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EventSA artist Tshela Matsoso is born
… 1962 and 1970, while still at school, Matsoso studied at the Jubilee Art Centre under Cecil Skotnes, Sydney Kumalo, Bill Hart and Ezrom Legae. In 1972 he…
EventSelassie returns to Ethiopia after attempted coup
… a short successful coup launched on 13 December 1960 by the Imperial Bodyguard, the police chief and some radical intellectuals. Selassie was in Brazil on a…
PlaceDutch Reformed Church and Parsonage, Three Anchor Bay
… The church building was officially opened by Dr Andrew Murray … on 9 July 1879. Eight months later, on 10 March 1880, the congregation seceded from the…
New Khoisan name for Cape Town, 25 June 2012
… will probably have difficulty getting their tongue around the Mother City’s new name: //Hui !Gaeb. This Khoisan word means “where the clouds gather”,…
EventGrammy Award winner Miriam Makeba is born in Johannesburg
… worked as a clerk for Shell. Makeba began singing in the school choir at Kilnerton Training Institute in Pretoria. In 1957, Makeba joined the group, the…
ArchiveCircular from N. Pityana to all SRCs and loc
… A circular stating the facts surrounding the controversy between the South African Students' Organisation (SASO) and the Natal …
ArchiveDont be fooled!: another boring pamphlet?: a
… White, blue and yellow, pamphlet issued by the End Conscription Campaign. Information to the conscripts about the Advice Bureau and the services offered. …
ArchivePlanning for peoples war discussion document
… Discussion document on planning for a peoples war. Covers the armed struggle, people's revolutionary violence, uprisings in the Bantustans, the enemy armed…
PlaceAmeva River, Eastern Cape
… Xhosa name for the Doorn River, now known as; Indwe! It means 'thorns' referring to the Acacia trees that grow in the Area through which the River flows. ……
ArchiveDakar articles
… Three articles in the Financial Mail on the Dakar meeting between the African National Congress and the Institute for a …
ArchiveNote on conversation with Oliver Tambo
… Slovo on a conversation held with Oliver Tambo regarding the International University Exchange Fund and the Craig Williamson infiltration. Highlights poor…
ArchiveApartheid runs on Fluor power
… Only three-days after the 6 500 Sasol workers were sacked for the their role in the November stay-away, scabs were being bused in from the …
ArchiveAfrican National Congress, Western Cape regio
… Region Secretary's Report for September 1991. Reports on the Regional Executive membership, the various Western Cape zones, rural areas and the alliance with…
Call for peace
… Statement calling for peace as the past years was characterised by the most brutal violence unleashed agaisnt people as all … peace-loving South Africans are…
EventKimberly linked by rail to Barkley West
… The railway line from Kimberley reaches Fourteen Streams, Barkley West. The railway line had initially been commissioned by the Cape Government and…
EventMagoo’s Bar is bombed
… are injured in a bomb explosion in Magoo's Bar on the Durban beach. An ANC's arm wing, uMkhonto we Sizwe (MK) … led by Robert McBride, planted a bomb in a…
ArchiveCommittees Drift go-ahead
… Press cutting relating to the Government's go-ahead with the Committeees Drift Glenmore scheme to resettle Black people from Grahamstown in the Ciskei…
Bowling them over
… Donna Symmonds from Barbados in the West Indies is a world cass sports broadcaster. The SABC Invited her to be a guest broadcaster during the one day cricket…
EventLondon Times pays tribute to King Sekhukhune
… The London Times, a British based newspaper, paid tribute to King Sekhukhuneof the Marota Empire, commonly known as the Bapedi Kingdom. The newspaper…
ArchiveTussle at VW over tour kombis
… The All Blacks rugby tour was called off in July just a week before the team was due to leave New Zealand. It was determined protest and resistance to the…
EventFive developed countries recall their Ambassadors from South Africa
… The United States, Netherlands, Great Britain, West Germany … criticism for its Apartheid policy which was introduced by the National Party government in…
ArchivePolice put a clamp ban on statements by United Democratic Front and other bodies
… statement by United Democratic Front and other bodies as the government has barred the Sowetan and weekly mail from publishing any statement issued by the…
EventJan Smuts is born
… South Africa's second Prime Minister in 1919, was born on the farm Bovenplaats near Riebeeck West in the Cape. Smuts had a distinguished political career as…
EventDavid Kramer was born on this day
… The South African singer, songwriter, playwright and director … day. He is especially well-known for his musicals about the Coloured communities and the ways…
PlaceAnzac, a Railway Siding near Brakpan
… A Railway Siding, on route between Germiston and Brakpan. The name is derived from all the Australian and New Zealand troops who landed at Anzac … in Turkey,…
EventEight British tourists are killed
… five men and three women, were killed on their way to the Royal Natal National Park when their bus swerved to avoid a pedestrian on the R74 between…
EventSA artist Vincent Baloyi is born
… Baloyi was born in Newclare, Johannesburg. He joined the National Arts Society and the SAAA, taught art at the Open School (1981-1986), and FUBA (1987),…
Lionel Davis, SA artist, is born in Cape Town. He was a political prisoner on Robben Island between 1964 and 1971, where he c
… house arrest until 1976. In 1978 and 1979 he worked at the Community Arts Project (CAP), Cape Town, as assistant organiser. The following year he began…
EventTwo rival movements merge in Zimbabwe
… Two rival political organisations in Zimbabwe, the Ndebele-dominated Zimbabwe African People's Union (ZAPU), led by Joshua Nkomo, and the Shona-dominated…
EventVuyani Bungu wins IBF World Boxing Title
… The South African junior featherweight, Vuyani Bungu, … highly rated American Kennedy McKinney at Carousel to lift the International Boxing Federation (IBF)…