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ArchiveAziz Pahad: Rest in peace by David Kenvyn
… was able to captivate both audiences and individuals with his passion, his practicality, his deep knowledge of his subject and his sense of humour, …
ArchiveHARWU: The Aborted Attempt to Build a National South African Catering Union (1984 – 1990) by Allan Horwitz, June 2018
… was one such example. From the late 1970’s, he and his organisers (principally Alan Fine and Dirk Hartford) … in late 1984 he was replaced as general…
Address by ANC President, Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela, to the OAU Ad Hoc Committee for Southern Africa Arusha, 28 April 1992
… they are black. White indifference is appalling: the death and destruction, the refugees, homelessness and scale … whose 44- year reign has brought nothing…
Speech by Rev. Dr. Allan Boesak at the launch of the United Democratic Front, 20 August 1983, Rocklands Civic Centre, Mitchell’s Plain
… so many of those who struggle for justice; the torture and death of so many in detention; the merciless killing of our … family life and which spell out a…
60. Congress and the Non-European Co-operation Conference, 1927
… attitude. This was strongly supported by Prof. Jabavu and his brother Mr. Alex Jabavu, which resulted in the following … a cordial welcome to the Right Hon…
PlaceSea Point
… of the commanders serving under Captain Cook , encamped his men there in order to avoid a smallpox epidemic , which … the city council in the 1930's. Solomon…
ArchiveJohnny Clegg: South Africa’s universal man of uncommon passion by David Coplan, 25 July 2019
… referring to the capacity of a formidable dancer to hold his stand.” In my mind, like a Zulu ngoma (drum) dancer completing his turn, I somersault backwards…
EventChumani Maxwele ignites the #RhodesMustFall Movement at UCT
… South Africa. By taking human excrement from Khayelitsha, his action sought to make a connection with the lack of human …
ANC Election victory party, 19 May 2010
… expected to attend the event. The president will use his speech to thank the millions of South Africans - the huge …
Letter from Oliver Tambo to Ayatollah Khomeini, 13 February 1979, Iran, Maputo, People`s Republic of Mozambique
… His Excellency Ayatollah Khomeini, Teheran Islamic Republic …
Introduction by Oliver Tambo to a message from Nelson Mandela, smuggled out of prison, 10 June 1980
… fresh and valid and should be presented to our people. His call to unity and mass action is of particular importance …
Letter to the Chairman of the Special Committee against Apartheid by O.R. Tambo, President of the ANC, 06 October 1975
… We shall be extremely grateful if Your Excellency will use his good offices to inform Member States at the United …
Introduction to a Message from Nelson Mandela by O. R. Tambo, Smuggled Out Of Prison, 10 June 1980
… fresh and valid and should be presented to our people. His call to unity and mass action is of particular importance …
EventSouth African historian Charles van Onselen is born.
… both nationally and internationally. He chose to centre his already well documented research on the social, economic …
EventCricketer Omar Henry born
… sanctions against the country’s national sides. With his inclusion into the South African national side, Henry …
ArchiveThe ANCs first armed military operation: the
… 1967. The Rhodesian Prime Minister, Ian Smith, invited his South African counterpart John Vorster to send South …
The Mission: A Life for Freedom in South Africa by Denis Goldberg
… and the banning of torture Appendix 8 Sam will never see his favoured son free of the traitor’s brand … account of the sacrifices—such as life imprisonment…
ArchiveInterview with Peter Donald Hjul
… Banned and harassed by the security police, Hjul and his family left South Africa for Britain on an exit permit in …
PlaceBensusan Museum of Photography and Library, Johannesburg
… For example, a very early Daguerre camera - bought by his English rival, WH Fox Talbot, in 1839, the year that the …
PlaceRhodes Cottage, Main Road, Muizenberg
… events in the rest of South Africa kept Rhodes away from his home, and it was only in 1902 that he finally moved here. …
EventNathaniel Nakasa, South African journalist and writer, dies in exile
… Harvard University in the US but the government rejected his application for a passport. This forced him to leave the …
EventThe Natal Legislature plans to introduce the Indian Franchise Bill
… Prime Minister Robinson, and Attorney-General Escombe. In his telegrams Ghandi requested the postponement of …
PlaceOld Government Building, Church Street, Boksburg
… 1902 to 1958 the building housed the local magistrate and his staff, but after they were moved to a new building, it …
Document 35 - Letter from John Gomas to the Executive Bureau, Communist Party of South Africa, 29 October 1930
… written to Comrade Bunting, asking him to supply us with his version of the case. The following telegram was sent to …
EventPolitical Activist and Advocate, Dumisa Ntsebeza, is born
… 70’s and served time in prison, during which he completed his law degree. Ntsebeza emerged as a commissioner in the …
EventSouth African man walks from England to France through Channel Tunnel
… between Folkenstone in England and Calaise in France in his flip flops. Trains travelling at speed of 100 mph pass … (2005),' Man Walks To France Through…
EventFour political detainees escape from Pretoria Central prison in one of the most dramatic escapes in SA history
… led closer to Mannie and he was forced into hiding while his family went into exile. The prison break came roughly two … 8 August 2013]| African National…
EventMayor of Welkom, in the Free State, is tarred and feathered
… to sources, the National Party mayor, ran foul of his White constituency when he proposed the opening of a taxi …
EventFearon Fallows, first Astronomer Royal at the Cape, is born in England
… in the profession of hand-weaving. However, Fallows spent his spare time studying, especially subjects like …
EventCharles Swart, a student ranger from Mangosuthu Technical College, is killed by a leopard
… easy targets. In 2010, the Bengal tiger Panjo escaped from his owner's bakkie. He was found two days later after an …