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ArchivePaper delivered at the Annual Meeting of Diakonia on March 25, 1980
… Article containing a paper delivered by Archbishop Tutu, General Secretary of the South African Council of …
ArchiveMemorandum delivered to De Klerk
… De Klerk by Rev Chikane, Rev Boesak and Archbishop Tutu outlining six points that they felt the South African …
EventLucas Mangope, Bophuthatswana homeland leader is deposed
… in 1966 during the reign of former Prime Minister B J Vorster. Mangope governed Bophuthatswana from 1977 until 1994. His reign was characterised by … (AWB)…
PlaceSteve Biko Bridge, East London
… West of Buffalo Harbour. Named in honour of Balthazar John Vorster, 1915-1983. Former Prime Minister of the Republic of … now as the Steve Biko Bridge,…
ArchiveNelson Mandela freedom at 70
… Sunday 17th July 1988. Speakers to include Bishop Desmond Tutu. Finsbury Park Rally at Hyde Park. Organised by …
EventMagnus Malan's trial ends
… affected by the ordeal to accept it. Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Chairman of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission …
ArchiveYou will bite the dust!
… Speech delivered by Archbishop Tutu at St Geoge's Cathedral in Cape Town at an inter-faith …
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1980s
… demonstrations against the planned removal of residents from Walmer. Banning orders are placed on all three on their … violent racial disturbances beginning…
ArticleHIV/Aids Origins
… it quickly became obvious that all the men were suffering from a common syndrome. The discovery of HIV, the Human … The earliest known case of any type of…
ArticleWorkshop ‘71
… of workshop ‘71 took much of its style and outline from British plays. Titled Crossroads (1972), the play was a … it started becoming popular in the…
Nelson Mandela Family Tree
… family tree drafted by Nelson Mandela and K.D. Matanzima. From the book Higher Than Hope - 'Rolihlahla we love you' by … Tukwini Mandela (1974””Makaziwe)…
Apartheid - The early 1980s
… The early 1980s There was little change in the situation from the late 1970s to the early 1980s in South Africa. After … it under some measure of control…
ArchiveThe South African Reality
… Journal article containing a speech presented by Desmond Tutu, General Secretary of the South African Council of …
BiographySydney Derrick Sipho Mdanda
… matriculated in 1979. He studied at Fort Hare University from 1980-1985 and obtained a BA(FA) Degree and an HDE. From 1989-1990 he studied at Wales…
BiographyJoseph Albert Mokoena
… in 1938, setting academic records. In 1941 he graduated from Fort Hare with distinction in mathematics and physics … and thereafter received, between 1944…
BiographyRonald (Ronnie) Kasrils
… on 15 November 1938. His grandparents were immigrants from Latvia and Lithuania, who had fled from the Czarist pogroms at the end of the 19th century. His …
ArticleWomen in the Cities and the Resistance Movement
… 29 October 2014]|‘Africa Day Protest in Cape Town’ from the Cape Times , 16 November [online] Available at …
Bennie Bethuel Albert RaKhoapa Khoapa
… 1937,he grew up in Matatiela in the Transkei,He graduated from Adama College in 1956,and attended Jan Hofmeyr School of Social Work in Johannesburg from 1957…
BiographyKing Moshoeshoe I
… Mosheshwe or Mshweshwe. His name was allegedly changed from Lepoqo after a successful raid in which he had sheared … or difaqane (1813-1830), into the…
PlaceKoffiefontein, Free State Province
… thought to be pro-Nazi. Prominent political figure John Vorster was among the South Africans held captive at … of South Africa in 1966 and was president of…
BiographyPatrice Émery Lumumba
… of riots in Stanleyville in November 1959. He was released from detention in time to attend the Round Table Conference … rid of Lumumba [9] . When Lumumba…
ArticlePrehistory of the Bloemfontein area
… According to one interpretation, the city takes its name from Jan Bloem II, the leader of a Griqua group. In about … first Sotho-Tswana people to have been…
BiographyCarl Niehaus
… (RAU). A student of theology, Niehaus was months away from his final exams in 1980 when he was expelled from RAU for putting up campus posters that supported…
EventBeyers Naudé is served with his second banning order
… inter-racial dialogue. Simultaneously, he resigned from the DRC and the Broederbond. These decisions would lead to his isolation from the Afrikaans community…
ArticleA history of prison labour in South Africa
… lines. Mine owners treated white workers differently from black workers. Prisoners were forced to do hard labour. … as group D, worked in cages, meant to…
BiographyHenry Bathurst
… career and was Member of Parliament for Cirencester from 1783 until he succeeded his father as Earl in August … with William Pitt, Prime Minister of Great…
Sir Shafa’at Ahmad Khan
… Khan was, like Raza Ali, an unofficial Muslim appointment from U.P. After attending the Government High School in … of Dublin University and became a D. Litt…
EventUS Senator Edward Kennedy visits SA
… recipient of the 1984 Nobel Peace Prize, Bishop Desmond Tutu. During his stay of eight days, Kennedy managed to pay a … Political History: a chronology of…
BiographyMoritz Isaac ("Manu") Herbstein
… in 1936 in Muizenburg in the Western Cape. He graduated from the University of Cape Town with a B.Sc in Engineering in 1958. From 1959-1970 Herbstein lived…
BiographyAidan Walsh
… Durban in 1932. He studied at the Natal Technical College from 1948 to 1950, and at the Hammersmith School of Art, London, from 1956 to 1957. Between 1959…