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ArchiveSA Air Force operation, Pretoria bombing a 'crucial warning', Rand Daily Mail, 23 May 1983
ArchiveSouth African guerrillas strike at nation's oil lifeline, by Quentin Peel, Christian Science Monitor, 3 June 1980
ArchiveCar Bomb Kills Two Black Men, Injures 42 Others, AP News, 24 October 1988
ArchiveAccomplice in 1988 Witbank Bombing before Amnesty Committee, South African Press Association, 31 January 2000
Statement at the Launch of the "Nelson Mandela: Freedom at 70"Campaign by O. R. Tambo, Wembley Stadium, London, 11 June 1988
Political Report of the National Executive Committee to the National Consultative Conference of the ANC by O. R. Tambo, Kabwe, Zambia, June 1985
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”,…
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…
Domestic work
… 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…
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…
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…
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. …
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…
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…
Natal Performing Arts Council (NAPAC)
NAPAC was founded on 25 July 1963 under Chris Lombard as the first director. The first office premises were two small offices in Acutt Street, Durban. They…
PlaceA History of Ottosdal and Letsopa
… selection of Ahmed Kathrada's prison correspondence, 1964-1989. MSU Press, 1999. 13 NASA, NTS, 4394, 316/313, Census … Boekhuis, 2008). • Pieter De Jager,…
ArchiveNotes on Letters from a Kindred Spirit: Ismail Mohamed by Roseinnes Phahle, August 2019
… ↵ Conclusion The next time I met Ismail was in February, 1989. This was on the occasion when I was in South Africa for …
Documents, and articles relating to the Sharpeville Massacre 1960
… of which eight fellow-prisoners were freed on 15 October 1989, and for advising me of the fact in advance. The release … for doing so are available. As…
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 …
PlaceGreatmore Studios
Greatmore Studios was established in 1988 but only registered as an NPO in 2007. It is an artist residency and centre with studios and exhibition space in…
EventKaunda calls for Thatcher’s exclusion from talks on South African sanctions
In protest of the system of apartheid, economic sanctions against South Africa had been advocated from the 1960s onwards. However, it was only in the 1980s…
ArticleBlack Consciousness Movement Timeline 1903-2009
… training in several countries, many in the Soviet Union. 1989 December, An all-inclusive black political conference is …
Chapter 5 - Basotho - Their Last Supper
… by a South African agent named 'TEX' on 15 April 1989 at 9:15 pm. The loss of your child is an immeasurable …
EventMother Teresa arrives in SA to establish a missionary home for HIV/AIDS sufferers
Mother Teresa was born in Albania and at a young age felt compelled to care for the sick and poor. When she was eighteen years old, she left home and joined…