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ArchiveInterview with Tsietsi Mashinini
… interview, in New York City, with Tsietsi Mashinini, on the aftermath and reporting of the Soweto riots, international relations and the role of the …
ArchiveResearch report
… Research report on the study conducted to describe and analyse the effects of labour migration on marriage and family life. The …
PlaceMLR-cannon, Middle North Battery, Simonstown
… The gun was designed in 1865 as a broadside gun for ironclad ships and harbour seafront defence. A total of 190 were made. The gun was last fired in 1903…
EventControversial ‘Black Jesus’ painter, Ronald Harrison, dies
… National Congress (ANC) leader, Albert Luthuli as Jesus. The painting, named Black Christ, depicts Luthuli crucified on the cross next to apartheid…
EventJustice Minister, Jimmy Kruger, announces mass arrest
… The Minister of Justice, Jimmy Kruger, made an announcement to the effect that 697 were being held for various security reasons. The breakdown of the total…
EventMaritime headquarters at Silvermine is opened
… Prime Minister B.J. Vorster officially opened the South African Navy's R15m Maritime Operational and … at Silvermine, West Lake, near Simonstown, Cape…
EventEllen Khuzwayo is born
… Dr Nnoseng Ellen Kate Khuzwayo, ANC member of parliament and noted writer of Call me Woman (winner of … languages) and other books, was born in Thaba-Nchu in…
ArchiveInterview with Potlako Kitchener Leballo
… in Nairoi, with P. K. Leballo (1924-1986) a leader in the Africanist movement and later in the Pan Africanist Congress, serving as its secretary general ……
EventEsther Franks, physician and first woman ophthalmic surgeon to practise in SA, is born in Zurich
… came to SA shortly after her birth. She was a pioneer in the fight against blindness. In 1971 she was adjudged Woman of the Year by the readers of The Star…
EventNigerian President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua is inaugurated
… President Musa Yar’Adua was inaugurated as President of Nigeria, after the April 2007 elections. President Thabo Mbeki visited Nigeria for the inauguration…
EventWomen Draw up a Petition against Pass Laws
… Black women in what was then the Orange Free State protested when they were included in … Pass legislation previously reserved for African men only. The…
PlaceOld Municipal Offices, Berlandina Street, Roodepoort
… The building was designed by Charles Hosking and was completed in 1906 as the first permanent offices for the new Roodepoort-Maraisburg … It was extended in…
EventEnoch Mgijima dies
… Enoch Mgijima (Mgizima), Fingo prophet of the Israelites sect in the Eastern Cape, died in Ntabelanga, Queenstown. His … Potgieter, D.J. et al. (eds)(1970)…
EventPrince Eugene Napoleon is killed during Anglo-Zulu War
… The 22-year-old Prince Imperial of France, Eugene Louis Jean Joseph Napoleon, who studied in England at the Royal Military Academy and joined the British…
ArchiveA bill
… A bill to amend the comprehensive Anti-Apartheid Act of 1986 to prohibit United States depository institutions … of South Africa, and other purposes as it be…
ArchiveNational Conference, 1983: resolutions adopted
… This is the pamphlet containing resolutions of the National Conference held in 1983 of the South African …
ArchiveSASO: Executive and Staff
… The circular contains a list of names of the Executive members and staff of SASO for the years 1974 …
EventMac Maharaj, Laloo Chiba, Raymond Nyanda and Andrew Masondo arrive on Robben Island prison
… On 5 January 1965, members of the African National Congress (ANC) Mac Maharaj, Laloo … and Walter Sisulu among others were being kept after the Rivonia Trial…
EventNewspaper editor John Tengo Jabavu dies
… John Tengo Jabavu, the founder of the first Black-language newspaper, Imvo Zabantsundu … Don Jabavu, the first Black professor at the University of Fort Hare…
EventSuspect in US embassies bomb blasts denies charges
… The 26-year-old Tanzanian, Khalfan Khamis Mohamed, a prime suspect in the bombing of two United States of American embassies in Nairobi, Kenya, …
EventPrime Minister B.J Vorster supports changes to Black labour
… that there was nothing to prevent employers taking the necessary steps to bring about improvements in the productive use of Black labour. The government…
EventFormer NP member Roelf Meyer is born
… former politician and National Party (NP) negotiator at the Convention for a Democratic South Africa (CODESA) is born. Together with Cyril Ramaphosa, Roelf…
EventBhawani Sannyassi Dayal dies
… Indian rights in SA, died in Ajmer, India. Dayal was one of the organisers of the Indian strike led by Mohandas Gandhi at Newcastle in …
EventPaul Michael Sibisi, SA artist and teacher involved in setting up cultural art workshops in Natal, is born.
… Durban on 23 September 1948. He studied art at the Ndaleni Educational Training School under Lorna Peirson . After completing his studies, he went on to…
EventJohn Vorster says SA will welcome Maoris
… Africa would welcome Maoris in New Zealand rugby teams. The presence of Maoris, a non-White indigenous New Zealand population, was … of racial segregation in…
EventLéopold Sédar Senghor resigns after twenty years as Senegalese president.
… Senghor was a poet and writer who later became president of Senegal. He was educated in Paris where he got acquainted … in Paris and earned his citizenship…
EventSouth African boxers,Zolile Mbityi and Peter Malinga both win world titles
… world titles. Mbityi, South African (SA) flyweight, won the International Boxing Organisation (IBO) flyweight title, while Peter Malinga, SA welterweight,…
EventGeneral Koos de la Rey, buried in Lichtenburg amid a very tense atmosphere.
… de la Rey, known as Koos de la Rey, a Boer general during the Second Anglo-Boer War who is widely regarded as being one of the strongest military leaders…
ArchiveAPDUSA Bulletin 4: Dont vote! its not a crime
… This pamphlet wishes to clear some fears and anxieties of those members with regards to the consequences of them not casting a vote or registration to vote…
EventEschel Rhoodie’s assets frozen
… The South African government froze the South African assets of the former Information Secretary, …