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EventMandela discharged from Pretoria hospital
… admitted to Mediclinic heart hospital in Pretoria on the 8th of June 2013 for a recurring lung infection. His condition … health professionals including a…
EventAllan Boesak is born
… Boesak occupied influential positions. In 1982 he became the President of the World Alliance of Reformed Churches, which claimed to …
EventGriffiths Mxenge is buried
… murdered on 19 November, was buried at his home village of Rayi, near King William's Town. More than 15 000 people attended the funeral. He was the husband…
EventTwelve people are killed in Daveyton
… a police officer and two children, were killed in the eastern Rand township of Daveyton, near Benoni. The incident, which was followed by a barrage of…
EventFormer SADF Chief Tienie Groenewald is acquitted
… Force (SADF) Chief Tienie Groenewald was acquitted by the Durban Supreme Court on all charges related to the 1987 KwaMakhutha Massacre. The KwaMakutha attack…
EventSheila Cussons is born
… poet Sheila Cussons was born at Moravia, near Piketberg in the Cape Province. She studied fine arts at the University of Natal, Pietermaritzburg. Cussons…
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…
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…
ArchiveMay Day 1986 COSATU rally Tape I
… COSATU - a giant has risen - the launch of COSATU after 4 years of talks took place in the first week of December 1985. This movement encouraged …
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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…