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EventANC President Oliver Tambo meets with Mikhail Gorbachev in Moscow
… (ANC) leader, Oliver Tambo met Mikhail Gorbachev, General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU)’s …
EventDutch Foreign Minister Luns is asked by the Johannesburg
… in Europe since World War II. In 1971 Luns became the Secretary General of North Atlantic Treaty Organisation …
EventCheryl Carolus is born
… Democratic Front (UDF) in 1983 and served as the General Secretary of the Federation of South African Women (Fedsaw) …
EventPrime Minister Vorster holds talks with Dr. Kissinger
… Johannes (B.J) Vorster held talks with the United States Secretary of State, Dr. Henry Kissinger, on 23 and 24 June in …
EventTrevor Manuel, Minister in The Presidency: National Planning Commission, is born
… (UDF) in the Western Cape, and was appointed regional secretary. In 1985, Manuel was arrested for a month for his …
January 8th Statements - Statement of the National Executive Committee on the occasion of the 81st Anniversary of the ANC - 8 January, 1993
… to assemble and to propagate their views. As soon as it is elected, the Constituent Assembly will commence its work of … Every effort has to be made to…
4. The ANC underground between Rivonia and 1976
… organisation known as Sebatakgomo, and later General Secretary of SACTU, was released from prison in 1966 and then … in sending people out of the country,…
EventThe 104mm field-gun known as 'Long Cecil' is test fired for the first time
… the first round was fired by Mrs Pickering, wife of the Secretary of the De Beers Company, after Chamier had turned …
Archive2003 - President Mbeki, State of the Nation Address, 14 February 2003
… of our struggle, Oliver Tambo, and the people's hero, Chris Hani. To Sis' Limpho Hani and Mme Adelaide Tambo - who need … first time this year, we trust that…
Address to the Swedish Parliament Stockholm, 13 March 1990
… parliament, together adopting laws as equals and as elected representatives of all the people of our country. But … us in the common struggle, for decades…
EventChad gains its independence
… by 11 August 1960 with Francois N'Garta Tombalbaye being elected as president of the newly-independent African state. …
EventLast remaining SA troops have been withdrawn from Namibia
… as the Republic of Namibia, with Swapo leader Sam Nujoma elected as president. …
EventA few days after deciding to establish a Dutch newspaper in South Africa, the name De Burger is chosen
… ("the National Press", now Naspers). Dr. D.F. Malan was elected to be first the editor of this daily paper, and the …
EventM.T. Steyn is sworn in as president of the Orange Free State
… also a judge of the High Court like his predecessor, was elected as next president by 6877 votes to 1367 in favour of …
EventEleven African demonstrators are shot dead by Rhodesian police in Salisbury
… instructions to hand over power to a popularly-elected government. Realising that this would mean an end to …
ANC mourns the passing on of Mama Regina Nzo, 27 September 2011
… passing on of Mama Regina Nzo who was the widow of former secretary general of the ANC and former minister of foreign …
EventArchibald Gumede, former President of the United Democratic Front, is born in Pietermaritzburg.
… the African National Congress (ANC) in 1949 and became secretary of the Natal branch. Gumede was very active in the …
EventCleric and anti-apartheid activist, Mpilo Desmond Tutu is ordained as Archbishop of Cape Town
… On 7 September 1986, former Secretary-General of the South African Council of Churches …
EventThambi Naidoo mobilises the Indians
… attained between Gandhi and General Smuts, the Colonial Secretary at the time. It was agreed that Indians would …
EventScientists find the virus that may cause Aids.
… in Washington by the United States of America Health Secretary, Margaret Heckler who suggested that the vaccine …
BiographyKasturba Gandhi
… which was essential for “making an impression” on the Secretary of State for the Colonies. In June 1896, he left …
‘African Gandhi’: The South African War and the Limits of Imperial Identity by Goolam Vahed
… formed the Natal Indian Congress (NIC), with Gandhi as secretary, to protect their trade, franchise and residence … their services ‘without pay’. Gandhi…
ArchiveBiography of Dulcie September by Claire Albin
… of the Murders of Dulcie September, Anton Lubowski and Chris Hani (Pretoria: Evelien Groenink, 2018), 1. [6] Mohamed … of the Murders of Dulcie September,…
ArchiveEstablishing the Constitutional Assembly
… After South Africa’s first democratic elections, the newly elected parliament would double as a Constitutional Assembly …
Chapter VI - HEAR US!
… its officers for the coming year. Lilian Ngoyi was re-elected Transvaal President and I again became Transvaal Secretary. I don't think that it seemed odd to…
The ANC’s attempt to become the sole legitimate representative of the people of South Africa by Martin Plaut
… appointment as the Labour Party’s Africa and Middle East Secretary, in November 1979. My role was to advise the party … and I made my views clear to my boss,…
Robben Island
… an asylum for the mentally ill, and in 1843 the Colonial Secretary, John Montagu, put forward a plan to use it as a …
A New Date For the Founding of the South African Society of Artists, and it’s Second Annual Exhibition of 1898
… 37 patrons including the Reverend Alfred Bender. The Secretary is given as H. Morstatt, and there is a list of …
ArticleNational symbols such as the Coat of Arms and the National Anthem
… land’s beauty and the flowering of our land’s potential) Secretary bird (a protector, a messenger of the heavens and …
ArticleAnti-Indian Legislation
… were held and various telegrams were sent to the Colonial Secretary to prevent the lading of any more free Indians in …