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EventPresident Thabo Mbeki is inaugurated at Union Buildings
… After the African National Congress (ANC) registered a landslide victory in the 1999 general elections, Thabo Mbeki, who had replaced … as the party's leader…
EventCecil John Rhodes is forced to resign
… Cecil John Rhodes, prime minister of the Cape Colony, was severely censured for his involvement in the infamous Jameson Raid and forced to resign by the…
EventFirst Egyptian woman to file for divorce under new law
… In 2000, a 32 year old Egyptian housewife became the first woman to file for a divorce without having to prove … she begged him to grant her a divorce and he…
ArchiveLetter from Raymond Suttner to whom it may concern
… Letter from Raymond Suttner, Head of the ANC Political Education Department, regarding the making of a video series on the history of the ANC. …
Steve Biko National Conference 2014
… 20 Years of Democracy: STILL CONFRONTING CHALLENGES TO NATION-BUILDING … in One Azania a Myth? Prof Saths Cooper President of the IUPsyS and VP of the…
EventNigerian political campaigner, women’s rights activist and traditional aristocrat, Funmilayo Ransome Kuti is born
… a women’s organisation with 20 000 members that comprised of literate and illiterate women. The organisation was thrust into the public eye when it organised…
PlaceAnniskop, Hill in Karoo-Namibia
… Hill some 13 km North-West of the confluence of the Annis River with the Orange River. Near the hill is the … New Dictionary of South African Place Names by…
EventMichael “Muis” Roberts, South Africa’s best jockey is born
… was born on 17 May 1954 in Cape Town.[i] Roberts was one of South Africa’s most renowned jockeys.[ii] Roberts was … to his petite physique when he registered…
ArchiveAddress at 6th Annual Nelson Mandela Lecture, by Nelson Mandela, 12 July 2008, Kliptown Soweto
… to celebrate with so many friends and well wishers. As the years progress one increasingly realises the importance of friendship and human solidarity. And if…
ArchiveTerrorist Weapons 2
… A2 Full colour litho, photos of weapons; Text: Terrorist Weapons 2; Public Awareness Chart 9; (text describing weapons); This chart shows the heavier or more…
Negotiations: a strategic perspective
… Statement by the African National Congress on negotiations as adopted by the National Executive Committee on 25 November 1992. Covers shifts in the balance…
ArchiveDead in one's own lifetime
… This book contains a collection of papers presented at the NUSAS Art and Liberation Week, held at UCT, 1-4 May 1979. The six papers are entitled "Dead in one…
PlaceNational Women’s Monument
… The monument created by Anton van Wouw , was put up in 1913 in remembrance of the 26 370 Boer women and children who died in prison camps … https://hunting…
EventMandela and de Klerk agree to restart talks
… they would go back to constitutional negotiations, after the ANC had suspended talks after accusing the government of complicity in the violence sweeping the…
Event7 People are killed during a SATS strike
… way to a union meeting, were accosted by several hundreds of non-striking workers at Germiston Station, East Rand. The non-strikers were armed with pangas,…
18. Narayanan searches for his wife and child
… From the book: A Documentary History of Indian South Africans edited by Surendra Bhana and … who worked for a Port Shepstone sugar mill, wrote to the…
EventFrance tests an atomic bomb in Algeria
… its first nuclear bomb test at Reganne, Algeria , in the Sahara desert. At the time, Algeria was under French control. The test, code named Gerboise Bleue,…
EventRamaphosa announces his decision to leave parliament
… Cyril Ramaphosa, secretary-general of the African National Congress (ANC) and chairman of the Constitutional Assembly, announced his intention to … Southern…
ArchiveStaffrider Vol.10 No.4 1992
… In Sorrow, Kaizer Nyatsumba, Essays: S.A. Literature and the Construction of Nationhood, Njabulo S. Ndebele; In Search of Light, … Culture as a Site of…
EventBotswana President, Seretse Khama dies
… was Kgosi (King) Khama III, (also known as Khama the Good) of the Bangwato people. Under his rule and with his approval, …
EventFather Smangaliso Mkhatshwa served with restriction order
… A year after the 1976 Soweto Student Uprising, the former Secretary of the South African Catholic Bishops' Conference (SACBC) and …
EventTrader and art collector Habib Rajab is born
… Rajab was born in Durban. He was a trader and collector of oriental art, remembered for his role in preventing the Grey Street complex from being handed over…
EventDemonstrators strip to deter bulldozers
… Shanty town women stripped to the waist and confronted bulldozers sent by authorities to demolish their homes at Dobsonville in Soweto. The women's protests…
EventFurther chaos in Liberian civil war
… President Samuel Kanyon Doe became virtually a prisoner in the presidential mansion as rebels besieged Monrovia and … without them. Doe, amidst ethnic…
EventMoses Mabhida dies in Maputo
… Umkhonto weSizwe commander and Secretary-General of the SA Communist Party, died of a heart attack in Maputo, … Mabhida's remains were transferred to South…
EventProfessor Lydia van Niekerk is born
… Lydia van Niekerk, professor of Dutch Literature and first woman to be appointed to the chair at the University of Stellenbosch, was born on the farm ……
ArticleFunders
… National Heritage Council Presidential Employment Stimulus The DG Murray Trust (DGMT) HCI Foundation Inqaba Biotechnical Industries (Pty) Ltd National…
EventJoyce Kgoali dies
… The Chairperson of the National Council of Provinces (NCOP), Joyce Kgoali, passed away following … (2004) Kgoali's sudden death 'stress related' , from the…
EventLanga, Uitenhage Massacre: 20 killed by police on Sharpeville Commemoration Day
… 25 years to the day after the infamous Sharpeville Massacre, in which 69 people were … killed, the South African Police opened fire on a crowd of people in…
EventANC founder John Dube’s daughter passed away
… The youngest daughter of the former African National Congress leader John Langalibalele Dube died in Durban at the age of 84 years. Lulu Joan Dube passed…