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SASPU National, 1980 - 1987
… SASPU National was one of two publications produced by the South African …
Cape Flats Details - Life and Popular Art in Cape Town’s Townships
… Cape Flats African and Coloured townships of Cape Town by one of South Africa’s most talented, but least recognized, …
PlaceHarbour Board Building, Port Elizabeth
… and stained glass windows. The building is regarded as one of the best examples of Art Nouveau architecture in South …
PlaceMoletzie Bird Sanctuary
… and non-breeding groups in Namibia and Southern Zimbabwe. One of the largest southern African vultures with a total …
Famous Gatsha Buthelezi Editorial in SASM Newsletter, April 1973
… Mind you, he is supposed to liberate these very people one day. This time Baas M. C. Botha has "requested" him not …
EventThe Alabama, American raider of the Southern States during the American Civil War, arrives in Saldana Bay for provisions
… trading vessels and had built up a reputation for being one of the most famous raiders in history. In August 1863, …
EventDr. Hendrik Verwoerd announces his plan to grant Transkei independence
… friction between Pretoria and Umtata. For instance, one of the questions that seemed to trouble the Transkei's …
Event20 000 Women march to the Union Buildings in protest of pass laws
… In one of the largest demonstrations staged in this country's …
Known as Black Tuesday’, the New York Stock exchange collapsed sending economic shockwaves throughout the world and throwing the global economy into depression
… world wide depression of the 1930s, which at its worst saw one in three people unemployed in the United States In South …
EventPercy Qoboza, editor of the Post, states that it is difficult to see how a credible newspaper for Blacks can be created in South Africa
… at the editor of the City Press. He has been heralded as one of the most influential newspaper editors in South Africa …
EventIngrid Jonker, SA poet, commits suicide.
… to Parliament in Cape Town, President Nelson Mandela read one of Ingrid Jonker's poems. …
EventIvory Coast’s new prime minister, Daniel Kablan Duncan, takes office
… of his home village. At independence, Ivory Coast was one of the most prosperous countries in French West Africa, …
EventNotorious role of Ferdi Barnard is disclosed
… of all intelligence functions of the SADF, including MI. One of Steyn's tasks was to investigate covert operations and …
Event7 People are killed during a SATS strike
… and support arrived from Johannesburg and Krugersdorp. One source gives the date as 10 January, the numbers killed …
EventJacob Abraham Uitenhage de Mist and his daughter Augusta leave on an exploration of the interior
… be left behind, and continued the journey, with her bed in one of the wagons. They passed via Beaufort West, Prince …
EventMuziwendoda Mdluli, National Intelligence Agency (NIA) security chief is found dead
… Mdluli’s own family, alleged that he was murdered. Later, one of NIA directors was overheard saying that they believed …
EventThe Dutch Reformed Church decides that Afrikaans may be used alongside Dutch during services
… its official recognition in 1925. Afrikaans is currently one of South Africa's eleven official languages, and is …
EventWilliam Brown becomes the first South African officer killed during World War I
… British failure at the Battle of the Somme proved to be one of the major factors in propelling the South Africans …
EventKitchener succeeds Roberts as Commander-in-Chief
… were placed in concentration camps. This was considered one of the most horrific strategies of the war as …
PlaceCurry's Post
… reef. The Curry’s Post of today is considered one of the hidden treasures of the Natal Midlands, for its …
EventANC sacks its chief whip Mbulelo Goniwe, after finding him guilty of sexual harassment
… that Goniwe had made sexual advances toward a twenty-one year old administrative assistant in the ANC's …
EventKing Moshoeshoe II is reinstated as King of Lesotho
… appears to be a very important traditional question and one that goes to the very heart of the Basotho society and … 2011]|Anon, (2002), 'Europa World Year…
EventThe Native Land Act is passed
… the Union of South Africa, as Cape property-ownership was one of the qualifications for Black franchise. Sharecropping …
EventPAC’s leader, Potlako Leballo confirms that Poqo is the organisation’s military wing
… Basutoland (now Lesotho), that Poqo and the PAC are one and the same organisation. Leballo went further to say …
EventSteven Biko is arrested.
… in Port Elizabeth under the Terrorism Act. This arrest was one of several each on different charges, including various …
EventMass funeral for those killed at Sharpeville commemoration
… masses and the heavy police presence, it was clear that no one was prepared for a large-scale confrontation, and …
Memorial lecture on the 26th Anniversary of the Lowveld Massacre presented by Comrade Jackson Mthembu ANC National Spokesperson, 15 March 2012
… drove their vehicles into the crowd of mourners killing one mourner, Connie Sibiya. It goes without say that during … as the Lowveld Massacre. Like other…
January 8th Statements - Statement of the National Executive Committee on the Occasion of the 108th Anniversary of the African National Congress by Cyril Ramaphosa, 8 January 2020
… ideals of social and economic emancipation. We stand at one of the most challenging and fraught moments since our … citizens performing their civic duties,…
Interview with Lulu Dube by Sbongiseni Dladla, Ohlange, JL Dube House, 21 March 2011
… which happened in this street that you still remember? LD: One of the biggest moments was when Dr Nelson Mandela walked … the tragedy faced by the street,…
Message by Oliver Tambo on the twentieth anniversary of the Tanganyika African National Union, 01 July 1974
… back at the road traversed during the past twenty years as one landmarked by important events in the life of Tanzanian … on the Tanzanian people by the past…