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EventCommodore Dieter Gerhardt’s trial begins in the Cape Town High Court
… in prison he was visited by Nelson Mandela, the newly elected African National Congress (ANC)President. The ANC …
EventMac Maharaj is born
… and first SA Minister of Transport in the democratically elected government in 1994, was born in Newcastle, Natal. As …
EventInkatha Freedom Party is formed
… in Ulundi, where Dr. Mangosuthu Buthelezi was unanimously elected President of the IFP. …
EventThe Democratic Party, now the Democratic Alliance, is formed
… during and after 1990, as then DP leader Zach de Beer was elected the first Management Committee Chairman process of …
EventMilton Obote (81), Uganda’s former dictator, dies in a South African hospital
… with the Tanzanian-aided invasion of 1979 and was re-elected in 1980 amid accusations of fraud. Factionalism led …
EventNicolaas Jacobus Smit, Vice-President of the ZAR, is born in Graaff-Reinet.
… 23 March 1881. As a member of the SAR Volksraad he was elected Vice-President in 1887. Nicolaas Jacobus Smit died in …
EventPhambili Ka Ntloko, national organiser of AZAPO, is born
… on its community development secretariat. In 1984 he was elected Chairperson of the AZAPO Queenstown branch, and two …
EventMaggie Laubser, SA painter and winner of several awards, dies
… a successful German artist in Berlin, Germany. She was elected to the South African Society of Artists (SASA) in …
ArchiveInterview with Duma Nokwe
… Oral interview with Duma Nokwe (1927-1978) who was Secretary-General of the ANC from 1958 to 1969. Born to …
EventSouth Africa is said to resume its membership of the Commonwealth
… On 31 May 1994, the Secretary-General of the Commonwealth of Nations, Chief Emeka …
EventGovernor-General Sir Patrick Duncan dies
… 72. He came to South Africa as Sir Alfred Milner's private secretary in March 1901 and remained in SA until 1907. After …
EventANC leader, James Arthur Calata, dies
… Cape. He joined the ANC in 1930 and rose to become its secretary-general. In this capacity, Calata was signatory of …
EventFather Smangaliso Mkhatshwa served with restriction order
… A year after the 1976 Soweto Student Uprising, the former Secretary of the South African Catholic Bishops' Conference …
EventRamaphosa and Motlatsi are arrested
… First general secretary of the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM), Cyril …
EventUS opposes new sanctions against SA, believing they will be counterproductive to the transformation and negotiation process
… foreign relations committee, United States (US) Assistant Secretary of State, Herman Cohen, said that the US strongly …
EventMoses Josiah Madiba is born
… Pietersburg (now Polokwane) district. He was the first secretary of the Maune branch of the Transvaal African …
EventDr. E. Rhoodie is arrested at the French Riviera resort Juan les Pins
… in the 1978-79 ‘Information Scandal’. He served as the Secretary of the Department of Information from 1972, …
EventA British Sports Council team begins a three-week fact-finding tour of South Africa to probe racial discrimination in sport
… In May 1962 Dennis Brutus , Secretary of the South African Sports Association, wrote to …
Umrabulo - Issue No.11, 2nd Quarter 2001
… of Assembly and the Senate. Only a white person can be elected State President. The House of Assembly and the Senate … in the practice of dual membership…
The Afrikaanse Handelsinsituut
… der Merwe as managing director and Piet Meyer as editorial secretary. An idea of the content can be gleaned from the … was not in the business of promoting…
Constitution of the ANC
… General Meeting at which it shall elect a chairman, a secretary, treasurer, and not less than two committee … conference. (b) The provincial committee shall…
Document 69 - Letter from the Workers’ Party of South Africa, Johannesburg, to the Cape Town branch, 22 March 1937
… 22nd March 1937 Secretary, W.P.S.A. C.T. Branch. Dear Comrade, The strike of … sent for Com Trotsky's case? Yours fraternally, R.Lee, Secretary …
EventEdgar D. Ngoyi, South African ANC leader who spent seventeen years on Robben Island, is born.
… issues of rent and poor services. Ngoyi was later elected as president of the Eastern Cape regional executive …
EventAfrican delegates urge U Thant to enter Nelson Mandela fray
… at the United Nations headquarters in New York requested Secretary-General U Thant to help obtain the release of …
EventBlacks are making bonfires of their “passes” in Johannesburg
… a call to non-Whites to follow his example. Duma Nokwe, Secretary General of the ANC, Nelson Mandela, Arthur Letele, …
EventThe S. A government seizes the passport of Bishop Desmond Tutu
… served as Bishop of the Anglican Church in Lesotho and as Secretary-General of the South African Council of Churches. …
EventMandela suspends talks in the wake of Boipatong Massacre
… reservists. Mandela requested the United Nations (UN) Secretary-General, Boutros Boutros-Ghali, to call a special …
EventDulcie September is assassinated in Paris
… of complicity in the incident. In the aftermath, former Secretary General of the ANC, Alfred Nzo commented: "if ever …
EventDr Kenneth Kaunda, former president of Zambia, is born
… for years. In 1951, he left teaching to become Organising Secretary of the Northern Rhodesian African National Congress …
Chapter 2 - No equality under the Union Jack, 1900 - 1910
… disposition”. Prompted into action by Peregrino, the Secretary for Native Affairs in Pretoria demanded a full … area of Natal. In 1908 Gumede, at forty- one,…