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EventFirst celebration of May Day in South Africa
… Party and other labour movements in the struggle against Apartheid. May Day, as we know it refers to various … hundred years old. Men, women and children…
EventInternational celebration of ‘May Day’
… Party and other labour movements in the struggle against apartheid. May Day, as we know it, refers to various … years. Men, women and children were…
EventNP serves legal papers on TRC
… called on the court to order Archbishop Desmond Tutu to refrain from making further public statements which … never have been appointed as a commissioner and…
BiographySteve Dyer
… this period that Steve chose the saxophone and flute as his main instruments of expression …
BiographyLord William Waldegrave Palmer Selborne
… more understanding and was much more approachable than his haughty predecessor, and also, as a keen farmer, he was …
BiographyTiyo Soga
… South African to be ordained in an established church. His journal of the return voyage (as yet unpublished) is an …
I have written it by E.S. Reddy & Fatima Meer - International Support: UNO - 1948
… of the India League and secured the assistance of his organisation with various matters connected with our … discussions with Mrs. Pandit and Mr. Jha, I…
Yusuf Dadoo Timeline: 1980 - 1989
… Dimitrov in Sofia. Dadoo is diagnosed as having cancer. His doctors advise that he has to have surgery. He travels … party in London and at the relocation…
BiographyVictor V. T. Mbobo
… executive committee in December 1949, but he cut short his political career a year later when he moved to Umtata to …
BiographyDilizantaba Mji
… committee but soon thereafter left the Transvaal to serve his internship in the Cape. In 1953 he was one of the first …
Peter Papela Nthite
… to Adams College but left school at 16 to help support his family, working as a truck driver. Joining the African …
BiographyHoward S. Ngcobo
… an effective organiser, but a speech impediment limited his effectiveness on the platform. Early in 1960 he toured …
BiographyBransby Ndobe
… of James Thaele in the western Cape and eventually led his supporters into a short-lived Independent ANC in 1930, …
EventWorldwide speculation begins that a bright flash detected over the southern Indian Ocean was a South African nuclear test
… In the early hours of 22 September 1979, an American Vela satellite recorded a double flash of light over … US President Jimmy Carter recorded a growing…
The search for Peter Johnson’s story
… and Reconciliation Commission asking them to help her find his remains. The investigation that followed proved to be a … of Johnson and Karabo. The…
ArticleHIV/Aids in South Africa timeline 1940s-2009
… against HIV. President Kenneth Kaunda of Zambia announces his son has died of Aids, a landmark in the campaign against stigma in Africa. The apartheid…
BiographyFikile Charles Bam
… leaders, such as Nelson Mandela and Walter Sisulu. After his release from prison, Bam obtained a Bachelor of Law … has also been applied in various…
BiographyCharles Sidney Groves
… for the entrance room of the SA National Gallery. His daughter Mary Groves executed this design. Grove regularly showed with SASA, preferring to enter his…
Imijondolo
… community organizer between 1980 and 1984. Both Desmond Tutu's (then Bishop of Johannesburg) foreword, as well as … of the century. The book depicts…
EventTerror strikes the Olympics Games in Atlanta
… Army. It is said to have been the largest pipe bomb in American history- which killed 2 people and injured 111. The … further incidents. Rudolph, however,…
EventThe Kingdom of Ashanti is formally annexed by Great Britain
… part of the Gold Coast management in 1897. Led by Osei Tutu together with his chief priest, Ashanti changed the constitution and the …
BiographyMzwakhe Mbatha
… where the aeroplanes provided further inspiration for his sculpture. He presently lives in the Umnini area of Natal …
Blessing Mabaso
… said the police had received information that Memela and his group were responsible for an attack on Winnington …
BiographyWiseman Mbambo
… in group exhibitions from 1965 in KZN and he held his first solo exhibition in 1980 in Durban. In 1967 he won …
South Africa's political landscape, as visual poetry: Haunting images have understated, dry elegance by Mark Feeney, 20 February 2011
… Bernd and Hilla Becher the year before that. Goldblatt, in his very different way, is very much their peer. The nearly … different photographer, Robert Frank…
Art Matters by Suzanne P. Blier, 05 December 2014
… the Ethelbert Cooper Gallery of African and African American Art, which will host rotating exhibitions of … value intellectual engagement. (Ironically, the…
EventCharles Darwin and the HMS Beagle reached the Galapagos Islands
… in the Galapagos would be the principle inspiration for his work, On The Origin of Species, one of those rare scientific … world in which they live.On a…
History lesson: When Vorster stuck the knife in Ian Smith's back by Jamie Miller (Rand Daily Mail), 17 September 2016
… Africa-Namibia. But he needed the help of South Africa’s apartheid regime to make it happen. For his part, John Vorster gambled that cooperating with the…
ArticleAfrapix Chronology 1981-1991
… an annual Staffrider photographic exhibition. • On his return to Durban, from his trip to Johannesburg, Omar … Lawson and Paul Weinberg to urge photographers…
Postscript
… in a large Soweto sports stadium to honour Desmond Tutu, the Bishop of Johannesburg, on his return from Sweden with the Nobel Peace Prize. There he ……