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Mayibuye
Mayibuye, published for many years as a small, underground newsletter, was one of three African National Congress publications alongside Sechaba and Dawn …
EventVerwoerdburg is renamed Centurion.
Verwoerdburg originates from Lyttelton Township that was marked out on the farm Droogegrond in 1904. The area was inhabited predominantly by Afrikaans speaking…
EventSir Thomas Cullinan, digger and founder of the Premier diamond company, is born
Sir Thomas Cullinan was born in the The Cape Colony in 1862. He settled in Barberton, before moving to Johannesburg in 1887. He began working as a bricklayer…
EventThe New English Bible is published.
In 1935, Cambridge University Press and Oxford University Press who were the copyright holders of the English Revised Version Bible felt that a modern version…
EventThe South African Non-Racial Olympic Committee is founded
On the 13 January 1963, the South African Non-Racial Olympic Committee (SAN-ROC) was founded by Dennis Brutus. The committee was specifically established to…
EventLucas Seage is born
Lucas Seage, South African artist, was born in Newclare, Johannesburg. Seage attended Barolong High School in Gaborone, Botswana and then Damelin College in…
EventThe Joint Declaration of Cooperation ("Three Doctors’ Pact") is signed
Sixty-five years ago (1947-2012) the Joint Declaration of Cooperation known as “Three Doctors’ Pact” was signed by three doctors, Dr. A.B. Xuma, president of…
EventOmar Badsha, South African photographer, is born
South African photographer, trade unionist and political activist, Omar Badsha, was born in Durban on 27 June 1945. Badsha played an active role in the South…
EventThe first Afrikaans Hymn book is published
After the promotion of Afrikaans by the Afrikaans Language Association and other societies like Our Language in Bloemfontein, the language was finally…
EventTrader and philanthropist Mohamed Joosub dies
On 27 August 1944, a pioneer wholesaler, trader, philanthropist and devout Muslim, Mohamed Hajee Joosub, died in Pretoria. Joosub left his birth place Ranavav,…
EventJournalist Percy Qoboza is released from detention
Percy Qoboza, editor of the banned newspaper, The World, was released from detention, together with nine other Black leaders seized in security raids in…
EventPupils boycott classes in defiance of the use of Afrikaans in their schools
Pupils at Phefeni Secondary School started boycotting classes in protest against the use of Afrikaans as medium of instruction in certain subjects in schools…
EventBafana Bafana lose to Egypt in the African Cup of Nations final
The South African national football team Bafana Bafana, under tutelage of the hastily appointed caretaker coach Jomo Sono, lost 2-0 against their Egyptian…
EventPolitical parties call for Constitutional changes
Political parties in parliament tabled more than 300 amendments to the constitutional legislation. The New National Party (NNP) strove for the insertion of a…
EventEllen Khuzwayo is born
Dr Nnoseng Ellen Kate Khuzwayo, ANC member of parliament and noted writer of Call me Woman (winner of CNA Award 1985, translated into six European languages)…
EventPolitical activist and trade unionist James La Guma is born
Political activist and trade unionist James Arnold (Jimmy) La Guma, member of the South African Communist Party (SACP) and president of the South African…
EventTwenty Black students are admitted to the Pretoria University
Pretoria University developed from the Pretoria branch of the Transvaal University College. The branch was established in 1908 and has since developed into a…
EventFilm producer, Jamie Uys passes away
Johannes Jacobus Uys, more popularly known as Jamie Uys, was an internationally acclaimed South African film director who made 24 films. Prizes for his work…
ArchiveThe National situation, an address delivered at the Edendale Conference of the All African Convention
The address opens with a description of three major landmarks of the year, namely;The first, the Treason Trial, which began on 5 December 1956 where 156 people…
EventJustice Sfiso Ka-Mkame, SA artist, is born in Durban
Sfiso Ka-Mkame was born in Clermont, Durban in 1963. He studied art in the 80’s and gained fame in 1988 when he sold his ‘Letters to God’ series of drawings to…
PlaceDurban Main Post Office
This Victorian styled building was originally erected in 1885 as Durban's first town hall, which was designed by Phillip Dudgeon in 1882. It was the first…
PlaceLittle Chelsea, 18 Windermere Road, Durban
This Victorian double-storey building with cast-iron verandah was designed by architects Reid & Hurst in 1897 and was built for L Evans, for use as a shop,…
EventPeter Clarence van Riet Lowe, archaeologist and civil engineer who built 109 bridges in SA, is born in Aliwal North, CC.
Clarence van Riet Lowe was born on 4 November 1894 in Aliwal North, Eastern Cape. A civil engineer by profession, Clarence was in charge of construction of…
EventAt Botha, SA artist, is born.
At Botha is one of South Africa’s most renowned artists. He was born in Kroonstad on 23 December 1949. Botha studied drama at the Potchefstroomse Universiteit…
Devout domesticity?
Table of contents Acknowledgements Dedication Abstract Introduction 1.Class, Consciousness and Organization in the Political Transition in South…
The Construction of Whiteness/Blackness And The Invention of Miscegenation In South African Literary Texts of the 1920s and 1930 by Itala Vivan
In an exploration of the attitudes taken by different cultures in different historical periods with regard to the cultural phenomenon of hybridity, I came…
PlaceMarket Theatre
The Market Theatre was founded in 1976 in Johannesburg by Mannie Manim and Barney Simon. Now based in the center of the Newtwon Cultural Precinct, The Market…
EventUnited Democratic Front member dies after asthma attack
On October 1986, Mr Mbuyiseli Songelwa, a Queenstown community leader and high profile member of the United Democratic Front,died in police custody. He was…
EventThe Association of Chambers of Commerce issued a “no work, no pay, no penalty” statement
On 5 June 1986, The Association of Chambers of Commerce released a statement of ‘no work, no pay’ to workers who stayed away from work on June 16. The…
ArchiveCivil Society vs. the State: identity, institutions, and the Black Consciousness Movement in South Africa
A dissertation presented to the Facilty of the Graduate School of Yale University in candidacy for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. This dissertation…