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EventPW Botha gives the “Rubicon” Speech in Durban
… P. W. Botha delivered the infamous "Rubicon" Speech in Durban. Minister of Foreign Affairs at the time, Pik … allies by refusing to consider immediate and…
The role of business in South Africas future
… between the ANC and big business on the role of business in South Africa's future. Includes summary of presentations … between business and the apartheid…
EventTennis champion Frew Mcmillan is born in Springs
… with Bob Hewitt and Wimbledon tennis champion, was born in Springs. On his own, McMillan also won two pro single … partner Betty Stove he took the mixed…
EventSouth African Air Force bombs ANC in Maputo
… bombing of headquarters of the South African Defence Force in Pretoria, ANC bases in a suburb of Maputo, Mozambique's capital city, were bombed in…
ArchiveNon-Central Government structures in South Africa today
… M. Maduna for discussion at the African National Congress in-house seminar on Constitutional Guidelines for a future democratic South Africa, 1-4 March 1988…
EventConstruction on the Aswan Dam starts in Egypt
… High Aswan Dam, which was also known as Saad el Aali in Arabic was started in Egypt. The Dam contained 18 times the material used in the Great Pyramid of…
EventThe United States shuts its embassy in Nairobi
… The United States (US) shut down its embassy in Nairobi, Kenya, after a terrorist threat. Following the … East Africa, especially to Kenya. A new embassy…
EventA prison warder is killed in Groote Schuur Hospital
… Horne on guard duty, was shot dead and another injured in an attack by gunmen at Cape Town's Groote Schuur Hospital … to free a prisoner, apparently a member…
EventTwo policemen are killed in poll tax resistance
… of Zululand by White farmers, caused sporadic uprisings in the Umvoti County of Zululand. These uprisings culminated in the Bhambada (also called Bambatha,…
ArchiveA Survey of race relations in South Africa: 1973
… A survey of race relations in South Africa in 1973 and includes chapters on: Political and … and trials under security laws; Guerrillas and movements-in…
EventPolitical activist Mvulane Zacharia Bheki dies in detention
… year old political activist was arrested with eight others in February 1985. When he failed to appear in court along with the others on 7 March, his family…
ArchiveThe Way History is taught in South Africa is ahistorical, – and that’s a problem by Natasha Robinson (theconversation.com), 7 June 2018
… may soon be a compulsory school subject until Grade 12 in South Africa. A task team established by the country’s … lessons on apartheid end with the …
EventLibrary and clinic names are changed in Pretoria
… and the Sammy Marks Clinic to the FF Ribeiro Clinic in ceremonies at the Sammy Marks Square. Prof. Ezekiel … after Dr Fabian and Ms Florence Ribeiro, who…
EventAdam Kok III is killed in an accident
… Kok III, founder and chief of Griqualand East, was killed in an accident when he fell from his buggy. The Cape Colonial government unilaterally annexed…
EventThe British government closes its consulate in Angola
… from Angola. This was a subsequent to increasing tensions in Angola, with Cuban forces fighting on behalf of the … the Liberation of Angola (FNLA) set up a…
EventSaxophone player, Bobby Hendricks, dies in Cape Town
… Robert Stuart Hendricks was born in Caledon on 7 February 1936. He was a renowned South … his own band, the Bobby Hendricks Sound. Hendricks died in Cape…
EventWhite sympathisers join evicted Black squatters in a protest
… About 100 White sympathisers joined evicted Black squatters in a protest against the demolition of shanty dwellings … removing an estimated 26,000 squatters…
EventShaba War in Zaire comes to an end
… (also referred to as Shaba I) broke out on 8 March 1977 in the Democratic Republic of Congo, when Angola-based … Nationale de Congo (FLNC) took the border…
Land Reform and Traditional Leadership in South Africa
… TO PANEL DISCUSSION Land Reform and Traditional Leadership in South Africa What does King Goodwill Zwelithini’s new … claim on the land of KwaZulu-Natal…
EventMK’s Luthuli Detachment and ZAPU in a joint operation
… Umkhonto we Sizwe's (MK) Luthuli Detachment in Rhodesia (Zimbabwe) and Zimbabwean African People's Union (ZAPU) guerrillas engaged Rhodesian forces in Wankie…
Prejudice, Politics and Patriarchy: The Social Decline and Changing Identity of David Lurie in J. M. Coetzee’s Disgrace by Charley-Ann Pearson
… The Social Decline and Changing Identity of David Lurie in J. M. Coetzee’s Disgrace Charley-Ann Pearson Politics … South Africa’s history. This essay…
ArticleDecember 16, the reflection of a changing South African heritage
… Introduction December 16 looms large in the history of South Africa. Today in the new South … In the early 1960s the ANC, the SACP, COD, CPC and the SA C…
We are no longer in France - Book Launch
… the Front de Libération Nationale launched armed struggle in November 1954, the PCA maintained its organisational … FLN pressure. Many Algerian communists…
ArchiveDoes dust in the factory make you sick
… Cream poster with brown image of worker in factory. Title in two African languages. Health Information Centre. … Does dust in the factory make you sick …
ArticleResponses in South Africa to the outbreak of WWI: The African Peoples Organisation and the Teachers League of South Africa
… the organisations of the coloured elite came out strongly in support of the British war effort. They shared the same … Abduraghman’s African l Peoples…
ArchiveBlack theology in Bangkok: relevance for South Africa
… This is a journal article about the Black theology in Bangkok. It also discusses the church in Africa and the relevance for South Africa. … Black theology in…
ArchiveOne person one vote in a unitary South Africa
… students to support the principle of one person, one vote in a unitary South Africa, in an upcoming poll. … One person one vote in a unitary South Africa …
ArchiveDemocratic opposition: the progressive movement in South Africa
… delivered by Auret van Heerden, to both the NUSAS Congress in Durban and to a joint sitting of the AZASO General Students Council and COSAS National Council…
ArchiveViolence and the cross in South Africa today
… Buthelezi at South African Leadership Conference held in July 20, 1979, about violence and the cross in South Africa. Note that the text is barely legible. ……
ArchiveA womans place is in the struggle: Women of
… Black and white poster. Title in yellow letters. Notice of International Women's Day on … banner with title on it. Name Shelley Sacks and date 1990 in bottom…