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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,…
EventThe Anglican Bishop of Johannesburg, Rev. Ambrose Reeves is secretly deported
On 12 September 1960, the Anglican Bishop of Johannesburg, Rev. Ambrose Reeves was secretly deported through Jan Smuts Airport. The Bishop’s departure did not…
EventThe national Chairman of SABRA warns of sour relations in the Union
“Recent events in Africa have robbed the Union of precious time. This country now has less than 10 years to adjust its race relations.”This was a warning by…
PlaceDutch Reformed Church, Rustenberg
Construction of this church started in 1898 and completion of the building were delayed by the outbreak of the Anglo Boer War. During the war it was used by…
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…
ArchiveList of Exhibits: Legal documents from State v Ndukwana and 4 others
Legal documents from the 1976 trial of the State v Ndukwana and 4 others. Includes: List of exhibits, Affidavit by East London medical officer who examined…
ArchiveConsultation in preparation for the meeting with law professors from white South Africa
Notes regarding a meeting to discuss and work out an agenda for an African National Congress meeting with South African Law professors. Proposed agenda…
PlaceJewish Pioneers Memorial Synagogue, Raleigh Street, Port Elizabeth
The temple was designed by Orlando Middleton and erected by Jacob Kohler and Sons. The Port Elizabeth, Orthodox Hebrew Congregation was formed in 1903. It's…
PlaceSpringbok Park, Hatfield, Pretoria
The Park was formerly known as Grosvenor Square and was conceived in 1905 when the Suburb of Hatfield was laid out. Development only commenced in the 1930s and…
PlaceRheingold Building, Market Street, Polokwane
The building was erected in about 1910 by H Moschke to house a number of commercial concerns. It is richly decorated with a number of Victorian architectural…
EventSelassie returns to Ethiopia after attempted coup
Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie returned immediately to his country after a short successful coup launched on 13 December 1960 by the Imperial Bodyguard, the…
EventWole Soyinka is born
The Nigerian, novelist, playwright and poet, Wole Soyinka, was born at Abeokuta, near Ibadan in western Nigeria. Soyinka became the first African to receive…
EventPresident F. W. de Klerk announced the opening of four hitherto Whites-only residential areas to mixed settlement
President F. W. de Klerk announced the opening of four hitherto Whites-only residential areas to mixed settlement. They included two districts in Johannesburg,…
ArchiveThe history of the Black mans struggle for l
This paper, possibly prepared for the inaugral conference of the Institute of Black Studies, Wilgespruit, 13-18 July 1976, traces the history of the political…
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…
PlaceNoordhoek, Cape Town- Southern Peninsula
There is some mystery about how Noordhoek came by its name! While there is no doubt that it goes back to the time of the earliest white settlers some time…
EventAnglo-Boer War 2: Lord Methuen, British general, destroys the village of Schweizer-Reneke
Paul Sanford Methuen (b. 1845 d.1932) was the 3rd Baron Methuen and a soldier all his life. Before arriving in South Africa in 1899, he had served in the Ango…
SACTU press release in ‘New Age’, 22 November 1962
Quoted in Luckhardt, K. & Wall, B. (1980). Organize or Starve! The History of the South African Congress of Trade Unions, New York: International Publishers, p…
15. My son Gyapershad was decoyed
From the book: A Documentary History of Indian South Africans edited by Surendra Bhana and Bridglal Pachai Gopinath Pandey, a headmaster of the village…
Event1 575 people are detained under a state of emergency
The events which led to mass detentions in April 1960 were the following: A state of emergency was called after anti-pass demonstrations at Sharpeville, Langa…
PlaceDutch Reformed Church and Parsonage, Three Anchor Bay
The church building was officially opened by Dr Andrew Murray on 9 July 1879. Eight months later, on 10 March 1880, the congregation seceded from the Groote…
PlaceElliot, Thembuland
The Village of Slang Rivier was founded early in 1885, and in April 1894 its name was changed to Elliot, after Sir Henry Elliot, a prominent Colonial…
PlaceMill House and Water Mill, farm Naauwpoort, District of Marico
Click on image to enlarge The mill was probably erected during the early 20th century. Its water wheel and cast-iron machinery drove a set of millstones, and…
EventMargaret Mary Smith, SA artist and ichthyologist, is born
On 26 September 1916 artist and ichthyologist, Margaret Mary Smith, was born in Indwe in the Eastern Cape. Ichthyology is the branch of zoology that deals with…
EventEli Weinberg, trade unionist and photographer, is born
On 28 August 1908 Eli Weinberg was born in Libau, Latvia. Weinberg was a trade unionist and communist party member. He co-founded the African Garment Workers'…
EventJB Marks is born
John Beaver (JB) Marks, teacher, trade unionist and political activist was born in Ventersdorp, Transvaal (now North West Province) on March 21 1903. He was…
EventBaden Powell is born in London, England
Lord Robert Stephenson Baden-Powell, founder of the Boy Scout movement in 1908 and British hero at the siege of Mafeking, is born in Paddington, London. Baden…
EventBoer negotiators travelled from Vereeniging to Pretoria to present their proposals
Boer negotiators travelled from Vereeniging to Pretoria to present their proposals for surrender to British representatives, Lord Milner and Lord Kitchener…
Freedom In Our Life Time - Tributes to Lembede After His Death
From the book: Freedom In Our Life Time by Anton Muziwakhe Lembede 41. WALTER NHLAPO,"He Sang and Soared Away," Barlow's Weekly, 16 August 1947 Walter…
ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 1940-1949
In the 1940s the ANC rejuvenated itself and began to work more closely with the SACP, putting behind the antagonistic relationship between the two parties in…