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ArchiveMeeting between the Minister and Ambassador Nickel on 7 June 1985 at the Guest House, Pretoria, at 17h00
Minutes of a meeting between the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Pik Botha, and the United States Ambassador, Herman Nickel, to discuss what the Americans…
ArticleThe Youth Struggle
From the early years of colonial rule, South African youth had participated in various forms against the racist character of colonialism, oppression, and…
ArchiveTimetable for Sasol's day of destruction, The Star, 4 June 1980
Police hunt saboteurs as workers clear debris, The Star, 3 June 1980
Albert Bawo-Dlamini
Albert Bawo-Dlamini, a member of the African National Congress (ANC) died on 17 March 1988 in Zambia where he was in exile.
ArchivePolice station operations, 1986, Sprag gets 25 years, Argus, 6 November 1986
ArchiveStatements to the police by Ms Sekanka on 1 September 1981 and Zahed Patel on 14 August 1981
Mbongeni Clement Khanyi
Khanyi Mbongeni C. was sent to prison on Robben Island. He was given prison number 0/0071 and was released on February 20th 1981.
The Detention Weapon
… year with the exceptions of 1970,1972 to 1975,1979, and 1989. During the 1960s there was a period of 6 years in which … • 1984 - 6 • 1985 - 10 • 1986 - 5 •…
South African and World leaders
… of the United Democratic Front (UDF), and in June 1989, the government finally granted her a passport. The … and the American President, George Bush Snr. In…
Mkhonza Abner
Mkhonza Abner was released from Robben Island prison on the 18th of October 1981. His prison number was 114/7477. He was from Katlehong.
Sithole Thembinkosi Abner
Sithole Thembinkosi Abner was released from Robben Island prison on the 27th of February 1986. His prison number was 15/3271. He was from Durban.
Appeal by Oliver Tambo to the people of the world on the 75th anniversary of the African National Congress, 08 January 1987
On January 8, 1987, we observed the 75th anniversary of our movement, the African National Congress. This historic anniversary has come at a critical moment in…
Bheki Magubane
A member of the African National Congress (ANC) and uMkhonto we Sizwe (MK). Was killed in a South African Defence Force (SADF) raid into Mozambique on 31…
ArchiveStatement by the President of the African National Congress (South Africa) at the World Consultation of the World Council of Churches, Holland, 16-21 June 1980
Statement by the President of the African National Congress (South Africa), O R Tambo at the World Consultation of the World Council of Churches, Holland, 16…
Statement at the Symposium on the Survival and Development of Children in the Frontline States and Southern Africa, Harare, March 1-5, 1988
Chairperson, Comrade Sally Mugabe, Your Excellency, Comrade President Robert Mugabe, Honourable Deputy Executive Director of UNICEF, Dr. Richard Jolly, …
BiographyAhmed Ebrahim Patel
Born 1924. Agent. Key organiser since 1939 of the Transvaal Indian Congress on the East Rand, and appeared for the Congress before numerous hearings of the…
Solomon Albert Mahutso
Solomon Albert Mahutso, a member of the African National Congress (ANC) and uMkhonto we Sizwe (MK), was killed in a South African Defence Force raid in…
Call for Papers ‘Rethinking “Apartheid’s Golden Age”: South Africa, c1966-1979’, Colloquium to be held at the University of Pretoria, 20 June 2016
On 20 June 2016, the Department of Historical and Heritage Studies at the University of Pretoria will host a colloquium on South Africa’s ‘long 1970s’, defined…
ArticleRight to Organise Timeline 1500-1994
1500-1800 This period is marked by the advent and growth of the Atlantic Slave Trade affecting West Africa, Central and East Africa. On the Southern African…
Membathisi Mphumzi Shepherd Mdladlana
On 12 May 1952 Shepherd Mdladlana was born in Keiskammahoek in the Eastern Cape. He has been South African Minister of Labour since 1998 and is a member of the…
BiographyA. B. Nogaya
Born 1925. Factory worker. Joined African National Congress in 1949 and during the Defiance Campaign led a batch of 40 volunteers to defy apartheid regulations…
BiographyJohn Jack Curtis
John (Jack) Curtis was born on 31 August 1912 in Geelong, Australia, the third of nine children. He left school at 14 to start work and help provide for the…
BiographyWilliam Sinclair Winship
William Sinclair Winship was born on 18 March 1927, in Edinburgh, Scotland. When he was a few months old, his parents moved to Mpwapwa, Tanzania, before…
PlaceSt George’s Grammar School, 1 Queen Victoria Street, Cape Town
… when the School admitted the first Learners of Colour. In 1989 St George's also became a Co-Educational School. From …
Professor H. W. van der Merwe: former Director of the Centre for Intergroup Studies interview with Rupert Taylor, 23 November 1999, 6 Cambridge Road, Observatory, Cape Town
… know. But anyway then my wife died in 92, we saw him in 1989, end of 89, and she was already then very weak, but, she …
ArchiveClosing address to the 58th Annual Congress of the National Union of South African Students, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, 29 November to 4 December 1980.
Closing address to the 58th Annual Congress of the National Union of South African Students, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, 29 November to 4…
ArchiveConclusion by Howard Barrell
Operation Vula, with whose destruction I began this dissertation and with whose genesis I have just ended the tenth and final chapter, is the climax of our…
CHAPTER 10 - CONCLUSION
Operation Vula, with whose destruction I began this dissertation and with whose genesis I have just ended the tenth and final chapter, is the climax of our…
BiographyHenry “Black Cat” Cele
Henry “Black Cat” Cele was born on 30 January 1949 in KwaMashu, Durban, South Africa. As a member of the Cele family he was referred to by his clan name Ndosi…
EventFive ANC leaders are released from prison
… On 15 October 1989, five of the eight African National Congress (ANC) long … of the eight prisoners who were released before and after 1989 were, Dennis…