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Event20 000 Women march to the Union Buildings in protest of pass laws
… Women's struggle in South Africa' for further information about South African Women's Day. … in South Africa' [online] Available at: africanhistory.about.com…
EventEgyptian President Anwar Sadat, Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin and President Carter begin a Middle East peace conference at Camp David, Maryland
… Retreat in the Catoctin Mountains of Maryland, about 100 kilometers north of Washington DC. The result of …
EventWinnie Mandela is banished to Brandfort
… to court and imprisoned for not notifying the authorities about their visits. Source: sahistory.org.za …
EventSA pledges support for a negotiated settlement in Rhodesia
… for the United States of America's (USA) efforts to bring about a negotiated settlement in Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe). …
EventPresident F.W. de Klerk announces withdrawal of Internal Stability Units (ISU)
… Officer had liaised with the South African Police (SAP) about the matter. The SAP approved the withdrawal of the ISU … 17 January 2011]|e-tools, (1993), …
EventUS House of Representatives approve Bill to impose stricter sanctions on Apartheid South Africa
… and quiet diplomacy in the hope that this could bring about reform of the Apartheid system. References: South …
EventThe Dutch Reformed Church decides that Afrikaans may be used alongside Dutch during services
… twelve million people. Click here to read more about the Dutch Reformed Church and Apartheid. …
EventSA artist Ernest Methuen Mancoba is born
… as much literature as possible on European Art and also about African Art exhibited in museums abroad. From these …
EventSA colonies meet to consider and adopt the South Africa Act, which leads to the Union of South Africa
… as drafted by the National Convention. Click here to read about the formation of the Union of South Africa. Source: On …
EventBambatha Rebellion
… working away from home. Click here for a special feature about Bambatha Rebellion …
EventBritish establish first ‘refugee’ camps during the South African War
… on the farms so he initiated the "scorched earth" policy. About 30 000 Boer farmhouses and more than 40 towns were …
EventThe decisive Battle of Bembesi (Bembasi) is fought in the First Matabele War (Ndebele), Zimbabwe
… had lost. Visit our Matabele Wars feature, to read more about the Matabele Wars and the early history of the Ndebele …
EventMorgan Tsvangirai becomes Prime Minister of Zimbabwe
… his land reform policies, Mugabe's supporters then went about forcefully occupying the land. The issue of land in …
EventThe Native Land Act is passed
… Land Act (No. 27 of 1913) was passed to allocate only about 7% of arable land to Africans and leave the more …
18. Narayanan searches for his wife and child
… from my employers, and they have said they know nothing about her. I implore your honour to set at rest the anxiety …
The first Bram Fischer Memorial lecture, delivered by President Nelson R. Mandela Market Theatre, Johannesburg, 9 June 1995
… is the first Bram Fischer Lecture I have chosen to talk about the man rather than the law. The last time that I saw Bram Fischer was on Robben Island about…
Archive1990 - President De Klerk: State of the Nation Address, 2 February 1990
… during this Session. * Help us build a broad consensus about the fundamentals of a new, realistic and democratic … and Kaunda. These leaders expressed their…
FW de Klerk’s speech to Parliament, 2 February 1990
… during this Session. Help us build a broad consensus about the fundamentals of a new, realistic and democratic … and Kaunda. These leaders expressed their…
Chapter IV - Becoming an activist
… all interested in what I had done already and only talked about the coloured people, impressing on me that the Medical … Society in March 1951. It took me a…
ArchiveAll That Glitters - In the city by Emilia Potenza
… 1936, the number of Africans in the cities increased from about half a million to over one and a half million. This … increased the land which Africans could…
Chapter IV - A meaningful life
… because he had published a book. The Discarded People, about the abitrary mass removal of thousands of African … He had assisted, too, in the making of a…
Chapter Seven - Re-examining the Past
… the non-European think an individual European should do about it?" In the inevitable reply from Gomas, the old … CPSA and assured Gomas that apart from a few…
ArticleMedu Art Ensemble
… merely to fulfill a short-term objective to inform people about a specific event, but to build a broader sense of … with the real things in our life...The…
10 YEARS PROJECT
… themselves to do everything in their power to bring about a peaceful solution as quickly as possible. 4 Both delegations expressed serious concern about the…
ArticleNelson Mandela Timeline 1930-1939
… Indians in the Transvaal and end the state of uncertainty about their status in the Province that has existed since the … Weaver Newana, adds his own oral…
ArticleDesmond Mpilo Tutu Timeline
… Tutu interviewed by Time magazine: What's the best thing about life at 75? Tutu: "Looking back and now saying, 'Hey, … how I felt when people were being…
ArticleThe Crackdown on the Black Consciousness Movement in 1973
… were staged included Requiem for Brother X and Shanti (about the relationship between an Indian girl and a Black … been barred from re-admission, and half of…
ArticleThe Union of South Africa 1910
… deprivation of Africans’ right to own land. To read more about the formation African National Congress in 1912 and the … – There is a lot of information on…
David Goldblatt: Intersections by Matt Damsker
… John Gossage or Marcus Doyle--who make potent statements about modernity and human presence mainly by photographing … Matt Damsker is an author and critic,…
Move from Condemnation to Confrontation of Apartheid and Colonialism - Statement in Committee II of the International Conference of Experts for the Support of Victims of Colonialism and Apartheid in Southern Africa, Oslo by O. R. Tambo, 11 April 1973
… will constitute a proof that the world body is serious about its opposition to apartheid and colonialism, because it … we will end this den of inequities in…