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EventSipho Malaza allegedly dies in detention
… years ago while in Security Police custody. His death was the twenty-first in detention since March 1976. An entry in … (18) and states that he committed…
EventM.K. Gandhi is forcibly removed from a whites-only train carriage
… On 7 June 1893, M.K Gandhi , later known as "The Mahatma" or "Great Soul" was forcibly removed from a … was practising as a young Indian lawyer in South…
EventMoroccan explorer, Ibn Battuta is born
… was born into a Muslim family in Tangier, Morocco. At the age of 21 Battuta set out on a pilgrimage to Mecca. The trip would take him to several places…
Document 26 - Letter from Patrick Duncan to John Gomas, 3 October 1956
… from Patrick Duncan to John Gomas, 3 October 1956 In the train Patrick Duncan 3 October 1956 Dear Sir, I very much appreciate your sending me a copy of yr…
Document 12 - Letter from T. W. Thibedi19 to E. R. Roux 20, 27 January 1927
… Lensfield Road Cambridge England Dear Comrade Your letter of the 5th January has been received last night unexpectently. … you do not write to us we native…
6. Tonight, have your door open
… From the book: A Documentary History of Indian South Africans edited by Surendra Bhana and … Goolam Khader states that on or about 9 months ago the young…
EventStanley Bongani Nkosi, SA artist, is born in Newcastle, Natal
… years old his family moved to Dukathole near Germiston in the Transvaal (now Gauteng). He attended school in Germiston … privately with Cecil Skotnes and…
PlacePublic Library, Port Elizabeth
… The building was designed Henry Cheers, an Architect from Twickenham. The Library was officially opened on 29 July 1902. It was … built in the late Victorian…
EventApartheid bomb kills Zimbabwean and injures six ANC members
… African National Congress (ANC) members were injured when the truck in which Mwanza was a driver detonated outside an … agents located in Zimbabwe . Philip…
ArticleHow to undertake research?
… educators, researchers, and independent web users with the tools they need to investigate the past and shape the future. This guide introduces a … to…
ArchiveOpen letter to Perkine
… Open letter to Perkine regarding the fact that the struggle of the peoples of South Africa against apartheid …
ArchiveProposals for a National Front
… Memorandum from the African National Congress Constitutional Committee … forward proposals for a National Front. Concerned with the question of how to ensure…
EventColoured Labour Party strengthened its stance against apartheid
… The Coloured Labour Party strengthened its position by forging an alliance with six members of the Coloured Persons Representative Council (CPRC). Unity …
EventMoses Mabhida receives awards
… politician and Umkhonto we Sizwe commander, was awarded the Soviet Order of the People and the Order of the People's Republic of Bulgaria … Verwey, E.J. (ed)…
EventMahamane Ousmane is overthrown
… toppled in a military coup d'etat and put under arrest in the presidential palace. Coup leader Col Barre Mainassara Ibrahim issued a statement on the state…
PlaceCarlisle Bridge, Eastern Cape
… Carlisle Bridge is a District of Farmsteads and is known as Carlislebrug. It is located in the Cacadu Municipality in the Eastern Cape!. The original bridge…
PlaceAmsterdam, Mkhondo Local Municipality
… Town some 77 km East of Ermelo. It formed part of the Scottish Settlement … proclaimed a Town in June 1881. At first called Roburnia, the name was changed on…
EventWayne Ferreira was born on this day
… his tennis partner, Pietie Norval won a silver medal in the men’s tennis doubles at the Barcelona Olympic Games of 1992.[ii] Wayne reached his best career…
EventChristian Institute declared an affected organisation
… The Minister of Justice, James Thomas (Jimmy) Kruger, declared the Christian Institute to be an affected organisation under the Affected Organisation's Act…
ArchiveChristopher Pruter and memorial cup soccer tournament: remember June 16
… Red and white; with artwork of a footballers' leg. Notice of a soccer tournament, organised by the Cape Youth Congress - Bonteheuwel. Artwork at the bottom…
EventSA artist, Daniel Sefundi Rakgoathe is born
… (D an) Sefundi Rakgoathe was born in Randfontein in the then Transvaal province. Rakgoathe went on to be the first full-time student in the fine arts…
EventWorld Leprosy Day is celebrated in SA
… Hundreds of representatives from leprosy non-governmental … in South Africa from 30 January to 3 February for the African Leprosy Congress. The convention…
EventControversial Catholic Archbishop Milingo agrees to renounce marriage
… Roman Catholic Archbishop Emmanuel Milingo of Zambia married Maria Sung on 27 May in a ceremony performed by the Unification Church Revered Sun Myung Moon…
EventDr. Jan Bouws, Dutch composer, is born
… born in Purmerend, Holland. He trained in Musicology at the University of Amsterdam and on completion of his studies became a lecturer at the…
ArchiveMoral decay and social reconstruction: Richard Turner and radical reform by Eddie Webster
… This Richard Turner Memorial Lecture was delivered at the University of Natal, Durban on 25 March 1993. The lecture formed part of a long term project on the…
ArchiveLetter from Paul Pretorius, President, NUSAS, to Overseas National Unions and others
… General circular letter giving information about the attack by the South African Police on a group of students who were protesting on the steps of St George…
ArchiveOffensiewe optrede teen SWAPO
… Memorandum sent from General Magnus Malan, Chief of the South African Defence Force, to the Chairman of the State Security Council (SSC), with regard …
EventNational Party wins national elections
… Barry Munnik (JBM) Hertzog's National Party (NP) wins the South African general election with an outright majority. Race plays a critical role for the first…
EventBlack People Convention is formed
… Twelve years after the banning of the African National Congress (ANC) and Pan Africanist … groups and associations under one umbrella. Because of its racial…
EventAmanzimtoti blast kills five
… were killed and forty injured in a bomb explosion in the Sanlam shopping centre in Amanzimtoti , Natal South … we Siswe (MK) cadre Andrew Sibusiso Zondo,…