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EventLast remaining SA troops have been withdrawn from Namibia
… The Citizen reported that the remaining 1 500 South African troops in South West Africa (Namibia) had been withdrawn during November. While the Namibian…
EventA vagrant from Johannesburg, Tim Singiswa on a one
… While the cross examination of a state witness in the Boeremag trial before the Pretoria High Court continues, Tim Singiswa, a vagrant …
EventNiger President Ibrahim Bare Mainassara is assassinated
… The Niger president, Ibrahim Bare Mainassara, was … own presidential guard while boarding a plain in Niamey, the capital city of Niger. Immediately after the…
EventWWII: SA troops to fight in Europe
… promise in 1939 that SA troops would only fight in Africa. The Sixth South African Armoured Division, the most powerful and best equipped of the South…
EventUnited Front launch in jeopardy
… The proposed launch of the United Front was threatened when the Azanian People's Organisation (AZAPO) denounced fourteen …
EventNegotiators representing Afrikaner Republics travel to Pretoria to present terms of surrender
… At the end of the South African War (also known as the Anglo-Boer War) of 1899-1902, negotiators for the Afrikaner republics of the Transvaal and Orange Free…
EventPass laws are suspended in South Africa
… The South African Commissioner of Police announced that the pass laws, applicable to the African population, were suspended until normality had …
ArchiveIn Verwoerd's South Africa: a tale of per
… The article describes the experiences of various members of the Unity Movement and those directly involved with the …
EventSouth African Springbok rugby tour in UK is disrupted by anti-apartheid demonstration.
… The South African Springbok rugby tour in the United Kingdom (UK) was disrupted by an anti-Apartheid demonstration. The team was made up entirely of…
EventJapanese attack American Naval Forces at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii
… battleships at Pearl Harbor were sunk or sinking, with the rest damaged. Several other ships and most Hawaii-based … were dead. Soon after, Japanese planes…
EventJosiah Gumede is succeeded by Pixley ka Isaka Seme as ANC president
… George Montsio called for a convention of Africans to form the South African Native National Congress (SANNC). This organisation was renamed the African…
EventJoaquim Chissano succeeds Samora Machel as president of Mozambique
… war broke out between two factions FRELIMO, backed by the Soviet Union and RENAMO, supported by United States and apartheid South Africa. At this time, the…
EventHouse of Representatives impeaches American President Bill Clinton
… recent university graduate, began working as an intern in the White House. This was during Bill Clinton's first term of office. A relationship developed…
Nelson Mandela Correspondence around property and land
… and to land at his birthplace Qunu. HOUSE With regard to the so-called ownership scheme our main difficulty is that we … do not qualify. When your man is 1…
PlaceOppenheimer Gardens, Kimberley
… The Diggers’ Memorial is one of the monuments that constitute part of this heritage, … Their strength and power is seen as they work hard under the weight of…
EventPolice arrest members of Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK) High Command at Lilliesleaf Farm
… South African police raided the African National Congress (ANC) underground headquarters, the Liliesleaf Farm in Rivonia, just outside Johannesburg…
EventAfrican Mineworkers’ strike starts
… mineworkers, led by John Beaver (JB) Marks, leader of the African Mineworkers' Union, started on this day. The strike was initiated by the Communist Party of…
EventJohn Lawrence, Winnie Mandela’s bodyguard, dies after a shoot
… On the evening of 10 November 1993, Winnie Mandela and her bodyguard, John Lawrence, were driving through the centre of Johannesburg, when Lawrence had an…
EventNamibia gains Independence
… called while it was a German territory was placed under the South African administration by the League of Nations after the First World War. When the United…
EventRebels take control of Kinshasa, Zaire
… On 18 May 1997, Laurent Kabila, at the head of a rebel army, overthrew the despotic regime of Mobutu Se se Seko. For the people of the Democratic Republic of…
PlaceAhrens, Kwa-Zulu Natal
… Railway Siding 16 km west of Greytown, on the route to Kranskop. It was named in honour of Wilhelm Ahrens, Principal from 1880 to 1906 of the School at…
PlaceuMnambithi was called Ladysmith
… Ladysmith today acts as a commercial centre for the large surrounding farming district became the centre of attention during the Anglo Boer War. After it it…
Freedom for Namibia by Toivo Herman Ja Toivo (1968)
… By 1968 the freedom struggle for Namibia was a two year old guerilla war against South African control of the region. That struggle was directed by the…
ANC Gauteng Province pays tribute to Comrade Lawrance Phokanoka,15 July 2005
… as Comrade “Phokes”. Comrade Phokes, who was based in the Limpopo Province, passed away on the afternoon of Thursday 14th July 2005. He contributed a lot to…
SA's Zuma 'showered to avoid HIV' (BBC News), 05 April 2006
… Aids educators. More than 5m South Africans have HIV - the highest number in the world. Mr Zuma - previously seen as a possible future … - retains…
EventWaaihoek women embark on anti-pass passive resistance campaign
… In 1913, Black women in Bloemfontein were experiencing the culmination of heavy pass laws being implemented to control the mobility of the Black population…
Killings at Ntshanga, 29 December 1996
… The ANC in KwaZulu Natal strongly condemns the killing of our people in an ANC stronghold at Tin Town, … 4. Mike Luthuli 5. Makhekhe Hlophe 6. Bongani Hadebe…
Letter from Oliver Tambo to Ayatollah Khomeini, 13 February 1979, Iran, Maputo, People`s Republic of Mozambique
… Khomeini, Teheran Islamic Republic of Iran On behalf of the African National Congress and the oppressed masses of South Africa we express to you our immense…
ArchiveAfrican Communist, 1959 - 1994
… The SACP did not publicly announce its existence until the state of emergency was declared by the government after the police massacres of Sharpeville and …
EventANC launches mass boycott of Bantu Education
… boycott of Ba ntu Education. Bantu education referred to the administration of education for blacks under the Apartheid system of racial discrimination. High…