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EventThabo Mbeki, former President of SA, is born in Idutywa, Transkei
… 1996 and Mbeki became the only deputy president. Mbeki was elected President of South Africa on 14 June 1999 and was …
EventNelson Mandela is born
… Verster prison before he was released in 1990. Mandela was elected president of South Africa in 1994. In 1999, at the …
EventMandela signs a law into bill creating the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC)
… it led to creation of the TRC. The first democratically elected government with Nelson Mandela at its head believed …
EventArthur Elias Letele, medical doctor and prominent ANC leader who went into exile in Basutoland, dies
… leaving the Kimberley area until August 1953. Letele was elected to the ANC Executive Committee and was also part of …
EventFormation of the South African Native National Congress
… 1912. At SANNC's inaugural conference, Rev. John Dube was elected as its first president in absentia. The organisation …
EventPolitical activist, Professor ZK Matthews is born
… he became a member of the organisation. In 1943 he was elected to the National Executive Committee and at the same …
EventKing Moshoeshoe II is reinstated as King of Lesotho
… and Zimbabwe spearheaded diplomatic efforts to restore an elected government. Following their two-day visit to Lesotho …
Address to the Parliament of Ghana, Accra 06 October 2000
… moved by the fact that this morning we are among the elected representatives of the people of a great sister … of Ghana, a forward echelon in that continuing…
ANC hard at work despite power failure and strike threat, 27 July 2009
… who include the Communications Department under the Secretary General’s Office, are also in full operation, using …
EventPhumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka sworn in as UN- Women Executive Director
… (UN) Headquarters in New York City, presided over by Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon. She was accompanied by her …
EventANC receives letter of gratitude from the British Prime Minister, Herold Macmillan
… policies. The recipient of the letter was Duma Nokwe Secretary General of the ANC. It was written from Groote …
EventArchbishop Desmond Tutu is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize
… preacher and strident voice against apartheid, first Black Secretary General of the South African Council of Churches, …
EventDr. Rhoodie is arrested
… Dr Eschel Rhoodie, former South African secretary of information, was initially tracked down by a …
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 …
EventBeginning of the Anglo-Zulu War, 10 January 1879
… a threat to this policy, a belief supported by Shepstone (Secretary for Native Affairs), who averred that the Zulu …
EventSouth African Indian Congress opposes "Ghetto Act"
… its representative. In June 1946, India requested the secretary-general of the United Nations to put South Africa's …
Comments and Observations on Proposals for a United Nations Security Council Resolution on Apartheid by O. R. Tambo, 1963
… following its resolution of August 7th. [1] (2) The Secretary-General, having reported in terms of that … apartheid question dependent on steps to be taken…
”Report on Talks between the PAC and the OAU liberation Committee Sub-committee” by Potlako K. Leballo, Dar es Salaam, November 20,1968
… Tanzania and Zambia, with the assistance of the Executive Secretary (ALC), were called upon to exert their influence to … functions of the Organisation…
ArchiveReport on Talks between the PAC and the OAU liberation Committee Sub-committee by Potlako K. Leballo, Dar es Salaam, November 20,1968
… Tanzania and Zambia, with the assistance of the Executive Secretary (ALC), were called upon to exert their influence to … functions of the Organisation…
Polokwane the Segregated city
… served one-year terms, although a number of them were elected to serve further terms. Marcus was succeeded by Dr … mayor in 1947/8 and 48/9, and again in…
Speech delivered on the condolence motion in honour of the late Ebrahim "Cas" Saloojee in the national assembly – 5 February 2009
… Cassim Saloojee initially served as the Publicity Secretary of the Transvaal Indian Congress, and went on to …
ArticleTimeline of the Marikana Massacre 2012 - 2013
… killed and scores were injured. 17 August, NUM General Secretary Frans Baleni says union shop-stewards report that …
PlaceOatlands, Simonstown
… the whole whitewashed. On 22 December 1787, the Colonial Secretary , Mr A. Barnard, gave orders that Mr Trail was to … On receipt of this disturbing list…
Address by Oliver Tambo at the 75th anniversary meeting of the African National Congress, 08 January 1987, Lusaka
… of Zambia, Dr. Kenneth David Kaunda, His Honour, the Secretary-General of UNIP, Comrade Grey Zulu, The Right … and Ministers, Dr. Dawitt, Special…
Address of the President of South Africa and Commander-in-Chief of the SANDF, Thabo Mbeki, on the occasion of the Presidential Fleet Review, 5 September 2008, Simonstown
… Review is taking place after the untimely death of the Secretary for Defence, Mr January Masilela, whom we laid to … Constitution and the laws approved by…
Address by Oliver Tambo at the 75th anniversary meeting of the African National Congress, Lusaka, 8 January 1987
… of Zambia, Dr. Kenneth David Kaunda, His Honour, the Secretary-General of UNIP, Comrade Grey Zulu, The Right … and Ministers, Dr. Dawitt, Special…
ArticleRuth Robb and her involvement with Black Sash
… After years of hard work and dedication, the Black Sash elected her as honorary life Vice President, in March of … accept intelligent contradiction from much…
Sterkfontein Dam, Free State
… vultures, as well as black and martial eagles soaring. Secretary birds can also be spotted in treetops or stalking …
Interview with Ari Sitas, Of Socialism and Dentures by Jonathan Mandel, 10-11 April 2015
… who argue, F***Mandela, Roll over Solomon Mahlangu and Chris Hani, here come the capuccin kids, no. Those influenced by … with Bandung-type anti-imperialisms…
Chapter 13. General Strike, 1932
… fighting rather than surrender. A strike committee was elected, composed almost exclusively of women workers. As the … Malan Government removed me from my…