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EventNew Group Areas Amendment Bill excludes sports
… on 7 March 1982 and enacted on 21 April, maintained the existing commitment to the principle of separate residential areas, schools and amenities for ……
EventPresident Thabo Mbeki congratulates his US counterpart
… W. Bush on his election for a second term as president of the United States, and called for greater world peace. "The government and people of South Africa,…
EventCecil Edwin Frans Skotnes is born in East London, Eastern Cape
… Technical Art School in Johannesburg. Skotnes served in the South African forces in Italy. On his return to South Africa he joined the Polly Street Art…
Rally speech
… Speech delivered by Joe Slovo the General Secretary of the South African Communist Party (SACP) at the Rally in …
ArchiveNotes on meeting between PMC and UDF/COSATU Delegation
… Notes on a meeting between the African National Congress, the United Democratic Front and the Congress of South African Trade Unions, mainly about Inkatha. …
ArchiveLeballo (continued)
… Incomplete handwritten notes by Jack Simons on Leballo and the Pan-Africanist Congress regarding the Organisation of African Unity and the United Front. …
ArchiveEducation for development
… Green, white and black poster. Notice of a Botswana Society Symposium at the National Museum on the 15th to the 19th August. …
ArchiveLP shows its true colours
… The Labour Party has once again shown its true colours by accusing worker leaders of inciting the student boycott in the Uitenhage area. …
EventLillian Ngoyi, well-known anti-Apartheid activist, dies
… Anti-Apartheid activist and founder member of the African National Congress Women’s League (ANCWL), … She was 68 years old. Living as a restricted person…
EventLadysmith Black Mambazo, male choral group, win a Grammy Award
… on 13 February 2005 for their album Wenyukela. A hybrid of the album was released in the United States and went platinum, helping the group win … Department…
EventAhmed Helmy, Egyptian actor, is born
… was impressed by his comic skills. Arafa cast Helmy for the leading role in the comedy film Aboud ala el hedoud in 1999. The role would … wedding ring and…
ArchiveInterview with Peter Donald Hjul
… with Peter Donald Hjul who was a leading figure in the Liberal Party, which existed from 1953 until 1968. Born … where he became involved in producing trade…
Umrabulo Roundtable discussion, 7 March 2016
… The African National Congress will hold an Umrabulo Roundtable discussion today, 07 March 2016. The discussion will focus on the Land Question; progress and …
EventFour men die instantly in car races
… a car swerved to avoid a second, which was spinning on the Odi race track, and ploughed into spectators watching from the sidelines. Three people were…
EventBulelani Vukwani on a shooting spree
… randomly at everyone he came across before returning to the scene of the original murder to shoot dead his girlfriend's father, …
Press statement
… Press statement released after the National Executive Committee of the United Democratic Front held its first meeting for the …
ArchiveStatement by business leaders
… Statement by business leaders regarding the thought that the state had sufficient powers in the vast array of existing draconian security legislation to cope…
ArchiveComments
… Comments by J. H. Nash, Member of the Coloured Persons Representative Council, to the Ciskei Commission on Ciskei Independence and its effects …
Letter from Steve Biko to Thami Mazwai
… Letter written to Thami Mazwai explaining the reason for not wanting to make a press statement regarding the work of the South African Students Organisation…
EventPaul Adams becomes SA’s youngest Test Cricket player
… player, when he featured in his first test debut at the age of 18 years and 340 days. Adams represented South Africa in … Eddie Barlow , world-renowned South…
EventHerero people defeat German Forces
… Okaharui, German West Africa (now Namibia). Herero men in the Okaharui ambushed German forces killing 32 and wounding … against expanding German colonial…
ArchiveArticle in underground leaflet Freedom
… Article in underground leaflet 'Freedom' issued by the South African Communist Party in November 1967 to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Russian…
ArchiveSoweto Students Representative Council
… The circular issued by the Soweto Students' Representative Council calls upon students and parents to resist the take over of community schools with Bantu…
ArchiveBeware state education
… Red, black and white poster. Issued by the Student Moderate Alliance, University of the Witwatersrand. Press release in The Washington Post …
ArchiveNon-Central Government structures in South Africa today
… Paper presented by Penuell M. Maduna for discussion at the African National Congress in-house seminar on … services councils, Bantustans and local government…
EventSmuts refuses call to postpone Anti
… During the South African Indian Congress (SAIC) Conference held in Cape Town, a deputation of sixty Indians called on the prime minister, Field Marshal J.C…
EventBafana Bafana legend Philimon Raul Masinga dies
… North West Province. He is well known for scoring the goal in 1997 match against Congo which secured the South Africa’s World Cup appearance in 1998. The…
Mupia-Mupia Exhibition by Maurice Mbikayi
… Mbikayi draws on this term as a concept working through the metamorphosis of ages, shape, form, power style, human and racial subjectivity through time. The…
PlaceAkasiapark, Residential Area for Civil Servants
… Residential area for civil servants, members of parliament and railway officials, laid out on part of … from 1947 to 1 December 1959, then Acacia Park after…
EventRetief Goosen is born.
… Limpopo province. Goosen, famously known by his nickname "The Goose" became a professional golfer in 1990 and received a world ranking of 22 at that time. He…