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ArchiveMandla Mandela wants inquest into deaths of Stompie Seipie, Dr Asvat, 19 January 2018, South Africa
… activists Stompie Seipei and Abu-Baker Asvat in 1989. He made the call in a statement welcoming a Supreme …
EventFrederik Willem de Klerk is elected President of South Africa
… De Klerk had been Acting State President since 15 August 1989, following the resignation of President P.W. Botha on 14 … [Accessed: 23 August 2013]| O…
Whither Palestine? by Ronnie Kasrils, 19 May 2015, London
… This gave rise to the SACP as late as a Congress in April 1989, adopting an Insurrectionary Program as a Path to Power, … pp. 123–44. [xlii] “Path to Power”,…
ArticleNew Africa Theatre Project
The New Africa Theatre Association (NATA), founded in 1987 by Mavis Taylor the head of University of Cape Town Drama Department and professional theatre…
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Trouble in Natal - 20 00 Women rioted in Cato Manor over living conditions and government beerhalls and passes for women. Photo by Drum photographer © Baileys…
EventSouth African Journalist, Zwelakhe Sisulu is abducted.
Zwelakhe Sisulu was a prominent journalist in the apartheid era who fought for justice and freedom. Sisulu was the founder and editor of the New Nation…
EventMilner proposes conditional voting rights for ‘non-Whites’ in SA
A year after the Treaty of Vereeniging, which signalled the end of the Anglo-Boer War 2, the British High Commissioner to South Africa, Lord Alfred Milner,…
EventThe Government Gazette publishes a Proclamation that dissolved KaNgwane Legislative Assembly
The Government Gazette published a Proclamation by which the forty-two member KaNgwane Legislative Assembly was dissolved. Together with the Ingwavuma…
From the 1973 Durban strikes to the Marikana massacre and De Doorns conflict: How trade unions acquired their power and what has gone wrong with employment relations in South Africa subsequently by Johann Maree
Forty years ago during January and February 1973 mass strikes by African workers in Durban broke out in protest against low wages. In total 61,000 workers went…
EventYoweri Kaguta Moseveni becomes president of Uganda
Uganda experienced a number of changes of government since it attained its independence from British rule in 1962. In December 1980 Apollo Milton Obote, from…
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… of Parliament. THE GENERAL ELECTIONS on September the 6th, 1989, placed our country irrevocably on the road of drastic … of the Chinese mainland for greater…
ArticleAfrikaner Jewry in South Africa
The identity of the Afrikaner Jew - what personifies the Boerejood? A Boerejood (‘farmer Jew’) or Boerejode (plural) is the term used to identify South…
Soweto and mounting pressure on the apartheid state, 1970s
The Day Our Kids Lost Faith. 1976. © Bailey's African History Archives During the 1970s, and particularly in the late 1970s after the Soweto uprising of 1976,…
ArticleThe Inquest into Biko’s Death and his funeral
Prior to Biko's inquest, magistrates had declined to examine the interrogation methods used, and had attributed detention deaths to natural causes, suicides or…
EventF.W. De Klerk is inaugurated
… De Klerk had been Acting State President since 15 August 1989, following the abdication of President P.W. Botha in …
EventThe SA government presents a promotion of Constitutional Development Bill
… on the principle of one person, one vote. In December 1989, de Klerk met with the imprisoned leader of the African …
ArchivePostscript Ante by Howard Barrell
In July 1990, five months after the South African government had unbanned the ANC, security police in Durban raided a local house. An informer had tipped them…
ArticleAfrican Peoples Democratic Union of Southern Africa (APDUSA)
The African People’s Democratic Union of Southern Africa (APDUSA) was launched in Duncan Village outside East London in March 1961. The launch followed a…
EventThree Zimbabwean intelligence officers stand trial for a bomb attack on an ANC house
Kevin Woods, Michael Smith and Philip Conjwayo were arrested in Zimbabwe in connection with the bombing that killed the driver of the car transporting the bomb…
EventSouth Africa closes its borders with Lesotho
On 1 January 1986 the South African Government closed its borders with Lesotho, cutting off fundamental food and fuel supplies. The relationship of the South…
ArticleBlack Consciousness Movement Timeline 1903-2009
… training in several countries, many in the Soviet Union. 1989 December, An all-inclusive black political conference is …
Rebecca Lan
Rebecca Lan was born in 1933 in Cape Town and grew up in Oranjezicht and Athlone. Her parents were immigrants from Lithuania who arrived in South Africa in…
BiographyJabulile Nyawose
Jabulile Nyawose and her husband Petrus Nyawose worked long hours for Black Allied Workers Union (BAWU), focusing on delivery to members and paying attention…
BiographyThembi Shange Nobadula
A stalwart of the African National Congress (ANC) and the liberation movement, Thembi Shange Nobadula was born on 23 December 1927. She was a woman who…
EventBheki Mlangeni, ANC human rights lawyer of Soweto, is killed by a walkman bomb meant for Dirk Coetzee.
… commander of the unit before he left the police force. In 1989, Coetzee exposed the existence of the unit he once led. …
Article1960s: The Civil Rights and Black Power movements
… This began in the aftermath of World War II, and ended in 1989. From the beginning, the Cold War was linked with the …
EventSA Prime Minister sends a goodwill message to the new government of Mozambique
The South African Prime Minister, B.J. Vorster wished the new Mozambique government well. Voster however, warned that South Africa will have to act in self…
EventGeorge Msimang, artist, is born
Artist George Msimang was born on 26 October 1948 in Durban. Msimang's interest in art began at school although art was not offered as a subject. He left…
EventCOSATU headquarters Johannesburg is sabotaged
Since its formation in 1985, Congress of South African Trade Union (COSATU) was viewed as a threat by the government. COSATU officials and members were…
EventMbhazima Shilowa, former premier of Gauteng, is born
Mbhazima Samuel (Sam) Shilowa, was born in Olifantshoek in the Transvaal (now Limpopo Province.) After High School, Shilowa moved to Johannesburg, where he…