a parcel bomb attack in 1982; Moses Mabhida who died in 1986 in Maputo, Mozambique …
EventApartheid policemen apply for amnesty at TRC
… Coetzee outlined a plot to bomb ANC offices in London in 1982 with the knowledge of Minister of Law and Order, Louis …
EventHansi Pauline Pollak, welfare worker and social activist, is born
… of her community welfare work. Pollak died in Cape Town in 1982. …
EventUniversity of Pretoria's 100th anniversary
… of instruction on 13 September 1932. During the period of 1982 to 2008, the university transformed into a bilingual, …
ArticleAftermath: Sharpeville Massacre 1960
… this violent assault. The ANC Vice-President, Oliver Tambo, was secretly driven across the border by Ronel Segal …
Background to the Freedom Charter 1955
… were elected to the national executive, including Oliver Tambo , Sisulu’s successor. The period 1950 -1952 began with …
EventAfrican National Congress Youth League is founded
… Solomzi Mda, Nelson Mandela, Walter Sisulu and Oliver Tambo. Anton Lembede became the first president of the ANCYL, …
EventMartin Luther King is arrested for his role in a bus boycott
… the greatest human rights leaders of all time. His moving speech, "I have a dream", spoke to the hearts of people the …
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 …
Patric Tariq “de Goede” Mellet
… and in exile and working under the mentor and leader OR Tambo (among many other things). Resistance Road - Liberated … by the many years that I spent being…
PlaceSt. Wendolins Ridge, Pinetown
… Areas Board stated that they would organise a hearing in 1982 to consider proclaiming the St. Wendolins Ridge Area and … it for African Residence. A meeting…
Introduction
… partly elective in 1974, and almost fully elective in 1982. Since its establishment the cleavage within the Indian … of the South African Indian Council,…
My Body Was Dying by Edwin Cameron (The Con), 10 March 2016
… hadn’t worked. On a rainy night, we gathered for Simon’s funeral in inner-city Johannesburg. The sad rite took place … and took him off into solitary…
EventMore than a dozen people are killed, including seven children, in Kwamakhutha Massacre
… attack by people he had identified as IFP members. At the funeral of six of the victims' mourners were attacked by a …
PlaceTime Ball Tower, Table Bay Harbour, Cape Town
… a National Monument under old NMC legislation on 27 August 1982. The time ball is an obsolete time signalling device. It …
EventDiplomatic office of the ANC in Stockholm is bombed
… government the ANC office in London was bombed March 1982 and in September 1986 the ANC office in Stockholm in …
EventSADF mounts raids on ANC targets in neighbouring states
… actions against ANC bases in Mozambique (1981), Lesotho (1982 & 1986) and Swaziland (1986). Following the banning of …
EventA Pilot Cellular phone project is launched
… in Chicago. This network was not approved by the FCC until 1982. The first commercial launch of cellular telecoms was …
EventUmkhonto we Sizwe bombs Church Street, Pretoria
… for the bombing under the leadership of Oliver Tambo. [vi] Endnotes [i] Cameron-Dow, J. 2007. A Newspaper …
EventThe Anglican Bishop of Johannesburg, Bishop Ambrose Reeves, resigns
… Johannesburg, where many Black leaders, among them Oliver Tambo, had been educated. Reeves denounced Bantu education, a …
EventThe ANC celebrates its centenary anniversary in Bloemfontein
… Seme, Alfred Xuma, James Moroka, Albert Luthuli, Oliver Tambo, Nelson Mandela, Thabo Mbeki and Jacob Zuma. The …
PlaceBoksburg, the Witwatersrand
… mines. Other places of interest in Boksburg include the Tambo Memorial Hospital (previously called Boksburg Benoni …
ArticleThe Freedom Charter by Norman Levy
… shelter or the ordinary freedoms associated with speech, movement, justice or equity – were human rights and … entire NEC of the ANC was banned. Chief…
EventArchbishop Desmond Tutu is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize
… Black South Africans. Click here to read Tutu's acceptance speech. …
EventA resolution against the use of Afrikaans is taken during SASM conference in Roodepoort
… (BPC) and the Black Parents Association (BPA), delivered a speech about Black Consciousness, in which he raised the …
Armed struggle & the advancement of the student and labour movements, 1967-1976
… Africa. When the ANC was banned in 1960, Oliver Reginald Tambo , a member of the National Executive Committee (NEC), … The leadership of the ANC was sorely…
PlaceZithulele Hospital, Mqanduli
… means that many people live in object poverty. The Oliver Tambo District, in which the Hospital lies, is one of the …
PlaceKroonstad
… as a way of subjugating the indigenous populations. Oliver Tambo , in his December 1964 Foreword- to President Nelson …
ArchiveStatement fron Anant Singh on the 30th Anniversary of Nelson Mandela's Release from Prison
… Sisulu, Joe Slovo, Ahmed Kathrada, Govan Mbeki, Oliver Tambo, Neil Aggett and the many heroes of the struggle. I …