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Chapter 16. Coloured and Indian Members - Garment Workers in Action by E. S. Sachs
In the Cape and Natal, the overwhelming majority of garment workers have always been Coloured, Indian and Malay, while in the Transvaal, until the Second World…
Chapter XII - Can we be free?
From the book: Side by Side by Helen Joseph The State of Emergency was over. Lilian and I came out of gaol together on the morning of 31 August and climbed…
Say It out Loud - The 1906 Presidential Address, Cape Town, 2nd January, 1906
From the book: Say It out Loud by Mohamed Adhikari The 1906 Presidential Address, Cape Town, 2nd January, 1906 1 Dr Abdurahman rose to deliver his…
ANNOUNCEMENT OF ANC CANDIDATE PREMIERS, 23 April 1999
ANNOUNCEMENT OF ANC CANDIDATE PREMIERS 23 April 1999 At a press briefing at the ANC headquarters, Luthuli House in Johannesburg, the movements Secretary…
ArchiveWomen Freedom Fighters tell of Sexual Abuse in Camps by Carl Collison (Mail and Guardian), 27 October 2017
Sibongile ‘Promise’ Khumalo claims that, after running away from home in the 1970s to receive military training in exile, she was sexually abused by the then…
ArchiveFrom conscience politics to the battlefield
This thesis examines the ways in which the Liberal Party - the Natal Division in particular attempted to become an effective political force in South Africa…
ArchiveStaffrider Vol.8 No.1 1989
Contents and Contributors CONTENTS: Comment, A.W. Oliphant STORIES: The Prophets, Bheki Maseko; Happiness is a Punch in the Eye, Lawrence Maimane; A Day in…
ArchiveStaffrider Vol.10 No.3 1992
Contents and Contributors Contents: Comment, Peter Horn. Stories: Walking Dry Between Raindrops, Kole Omotoso; Die Avonture van Don Gxubane van Langa, Charles…
PlaceMLR-cannon, Middle North Battery, Simonstown
The gun was designed in 1865 as a broadside gun for ironclad ships and harbour seafront defence. A total of 190 were made. The gun was last fired in 1903…
PlaceBeach houses, Main Road, Muizenberg
These properties, located between Muizenberg and St James, are the only remaining concentration of early 20th century Edwardian beach houses in South Africa,…
PlaceGanyesa
The massive North West Province of South Africa is home to Ganyesa, which is formally part of the Kagisano / Molopo Municipality. This is a rural Village that…
Notes on the Life of Ernest Cole 1940–1990 by Gunilla Knape
This book and exhibition are an attempt to construct a clear picture of Ernest Cole, a complex man whose work is little known, especially in his own country,…
PlaceDutch Reformed Church, Zoutpansberg
The Nederduits Gereformeerde congregation of Zoutpansberg was established at Renosterpoort, by S Hofmeyr, in September 1872, with Rev PJJ Boshoff as its first…
PlaceEmoyeni, Parktown, Johannesburg
Emoyeni, the ‘Place in the Air’ in Nguni, is located on the highest point, of the highest ridge in Parktown, keeping its original name through the decades…
EventNuclear Test Ban Treaty signed
Representatives of the United States, the Soviet Union, and Great Britain sign a Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, which prohibited the testing of nuclear weapons in…
EventPaarl Riots report submitted
On 25 June 1963 Mr. Justice H. Snyman submitted to parliament a final report on the 1962 Paarl Riots. The report analysed the main causes of the riots, and…
EventEvelyn Dalberg, SA opera singer, is born in Germany
Evelyn Dalberg, a prominent opera singer in South Africa, was born on 23 May 1939, in Leipzig, Germany. The daughter of Frederick Dalberg and German Soprano…
EventThe “Ossewabrandwag” is founded
The Ossewabrandwag (OB as it came to be known, meaning Oxwagon Sentinal) was founded as an Afrikaans nationalist organisation in Bloemfontein, under leadership…
EventThe Trial of strength between the Conservative Party and the National Party begins as three Members of Parliament resign
The reformist policies of P.W Botha may be considered one of the key factors that led to the resignation of Fanie Botha, Dr Treurnicht, and Tom Langley from…
EventJohn Traicos makes his International Cricket Test debut for South Africa
On 5 February 1970, a disciplined and perfect off-spinner, John Traicos one of international cricket's most unusual members, made his Test debut - for South…
EventHeadman Tshabalala, founding member of the band Ladysmith Black Mambazo, is shot and killed
Headman Tshabalala was born in 1945 in Ladysmith, Kwa-Zulu Natal. In 1960, he joined the first incarnation of the band Ladysmith Black Mambazo and sang…
EventNomsa Mapongwana is assassinated
Thirty-four year old Nomsa Mapongwana, wife of chairperson Michael Mapongwana of the United Democratic Front (UDF) affiliated Western Cape Civic Organisation,…
EventNamibia gains Independence
Namibia or South West Africa, as it was called while it was a German territory was placed under the South African administration by the League of Nations after…
EventAlleged Mk members are killed
The South African Police (SAP) and the South African Defence Force (SADF) ambushed and killed six alleged Umkhonto weSizwe (MK) members on the Breslau Road…
EventSADF mounts raids on ANC targets in neighbouring states
Troops of the South African Defence Force (SADF) carry out raids on alleged ANC targets in Botswana, Zambia and Zimbabwe. Several people are left dead or…
EventWriter J.M. Coetzee is awarded the 2003 Nobel Prize for Literature
Born in South Africa in 1940, JM Coetzee has had a successful literary career. He is the only author ever to win the Booker prize twice, but the publicity-shy…
EventWorld Food Program warns the UN that a record 38 million people are at risk of starvation in Africa
The World Food Program (WFP) was started in 1962 and is concerned with 'providing enough food for every child, woman and man to live an active life'. It is…
Event523 people die in the Black concentration camps of the Second Anglo Boer War
On 11 October 1899 war was officially declared between Britain and the Boers. In March 1901 Lord Kitchener, the commander of the British forces, decided to cut…
EventThe South African War: The lifting of the siege of Mafeking
The Siege of Mafeking (now known as Mafikeng) was an important battle in the South African War (Second Anglo-Boer War). The war began in late 1899; President…
EventThe second Anglo-Boer war, also known as the South African war, breaks out
A number of interrelated factors led to the Second Anglo-Boer War. These include the conflicting political ideologies of imperialism and republicanism, the…