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79. Indian Parliament: separate can’t be equal
… I intended to end on the point that now for the first time we are being offered a choice. Now for the first time we are afforded an opportunity to consent or…
ArticleDrafting of the Final Constitution
… removed. [i] First constitutional change The 1980s was the time in which brutal levels of repression of opposition … Nelson Mandela unpublicized visits in…
ArticleGandhi and the Passive Resistance Campaign 1907-1914
… not just to his clients, although Swan argues that at that time Gandhi was still thinking about the wider middle … each member of the family – a huge amount…
ArticleSouth Africa’s Foreign Relations during Apartheid, 1948
… placed on the agenda of the United Nations for the first time in 1946 regarding the treatment of people of Indian … in South Africa. In 1952 apartheid was…
PlaceDie Grootkerk in Bosmanstraat
… “dogterkerk” in and around the area of Tshwane. At one time it was also the most influential church of the Pretoria … 000 members and 29 ministers in the…
The ‘special branch’
… us. They always wanted to know what we are doing, all the time. Hawu! They always used to follow us. They used to follow everyone, all the time. All the time…
EventDr Ali Bacher, director of the SACU, announces the shortening of the ‘rebel cricket tour ‘as a gesture of support for the country’s dramatic political changes
… They took place between the period of 1982 and 1990, a time when South Africa was banned from International Cricket. … mass demonstrations and such strong…
EventAlexis Preller, SA visual artist, dies
… to South Africa in 1935 before leaving again, this time for Paris, where he visited studios, galleries and … Preller was one of the most innovative artists…
EventDRC President Laurent Kabila is assassinated
… of power as DRC President. Joseph was very young at the time he became head of state, and many people had no … after the death of Mobutu Sese Seko in 1997…
ArticleTimeline 20 years of Democracy 1994 to 2014
… Herald, Mr Fred Brownell, and was first used for the first time during the 1994 elections. 27 April, first, non-racial, … Rugby World Cup is staged in South…
‘Just say yes, Mr President’: Mbeki and AIDS by Anthony Brink A PROSPECTUS
… schizophrenic as well: I have been concerned for a long time about the way in which Mbeki seems to be drifting from … failed to face up to his country’s…
Launch of the ANC Volunteer Corps and Visit of the President, 19 June 2013
… walk about in communities, visiting homes; meet with first time voters and attend the Luthuli Volunteer Corps that he … is grinding much faster and zealously…
EventJoaquim Chissano succeeds Samora Machel as president of Mozambique
… by United States and apartheid South Africa. At this time, the African National Congress(ANC) was granted access … Samora Machel was the president of…
EventJoe Slovo dies
… long battle with cancer of the bone marrow. He was a long- time National Chairperson of the South African Communist … places in the African National Congress…
ArchiveWomen Freedom Fighters tell of Sexual Abuse in Camps by Carl Collison (Mail and Guardian), 27 October 2017
… placed a note on her mother’s old gramophone. “By the time you read this, I will be out of this country … ” it … arrived in Mozambique, she got her period…
Nelson Mandela Correspondence around birthdays and anniversaries
… which I hope we carried reasonably well. I spent a lot of time on this day thinking of you. Every time I do, I literally glow and long to embrace you and…
EventUgandan President Idi Amin releases political prisoners
… prisoners detained by Obote’s government. He wasted no time announcing names of 17 new cabinet Ministers. Amin overthrew his long time ally turned enemy on…
ArticleTimeline of State Action Against the Press in the 1960s
1960 Mar- Norman Phillips of the Toronto Star was detained 3 and '/2 days for trying to cable a story about a police attack on Nyanga, Cape Town. The report…
ArticleThe banning of the South African Students Organisation (SASO) and student politics in the 1980s
… – which happened only in 1978. Still others sought part-time employment hoping to return to school when the situation … opted to register with adult…
ArticleEarly hominid discoveries in South Africa and East Africa
… or developed from simple creatures over a long period of time through a process called “natural selection”. These … date of their finds. Stone Age Bronze Age…
ArticleMohandas Karamchand Gandhi (Mahatma Gandhi) - Timeline: 1890-1899
… lengthy memorial to Chamberlain objecting to £3 tax on time expired indentured Indians September 12, Franchise Bill … of Indian immigration and compulsory…
The Freedom struggle in Rustenburg
… excitement even though for us blacks it is only the second time in our lives that we will have voted. Indeed, a critical … trouble, " because there was…
ArticleAfrican nationalism and working-class & popular protests, 1910-1924
… it prevented Africans””two-thirds of the population at the time””from freely buying land. The small African ‘ reserves ’ … their tools to strike with the…
Interview with Sunny Singh by C de Vos, Durban, 28 May 2002
… two or three years earlier, from 1956. CDV Is this the time you joined the Natal Indian Congress? SS Ah, around the … way? SS Well you see if you look at it…
ArchiveThe Original Chris Hani Memorandum
… of the prevalent situation inside. We strongly feel that time has come that the department should make every effort to … merely salaried employees of the…
A.I. Kajee His Work for the Southern African Indian Community - Chapter 11
… Natal and Dr. Dadoo in the Transvaal. The Congress at this time was divided into three groups. There was the group … was Kajee's political rival. Congress…
EventWWII: SA troops to fight in Europe
… the British Eighth Army and the American Fifth Army. From time to time the South African troops were involved in heavy …
EventSA Olympic team leaves for Barcelona
… Olympic Committee (IOC) for its apartheid policy. At this time, the South African team was composed of members drawn from all racial groups. It competed for…
EventNP Natal Congress agrees to multiracial membership
… as the political negotiations in the country at the time were swinging in favour of the establishment of a … which implied that people of all races, for the…
Forming the Federation
… the invitation to the 1954 'Women's Conference From the time I joined .the ANC we spent a long time organizing the women. When I joined there were only a … …