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The UN High Commissioner for Refugees estimates it will cost $40m to repatriate South Africa’s 40 000 exiles.
The first edition of Standpunte, mouthpiece of Afrikaans poets in the ‘30s and ‘40s, is published.
ArticleSAHO Commemorates 40 Years since Soweto Uprising: Intergenerational Dialogue
South African History Online (SAHO) is hosting an intergenerational dialogue to commemorate 40 years since the Soweto Student Uprising. The dialogue consists…
PlaceMossel Bay, (400 km From Cape Town)
It was named Aguada de Sao Bras, by Vasco de Gama in 1497, when He set off with 170 men on an expedition to find a sea Route to India. This was in order to…
EventExpress train derails in Ethiopia, killing an estimated 400 people
An express train carrying seven cars and an estimated one thousand people destined for Addis Ababa, derailed when it reached a curve 125 miles east of the…
ArchiveWorkers donate R2 400 to victims` families
Archive2 400 textile members lose jobs over past year
ArchiveR40 000 largest payout ever
In the largest pay out in a labour dispute in South Africa, workers at Braitex, a Transvaal textile factory, were given R40 000.
BiographyStanley Huette Uys
Stanley Huette Uys was born on 27 April 1922, in Coalbrook, Orange Free State (now Free State Province). His parents, Dirk and Francina, were members of the…
ArchiveSpeak Number 40 June 1992
EventThe UDF launches the Million Signatures Campaign and by October collect just under 400 000 signatures.
On 22 January 1984, amidst the Apartheid government’s constitutional reform plans, the United Democratic Front (UDF) embarked on an ambitious campaign to…
ArticleExhibition: Celebrating 40 Years of Women's Day, Durban 1980
ArchiveMayibuye Volume 2 Number 40 December 1968
Mayibuye, bulletin of the African National Congress.
ArchiveCritical Health Number 40 September 1992
40. 1903 reviewed by Indian Opinion
From the book: A Documentary History of Indian South Africans edited by Surendra Bhana and Bridglal Pachai M. K. Gandhi founded Indian Opinionin June 1903…
Introduction - The anti-Apartheid Movements: a 40-year perspective
On 26 June 1959, over five hundred people attended a meeting at the Holborn Hall, London in order to launch an economic boycott against South Africa. Speakers…
Archive40 years of struggle for a living wage and conditions
Offset litho; black; 1946 -- 1986 : 40 years of struggle for a living wage and conditions : Then and Now : Mineworkers Say: Decent living conditions Not our…
BiographyJoey Fourie
Joey Fourie was born in Oudtshoorn in the then Cape Province (now Western Cape), to a traditional Afrikaans family. She was educated in Wellington, Cape…
Mussolini announces that 400,000 Italians will be going to Ethiopia as settlers.
ArchiveNew Age Vol.8 No.40 Jul. 1962
ArchiveNew Age Vol.7 No.40 Jul. 1961
ArchiveWork in progress Issue 40 February 1986
The Anti-apartheid Movement: A 40 year perspective
ArchiveNew Age Vol.5 No.40 Jul. 1959
ArchiveNew Age Vol.1 No.40 Jul. 1955
ArchiveFosatu Worker News No 40 August 1985
ArchiveFosatu Worker News Number 40 August 1985
Document 40 - Anti-CAD, Why You Should Not Vote [1958]
From: South Africa's Radical Tradition, a documentary history, Volume Two 1943 - 1964, by Allison Drew Document 40 - Anti-CAD, Why You Should Not Vote [1958]…
A major stay-away starts (5 and 6 November). 500 000 workers and 400 000 students stay away.
EventMore than 400 miners killed in what was the worst mining disaster in South Africa
In the worst mine disaster in South Africa, a large section of the Clydesdale Colliery, at the Coalbrook mine near Sasolburg, Orange Free State, caved in…