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Fosatu Worker News
… Fosatu Worker News was first published in 1979 with the formation of the Federation of South African Trade Unions and was …
EventPretoria High Court Judge, Nkola Motata, is arrested
… High Court Judge Nkola Motata drove through garden wall of a house north of Johannesburg. He was found to be drunk by police and is said to have resisted…
ArticleAbout South African History Online (SAHO)
… in 2000) South African History Online (SAHO) is the largest and most comprehensive online resource on South … a trusted resource for schools, universities,…
EventSipho Gumede, South African jazz legend, dies
… Born in the predominantly Indian community of Cato Manor near Durban, Sipho Gumede started playing music on a homemade guitar. He joined his first band at…
Answers to questions by Drum: Albert Luthuli, 6 May 1961
… Demonstrations against Proclamation of Republic 6 May 1961 [Drum asked several non-European … leaders for answers to three questions concerning the planned…
EventBafana Bafana loses to Germany
… South African soccer team Bafana Bafana played against the German national soccer team in an international friendly match, in Dusseldorf in Germany. The game…
EventMass arrests in Pondoland
… Justice Minister Francios Christiaan Erasmus informed the National Assembly that 4 769 Africans, 2 Europeans and 2 others had been taken into custody during…
EventEdgar Wallace (56), author and newspaper editor in South Africa, dies in Hollywood.
… gave him up for adoption when he was nine years old. At the age of 12, Wallace left school and held several menial jobs. He later joined the army and was…
ArchivePosition paper: Action on education
… Position paper presented at the 56th Annual Congress of the National Union of South African Students, held at the …
EventBram Fischer is sentenced to life imprisonment
… Bram Fischer, the former political activist was arrested in 1964 for being a member of the illegal organisation Communist Party of South Africa …
EventNdaweni Mahlangu causes a storm in political circles
… premier, Ndaweni Mahlangu, who replaced Matthews Phosa as the province's second premier, caused a storm within … to lie". Mahlangu was trying to defend his…
ArchiveRenewed fighting in April
… On April 1 1989, the start of the implementation of Resolution 435, clashes between Swapo guerillas and South …
EventMuhammad Ali knocks out George Foreman to regain his world heavyweight title
… The historic boxing match between Muhammad Ali and George Foreman in Kinshasa, Zaire (now Democratic Republic of Congo) took place on 30 October 1974. Ali…
EventBomb explodes at Johannesburg synagogue
… A limpet mine exploded outside the Temple of Israel synagogue in central Johannesburg, the mother 'shul' of the Johannesburg Jewish Reform … Southern African…
EventBartolomeu Dias enters Luderitz Bay
… Portuguese seafarer Bartolomeu Dias enters the wide bay now known as Luderitz Bay after sailing for three weeks along the arid Namibia coast of south west…
EventTrade union federation, COSATU, celebrates its 26th anniversary
… The Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU), a federation of various labour unions, was established on 2 December 1985 in Durban. It is among the…
PlaceDurban Main Post Office
… which was designed by Phillip Dudgeon in 1882. It was the first meeting place of the South African National Convention, which took place in a …
National spokesperson to address a lecture on OR Tambo
… This month, October 2014, the African National Congress pays homage to our late former … Comrade Oliver Reginald Tambo. As part of the month long programme,…
SAHO Commemorates 40 Years Since Soweto Uprising: Intergenerational Dialogue by Thembinkosi Khumalo
… Thembinkosi Khumalo is a student activist at the University of Pretoria. He is an active PASMA member. PASMA is a student … like to fully, with no restraint…
PlaceBloemfontein Zoo
… Established in 1920, the Bloemfontein Zoo is well known for its collection of primates and is the home of the 'Big Five.' The Zoo pioneered the breeding of …
Not in My Neighbourhood Documentary
… As cities around the world catapult themselves into ‘World Class’, Global City … what cost”? " Not in My Neighbourhood Documentary " gives the account of…
EventSouth Sudan votes in Referendum on Independence
… as early as 1954 were brought to a regional referendum. The referendum, constitutionally supported by the 2009 Southern Sudan Referendum Act, had a 60% turn…
EventWinnie Mandela at Johannesburg Magistrate’s court
… On this day Nelson Mandela was charged for leaving the country illegally and inciting a strike. This was after … a future in which her husband’s arrest was…
EventJohn Koenakeefe Mohl, SA artist is born
… Koenakeefe Mohl, South African artist and founding member of Artists Under The Sun, was born at Dinokana village in Lehurutshe, Western … Mafikeng, where his…
EventEgypt Establishes Diplomatic Relations With Israel
… Israel and Egypt, under the leadership of Anwar al Sadat, re-establish diplomatic relations. The move is resented by other Arab nations. Egypt's military …
PlaceDutch Reformed Church, Rustenberg
… Construction of this church started in 1898 and completion of the building were delayed by the outbreak of the Anglo Boer War . During the war it was …
PlaceJubilee Art Centre
… The Jubilee Art Centre in central Johannesburg joined these alternative art education centres in the 1970s but was forced to relocate to the Mofolo Art…
EventNatal Law society apologises to Gandhi
… The Natal Law Society has apologised posthumously to passive … Gandhi, 105 years after a racist decision barred the young lawyer from practising. In 1894…
ArchiveRace, culture and personality
… The fifteenth Heornle Memorial Lecture delivered by Dr. Simon Biesheuvel who was concerned with the social and political importance of race problems and more…
Stay-away!
… From the book: My Spirit Is Not Banned by Frances Baard and … In 1950 there was a big protest against this law called the Suppression of Communism, which…