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ArchiveInterdenominational Vigil
… White poster with red lettering by the Wynberg Crisis Centre and D.P.S.C. (Athlone). Notice of Vigil for the Wynberg eight. Venue at Dutch Reformed Mission…
ArchiveGreat power conspiracy
… This book examines the relationship between super world powers such as Great Britain, United States of America, France and the Federal Republic of Germany…
ArchiveArt for peace
… White background. Coloured photograph of a small child playing in the sea holding up a grenade. Notice of an exhibition in protest against apartheid…
PlaceBelvedere Avenue 21, Oranjezicht
… This double-storey building was erected shortly after the turn of the 20th century and has a number of fine neo-classical and …
PlaceBree Street 122, Cape Town
… old NMC legislation on 15 July 1977. This house is one of the few remaining Georgian double-storied houses in Cape Town, and is therefore a vital part of the…
EventAnti-apartheid activist Dr. David Webster is assassinated
… David Webster, a social anthropologist at the University of the Witwatersrand and an anti-apartheid activist is shot dead …
ArchiveProtecting prisoners
… Coloured photograph of two men sitting on a bed in jail. One in a white uniform with a red cross on the pocket of the jacket. Words at bottom - interviews…
EventInhabitants flee UNITA occupation
… The National Union for the Independence of Angola (UNITA), formed in 1966 by Jonas … southeastern Kuando Kubango province and Pango-Aluquem in the north…
EventZimbabwe and England draw in a Bulawayo Test Cricket match with England needing one run to win
… Test Cricket match on 22 December 1996. England was the favorites to win the game and came close several times. However, they failed … run to win. They…
Document 6 - Africans’ claims in South Africa
… “on Women's Day we occupied the prison's surgery” During the time of the UDF (United Democratic Front) I was assisting the …
ArchiveA blueprint for education
… The Black People's Convention (BPC) has drawn up a blueprint … and intends to submit it to its national congress at the end of the year for approval before…
ArchiveSymbols at Little Rock
… ON May 17, 1984, the United States Supreme Court handed down a unanimous … segregation in public schools denies equal protection of the laws and so…
March on Washington
… American poster from the National Campaign for Peace in the Middle East. Word January down left hand side. Number 26 in yellow letters over black and white…
ArchiveConstituent Assembly and Interim Government
… Paper prepared by the African National Congress Department of Political Education, on defining a constitution, what kind of constitution the ANC would like…
COSATU calendar
… Multicoloured artwork - detail from a NUMSA painting about the first shop stewards council on the East Rand in 1981, showing the struggle against the…
ArchiveChildren and apartheid
… Black and yellow poster. Artwork of a child with his head down. Notice of a National … Tour on 22nd April to 17 May 1989. Organised by the Bishop Ambrose…
ArchiveRelease Mandela Campaign
… Yellow poster. 1986 Calendar. Dates of interest on left hand side. RMC Logo. Photograph of … with words 'I must return' over his eyes. Text from The Freedom…
ArchiveObstacles to free and fair elections in Namibia
… was implemented on 1 April 1989. A Special Representative of the UN Secretary General and a UN Transition Assistance Group (UNTAG) were responsible for the…
ArchiveHuhudi Youth Organisation
… Red and white, with artwork of a house with the name of the township Pudumong on; and a person standin in front, with …
ArchiveOur rights = our future
… Blue, red and yellow poster. Blue artwork of children dancing across bottom of poster on red … Lettering in yellow. Yellow circle representing the sun with…
Rally to commemorate Joseph Sithole’s funeral
… On 23 September 1984 the apartheid regime banned the funeral of the late Joseph Sithole. Nonetheless, activists in the …
EventBritish troopship wrecked – 372 drown
… The British troopship Arniston was wrecked on the rocks at what is now called Arniston in Marcus Bay, about twenty-five kilometres from Cape Agulhas. Of the…
9 Ships run ashore in Table Bay
… and 208 lives lost in Table Bay during a severe gale at the Cape, proving again that the Cape was quite aptly called 'Cape of Storms' (Cabo das Tormentas) by…
EventInternational Olympic Committee re-admit South Africa
… Following the ban on South Africa by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) prior to the Tokyo … heavily in the international sports arena as a result of…
EventKen Oosterbroek is killed
… Ken Oosterbroek, the Chief Photographer of The Star, was killed in bloody pre-election fighting in …
Taking sides
… This is the pamphlet issued by the Catholic Institute for International Relations in London 1985. It discusses the Catholic Truth Society, its objects and…
EventDetention orders issued to 6 UDF members
… Renewed detention orders were issued to members of the United Democratic Front including its president Archibald Gumede. A month earlier, just before the…
EventMandela pays his first state visit to Mozambique
… After the 1994 national elections, President Nelson Mandela paid … met with his Mozambican counterpart Joaquim Chissano. The meeting resulted in the two…
EventTwenty former SA political prisoners launched a campaign against apartheid laws
… former South African political prisoners, in defiance of the restriction orders the regime imposed on them after their release, launched a … O’Malley P. …
EventFierce fighting erupts between pro-Patrice Lumumba troops and UN forces
… Lumumba troops and United Nations (UN) forces in Congo. The fight came almost a year after parliamentary elections in May 1960, where the National Congolese…