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BiographyMmusi Aloysias Maimane
Mmusi Aloysias Maimane was born in Krugersdorp, Transvaal (now Gauteng) on 6 June 1980 to Ethel and Simon Maimane but grew up in Dobsonville, Soweto, Transvaal…
BiographyErnest Cole
Ernest Cole was born on 21 March 1940 as Ernest Levi Tsoloane Kole, in Eersterust, Pretoria. He left school when Bantu Education was introduced, and…
ArchiveThe Freedom run
… Notice of a 10km and 3km fun run on Sunday, 11th June, 1989, at Brockwell Park, London. Prizes to be won. Guest …
EventCiskeian police disrupt residents’ meeting
… South African Institute of Race Relations. (1989). Race Relations Survey 1988/89, Johannesburg: South …
EventDeath sentence for Rapists
Two White men, Schalk Burger and George Scheepers, were sentenced in Klerksdorp to be hanged to death for the rape of a Black woman, Ginny Gotsoine in February…
ArticleThe Homelands
The Bantustans or homelands, established by the Apartheid Government, were areas to which the majority of the Blacks population was moved to prevent them from…
PlaceHistorical core of Wynberg Village
The old village of Wynberg was developed during the mid-19th Century when it became the preferred place of retirement for British civil servants returning from…
ArchiveTowards a mixed economy in South African agriculture
… prepared for a meeting in Harare, Zimbabwe in April-May 1989. Discusses the political economy and national liberation …
ArticleMangosuthu Buthelezi was a man of immense political talent and contradictions
Mangosuthu Gatsha Buthelezi, who has died, was a history maker. He was born on 27 August 1928 into a tumultuous global century, and into the local conditions…
African People’s Organisation (APO)
By the beginning of the twentieth century a number of political organisations initiated by Coloureds existed, most of which dealt with the question of the…
EventDaniel Toroitich arap Moi arap Moi wins the first multi
Daniel Toroitich arap Moi was first appointed to one of the African seats in Kenya's Legislative Council in 1955. Moi then won an elected seat on the council…
EventP.W. Botha announces that all South Africans will take part in a constitutional conference
1984 saw P.W. Botha elected to the position of President, having abolished the position of Prime Minister in 1983. These two events were preceeded by the…
PlaceOlivedale , Randburg
… National Monument under old NMC legislation on 10 February 1989. The Township of Olivedale - part of … guide. This Windmill was declared a National Monument…
EventANC makes second submission before TRC
… for more than 500 incidents of violence between 1977 and 1989. …
ArticleApartheid and reactions to it
In 1948, the National Party (NP), representing Afrikaners, won the national election on a platform of racism and segregation under the slogan of 'apartheid’…
EventP.W. Botha resigns from the National Party
… proposals. He had resigned as state president on 14 August 1989 in the midst of rising political instability, growing …
EventFirst Black US ambassador is sent to South Africa
… Nelson Mandela out of prison. He served in this post until 1989, when he left to become the director of the US Foreign …
South African Youth Revolutionary Council (SAYRCO)
The student protest that broke out on 16 June 1976 was organised and directed by the Soweto Students Representative Council (SSRC). Recent accounts of the…
ArchiveRace or Class? Community and Conflict amongst Indian Municipal Employees in Durban, 1914 - 1949 by Goolam Vahed
ArchivePolice station operations, 1986, MK Special Operations Combatant Marion Sparg is Arrested, 7 March 2023
ArchiveSA Air Force operation, City blast victims buried, Pretoria News, 26 May 1983
ArchiveSA Air Force operation, Blast: Good clues found, Pretoria News, 23 May 1983
ArchiveBlasts in E Tvl hit pipeline, substation, by Johan Buys, Rand Daily Mail, 23 October 1981
ArchiveMK unit slept in police station before Sasol attack: TRC hears, SAPA, 8 May 1998
ArchiveJo'burg shell-shocked, by Cas St Leger and Mark Suzman, Sunday Times, 2 August 1987
ArchiveBomb Havoc, 2 dead, 42 hurt, by Tony Stirling and Andre Mouton, The Citizen, 25 October 1988
ArchiveSouth Africa: Two die as Huge Car Bomb Devastates Shopping Centre, Reuters, 8 November 1988
Memorandum by Ben Turok before the ANC`s Morogoro Conference and a "Reply"by Joe Matthews, 5 April 1969, Morogoro
ArchiveThe Responsibilities of Restitution Research: The Case of Ridgeview Quarry (Cato Manor) by Glen L. Thompson, 27 October 1999
Vakalisa Art Association
The Vakalisa Art Association was founded in 1982. It was a network of Black cultural workers that operated in the Western Cape. James Matthews, a well renown…