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ArchiveAddress on the Sixth National Day of Affirmation and Human Freedom in the Great Hall, University of the Witwatersrand. Thursday, 6th June, 1968
… Address by Dr Alan Paton on the Sixth National Day of Affirmation and Human Freedom in the Great Hall, University of the Witwatersrand. Thursday, 6th June,…
EventSA is readmitted to the IOC
… One month prior to the establishment of the democratic dispensation, South Africa was readmitted to the Olympic games on condition that it complied within…
EventFormer commander of the armed forces of the Ciskei, Major-General Charles Sebe is imprisoned
… Former commander of the armed forces of the Ciskei, Major-General Charles Sebe, brother of President … organisation, Iliso Lomzi, bent on destabilising the…
Coal Miners Strike on the Rand
… per shift. On 10 January 1922 White mine workers on the Rand gold mines followed their example, because they rejected a proposal that a regulation concerning…
EventPirates win the African Champions Cup
… Orlando Pirates won the Second Leg of the 1995 African Champions Cup (ACC) Final against ASEC … with a score of 1 - 0. With this victory, Pirates became the…
PlaceAllemansfontein, a Farm in the Eastern Cape
… District Municipality, Eastern Cape. Former name of the Farm- Almondsfontein, given by Colonel Robert Jacon Gordon, who was the Commander of the Garrison at…
PlaceAlbertinia, Mossel Bay- The Garden Route
… some 50 km West of Mossel Bay. It was laid out in 1900 on the farm Grootfontein and became a Municipality in 1920. The name is derived from the surname of…
ArchiveOut of the Fire to Find New Fetters: The Violence of Poverty in a Shack Settlement: Paper Presented at the Black Sash National Conference 1991
… Out of the Fire to Find New Fetters: The Violence of Poverty in a Shack Settlement: Paper Presented at the Black Sash National Conference on 3 March 1991…
ArchiveResolution on the International Communist Movement
… all communists should urgently come together to evaluate the serious problems facing the movement, such as US agression in Vietnam, attempts to re-colonise…
ArchiveThe road to Oslo and beyond
… Albert Lutuli's Nobel Peace Prize award with extracts from the speech by Mr Gunnar Jahn, President of the Nobel Institute on the occasion of the presentation…
EventThe Herstigte Nasionale Party is established
… The Herstigte Nasionale Party (HNP) (Reconstituted National … Party) was established as a right wing splinter group of the South African National Party (NP)…
Document 17 - The Groote Schuur Minute
… That apartheid is dead. (We heard that before) Unbanning the ANC, is an admission that your banning in March 1960 was … all actions against us during this…
EventSouth Africa withdraws from the Commonwealth
… to decide whether South Africa should become a republic. The result showed that 52% were in favour of a republic. In accordance with his promise that the…
EventWinnie Mandela sued by the government
… Lawyers representing the government announced on 14 August 1998 that they were suing Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, the ex-wife of former president, Nelson…
EventA military coup deposes the Lesotho Government
… On 15 January 1986, General Justin Lekhanya, the Head of the Lesotho Army, ousted Lesotho prime minister Chief Leabua … and gained executive political…
Letter from S. S. Mazibuko to the President
… This letter is from the Vice President of the South African Students' Movement to the President informing him of the departure of the National … Letter from…
EventThe first Chadian oil pipeline opens
… The first Chadian oil pipeline was opened by Chad President Idriss Deby on 10 October. Thus the small West African republic of Chad joined the group of oil…
EventANC wins the second democratic election
… The African National Congress won the second democratic election by 266 seats. The Democratic Party, which became the new official … ANC wins the second…
ArchiveDefend, consolidate and advance the Front
… An article on defend, consolidate and advance the Front which is divided in five topics such as National democratic struggle and the front approach,…
ArchiveNatal and the 1960 Republican Referendum
… Thesis has been submitted for the partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in the Department of History, … Natal and the 1960…
The 2014 Cape Agulhas Treasure Tracks
… The Overberg Development Association (ODA) in partnership with the Shipwreck Museum, Cape Agulhas Municipality and Radio … Overberg 98.4fm are presenting A…
ArchiveAPDUSA Bulletin 8: APDUSA salutes the people
… With the elections of the tricameral parliament now over, APDUSA expresses its satisfaction with the results. These results reflect an overwhelming rejection…
King Kong a venture in the theatre
… This is the story of an inter-racial venture in South Africa. Many hundreds of white people and Africans in the Union’s four largest cities worked selflessly…
EventAllan Boesak resigns from the church
… The Presbytery of South Africa announced that Dr Allan Boesak, reverend of the Nederduitse Gereformeerde Kerk (Dutch Reformed Church) … has being officially…
ArchiveThe boycott as weapon of struggle
… The most potent weapon in the armoury of a nation struggling for liberation and racial oppression are boycotts. The attitudes of the leaders' and…
ArchiveArchbishop Burnett puts the record straight
… Archbishop Burnett from the Church of the Province of Southern Africa detailing three attacks on the Church by the Minister of Police, the Media and the ……
EventThe Star is published in Johannesburg
… The Star newspaper appeared for the first time in Johannesburg as The Eastern Star. It was founded in Grahamstown under that title on January 6, 1871, and…
EventThe Ben Schoeman freeway is opened
… The Ben Schoeman N1 freeway between Johannesburg and Pretoria, named after the then minister of transport, was opened on this date. In the forty years of its…
ArchiveCommission for Justice and Reconciliation: economic measures against apartheid and the challenge to the church
… Pamphlet of the Commission for Justice and Reconciliation regarding … trade embargoes and disinvestment against apartheid and the challenge to the church ……
EventThe Rev. John Langalibalele Dube dies
… The Rev. John Langalibalele Dube (Mafukuzela), politician and founder and first editor of the Zulu newspaper Ilanga lase Natal (now Ilanga), dies in Umhlanga…