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EventANC President Oliver Tambo meets with Mikhail Gorbachev in Moscow
… Congress (ANC) leader, Oliver Tambo met Mikhail Gorbachev, General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union …
PlaceTogo
… Asante and Dahomey, and its various ethnic groups lived in general isolation from each other. In 1884 it had became part …
EventHelen Suzman condemns the Immorality Act in Parliament
… the franchise to South Africans eligible to vote. In the general election of 1961, the Progressives were nearly wiped …
EventTanganyika becomes a member of the UN
… participates in the following principal organs of the UN: General Assembly, Security Council, and the Economic and …
EventDutch Foreign Minister Luns is asked by the Johannesburg
… since World War II. In 1971 Luns became the Secretary General of North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO), leaving …
EventCheryl Carolus is born
… United Democratic Front (UDF) in 1983 and served as the General Secretary of the Federation of South African Women …
EventChris Hani is born
… military arm of the African National Congress (ANC) and General-Secretary of the South African Communist Party (SACP) …
EventGoldstone Commission confirms SADF complicity in violence
… and intimidation in South Africa prior to the 1994 general election. During the first year of its existence the …
EventOliver Tambo returns from exile
… Secretary. He was appointed as the Secretary General of the ANC in 1954. With the banning of the ANC and …
EventThe Ncome Museum is opened
… a re-interpretation of the 1838 battle and Zulu culture in general. In his address, Mtshali expressed the view that the …
EventA book claims that SA’s Nuclear weapons programme has continued since 1993
… while others had been moved to Israel before the 1994 general election. President Nelson Mandela differed with the …
EventBritish presents final Peace proposal
… the peace proposal was presented to the Boer negotiators General J. C Smuts, one of the Boer negotiators, immediately …
EventDeputy Minister of Defence attends commemoration of Delville Wood
… Botha. Source: http://www.sabcnews.co.za/south_africa/general/0,2172,131312,00.html …
EventGen. Louis Botha, soldier, statesman and first prime minister of the Union of South Africa, is born.
… is born near Greytown, Natal (now kwaZulu Natal). A Boer general and statesman, he was leader of the Transvaal army in …
EventPortuguese explorer Bartholomew Dias anchors at Walvis Bay
… During the First World War South African Forces led by General Louis Botha eventually ousted the Germans at Khorab …
PlaceAlbany, Eastern Cape
… succeeded by Lord Charles Somerset. He was promoted full General in 1814, elevated to the Peerage of Ireland as Baron …
PlaceRhodes
… 2 December 1899 they were joined by a second group under General J H Olivier. On 23 June 1901 Boer forces under …
PlaceAliwal North, Eastern Cape
… Bridge was opened in 1880 and later replaced with the General Hertzog Bridge, leading to Bloemfontein, 206 km to …
Crucial Stage in the Struggle for Liberation of Southern Africa - Statement at the World Conference for Action against Apartheid by O. R. Tambo, Lagos, Nigeria, 23 August 1977
… Nasser, Mohammed V and others. We refer also to the late General Murtala Muhammed (2) who, hardly eighteen months ago … the Head of State of the Federal…
Closing address by President Neslon Mandela at the 49th National conferenceof the ANC Bloemfontein, 22 December 1994
… It urged the employment of weapons of struggle, like general strikes, stay-at-homes, boycotts, protest … in Bloemfontein, and got Dr Moroka, who was the…
ArchiveReview of Kora: A lost Khoisan language of the early Cape and the Gariep (Unisa Press), by June Bam-Hutchison (Centre for African Studies, University of Cape Town)
… There have always been general assumptions that the KhoeSan people (‘Khoe’ is the … attention and should be read by scholars and the public in general and…
EventField-Cornet Jan Potgieter’s commando burns Chief Sikhobobo’s kraal at Qulusini
… Under orders from Commandant-General Louis Botha, Field-Cornet Jan Potgieter's commando …
EventField-Cornet Jan Potgieter's commando burns Chief Sikhobobo's kraal at Qulusini
… Under orders from Commandant-General Louis Botha, Field-Cornet Jan Potgieter's commando …
PlaceSundays River, Mouth and Beach
… flowing river in the country. The Sundays River flows in a general southeasterly direction, passing the town …
The Battle of Square Hill
… (APO) who sent a letter of complaint to Governor General Buxton. [xiv] On 20 December 1917 the battalion … the First World War. [xix] This battle was…
ANC mourns the passing on of Mama Regina Nzo, 27 September 2011
… of Mama Regina Nzo who was the widow of former secretary general of the ANC and former minister of foreign affairs, …
EventSouth African GMO Act implemented
… GMO Act created a forum for cultivators, farmers and the general public to better understand the complexities that …
EventCharlotte Maxeke dies
… December 1935 by Dr. A.B. Xuma, later to be the President-General of the African National Congress (ANC). Professor …
EventThe Balfour Declaration is accepted
… achievement for South African delegate and prime minister, General J.B.M. Hertzog , who steadfastly demanded to receive …
EventSipho Malaza allegedly dies in detention
… ory.org.za/pages/chronology/special-chrono/governance/youth-general.htm#1970 …