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ArchiveBefore Dawn Culture in Another South Africa (CASA)
… 1987 AND WAS ATTENDED BY 300 SOUTH AFRICAN ARTISTS, OF WHOM 120 CAME DIRECTLY FROM SOUTH AFRICAN AND 180 AS EXILES FROM THE REST OF THE WORLD 'BEFORE DAWN'…
ArchiveIn Humble Submission To Almight God...
… A2 Black on white, litho; photo union buildings and collage of newspaper clippings on state of emergency; Text: In humble submission to Almightly God…
EventAllan Boesak is born
… Boesak occupied influential positions. In 1982 he became the President of the World Alliance of Reformed Churches, which claimed to …
PlaceAustin Roberts Bird Sanctuary, New Muckleneuk, Pretoria
… This unique sanctuary is the residence of more than 170 different species and provides a protective … place and breeding ground for thousands of birds within…
EventSouth African tenor opera singer, Siphiwo Ntshebe dies
… opera singer, whose career ended abruptly when he died of meningitis on 25 May 2010. Ntshebe was only 35 and was only days away from what would have been one…
EventUN spokesman comments on Mugabe’s eviction campaign
… Kothari, a United Nations (UN) housing expert, said most of those displaced by President Robert Mugabe's May 2005 … he called a "shocking" lack of pressure…
PlaceBo-tuin, Hof Street, Gardens.
… The property was originally part of the Leeuwenhof Estate and was developed in about 1820 by Johannes Zorn. It consisted of a gabled House which, together…
EventFirst Nobel prizes are awarded
… Swedish chemist and inventor of dynamite, Alfred B. Nobel, established the Nobel Prizes in his will. This bequeathment allegedly shocked his relatives and…
South African Labour Bulletin Volume 10 Number 5 March 1985
… Labour Bulletin is a refereed journal which supports the democratic labour movement in South Africa. It is a forum for analysing, debating and recording the…
South African Labour Bulletin Volume 6 Number 6 March 1981
… Labour Bulletin is a refereed journal which supports the democratic labour movement in South Africa. It is a forum for analysing, debating and recording the…
EventNelson Mandela meets F.W. de Klerk
… Prisoner Nelson Mandela had the first of three meetings with the State President F.W. de Klerk to discuss the future of …
ArchiveWorker Sunday
… Yellow poster with black and white lettering. Issued by The Labour Programme, Diakonia. Small black artwork images around the poster. Red artwork of a head…
ArchiveSouth African Labour Bulletin Volume 7 Number 8 July 1982
… Labour Bulletin is a refereed journal which supports the democratic labour movement in South Africa. It is a forum for analysing, debating and recording the…
ArchiveAfrica South Vol.3 No.2 Jan-Mar 1959
… Contents: Dr. Hedrick Frensch Verwoerd, Prime Minister of South Africa, Stanley Uys with illustrations by David … Edward Roux. Satyagrapha in South Africa,…
EventSA author Hymne Weiss is born
… South African author and translator of books into Afrikaans from six European languages, Hymne Weiss, was born on the farm Goedemoed, Rouxville district,…
ArchiveStatements on Black Consciousness and human rights
… The Southern African Catholic Bishops, in their Plenary Session of 4 February 1974, recommended that these pamphlets be … reconciliation, between God and man…
ArchiveInterview with John Daniel
… in Mbabane, with John Daniel, a student leader at the University of Natal who twice served as president of the National Union of South African Students (1966…
ArchiveToys are for cuddling not for killing
… Black poster with white lettering. Two artworks of children receiving toys at Christmas - one with a teddy … words "would you buy your child a war toy to…
EventUN Special Committee releases its report
… The United Nations Special Committee on Apartheid, which was set up by the General Assembly under resolution 1761 (XVll), released … to monitor and promote a…
EventNational Party adopts five year programme
… With the winds of change blowing in South Africa, the ruling National Party (NP) adopted a five year programme of its objectives which included a political …
EventCosatu offices in Durban under attack
… Fighting between Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) and the United Democratic Front (UDF) supporters spilled into central Pietermaritzburg when the Congress of…
EventUN Tribunal on Rwanda sentences Jean Kambanda
… The United Nations Tribunal on Rwanda, which was held in … verdict on former Rwanda Prime Minister Jean Kambanda. The tribunal panel was comprised of three…
EventLord Milner leaves England to return to SA
… Lord Alfred Milner, the British High Commissioner who played a prominent role in causing the South African War returned to South Africa to become … South…
PlaceGovernment Buildings, President Brand Street, Bloemfontein
… The government building complex was completed in 1877 … Chamber was already in use on 31 May 1875. In 1895 the upper storey was completed and in 1902 the…
EventSeretse Khama is born
… Sir Seretse Khama was born on 1 July 1921 in Serowe in the British Protectorate of Bechuanaland, now known as Botswana. He studied in South … with a…
EventPeter Clarence van Riet Lowe, archaeologist and civil engineer who built 109 bridges in SA, is born in Aliwal North, CC.
… A civil engineer by profession, Clarence was in charge of construction of over a hundred bridges in South Africa. It was during the construction of the…
EventWendy Botha, South Africa’s world champion surfer is born
… in East London on 28 August 1965.[i] She began surfing at the age of 13, and won four consecutive South African National … and 1984.[ii] Botha became a…
ArchivePaper on National Civic Movement delivered at UDF National General Conference held in 1 to 3 March 1991
… Conference held in 1 to 3 March 1991. It deals with the role of UDF in building the Civic Movement, role of Civic Movement in transition …
ArchiveMkhumbane our home African shantytown society in Cato Manor Farm, 1946-1960 by Iain Edwards
… This study is concerned with all the material structures of everyday life and the nature of power in the African shacklands of Cato Manor …
Bonn - Pretoria Axis
… On December 16th, 1965 (the then Dingane's Day), Pieter Botha, as Defence Minister in the South African White minority government, announced loudly ……