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View the interactive timeline →Response by Nelson Mandela, President of the African National Congress, to the speech by the State President, F. W. de Klerk, at the first session of CODESA, World Trade Centre, Kempton Park
Response by President Nelson Mandela to the 1994 Peace Lecture of the WCRP
Response to the June 16 Soweto Youth Uprising by organisations in exile
June 16 marks the commemoration of National Youth Day in South Africa. This is the day the country reflects on the massacre of school…
Responses in South Africa to the outbreak of WWI: Impact on the Indian Working class: the Growth of Indian trade unions
Those who formed part of the poorest section of the Indian community, such a labourers, artisans, market-gardeners bore the brunt of the…
Responses in South Africa to the outbreak of WWI: The African Peoples Organisation and the Teachers League of South Africa
Like their African counterparts, the organisations of the coloured elite came out strongly in support of the British war effort. They…
Responses in South Africa to the outbreak of WWI: The Afrikaner Response and the 1914 Rebellion
When the First World War broke out in August 1914, the British Government called upon the dominions in the British Empire to come to its…
Responses in South Africa to the outbreak of WWI: The Formation of the International Socialist League (ISL)
The out break of the First World War had profound consequences for the development of socialist labour politics in South Africa. Before the…
Responses of different groups in South Africa to the outbreak of the First World War
Reverend Zaccheus Richard Mahabane Timeline 1881-1971
Richard David Turner Timeline 1941 - 1978
1941 Born in Cape Town of British parents c. 1947-58 At school in Cape Town 1953 Father dies 1958 Matriculates from St George…
Rietvlei
The village of Rietvlei was renamed Vergenoegd in June 1911. By Franco Frescura
Right to Organise Timeline 1500-1994
1500-1800 This period is marked by the advent and growth of the Atlantic Slave Trade affecting West Africa, Central and East Africa. On…
Rise of the Colonial City
Rise of the Sugar Industry
Rivonia Trial 1963 - 1964
Often referred to as "the trial that changed South Africa,” in October 1963, ten leading opponents of apartheid went on trial for their…