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EventMahlatse Chiliboy Ralepelle becomes the first Black Springboks captain
Rugby player, Mahlatse Chiliboy Ralepelle was born in Tzaneen on 11 September 1986. Ralepelle moved to Pretoria and attended Pretoria Boys High School, where…
EventNigerian political campaigner, women's rights activist and traditional aristocrat, Funmilayo Ransome Kuti is born
Funmilayo Ransome Kuti was born Francis Abigail Olufunmilayo Thomas on 25 October 1900 in Abeokuta, Nigeria. Kuti founded a women's organisation with 20 000…
EventThe Azanian People's Organisation (AZAPO) is founded after the government banned a host of BCM organisations in October 1977.
In the aftermath of the 16 June 1976 Uprising, in Soweto, Johannesburg, the apartheid government banned all the organisations under the Black Consciousness…
ArchiveZondeni Veronica Sobukwe interviewed by Ntsikelelo Sandi,King Williams Town,12 May 1997
CHAIRPERSON: Mrs Sobukwe, are you Zodwa? MRS SOBUKWE: I am Zondeni. CHAIRPERSON: Zondeni Veronica. We welcome you Mrs Sobukwe in this hearing and we will ask…
The flight of the Gwala-Gwala bird: Essays by Ari Sitas, review essay by Linda Cooper
“They have taught us through their orations the undesirability of a social system based on capitalism, that is inqubo yogimhelakwesabo, that is stuffing one’s…
ArchivePetrus Mashishi
Petrus Mashishi, President of the South African Municipal Workers Union (SAMWU) from its founding in 1987 until 2009, was both a man of his times and a giant…
Restrictions on the media
A reflection on journalism There is nothing, amid South Africa's vast censorship apparatus, preventing the country's media from publishing the information…
Document 18 - The Pretoria Minute
The South African state saw in the campaign for the Congress of the People and the Freedom Charter an act of treason. Consequently, on the early morning of 5…
Chapter 7. An Afrikaner Working Mother
Anna Sophia Swanepoel (Told in 1950) I was born on 2nd April 1893, on Tapfontein Farm, Edenvale district, Orange Free State. My father was a small farmer. My…
Address by President Jacob Zuma at the celebration of 60th Anniversary of the Freedom Charter, Kliptown, Johannesburg, 26 June 2015
Director of the programmeDeputy President Cyril Ramaphosa and all ANC Officials,ANC NEC members,Vice-President of COSATU and theLeadership of the ANC, SACP,…
PlaceDie Grootkerk in Bosmanstraat
The Dutch Reformed Church, Pretoria was established in 1854, when it separated from the Rustenburg congregation. The site where the first church was built…
Cataloguing the archive of the Anti-Apartheid Movement
The archive of the Anti-Apartheid Movement arrived at Rhodes House Library in Oxford in 1996 and it is planned that the cataloguing process will be complete…
52. Gandhi: my experiences, 1914
… represents a warm, personal account of the campaign from 1906 to 1914. Source: Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi, vol. …
Address at the National Youth Day Celebrations, 16 June 2002
It has been 26 years since the youth of South Africa marched in all parts of the country on a lonely journey for a better education, a transformed South Africa…
The diary of Maria Tholo - Epilogue by Carol Hermer
From the book: The Diary of Maria Tholo by Carol Hermer It's two and a half years since Maria said those words. Things stayed tense but quiet in Cape Town…
PlaceCape Columbine Nature Reserve
Near Paternoster on the West Coast. One of the highlights being the Cape Columbine Lighthouse about 5km away along a gravel road. The Nature Reserve is…
PlaceMankweng or Turfloop
“When life gives you the scorching heat of the sun, be hopeful for the rain too” . Mankweng is found in the Capricorn District and Polokwane Local…
EventVan Zyl Slabbert is elected as the leader of the PFP
On 3 September 1979, Dr. Frederik van Zyl Slabbert was elected as the leader of the opposition party, the Progressive Federal Party (PFP). He took over from…
PlaceSpringfield Convent School, Cape Town
When six Dominican sisters left Ireland forever in the 1860's to establish a girls’ school in Cape Town, 'they were decidedly blessed. Guided by faith and…
PlaceIziko South African Maritime Centre
The Iziko South African (SA) Maritime Centre opened in 1990. It is based at the Victoria and Alfred Waterfront (V&A Waterfront), Cape Town, Western Cape. The…
PlaceGately House Museum, East London
Peruse through the former home of John Gately, an Irish Immigrant who was one of the founders of the municipal council and voted Mayor of East London a number…
EventThe founding member of United Democratic Front and struggle activist Johnny Issel dies
On 23 January 2011, John James Issel also known as Johnny died at the age of 64, after he had suffered renal failure at the Groote Schuur Hospital in Cape Town…
PlaceThe Old Slave Tree Memorial
The Old Slave Tree Memorial is located in Spin Street, Cape Town. It was an old fir tree that was cut down in 1916. The site is now an octagonal memorial…
Chapter 10 - A framework for negotiating the final constitution
THE GENERAL ELECTION ON 27 APRIL 1994 was the product of negotiated agreements to bring an end to conflict and usher in a new process of negotiation towards…
EventTseko Simon Nkoli dies
On this day in history, prominent activist Tseko Simon Nkoli died of an AIDS related illness. Nkoli was one of the first Black anti-apartheid activists to…
Funeral of Sean MacBride: Oliver Tambo, 05 May 1988
Our Banners Dipped As a young man, Sean MacBride, an Irishman, spent time in prison for his part in the struggle for independence of his own people. From 1973…
`We will come back with Msholozi`- erupts Pondoland, 12 December 2008
Sounds of "sizobuya naye uMsholozi" (we will come back with Msholozi), "ngena Jacob, ukhetho luyeza" (enter Jacob, elections are coming), "amandla ase masebene…
EventOn 17th November 1921 Professor Richard van der Ross was born in Plumstead, Cape Town
On 17th November 1921 Professor Richard van der Ross was born in Plumstead, Cape Town. He completed his higher education diploma at the University of Cape Town…
ArchiveStaffrider Vol.8 No.3 and No.4 1989
Contents and Contributors CONTENTS Comment Frank Meintjies and Mi Hlatshwayo. STORY: Reminiscences of a Job Seeker, Jan Ceasar Mbele. ESSAYS and INTERVIEWS:…