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EventAt a summit SA Trade Unions resolve to defy apartheid and labour laws
… discussed South Africa's labour laws for the first time since the 1950s. Non-racial unions agreed to continue …
EventPrime Minister P.W. Botha announces Ciskei will become independent on 4 December 1981
… territory in 1972. The Chief Minister of the time was Justice Mabandla. While Botha may have announced …
EventJournalist and anti-apartheid activist M.P. Naicker dies
… failure en route on a flight from London to Berlin. At the time of his death Naicker was also a journalist for the ANC …
EventDr Chris Barnard performs second heart transplant at Groote Schuur Hospital
… was performed almost a month after the first, this time on Dr Philip Blaiberg, whose dauntless spirit made him a …
EventMilton Obote (81), Uganda’s former dictator, dies in a South African hospital
… to an army coup in 1985 in which he was ousted a second time and exiled to Zambia. Obote's rule was marred by …
EventClarence Mlokoti is shot dead by hijackers
… clinic where he died. Mlokoti's death, which came at the time when South Africa was bidding to host the 2006 World …
EventNP set to withdraw from GNU
… and particularly President Nelson Mandela, had decided the time for majority rule had arrived. A specific example was …
EventSouth Africa concludes an agreement with the Marconi Company for a high
… year that radio was revealed to the public for the first time at the Great Empire Exhibition. In 1926, developments …
EventThe first SARS case is suspected in South Africa
… been the first known case of SARS in South Africa. At the time, the number of deaths caused by SARS stood at least at …
EventKenyan independence hero Bildad Kaggia dies after a long illness
… office meant to rehabilitate African soldiers. During his time there, Kaggia studied political science, journalism and …
”A House in Harrington Street”, photographic exhibition by Nicholas Eppel
… reflects three years in the life and household of long-time Harrington Street resident, Elizabeth Barrett, and stand …
EventPeter van der Merwe, South African cricketer, dies
… as a left-side spinner. Though he began as a bowler, over time his batting became better than his bowling leading him …
EventLady Diana Spencer is killed in a car accident in Paris
… of Wales. Their tumultuous marriage ended in 1996. At the time of her death they had two sons. A year later, Diana got …
EventUnion of South Africa officially ceases to exist
… referendum supported him. This was also the first time in 12 years of government that the National …
No.46 - Steve Biko by Hilda Bernstein, 1978, South Africa
… police detention in South Africa. And for the first time, the inquest revealed full and horryfying details of how …
Oration by Oliver Tambo at the funeral of Moses Kotane, 26 May 1978, Moscow
… police for many years during which he engaged in full-time underground political work in defiance of banning orders … in January 1963. Umkhonto we Sizwe was…
Oration at the Funeral of Moses Kotane by O. R. Tambo, Moscow, 26 May 1978
… police for many years during which he engaged in full-time underground political work in defiance of banning orders … in January 1963. Umkhonto we Sizwe was…
PlaceKatlehong
… employed as teachers at KAC. The art centre employed full-time paid staff whose responsibilities ranged from cleaning, … township where the artists worked…
ArchiveAddress at Commemoration of the lives of Yusuf Cachalia and Bram Fischer, by Nelson Mandela, 5 June 2005,
… - not even my closest advisors or friends, it seems. Every time some so-called last event occurs that is considered so … that I am asked to come out of…
PlaceStone Chapel, Tokai, near the Porter Reformatory School
… all forts excepting Fort Knocke must be demolished. Over time all traces of buildings and earthworks have disappeared, … . A new large block of Buildings…
Address by President Nelson Mandela at a banquet in honour of president Rafsanjani of Iran Pretoria, 12 September 1996
… the visit we paid to your country four years ago. At the time of that visit, our country was still clawing its way out … and we are today a fully-fledged…
Address by Nelson R. Mandela to the plenary session of the Multi-Party negotiations process World Trade Centre, Kempton Park, 17 November 1993
… to a non-racial and non-sexist democracy. For the first time in the history of our country, on April 27th, 1994, all … not allowed to vote, will do so. I,…
EventBenjamin Magson Kies, political activist & lawyer, is born
… city. The debates covered issues that were topical at the time, such as the role of intellectuals, the impending Second … 1937 when he would still have been…
PlacePilanesberg Game Reserve
… ” means gathering of the Tswana people). Now was the time for the re-introduction of wildlife into the Area and … observe today as Pilanesberg Game Reserve…
PlaceNieu-Bethesda
… inland sea. This, along with the Karoo being as old as time, has resulted in many palaeontological discoveries, … pathways and patterns of different animal…
ArchiveWebinar Programme: Forward to Socialism/Socialist Futures (Panel 2) - Convenor: Janet Cherry
… MK ) and SACP since 1979 to date. She is currently a full time SACP Central Committee (CC) member and serves on the … in emancipatory scholarship in Africa,…
Chapter VIII - Treason - South African style 1
… trial. The government wanted us out of Johannesburg this time, to avoid huge crowds of Africans thronging the court … and ponderous and we needed speed so as…
Frederik Van Zyl Slabbert: Former Leader of the Opposition in the Whites-Only Parliament, and co-founder of Idasa interviewed by Rupert Taylor and Adam Habib, 24 March 1998, Johannesburg
… that gave a very strong focus, it was for the first time a clear indication to the black majority that they were … and heavily insulated from the struggle…
Open Talk with Grada Kilomba
… Decolonizing Feminism Conference, Kilomba wants to take time to reflect and share some perspectives on her work …
EventIsmael Mahomed became first black judge appointed to the Supreme Court of South Africa
… be appointed to the Supreme Court of South Africa. At the time of his appointment the South African government and …