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ArchiveTactics and planning - responding to political reality
… Paper presented at the 57th Annual Congress of the National Union of South African Students, Durban, …
South African Labour Bulletin
… Large outline in red of profile of a man's head and shoulders holding open book. … Various black and white images of people working around the head. Title in…
EventSmiso Zwane, South African hip hop artist is born
… Smiso Zwane, stage name Okmalumkoolkat was born in the Umlazi township of Durban on 27 July 1985. [i] Along ZamaniXolo stage name DoktaSpiZee, two forms the…
ArchiveSouth African Students Organisation: histori
… The document traces the early history leading to the formation of the South African Students Organisation (SASO). An …
EventWalter Battiss is born in Somerset East
… East to an English Methodist family in 1906. He became one of South Africa's first and most important abstract painters. … since childhood. His formal art…
EventProfessor Roland Levinsky, world leading researcher in biomedicine dies
… Professor Roland Levinsky, of the University of Plymouth, was born in South Africa to a … Jewish father on 16 October 1943. His father was born in the…
Document 30 - Letter from S. P. Bunting fo E. R. Roux, 9 January 1929
… a letter [from] CG, who might be [-] for a reply instead of the procedure below, do which you like, I shall [-]. … splendid country delegates). We agreed on…
Place'Amstel River', Now Known as Liesbeek River
… Name applied from 1657 to the Liesbeek River, in Cape Town. Named after a small River in the Netherlands. The first 'free burghers' of the Dutch East India…
Letter from Paul Pretorius, President, NUSAS, to SRC Presidents and others
… Circular letter from Paul Pretorius, President of the National Union of South African Students with … of South African Students and its reassesmente,…
PlaceRust-en-Vrede, Wellington Road, Durbanville
… Construction of this complex dates from the mid 19th Century and reflects … Residences. More recently in 1978 it was acquired by the Durbanville Municipality…
EventSouth African pop queen, Brenda Fassie, is born
… in Langa, a township near Cape Town. She was named after the American country singer Brenda Lee. The daughter of a pianist, Brenda began singing to her…
EventJan Volschenk, a well-known South African painter, dies
… Jan Volschenk, a prominent South African painter, died at the age of 83. He passed away in the town of Riversdale in the Cape Province, where he was ……
EventSA poet Sydney Vernon Peterson dies
… Sydney Vernon Petersen, one of the prominent South African poets and educationist of the 1940s, died in Germiston. His poetry was translated into ……
Liberation
… Liberation was founded in Johannesburg as a magazine of quality, focusing on issues of concern to Blacks and … " a journal of democratic discussion", and was…
ArchiveStaffrider Vol.2 No.3 Jul-Aug 1979
… Funda Ntuli, Seth 'n Sam by Peter Wilhelm, Three Days in the Land of a Dying Illusion by Mtutuzeli Matshoba. The Road is Much Longer by Johnny Rogers. Poems:…
EventSierra Leone gains independence from Britain
… West African state Sierra Leone fronts onto the Atlantic Ocean, and is flanked by Liberia and Guinea. The very earliest inhabitants of Sierra Leone were…
ArchiveDaai geld, daai geld, daai baie geld!
… Pamphlet produced by the African National Congress for the 1994 elections. Title translated into English reads, That Money, that money, that large amount of…
EventJames La Guma dies
… La Guma, trade unionist and political activist, member of the South African Communist Party (SACP) and president of the South African Coloured People's…
ArchiveJune 16: 10 fighting years
… Transvaal Student Congress (TRASCO) logo on left and image of Hector Pieterson in the arms of a fellow student on the right. Features list of demands. "Unban…
PlaceAasvoelkop a Hill on which Northcliff Water Tower Stands, Johannesburg
… Northcliff water tower is situated, some 10 km North-West of Johannesburg. Originates from Dutch, 'vulture hill', this name arouse from before the railway…
EventJudas Mahlangu, South African graphic artist, is born
… a South African graphic artist, was born in Brakpan, on the East Rand (now Gauteng). In 1982 Mahlangu started working at the South African Broadcasting…
EventArtist and boxer Ephraim Ngatane dies
… (Kid) Ngatane, painter, musician, teacher and boxer, died of tuberculosis at the Barangwanath Hospital, Soweto. Ngatane used water colours … musician he…
ArchiveStaffrider Vol.4 No.3 Nov 1981
… by Mongane Serote; Mineworking by Gregg Latter; During the Trial by Steve Jacobs; Go Home Simpasa by Sy Moya; Have … A Gift For Rajendra by Jayapraga Reddy. …
EventUgandan President Idi Amin releases political prisoners
… by Obote’s government. He wasted no time announcing names of 17 new cabinet Ministers. Amin overthrew his long time … threat to his administration. In 1972…
EventBurundi gains independence from Belgium
… Burundi, a country located east of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) gained its … German East Africa, Burundi gained its independence under the…
EventMaluzi Gigaba is born
… South Africa's youngest cabinet member and deputy minister of home affairs, Malusi Knowledge Nkanyedzi Gigaba, was born … appointed deputy minister by…
EventSouth African artist, Maggie Laubser, is born
… Maggie Laubser was born on Bloublommetjieskloof farm in the district of Malmesbury, Cape Colony. Laubser went on to become on of … a distinctive pastoral…
EventRabbi Israel Abrahams is born
… Chief Rabbi of Cape Town and Hebrew scholar Israel Abrahams was born in … Vilna, Lithuania. He came to South Africa in 1937 and held the position of chief…
Event30 000 Blacks fight for Britain in Anglo-Boer War
… David Lloyd George stated in the British House of Commons that as many as 30 000 armed Blacks were at that stage employed in the British army during the…
ArchiveReport
… Report from the Western Province African National Congress underground. Covers ANC work in the Western Province, youth, women, the Labour Relations Act ……