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ArchiveInterim report of the African National Congress Joint Committee on Reduction of Expenditure
… Report by Moses Kotane on reduction of expenditure in the African National Congress. Recommends the reduction of allowances and reduction in camps…
42. Petition from Indians at the time of Union
… From the book: A Documentary History of Indian South Africans edited by Surendra Bhana and … for the Colonies in London at the time that a closer union of…
EventVorster appoints a Commission of Inquiry
… Prime Minister John Vorster appoints a Commission of Inquiry under chairmanship of Justice H. J. Potgieter of The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court to…
EventAbolition of Internal Security Act
… multiparty negotiating forum agreed to repeal section 29 of the Internal Security Act (ISA), which allowed for detention without trial. This measure had been…
ArchiveKora: A Lost Khoisan Language of the early Cape and the Gariep by Menán du Plessis
… for the tolerance that has come my way from members of the Koranna and Griqua community in Bloemfontein in whose … daughters, Camilla and Aurora. Apart from…
PlaceWits School of Arts (WSOA)
… The Wits School of Arts (WSOA) is ranked as one of the top interdisciplinary school of arts in South Africa according to World Universities … https://www…
PlaceCradle of Humankind, near Johannesburg
… The Cradle of Humankind was declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 1999. It is about 50 km North West of Johannesburg , South Africa in the Gauteng…
EventDeath of Anton Muziwakhe Lembede
… was a teacher, lawyer, politician, and principal architect of Africanism in South Africa, died unexpectedly in Johannesburg at the age of 33. In 1944 Lembede…
ArchiveMessage of goodwill and solidarity
… Message of goodwill and solidarity from His Excellency Dr Kenneth David Kaunda, President of the Republic of Zambia from the chairman of the preparatory…
EventLeague of Nations is formed
… The League of Nations was established after World War I, during the Treaty of Versailles. The intention of this organization was to reduce armament and to…
Draft constitution of the ANC
… Report of the working group under paragraph three of the Pretoria Minute 1. The Working Group was established under paragraph 3 of the Pretoria Minute, which…
EventHundreds of White-owned farms are seized by homeless people and pro-Mugabe war veterans in a violent campaign in Zimbabwe
… for Zimbabwe. There have also been claims that the programme has only benefited Zimbabwe's elite rather than … Hundreds of White-owned farms are seized by…
PlaceBattle of Muizenburg Monument, Muizenburg
… Given the turmoil in Europe and the importance of the Cape sea-route to India the British Government sent a fleet of seven Royal Navy ships under the command…
ArchiveBolt: magazine of the Literary Society, University of Natal, Durban Vol.2 No.1 1971
… Douglas Livingstone. Arthur, or The Man Who Was Afraid of Nothing, Christopher Hope. Photographer’s Twiggy, Peter … City, Fiona Morphet. Gulliver’s Day, Mike…
ArchiveBiography of Moses Mabokela Chikane
… Biography of Moses Mabokela Chikane who was born in 1948 August 14 in area of Groblersdaal first of the family of nine, he was detained under section 28 of ……
EventUniversity of Pretoria is established
… On 10 February 1908 a new department of the Transvaal University College (T.U.C.), situated in … in Skinner Street, Pretoria . This department, consisting…
ArchiveWiehahn Commission: precis of speech
… Precis of speech on the Wiehahn Commission of Inquiry into labour legislation, by Auret van Heerden, President of the National Union of South African…
PlaceDemocratic Republic of the Congo
… Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), country located in central Africa. Officially known as the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the country has a 25…
ArchiveDeportation of NUSAS President Elect
… B to President's address to the 44th Annual Congress of the National Union of South African Students, 30th June to 9th July, 1968. … to NUSAS from Margaret…
ArchiveThe Congress of the people
… Frances Baard and Barbie Schreiner There were such a lot of things happening at that time, and some very good things … a very great thing happened. We…
EventUniversity of Pretoria is established
… in Johannesburg and Pretoria , took the examinations of the Cape University. The Pretoria branch of the Transvaal University College, which started classes…
EventGovernment’s final consolidation of ‘homelands’
… announced its intention to consolidate the total number of separate 'homeland' areas from 113 to 36. The homelands … were officially instituted in the 1950s…
The start of mass campaigns
… and make things how we want them. We started this thing of boycotts and campaigns, fighting to make things right. … used to be sympathy boycotts too. There…
ArchiveSouth Africa: state of terror
… Multicoloured poster with names of political prisoners and artwork of bars of gold, diamonds, coffins, skulls and list of attrocities. … South Africa: state…
ArchiveNo closure of western hospital
… Red, black and white poster. Red artwork of a map of Britain with a white outline of a heart containing words 'National Health Service'. … No closure of…
PlaceHouse of Parliament, Cape Town
… The houses of South African Houses of Parliament are situated in Cape Town even though the seat of government is in Pretoria . This was part of a compromise …
Archive2004 - President Mbeki, State of the Nation Address, 6 February 2004 (Before National Elections)
… State of the Nation Address of the President of South Africa, Thabo … the objectives of the Reconstruction and Development Programme." On the 28th of August,…
ArchiveDraft transcripts Twilight of legality
… From the declaration of a national state of Emergency on June 12 1986 onwards, the UDF found itself in a period of twilight legality. This culminated with…
EventThe siege of Mafeking starts
… During the first week of Anglo-Boer War 2 , Boer forces besieged the small town of Mafeking (now Mafikeng) in the Northern Cape (now North … The town was…
BiographyPaul Weinberg
… lawyer and his mother a music teacher. He was the youngest of three children. He completed his schooling in … science, economic history and law from the…