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EventBritish Airways prohibits smoking on all flights
… prohibited smoking on all flights. Other countries across the world had begun to impose the first restrictions on smoking in public in the 1970s, but … the…
ArchiveEducation as an instrument for liberation.
… This Address to a fund-raising banquet for the South African Students Organization in Durban, June 1973, discusses the traditional role of education, looks…
ArchiveFarm evictions: Democratic Partys policy
… Newspaper article on the Democratic Party's policy regarding farm workers and farm evictions.This was in response to an appeal by the Anglican Bishop of…
PlaceAbeam, Namibia Border Post
… Namibia and South Africa which is located, North-East of Nakop , on the road between Upington and Noenieput. The name has Khoikhoi origins and thought to…
NUSAS Press Digest, Number 4, 1967
… NUSAS Press Digest, number 4, 1967. A compilation of press reports and editorial comments during July, August and September, 1967 on the banning order placed…
EventOosthuizen family disappears down a massive sinkhole in Carletonville
… The Oosthuizen family lived in a mining village called Blyvooruitzicht in Carltonville. Because of the area’s extensive underground mining, it became known…
EventRev Allan Hendrikse and 150 Supporters Swim at a Whites Only Beach in Port Elizabeth.
… Hendrikse, who is known for voicing his disagreement with the government publicly despite being part of P W Botha's cabinet, swimed at a "Whites-only" beach…
ArchiveCommunity Action and Development
… For effective programs that make the Black communities aware of the problems that bedevil it, SASO developed well planned …
PlaceAlbion a Railway Siding in Kwa-Zulu Natal
… Siding, which is a short track parrallel to and joining the main track. 17 km South-West of Carolina on the Route Breyten to Mechadodorp. This coal…
ArchiveCulture Course Drama Workshop May 1990
… A drama workshop held at the University of Natal students were registered for a Cultural Diploma. The academic present was Professor Ari Sitas. The large…
EventCollins Chabane dies in a car crash
… The Minister of Public Services and Adiministration, Collins Chabane, died in a car crash. The fatal crash happened on the N1-26 between Mokopane and…
EventFour ANC members killed in an ambush near Piet Retief, eastern Transvaal
… shot dead when their car was ambushed at Piet Retief on the eastern Transvaal (now Mpumalanga) border. They met Amos whom they believed was an ANC member at…
ANC NWC Media Briefing, 21 June 2010
… Members of the media are invited to the African National Congress (ANC) National Working … Committee (NWC) media briefing, tomorrow, 22 June 2010. The…
EventEzrom Kgobokanyo Sebata Legae is born
… artist, was born in Vrededorp, Johannesburg. He studied at the Polly Street Art Center and Jubilee Art Centre under … Sydney Kumalo. When Kumalo retired in…
EventAfrikaans Writer Breytenbach is sentenced
… to nine years imprisonment for high treason under the Terrorism Act by the Pretoria Supreme Court. He had pleaded guilty for … apartheid in exile and was…
EventFirst Black Test cricket captain in SA is announced
… as South Africa's first Black Test cricket captain to lead the Protea team in Sri Lanka. This announcement was made by … South Africa (CSA) after Graeme…
EventHamilton Naki, a laboratory assistant to cardiac surgeon Christian Barnard, dies
… worked for Robert Goetz, who asked him to assist him in the laboratory instead of gardening. Having started with just assisting with the animals and cleaning…
ArchiveChurches against violence
… Black poster with yellow lettering. Coloured art image of skeleton hanging on cross with quote from bible. Preach and pray about the killings on Good Friday…
EventCecil John Rhodes (48) dies in Muizenberg
… political manipulator, diamond magnate and Premier of the Cape Colony dies aged 48. He arrived in South Africa … 1870 and invested his inheritance from his…
EventOscar Pistorius South African sprint runner is born
… Sprinter, Oscar Leonard Carl Pistorius (also known as the “Blade Runner”) was born on 22 November 1986 in Sandton, … born with fibular hemimelia, which is a…
ArchiveInternational Childrens Day June 1
… silkkscreen blue, yellow, red, green on white; Graphic map of world with pictures of children in continents; text: Ask the children; International Childrens'…
EventLucas Seage is born
… attended Mofolo Arts Centre in Soweto and studied under the veteran artist Sydney Kumalo. He was one of the resistance artists, who saw art as a weapon…
PlaceDutch Reformed Church, 23 Main Street, Jansenville
… The building was designed by architect Carl Otto Hager, whose plans were later revised by AH Reid of Port Elizabeth. The cornerstone was laid on 16 August…
PlaceDe Beers Building, 88 St Georges Street, Simonstown
… owned by Cecil Rhodes. From 1903 to 1921 it was used by the company's successor, the Imperial Cold Storage & Supply Co., who then sold it to the Standard…
EventNigeria imposes sanctions on South Africa, and implements a total trade boycott
… ban all imports from South Africa, and was reportedly in the process of refusing facilities for South African aircraft. However, … Trade sanctions and…
PlaceLittle Chelsea, 18 Windermere Road, Durban
… for L Evans, for use as a shop, dining room and kitchen on the ground floor. From CBD take Filed Street north, becomes … Turn left into Argyle Rd and left…
EventNeil Aggett dies in detention
… Neil Aggett , Transvaal organiser for the Food and Canning Workers Union and African Food and … while in detention by hanging himself with a scarf. He is…
EventUN investigative team visits SA
… South Africa from 9 to 10 June to meet representatives of the Government, political parties and organisations. The delegation aimed to gather factual…
EventSRC president Ngwako Ramalepe dies
… Ngwako Ramalepe, president of the Student Representative Council (SRC) at Modjadji … in police custody after first being assaulted by police at the Kgapane…
EventExpelled ANC leader abandons court action
… he was abandoning a Supreme Court action aimed at forcing the African National Congress (ANC) to reinstate him as a … instead to organise a national…