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Joe Ndhlela is appointed as executive head of the South African Premier Soccer League.
The Congress of South African Trade Unions is formed with a membership of 500 000.
ArchiveFirst meeting of the South African/Angolan Joint Monitoring Commission: Lusaka, 16 February 1984
Minutes of a meeting of the Joint Monitoring Commission to discuss the processes required for monitoring the withdrawal of troops from Angola
ArchiveUmbiko Womhlangano kaZwe-Lonke we Bandla leNhlalakahle yezizwe zase Afrika (Article written in Zulu)
Daniël Hermanus (Dan) Pienaar is appointed to command the First South African Infantry Brigade.
… et al. (eds)(1970). Standard Encyclopaedia of Southern Africa, Cape Town: NASOU, v. 8, p. 553. …
The KWV (Koöperatiewe Wijnbouwers Vereniging van Zuid-Afrika)is founded in Paarl, Western Cape.
Lieutenant-Colonel Manie Bredell retires as head adjunct-commissioner of the South African Police.
ArchiveCommission of Inquiry into the South African Council of Churches held at Pretoria on 24 March 1983
Transcript of evidence from Reverend Mmutlanyane Stanley Mogoda, of the Commission of Inquiry into the South African Council of Churches (SACC), chaired by the…
ArchiveCommission of Inquiry into the South African Council of Churches held at Pretoria on 2 September 1982, Volume 3
Transcript of Volume 3, evidence from Bishop Desmond Tutu and Joseph Wing (honorary life Vice-President of the SA Council of Churches), of the Commission of…
BiographyNosipho Dastile
… teacher. Following the growing political activism in South Africa after the institutionalisation of apartheid in 1948 , … [online], Available at: https://www…
EventDundee and Glencoe are retaken by General Sir Redvers Buller troops during the South African War II
Dundee and Glencoe were retaken by General Sir Redvers Buller troops as the South African War II 1899-1902 (Anglo-Boer War II 1899-1902) intensified. The area…
Document 46. “Statement Issued by Joint Meeting of African and Indian Leaders” [For Closer Co-operation], February 6, 1949
[For Closer Co-operation], February 6, 1949 This historic joint meeting of the representatives of the national organisations of the African and Indian people,…
EventBritish racing driver Tom Pryce dies in a freak accident during the South African Grand Prix at Kyalami
Welsh racing driver Tom Pryce died on the tracks during the South African Grand Prix in Kyalami on 5 March 1977. The horrific accident left two people dead; a…
BiographyAbdool Karrim Essak
… and left his family to seek his fortune in South Africa in the 1920s. In South Africa he tried his hand at various trades and eventually … who was previously…
BiographyShapurji Sorabji
… Although he had a British passport valid for all of Africa,e was brought to Court on 8 July and was ordered on 10 … would be a worthy successor to him when…
ArchiveMeeting between a South African delegation led by the Minister of Foreign Affairs, the Honourable R F Botha and a United States delegation led by Dr C Crocker, Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs: Santa Maria, Sal Island, 31 October 1984, Af
Minutes of an afternoon session of a meeting between a South African delegation and a United States delegation to discuss the situation in Mozambique and Angola
BiographyReginald Dudley Forde
… people, especially through the Boy Scout Movement of South Africa in which he became active in the 1950s. From 1959, he … KwaZulu-Natal, National…
The First South African side to play in the sub-continent: Boer Prisoners of War in 1901 (Part 1 of 2) by Arunabha Sengupta (Cricket Country), 12 October 2015
… sports as much as anything else, had prevented South Africa from engaging in cricketing contests other than … may sound, that was not the first time a team…
BiographyJeremy Vearey
… based. [4] As a result of the way in which South Africa transitioned to democracy, Vearey had to work …
ArchiveMinutes of the meetings between a South African delegation and the Secretary-General of the United Nations: Cape Town, 23 and 24 August 1983 Version 2
… Minutes of a meeting between delegations from South Africa, Namibia and United Nations for discussions concerning …
ArchiveMinutes of the meetings between a South African delegation and the Secretary-General of the United Nations: Cape Town, 23 and 24 August 1983 Version 1
… Minutes of a meeting between delegations from South Africa, Namibia and United Nations for discussions concerning …
ArchiveWho was Albert Luthuli? The murdered South African leader who put his people above himself
South African liberation leader Albert Luthuli died on 21 July 1967 near his home in Groutville, in the South African province of KwaZulu-Natal. A government…
BiographyAdrian Leftwich
… Town (UCT), Western Province (now Western Cape), South Africa and his PhD degree from the University of York, United … socialism. In July 1964, when I was…
BiographyMhlabunzima Maphumulo
… President of Congress of Traditional Leaders of South Africa (CONTRALESA). He led CONTRALESA to align itself with … the ANC. He was a very strong believer in…
BiographyAlan McLeod Cormack
… and his mother a teacher. His parents moved to South Africa from the north of Scotland shortly before the outbreak … Crystallography at the same university…
EventThe peace talks between the African National Congress (ANC) and the Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) are called off
The peace talks between the African National Congress (ANC) and the Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) were called off as a result of the ANC's ultimatum sent to…
BiographyHalton Cheadle
… with Harriet Bolton of the Trade Union Council of South Africa (TUCSA) and Norman Daniels of the registered trade … Democracy Education Trust The Road to…
BiographyKing Moshoeshoe I
… Black bishop of the Roman Catholic Church in Southern Africa. He was the archbishop of Basotholand from 1952. … J. (ed)(1972). Standard Encyclopaedia of…
How the Ahmed Timol case was reported on at the time by South African Institute of Race Relations (Politicsweb), 28 June 2017
… as a national day of mourning in sympathy for South Africa's political prisoners. South African Institute of Race … training in Communist doctrines. He was…
BiographyRebecca Bunting
… was one of the founders of the Communist Party of South Africa (CPSA) in the 1920s. She was a Jewish immigrant from the Baltic who came to South Africa on…