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EventSA is blamed for Harare bombing
… countries, Zimbabwe had had a longer relationship with the African National Congress (ANC) military wing. South … African covert forces were suspected of…
EventFirst Black Test cricket captain in SA is announced
… as South Africa's first Black Test cricket captain to lead the Protea team in Sri Lanka. This announcement was made by … South Africa (CSA) after Graeme…
EventOlivia Forsyth takes refuge in British embassy in Luanda
… Olivia Forsyth escaped from her guards and took refuge in the British embassy in Luanda. She was a self-confessed SA spy of the security police in the…
ArchiveStaffrider Vol.6 No.3 1986
… Contents and Contributors Stories: The Masquerade Ball by Temba Makunga; Weak of Faith by J.V. Pillay; Coffee for the Road by Alex La Guma; Hide Them Under…
PlaceDe Beers Building, 88 St Georges Street, Simonstown
… owned by Cecil Rhodes. From 1903 to 1921 it was used by the company's successor, the Imperial Cold Storage & Supply Co., who then sold it to the Standard…
EventEmperor Menelik II, emperor of Ethiopia dies
… 1913. Menelik gained great fame and respect for defeating the Italian colonizers. He was also the first black African King to engage in slavery of white ……
EventUN committee is barred to enter SA
… of eight, with instructions to investigate conditions in the Mandated Territory of South Africa, was refused … permission to enter South-West Africa (now…
EventNigeria imposes sanctions on South Africa, and implements a total trade boycott
… ban all imports from South Africa, and was reportedly in the process of refusing facilities for South African … Trade sanctions and boycotts aimed to put…
EventUN Special Envoy visits SA
… Following the unanimous adoption of resolution 765 by the UN Security Council, Cyrus Vance was dispatched to South Africa as Special Representative of the UN…
EventUpington 14 are sentenced
… down death sentences on fourteen Blacks (Upington 14) for the murder of Lucas Tshenolo Sethwala, a Black police … attacking his home with stones on 13…
EventEgyptian women files divorce under new law
… Thirty-two year old Egyptian women, Waffa Mossaad Gabr, was the first to file for divorce under a new and highly opposed … require women to prove physical or…
EventFerdi Barnard is found guilty of killing Webster
… On 1 June 1998, Ferdi Bernard was convicted for the murder of anti-Apartheid activist, David Webster. Bernard … 1989, in front his home. Bernard was also…
EventLegal action against election results
… The Minister of Local Government in Kwazulu-Natal applied to the Supreme Court to have voting in four rural areas declared … about administrative chaos and…
EventAlgerian terrorist, Abdelhamid Abou Zeid dies
… in Algeria. He was an Islamist militant who became one of the top three military commanders of al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM), a Mali-based militant…
EventSA Artist, Andries Johannes Botha, is born in Durban
… on 22 September 1952 in Durban. He studied Fine Arts at the University Of KwaZulu-Natal and later went on to teach the subject at Techinkon Natal. He…
EventJohannes Kerkorrel, Afrikaans singer and songwriter, is born in Johannesburg
… in Johannesburg, on 27 March 1960. He started singing in the late 1980s while working for the conservative Afrikaner newspaper Rapport. He was later fired…
PlaceLittle Chelsea, 18 Windermere Road, Durban
… for L Evans, for use as a shop, dining room and kitchen on the ground floor. From CBD take Filed Street north, becomes … left into Argyle Rd and left again…
Isisebenzi
… Produced by the "Wages Commission", Isisebenzi was a newspaper for … workers, especially with their struggle for just wages and the right to organise…
EventAndrew Charles Hudson, South African cricketer is born
… One Day International cricket matches for South Africa in the 1990s. Hudson was a right-handed batsman and was most … his calm demeanour under pressure. Up…
EventMalawian President Hastings Banda visits SA
… in May 1970, President Hastings Banda of Malawi became the first head of an independent Black African state to visit … Africa (16-20 August). During his…
EventCaribbean countries refuse to send troops to Haiti
… Angered by the manner in which Haiti's President Jean-Bertrand Aristide was allegedly forced to flee his country, the fifteen-nation Caribbean Community said…
EventTsafendas, murderer of South African Prime Minister Hendrik F. Verwoerd in 1966, dies
… Prime Minister Hendrik F. Verwoerd in 1966, died at the age of 81 at the Sterkfontein psychiatric hospital on the West Rand. Dimitri Tsafendas, parliamentary…
EventMcBride is conditionally released from prison
… and espionage, was conditionally released from prison. In the meantime investigation by the Mozambican authorities and their South African … he had been…
EventN.P. van Wyk Louw is born
… Karoo. He was second in line of four brothers, the youngest of which was the poet W.E.G. Louw. N.P. van Wyk Louw received various … heritage of language and…
Commemorative Walk
… trip from Durban Central railway station to Charlestown on the 30 November. Leaving Durban at 1.45 a.m. and returning at … and Volksrust where there will be…
ArchiveStaffrider Vol.3 No.4 Dec-Jan 1980
… Contents and Contributors The Cane is Singing by Narain Aiyer, A Normal Day by Kenny T. … My Dear Madam by Nokugcina Sigwili, Poor Business for the Artist by…
Transkei independence
… The book contain a series of essays on the issue of the Transkei independence. …
Negotiations
… Article looking at the question of negotiation and the approach of the democratic movement. …
ArchiveStaffrider Vol.6 No.1 1984
… STAFFRIDER, VOL. 6 NO. 1, 1984 CONTENTS, Stories: The Tenants by Mpumie Cilibe; A Dirty Story by Yashar Kemal; The Incest of Poverty by Achmat Dangor;…
EventMandela discharged from Pretoria hospital
… admitted to Mediclinic heart hospital in Pretoria on the 8th of June 2013 for a recurring lung infection. His … health professionals including a large…