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ArchivePolice community relations: a mediators per
Article by a mediator following efforts by President F.W.de Klerk to curb the use of excessive force by police stating the difficulties faced by public…
PlaceMunicipal Hall, Jansen Street, Milnerton
This unique building dates from 1904 and was originally erected as a concert and dance hall. One of its surviving features is a special sunken dance floor. The…
YWCA Building, 178 Long Street, Cape Town
The building was restructured in 1903 by J Parker, of the architectural firm Forsythe & Parker, and was dedicated to the memory of Minnie and Maria Bam, the…
PlaceGlen Grey
The village of Glen Grey was named in honour of Sir George Grey, Governor of the Cape 1854-61. On 17 July 1902 a fire broke out in the Glen Grey police…
ArchiveMinutes of the National Conference of the Black Sash held at Durban
Minutes of the National Conference of the Black Sash held at Durban from 13 to 16 March 1986, discussing: Minutes from previous conference, Headquarter's…
EventAfrican National Congress guerilla is shot and killed in Orange Free State.
African National Congress guerilla was shot and killed by police in a township called Ficksburg in Orange Free State on 2nd June 1986.The South African Police…
ArchiveTestimony of Bishop Manas Buthelezi in the court proceedings: The State versus W.W.C. Twala and 10 others (SSRC Trial)
Evidence given by the Bishop Manas Buthelezi in the court proceedings the State versus W W C Twala and 10 others. The Bishop testifies in response to the…
ArchiveUnban the ANC
Light brown poster with black lettering. Page from Pretoria News newspaper. Short piece of information on ANC. Commemoration of 75 years of the ANC, from 8…
EventOscar Pistorius South African sprint runner is born
Sprinter, Oscar Leonard Carl Pistorius (also known as the “Blade Runner”) was born on 22 November 1986 in Sandton, Johannesburg. He was born with fibular…
ArchiveThe Childrens Emergency (with particular ref
The Children's Emergency (with particular reference to the Port Elizabeth Area): Paper Presented at National Conference on 15 March 1986 discussing children's…
ArchiveColoured Persons Communal Reserves Act, Act No 3 of 1961
The Act was to apply the Mission Stations and Communal Reserves Act 1909, of the Cape of Good Hope, to coloured persons settlement areas within the meaning of…
ArchiveMinutes of the Black Sash Annual National Conference held at Cape Town
Minutes of the Black Sash Annual National Conference held at Cape Town on October 17 to 19 1966, discussing: Regional report, finances, magazine, minutes of…
Article‘Liberated’ Slaves? by Joline Young
While the abolition of the slave trade by Britain in 1808 was haled as a victory by abolitionists like Granville Scott and William Wilberforce,[i] for the…
ArchiveUnban the ANC Mass Meeting
Notice of Mass Meeting on Tuesday 10th June at Khotso House at 12.30. White poster with black lettering. UDF Logo. Press release, dated 7th June 1986, from the…
PlaceTrovato, 44 Coach Road, Wynberg
This impressive manor house with late Victorian and neo-classic architectural details was designed by Herbert Baker and was erected in 1898-1902 for Carl…
PlaceResidence, 21 Cuyler Street, Uitenhage
The construction of the original structure with its Cape Dutch and Georgian features, dates from approximately 1840. It is thus one of the oldest dwellings in…
ArchiveA bill
A bill to amend the comprehensive Anti-Apartheid Act of 1986 to prohibit United States depository institutions from providing certain financial services to…
PlaceVictorian dwelling, 73 Musgrave Road, Berea, Durban
This is a double-storey manor House designed by Architect P Piekes. Erected in 1904-05, it is an excellent example of the Natal Verandah House, popular at the…
SAHO Commemorates 40 Years Since Soweto Uprising: Intergenerational Dialogue by Olehile Bada Pharasi
To the Student Movements of 2016 Dear Students, The events witnessed at the country’s tertiary education institutions this year would have been very…
Chapter 1 - Interpreting the Character, Role and Significance of SASO AND SANSCO
As I have indicated the appropriate framework for the analysis of SASO and SANSCO is not a given and by no means obvious. Hence, it is necessary to make…
EventSouth Africa's new constitution is approved
The adoption of the South African Constitution on 8 May 1996 was one of the turning points in the history of the struggle for democracy in South Africa. The…
ArchiveInterview with John Daniel
Oral interview, conducted in Mbabane, with John Daniel, a student leader at the University of Natal who twice served as president of the National Union of…
ArchiveForeign African labour in South Africa
African National Congress paper on foreign African labour in South Africa. Covers control of foreign labour, recruitment of foreign labour in the mining…
PlaceVictorian dwelling, 7 Belvedere Avenue, Oranjezicht
The double-storey Structure was erected soon after the turn of the 20th Century, and is endowed with a number of prominent Architectural features including…
Alan Wieder on the Rivonia Raids & South African Non-Violent Struggle
Alan Wieder remembers the Rivonia Raid 50 years after it happened. The South African government in the early 1960s attacked the Rovonia farm, then occupied by…
ArchiveMemorandum to the Minister of Plural Relations from the Congress of the Ciskei National Independence Party held at Ntabakandoda, Zwelitsha as from 13 - 15 April 1979
Memorandum to the Minister of Plural Relations from the Congress of the Ciskei National Independence Party condemning the Development Trust and the Land Act,…
ArchiveBiography of Bavumile Herbert Vilakazi
Biography of Bavumile Herbert Vilakazi. Bavumile Herbert Vilakazi was born on 12 June 1955 in Evaton, the fifth son of a family of five boys, his politisation…
EventSA Police Commissioner, Lt. Gen. H.J. du Plooy to take drastic actions against police who call Africans “Kaffir”
On 24 August 1960, The Star newspaper reported that the new Police Commissioner, Lt. Gen. H.J. du Plooy would take disciplinary action against White policeman…
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…
EventBritish secretary of war, Lord Kitchener drowns near Orkney Islands
Lord Kitchener, British secretary of war, was drowned in the spring of 1916 near the Orkney Islands. Kitchener had been sent to Russia by Prime Minister…