30 April International Jazz Day and the South African Revolution International Jazz Day is an International Day, which is celebrated annually on April 30, was declared by the United Nations…
Nelson Mandela: The Struggle By Other Means On 21 April 1964, newspapers were selling like hot cakes following Nelson Mandela’s statement from the dock at the Pretoria Supreme Court the…
King Sabata Jonguhlanga Dalindyebo – Qhawe lama Qhawe On 6 April 1986 – precisely forty years ago – King Sabata Dalindyebo passed on in Lusaka, Zambia, where he had lived…
No To Dialogue: The Movement Responds to Vorster’s Racist Ruse On 2 April 1971, the African National Congress (ANC) of South Africa’s Director of Political Affairs, Duma Nokwe, responded sternly…
All-in Africa Conference in Pietermaritzburg, Natal 65 years ago, on 25 – 26 March 1961, the two-day All-in African Conference – with approximately 1,400 delegates from 145 religious, cultural, peasant,…
Apartheid and Jazz: Arts, Culture and Heritage Focus (Extracts from an Article by Peter Sinclair, published in Sechaba, August 1970) “On my arrival in South Africa some ten years ago…
Signing the D.F. Malan Accord: 12 February 1991 On 12 February 1991, the apartheid South African Government and the African National Congress (ANC) signed the then secret D.F. Malan Accord,…
Oliver Tambo: Forward to a People’s Government (Extracts from a Statement of the African National Congress by President Oliver Tambo, 18 March 1980) “On March 9, 1980, the racist Prime…
Zenzile Miriam Makeba: Mama Afrika “Honestly, I’m just a little old singer, I am not a politician, I’m not an economist or anything of the sort. I just wish that…
BJ Vorster Tenders his Resignation as Apartheid Prime Minister On 19 September 1978, John Vorster shocked the nation by tendering his resignation as Prime Minister for the apartheid government, at…