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EventTennis champion Frew Mcmillan is born in Springs
On 20 May 1942, Frew McMillan, doubles player with Bob Hewitt and Wimbledon tennis champion, was born in Springs. On his own, McMillan also won two pro single…
EventMelrose House opens as a Museum
The first South African State President C.R. Swart opens Melrose House in Pretoria as a museum. The House was built in 1866 by George Jesse Heyns a Pretoria…
Chief Albert Luthuli Centenary Lecture by President Jacob Zuma, 7 September 2012, Kimberley, Northern Cape
ANC National Chairperson, ANC Provincial Chairperson and provincial leadership, ANC NEC Members, Leaders of the Tripartite Alliance, The Luthuli Family…
Indian Community in Lenasia
From the very beginning, settlement in Lenasia was a contentious issue, driven with debates about race, class, collaboration with and resistance to apartheid…
Evidence before the Foreign Affairs Committee of the House of Commons by O. R. Tambo, London, 29 October 1985
CHAIRMAN: I welcome Mr. Oliver Tambo and his friends, Mr. Thabo Mbeki and Mr. Aziz Pahad, and I am glad that they have been able to come... Perhaps I could…
Address to Foreign Correspondents association Johannesburg, 26 November 1998
Dr Werner Vogt Members of the Foreign Correspondents Association Ladies and gentlemen A meeting with members of the Foreign Correspondents Association has…
ArchiveWits Autumn Festival
Main poster: black background with white and yellow lettering. Notice of fourth Wits Autumn Festival from 2nd to 6th May 1990 and contact number. Issued by the…
ArchiveTowards a mixed economy in South African agriculture
Paper by Mashiphula Mbongwa and Kgotoki Nhlapo-Lewis entitled "Towards a mixed economy in South African agriculture" prepared for a meeting in Harare, Zimbabwe…
EventHelen Joseph dies
South African political and human rights activist, Helen Beatrice May Joseph, died at the age of 87 in Johannesburg, South Africa. She came to SA in 1931 and,…
PlaceCommittees Drift, Eastern Cape
Committees Drift was a military outpost established by the British during the frontier war of 1819. The name "committees" is pronounced by locals as as …
Eye of the Needle - Chapter 5 - The Politics of Socialism
From the book: The Eye of the Needle by Richard Turner The principle of our ideal society is freedom. I have attempted to indicate which work institutions…
ArticleThe History of LGBT legislation
Introduction Discriminatory, separate and oppressive, these are words that were used to explain South Africa’s Apartheid regime, which officially lasted from…
Speech by Nelson Mandela at the Zionist Christian Church Easter Conference Moria, 20th April 1992
Reading from the "Lamentations of Jeremiah", Chapter 5 Remember, O Lord, what is come upon us: consider, and behold our reproach, Our land is turned…
ArchiveThe women's suffrage movement: The politics of gender race and class by Cheryl Walker
From the book: Women and Gender in Southern Africa to 1945 edited by Cheryl WalkerQuestion: Do you favour votes for all women, irrespective of colourAnswer: As…
EventZwelethu Mthethwa found guilty of murder
Zwelethu Mthethwa, an internationally known South African artist, was found guilty on 16 March 2017 at the Western Cape High Court of murdering Nokuphila…
PlaceFranschhoek, Western Cape
Originally known as the Valley of the Huguenots, a Community of French Huguenots were granted land in this Valley by the Dutch Government of the Cape, after…
PlaceGeneral Smuts House Museum, Doornkloof
Home to General Jan Smuts for over 40 years, Doornkloof in Irene, Southeast of Pretoria, is a unique museum that reveals much about the life and the spirit of…
A City within a city: Vestiges of the socio-spatial imprint of colonial and apartheid Durban, from the 1870s to 1980s by Leonard Glenn Rosenberg
Parts of it have been referred to as the "Imperial Ghetto" (Badsha: 2001) or the "Duchene" and "Casbah" (Hassim: 2009) or simply "town" by the many who have…
In search of the good society: Social policy in South Africa after twenty years of democracy
Invitation The HSRC Seminar Series In search of the good society: Social policy in South Africa after twenty years of democracy Speaker: Ndangwa Noyoo ,…
South African Labour Bulletin
Front cover of Labour Bulletin, May 1990. Volume 14, Number 8. Black and white photo of public sector workers on the march outside OK in Johannesburg. Black…
ArchiveResolution on the International Communist Movement
States that all communists should urgently come together to evaluate the serious problems facing the movement, such as US agression in Vietnam, attempts to re…
EventSADF seals off Vaal townships
A combined force of seven thousand South African Defence Force (SADF) troops and the South African Police (SAP) sealed off the Vaal Triangle townships of…
EventAnti-apartheid activist, Beyers Naude is born
Christiaan Frederik Beyers Naudé was born in Roodepoort, Transvaal, on 10 May 1915. He was named after C.F. Beyers, a Boer general who was close to his father,…
ArchiveDead in one's own lifetime
This book contains a collection of papers presented at the NUSAS Art and Liberation Week, held at UCT, 1-4 May 1979. The six papers are entitled "Dead in one's…
ArticleAhmed Mohamed Kathrada Timeline: 1929 - 2017
1919 Mohamed Kathrada and his wife Hawa, immigrants from India, arrive in Schweizer Reneke, a small town in the Western Transvaal (now Gauteng), where they…
ArticleSouth African Students Movement (SASM)
The South African Students Movement (SASM) an organisation of mainly high school students was formed to represent students, articulate grievances and foster…
ArticlePolitical executions in South Africa by the apartheid government 1961 - 1989
On 9 June 1983, three members of the armed wing of the African National Congress (ANC), uMkhonto we Sizwe (MK), were executed at the gallows in Pretoria…
The strangulation of activity
From: A Crime Against Humanity - Analysing the Repression of the Apartheid State edited by Max Coleman The classical freedoms of association, assembly and…
Chapter 1 - Striking a balance between Tribalism and Christianity
Political freedom from foreign rule, essential as it is, is not freedom.1One freedom is essential. That is the freedom for an individual to develop to his/ her…
ArchiveChapter 9 Emotional desert: Prison, 1963 to 1985 by Denis Goldberg
It is not easy to write about prison. When I was freed after 22 years I had spent 45 per cent of my life inside the walls. Now I have been outside the prison…