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Sue Williamson Book Launch
Join us for the launch of the catalogue accompanying Sue Williamson’s retrospective exhibition, ‘There’s something I must tell you’.The exhibition is on view…
PlaceEldorado Park, a Township of Johannesburg/Soweto
… an Area for the exclusive settlement of the Coloured South Africans, under the Group Areas Act . It became part of … an Area for the exclusive settlement of…
EventA 13-year-old Welsh school-girl’s letter reaches the wrong hands
A 13 year old Welsh schoolgirl, Lucille Sticker, from Waterhall Secondary School in Cardiff wrote a goodwill message and hoped that her letter would be…
EventWhite entrepreneurs to be given contracts in the 'homelands'
Prime Minister B J Vorster announces that White entrepreneurs will be given long-standing contracts in the 'homelands' to speed up economic development. This…
George Bizos: Interview with Rupert Taylor and Aubrey Lekwane, 16 February 1998, Legal Resources Centre, Johannesburg
… word ‘liberal’ to the policies of a small group of South Africans. Taylor: And your view of Communism? Bizos: I have … the word, the colonial aspect to the…
The small matter of a horse: The life of 'Nongoloza' Mathebula, 1867-1948 by Charles van Onselen, 04 January 2012 (libcom.org)
… left the bottling company and for most of 1946 and 1947 drifted around Marabastad leading a hand-to-mouth … to evoke a significant response amongst many…
PlaceLanseria International Airport, Roodepoort
Commercial and private planes can easily be spotted on the runway a few meters away from their open air viewing deck. It all began when In 1974 the dream…
EventGandhi demands end to White 'hooliganism'
Speaking at a prayer meeting in New Delhi, Mahatma Karamchand Gandhi called on the South African government to stop the hooliganism by Whites. The authorities…
EventThe SA government grants 'Independent' status to Venda
Following South Africa's policies of racial segregation and the promulgation of the Promotion Bantu Self-Government Act,46 of 1959, the South African…
EventWalter Sisulu's appeal is dismissed
The Transvaal section of the Supreme Court dismissed an appeal by the African National Congress (ANC) Secretary-General Walter Sisulu against a six years…
EventHarold Cressy is born in Rorke's Drift
Harold Cressy, co-founder of the Teachers League of South Africa (TLSA), educationist and teacher, is born in Rorke's Drift, Kwazulu-Natal. He was the only…
Reclaiming Radical Traditions of Workers' Education by Linda Cooper and Sheri Hamilton
This paper was submitted to the 1973 Durban Strikes Celebrating 50 Years Conference South African trade unions have a long and rich history of inventing…
PlaceTrafalgar High School
In the time of Education and its opposition to the Apartheid system, (when many students and teachers were jailed or banned). The School was nominated to the…
PlaceVereeniging, a City in Gauteng
Vereeniging is a City, in Gauteng Province of South Africa. It has a population of more than 350,000 people. It is located on the banks of the Northern loop of…
PlaceKing Shaka International Airport, La Mercy-Durban
King Shaka International Airport is named after the founder of the Zulu Kingdom, King Shaka. King Shaka Airport stands on- iLembe District land, which is…
ArchiveDemocracy
Democracy 25 years of freedom 1994 to 2019 Democracy Ubuntu One rainbow nation A rising sun An African Sunset Democracy The elegance of the Blue…
ArchiveCelebrating 25 years of Democracy and Freedom
… Hey Listen South Africans I’m talking about TaTa Nelson Mandela The real … are my hero my inspiration and he made me proudly South Africans. Free…
PlaceEntabeni Safari Conservancy, Waterberg
Entabeni Safari Conservancy, rightfully dubbed “The Place of the Mountain”, is situated in the World Heritage, Waterberg Biosphere. Approximately a three-hour…
EventThe 'Afrikaner Volksfront' is founded
Afrikaner Volksfront flag A new coalition made up of twenty-one right wing parties, known as Afrikaner National Front (Afrikaner Volksfront or AVF) was…
4. The ANC underground between Rivonia and 1976
… one means by which the ANC carried its message to South Africans. Another was the sporadic distribution of ANC and … into South Africa by couriers, some of…
Chapter 9 - People’s Education and People’s Power: Mobilisation and Collective Action
… confusion exists over the type of education system South Africans wish to have. Although the Freedom Charter does lay … Third, in a context in which the…
PlaceCape Winelands Airport, Fisantekraal
Nestled beautifully in the Western Cape winelands, Cape Winelands Airport (formerly Fisantekraal Airfield) is an ex-South African Airforce airfield now…
EventThe 4 x 100m men's relay team win the gold medal for SA at the Olympic Games in Athens
The South African squad of Roland Schoeman, Lyndon Ferns, Darian Townsend and Ryk Neethling clocked 3 minutes and 13.17 seconds to triumph over the Netherlands…
EventThe People's Progressive Party (PPP) is banned
The one-year-old parliamentary opposition People Progressive Party (PPP) under the leadership of the former African National Congress (ANC) member Rocky…
EventSA painter Frederick Timpson I'Ons (85) dies
… on the frontier and included portraits of the Khoikhoi and Africans as well as landscapes. …
EventIOC extends South Africa's ban from Olympic games
South Africa suffered heavily in the international sports arena as result of its apartheid policy. Prior to the Tokyo Olympic games in 1964, South Africa was…
PlaceSt-Albans College, Pretoria
… brought to life out of the dream of a small group of South Africans, hoping to build a school where no child is judged … school, therefore excluding the vast…
PlacePotchefstroom
The name comes from the word: 'Potscherf'- (meaning broken pot). This was due to the cracks that appear in the soil of the Mooi River Valley during a drought…
Book Launch: The Nightwatchman, Hlonipha Mokoena
We're so looking forward to the launch of Hlonipha Mokoena's new book, THE NIGHTWATCHMAN at Love Books, Melville, Johannesburg on Tuesday 9th September. The…
EventIan Roberts is born
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…