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PlaceAbbaheigaskop, Northern Cape
… The name in Khoi means 'red hill tree'. This refers to the Pepper Trees, the berries of which give a reddish apperance. Native to dry South …
ArchiveAfrican National Congress Conference Rally Kings Park 7 July 1991
… A rally held by the ANC following one of the greatest political conferences held in South Africa. It …
ArchiveLetter from Moses Mabhida, General Secretary (SACP) to Jack Simons
… from Moses Mabhida to Jack Simons asking him to study the South African Communist Party Programme and suggest changes if necessary. Also suggestion for the…
EventThree ANC members are sentenced to death
… Motaung, were sentenced to death for separate attacks at the Moroka and Orlando Police stations in Soweto and the Wonderboom Police station in Pretoria in…
EventAnnesu de Vos, SA poet, is born.
… Annesu de Vos was born in Johannesburg on the 5 August 1964. She is well-known as the youngest published poet in South African literature … years later her…
EventMandela addresses ANC rally in Durban
… In an effort to promote peace in Natal, the African National Congress (ANC) leader Nelson Mandela … Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) leader and Chief Minister of…
EventAaron Mokoena, SA footballer is born in Boipatong
… He currently plays for Bidvest Wits. Mokoena is the youngest player ever to represent South Africa. He was only 19 when he played in 1999 at the 2000 Olympic…
EventHumphrey Ndlovu, veteran IFP leader dies
… Humphrey Mpumele Ndlovu was born at Emzweni in the Qamu Tribal Authority at Msinga, Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal). He joined the Inkatha Cultural Liberation…
EventSir James Liege Hulett dies in Durban, South Africa
… on 17 May 1838 in South Yorkshire, England. In 1857, at the age of 19, he came to South Africa. Sir Hulett founded Tongaat … On 5 June 1928 Sir James Liege…
Inner-Party Bulletin
… Bulletin produced by the South African Communist Party Central Committee for … only. Issue covers a draft discussion document issued by the Political Bureau…
ArchiveInternational Childrens Day
… White poster with maroon lettering and artwork. Artwork of a brick wall with two children on top and one child with paint tin and brush having painted the…
EventUnFreedom Day
… On the 27th of April 2006 Abahlali BaseMjondolo (AbM) decided to host an … Day” to highlight how there is “no democracy for the poor”[1] and to replace the…
PlaceCeres Road, entrance to Wolseley
… Ceres Road was located at the entrance to Mitchell's Pass, and adjoined the Village of Wolseley. Both were established after the railway line …
EventCiskei is granted ‘independence’
… Ciskei becomes the fourth Black homeland to be granted 'independence' by the South African Government. Chief Lennox Sebe is elected President by the National…
EventEfforts by a pro-sanctions lobbyist group against SA debt rescheduling prove unsuccessful
… lobbyist group in Southern Africa to persuade banks in the United States (US) not to allow debt rescheduling against South Africa were unsuccessful. The…
EventMK soldiers threaten armed struggle
… Having been dismissed from the South African National Defence Force (SANDF) for their … their spokesperson, Salvador Mkhari threatened to resume the armed…
PlaceGrey College Complex, Bloemfontein
… The main Grey College Building was designed by Architect WH … opened in 1907 by Sir Hamilton Gould-Adams, after whom the hall was named. It was declared a…
EventFirst Tramway Company in Cape Town commences operations, with a horse
… Town was announced. Many years later in September 1862, the 'Cape Town and Green Point Tramway Company' was formed, … 1863, with a horse-drawn service…
NUM News
… NUM news, published by the National Union of Mineworkers, reflects the mineworkers struggle for liberation from racial …
ArchiveWork in Progress 73 March/April 1991
… Contains the following articles: Creating mass power: beyond the cannon of Mamelodi, Unity and the Freedom Charter, Power and …
ArchiveWork in Progress 58 March 1989
… Contains the following articles: Creating mass power: beyond the cannon of Mamelodi, Unity and the Freedom Charter, Power and …
EventIan Roberts was born on this day
… The South African actor, playwright and singer was born on this day in Fort Beaufort in the Eastern Cape. It was his character of Boet in a series of…
EventA prison warder is killed in Groote Schuur Hospital
… Schuur Hospital to free a prisoner, apparently a member of a group of cash-in-transit heist robbers that was allegedly led by Given Raymond Peete. The men…
EventLimpet mine explodes and damages substation in Durban
… injured others and two electrical workers who arrived at the scene of the first explosion. Just nine days after this explosion, two … Ance C. (2011), ‘Never…
ArchiveSouth Africa is coming back: our children
… ANC booklet issued during 1979, International Year of the Child. Issues covered include family life under … provision for black children in South Africa and…
ArchiveSPRO-CAS Occasional Publication Number 4: Some implications on inequality
… Report of The Study Project on Christianity in Apartheid Society … include: What is SPRO-CAS?; Introduction; Notes on the papers; Distress in the reserves;…
EventSA artist Ernest Methuen Mancoba is born
… never returned to live in South Africa again, but visited the country after 1994 for his Retrospective exhibition in … in his work but also motivated him to…
ArchiveBolt Number 9 August 1973
… Editorial, Christopher Hope. A Look at the Line, Mongane Wally Serote. Fernando Pessoa: The Man with Four Faces, John Torres. Pretoria 1956 to 1960: ……
PlaceAmanzamnyama, a small size Town in Kwa-Zulu Natal
… An old Mission Station that takes its name from the nearby stream. The name means 'black water', from Zulu. Zimeme High School … elevation Above Sea Level…
ArchiveStaffrider Vol.5 No.3 1983
… Contents and Contributors VOLUMES NUMBER 3,1983, Stories: The Night of the Long Knives by Bheki Maseko; Jericho Again by Ahmed …