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EventCOSATU delegates are left at Beitbridge
… In spite of being refused to visit, the thirteen delegates of the Congress of South African Trade Union (COSATU), left for … The ZIMBABWE Situation,' The…
EventFrancis William Reitz, South African lawyer and politician, is born
… was born on 5 October 1844 in Swelllendam in what is now the Western Cape. Reitz was a lawyerand politician. He became the first president of the Senate of…
EventKing Mswati III buys another luxury car
… based newspaper, Times, reported that King Mswati III of Swaziland bought himself a luxury Maybach 62 sedan worth $500,000 despite his country's economic…
Document 118 - Johannesburg District Communist Party, Call to a Non-European United Front!
… COWURED AND AFRICAN PEOPLE SEGREGATION THREATENS US The Government proposes to drive Asiatic and Coloured people into locations! It proposes to push them…
EventSandra Reynolds, a South African tennis champion is born
… in Bloemfontein, Free State.[i] Reynolds was nicknamed the “Grace Kelly” of South African tennis.[ii] She claimed the South African women’s singles titles in…
EventSouth African Police (SAP) is founded
… In 1913 the Police Bill and Defence Bill were both enacted and the authorisation for the establishment of a national police force was given. The South…
EventArchbishop Desmond Tutu is arrested
… Archbishop Desmond Tutu, a central figure in the fight against apartheid, was arrested outside parliament while leading a protest march (one of many) against…
EventCellist and music teacher Betty Pack is born
… youth orchestras, was born in Nylstroom, Transvaal. At the age of 16, she gave her first public performance of the Dvorak cello concert. A year later she was…
EventMargaret Rheeder is hung in Pretoria
… Margaret Rheeder, found guilty of poisoning her husband, Benjamin Fredenman, was hung in Pretoria. On the morning of 27 April 1957 Rheeder went to a pharmacy…
PlaceBloemfontein City Hall
… The Bloemfontein City Hall was built in 1935 and has a … style interior with an attractive sandstone exterior. The Bloemfontein City Hall Is a large stately…
ArchiveMemorandum on political prisoners
… political prisoners submitted by Alfred Ngokong on behalf of the ANC to the Ad Hoc Working Group of Experts of the United Nations …
PlaceAmbleside, a Railway Siding in Mpumalanga
… Railway Siding 11 km North-East of Carolina on the route Machadodorp to Breyton. It was named in 1868 by Archibald Sinclair, recalling the Wreck of the…
PlaceCape Town Stadium
… This Stadium was built when we put in the bid to host the 2010 World Cup. The Stadium has proved to be very use … tourist attraction. Welcome to Cape Town…
ArchiveNUSAS Press Release No. 4, 1967
… NUSAS press bulletin on the 1967 National Day of Affirmation of Academic and Human Freedom in South Africa. … announcement that Professor Erwin N Griswold…
EventHeart specialist Dr. Chris Barnard dies
… Christiaan Neethling Barnard, the world-famous medical pioneer who performed the world’s first heart transplant operation on Louis Washkansky, died at the…
EventAlexander Kerr is born
… Alexander Kerr, educationist, church leader and the first principal of the South African Native College (later the University of … Sonderling, N.E. (ed.) …
Event14 Year old girl is convicted in Pietermaritzburg High Court
… The South African Broadcasting Cooperation (SABC) reported … that a fourteen year old girl has been found guilty in the Pietermaritzburg High Court of…
Amulets & Dreams by Omar Badsha and Guy Tillim
… This book covers civil strife and its effects on the society in 6 African countries namely Angola, Mozabique, Burundi, Sierra Leone, Ethiopia and Eritria…
EventSAP fighting in Zimbabwe
… It was officially disclosed that the South African Police (SAP) were in Rhodesia (later renamed Zimbabwe) actively helping in the fight against Nationalist…
EventZimbabwean politician and trade unionist Morgan Tsvangirai is born
… Morgan Richard Tsvangirai was born in the Bahure area of Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe). He is the eldest of nine children. Tsavangirai joined the…
Inqaba ya basebenzi
… Inqaba ya basebenzi, published in London by the Marxist Workers' Tendency of the African National Congress documents the workers' struggle …
EventZola Budd, former SA athlete and World Record holder, is born
… family on 26 May 1966 in Bloemfontein. She was one of five children. Budd was especially close to her older … sister Jenny and they would often run together…
Decolonising African Museums - What does it mean?
… The Centre for Indian Studies in Africa (CISA) presents a … Effiboley, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Centre for the Creative Arts of Africa/Wits Art Museum…
Event12 people are killed after Kenyan jets bombed Somali town
… At least 12 people were killed when two Kenyan jets bombed the southern Somali town of Jilib. This was an attempt by east African nation to rid Somalia of…
EventLansana Conte’ leads a coup that deposes Guinea’s interim government
… Lansana Conte’ was the second president of Guinea. On 3 April 1984, a week after the death of President Ahmed Sékou Touré, Conte’ who was a … McGreal, C., …
PlaceBlue Lodge Hotel, 206-208 Long Street, Cape Town
… This impressive building was erected at the turn of the 19th century and forms an important part of the …
EventDadoo and Naicker are charged
… Naicker were charged with contravening Section 20 (r) of Act No. 22 of 1913, the Immigrants Regulations Act. They were accused of … aiding or abetting…
EventBoeremag members Dirk Hanekom and Henk van Zyl are arrested in Memel. Only Hanekom is charged.
… Two members of the extreme right-wing group, Boeremag, Dirk Hanekom and … and brought to trial with 21 other alleged members of the right-wing Boeremag at…
ArchiveStatement
… Statement by Alfred Nzo, Secretary General of the ANC National Executive Committee, on the current situation in South Africa. The regime over the …
ArchiveCollaborators and falsifiers exposed
… With the official opening of the Sultan Technical College, the members of the College Council had taken a decision to prohibit the …