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EventA strike by White mineworkers turns into open rebellion
… police stations, railway installations and mines on the Witwatersrand. They also attacked Johannesburg's main … that, in a few hours, turned into open…
EventXhosa Chief Sandile is killed
… Xhosa Chief Sandile, born in the Ciskei in 1820, was killed in Denge Forest in a skirmish with the Fingos under Captain J. Lonsdale. Sandile was a son from…
ArchiveInterview with Ntsizi Elijah Moremi
… with Ntsizi Elijah Moremi who was a refugee in Kenya in the late 1970s. An adherent of the black consciousness movement, he became involved in …
EventTravelling in a cab no longer in fashion
… The Star reported that travelling in a cab was falling out of favour. This trend was attributed to the changing socio-economic conditions in Johannesburg and…
EventUN committee is barred to enter SA
… A United Nations (UN) committee consisting of eight, with instructions to investigate conditions in the Mandated Territory of South Africa, was refused ……
ArchiveHead Office report to NUSAS Congress 1981
… Report from the head office of the National Union of South African Students, presented at its 59th Annual …
ArchiveBlack Community Programmes Limited: Projects and people
… A pamphlet containing photographs from projects of the Black Community Programmes.The goals of the Black Community Programmes are to help the …
ArchiveCome to CAPs open day
… Background in shades of pink, text in yellow; with artwork of the solar syatem and fireworks with the name of the various events on it. A notice of the open …
Appendix I: Correspondence Between Mahatma Gandhi And Dr. Yusuf M. Dadoo
… [Note: Most of this correspondence is from the Pyarelal papers at the National Archives of India, New Delhi - a large part of …
EventChoirmaster, educator and singer Mary Eveline Fincken is born
… Mary Eveline Fincken , also known as choirmaster, teacher of singing and educationist was born in Hoyland, Yorkshire, … Africa in 1908 for health reasons…
PlacePrince Edward Islands
… The sub-Antarctic Prince Edward Island Group consists of; Marion Island (19km long 12 km wide) and Prince Edward … of Cape Town and are politically part of…
PlaceKoedoespoort Aerodrome, Pretoria
… This site is now part of the experimental farm of the University of Pretoria. On 17 March 1920 it was the first …
Educationist Martha Helena Cillié dies
… whose greatest achievement was her contribution to the education of girls and to teacher training over a period of more than … years, died in Somerset West…
EventANC leader Wilton Mkwayi born
… , trade unionist, treason trialist and acting leader of Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK) was born in Middledrift in the Transkei . He was the eldest child in a family…
EventGhana is declared a republic
… Ghana became the first sub-Saharan country in colonial Africa to gain its … as its first President. Though it was declared a republic, the country remained…
EventAuthor and playwright Ronald Harwood is born in Cape Town
… career on stage. In London, he received stage training at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. He changed his name to Harwood under the advice of an English…
EventChris Katongo, Zambian football player, is born
… Jomo Cosmos Football Club in 2004. In 2007 he moved to the Danish side, Brondby. He later moved to several clubs, including the German club ArminiaBielefeld…
EventAnsuyah Ratipul Singh, medical doctor and community worker, poet, dramatist and novelist, is born in Durban.
… to London where she completed her degree in Medicine at the University of Edinburgh in 1944. In 1946, Dr Singh returned to South Africa and become involved…
EventGifted writer and actor William Modisane is born
… Themba's short story Requiem for Sophiatown (destroyed in the late 1950s). Blame Me on History was an examination of what apartheid did to the character and…
ArchiveDiscussions between South African and United States delegations: Washington, 17-19 March 1983
… Minutes of a meeting between delegates representating South African and the United State of America, to discuss international relations between the Soviet…
ArchiveJustice for Tunay campaign
… Black, red and white poster. Photograph of Tunay Hassan. Died in the custody of the Dalston Police, United Kingdom. Picture of the police …
ArchiveWe are here because you were there ... without us there is no Britain.
… Yellow, brown, black and white poster. Map of ancient world. Ancient civilisations. History of how the Spanish destroyed the Aztecs, the Incas and the Mayas…
A Working Life, Cruel Beyond Belief by Alfred Temba Qabula
… His father. a migrant worker, ‘coughed out’ the harshness of his life onto his children. He died after his drink was … his brothers. Barely 18 years old,…
PlaceHout Bay Museum
… The Hout Bay Museum is situated right next to the Hout Bay Tourist Office just off Main Road behind the … cottage style museum is a hidden treasure with…
EventGerard Bhengu SA artist, is born in Natal
… African artist Gerard Bhengu was born at an outstation of Mariannhill Mission Station at Centecow, Bulwer district … wide attention from a largely white…
An interview with Dorothy Molefi: Hector was ‘always smiling’
… unique is that her child became an international icon of South Africa's struggle for freedom. Her child was Hector Pieterson. As a 12-year-old victim of the…
EventElizabeth Taylor remarries Richard Burton in Botswana
… were both married to other people when they first met. The marriage proceedings were conducted by African district … Ambrose Masalila, and witnessed by two…
13. Wife lays bigamy charge
… From the book: A Documentary History of Indian South Africans edited by Surendra Bhana and … charged her husband, Seeniwasa Padayachi with bigamy. The…
ArchiveSearch warrant
… Search warrant to search the United Democratic Front premises and to seize articles … minutes, correspondence, video-cassettes, related to the activities of…
EventA curfew is lifted in Venda
… A curfew, which was imposed in the independent Venda homeland as a result of the deposition of the unpopular Frank Ravhele regime, was … Keesing's Record of…