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Work In Progress
The context in which the first issue of Work In Progress appeared was one in which the embryonic trade union movement had not yet emerged as a major actor on…
PlaceStone Chapel, Tokai, near the Porter Reformatory School
This structure probably dates from the 1890's and was built in sandstone in a predominantly neo-Gothic manner. It forms an integral part of the Porter…
ArticleBantu education and the racist compartmentalizing of education
In 1949 the government appointed the Eiselen Commission with the task of considering African education provision. The Commission recommended ‘resorting to…
PlaceRustenburg
The Magaliesberg range of Mountains dominates the Landscape that is now known as the Northwest Province. Rustenburg, the largest City in this Province, has…
EventSolomon Popoli Linda, singer and composer, dies
On 8 October 1962, Solomon Linda, the singer and composer of Mbube, which became the pop hit as 'The Lion Sleeps Tonight', died without receiving royalties for…
EventSteve Tshwete is born
Steve Tshwete (1938 - 2002) was born in Springs on 12 November. He spent his childhood in the village of Peelton, and later in King William's Town and East…
ArticleCradle of Humankind
The Fossil Hominid Sites of Sterkfontein, Swartkrans, Kromdraai, and EnvironsThe Sterkfontein Valley landscape is in both western Gauteng and the North West…
ArchiveChanging focus: The art and activism of Omar by Bongani Kona (Mail and Guardian), 4 June 2015
It’s early winter in Cape Town, cold and gray, when I take the 1044 train from Newlands station on a Saturday afternoon to meet the photographer Omar Badsha at…
ArchiveSA Air Force operation, Keep out of it or our planes will hit back, by Chris Olckers and Jose Caetano, Rand Daily Mail, 24 May 1983
"We are of the World and the World is with Us": Address on Receiving the Degree of Doctor of Laws Honoris Causa from the Jawaharlal Nehru University by O. R. Tambo , New Delhi, 9 May 1986
ArchiveNational Conference on the role of Blacks in the Anglo-Boer South African War - 1899 - 1902, 29 - 31 August 2000, Durban, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
PlaceCameroon
… Ibid. ↵ [xxii] Ibid. ↵ [xxiii] Barkindo, Bawuro Mubi. 1989. The Sultanate of Mandara to 1902. Stuttgart: Franz … Cahier 126 (1992), pp. 285-309.| Barkindo,…
Mission Stations - I-L
Mission Stations - I IBISI, Natal: FMA; WMMS ICQUIBIGHA, Cape: see IGQIBIGHA, Middledrift, Cape IDUTYWA, also known as IDUTYWA RESERVE, Cape: UFS 1880;…
ArticleThe death of Samora Machel
This feature celebrates Samora Machel and examines the mysterious circumstances surrounding his death and acknowledges the contribution that he made to…
EventTwenty former SA political prisoners launched a campaign against apartheid laws
… O’Malley P. ‘1989’ , from Nelson Mandela Centre of Memory and Dialog , …
EventNamibian artist, John Ndevasia Muafangejo, dies
On 27 November 1987, Namibian artist John Ndevasia Muafangejo died suddenly of a heart attack at his home in Katutura Township, Windhoek. He was 44 years old…
His Life and Legacy - Oliver Tambo
… ceaselessly for freedom until the day he died. On 9 August 1989, as the delegation returned from its intensive …
PlaceThe Gallows Museum Exhibition
… South Africa where executions took place. Between 1902 and 1989, more than 3 500 prisoners were executed at the prison, …
PlaceOfficers’ Club, Military Base, Wynberg
It was declared a National Monument under old NMC legislation on 22 August 1969. Wynberg Military Base is, with the exception of the Castle, the oldest…
EventBritish Airways prohibits smoking on all flights
On 29 March 1998, British Airways (BA) prohibited smoking on all flights. Other countries across the world had begun to impose the first restrictions on…
EventConscientious objector Ivan Toms is sentenced to 21 months imprisonment for refusing to serve in the SADF
Dr Ivan Toms was a physician who worked in the informal settlement of Crossroads in Cape Town. In 1983, he witnessed the South African Defence Force (SADF)…
Sierra Leone’s Pre-colonial and Colonial era military and security forces
The study of armed forces in Africa tend focus on the contemporary peculiarities with little understanding of or regarding for the history of the nations,…
ArchiveNASCOC says Unban COSAS: Ban apartheid education
Offset litho; black; NASCOC says; Unban COSAS; Ban apartheid education 1979-1985
ArchiveThe world's only privately owned Catholic Church
… the world’s smallest non-denominational Church. Built in 1989, it seats two people and measures approximately 2.6m2. …
PlaceZambia
… Falls . This is a natural site and it was inscribed in 1989. The 2010 census records over 30 major languages … Falls'. This is a natural site and it was…
ArchiveHamba kahle Yusuf Dadoo
Red poster with black border. Photo of Yusuf Dadoo 1909 - 1983 smoking a pipe.
EventChief Mangosuthu Buthelezi meets President Kaizer Matanzima in Tongaat
Chief Mangosuthu Buthelezi of Kwa Zulu met President Kaizer Matanzima of Transkei in Tongaat, north of Durban, where they declared they were opposed to the…
ArchiveResponse of the South African Council of Churches to the WCC programme to combat racism
Response of the South African Council of Churches to the WCC programme to combat racism (1969-1979).
Archive5. The brain drain
Page 5 of folder 2858. ECC poster. White with black lettering. Statistics regarding the brain drain between 1984 and 1987.
COSATU
Recruitment poster for COSATU. Calendar for 1987. Photo of worker with clenched fists, wearing Strike Committee T-Shirt for 1986.