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EventOrigin of Johannesburg’s name is explained
… decided on the former place. Other evidence, notably a letter from the deputy secretary of foreign affairs to the …
EventJ.J. Hadebe replies to Thabo Mbeki’s plea
… Africa’s second President after Nelson Mandela, wrote a letter to the ANC in 1964, asking the organization if he …
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1940s
… Native Representative Council, Paul R. Mosaka, writes a letter to the ANC president Dr A.B. Xuma. December, The … in Inyaniso . 16 March, The ANCYL Transvaal…
ArchiveThe Trotskyist Groups in South Africa - A Retrospective View by Baruch Hirson (Encyclopedia of Trotskyism On-Line: Revolutionary History: Volume 4, No. 4, 1993, South Africa)
… affiliation to the Left Opposition. Written in 1932, his letter was brief and provided no details. It seems that the … war fever and ultimately war itself,…
ArticleSita’s story
… I should be named Dhairyabala [maid of courage], as the letter D came under my star. So my father rushed to the … vision in South Africa. He applied himself…
ArchiveStaffrider Vol.9 No.1 1990
… Coon, M. Cassiem D'Arcy; He Needs Milk, Karren Visser; A Letter to the Mayor, Deena Padayachee. ESSAYS: Who Writes? …
EventSecurity Council examines violence in South Africa
… At the instigation of a letter titled the Question of South Africa from the Charge …
EventApartheid policemen apply for amnesty at TRC
… in Angola. Williamson was also responsible for the parcel letter bomb that killed ANC activist, Ruth First, wife of Joe …
ArticleRuth First timeline 1925-2012
… at the Centre for African Studies, First is killed by a letter bomb in Maputo, Mozambique. 19 August, Matilda First, …
ArticleNelson Mandela Timeline 1950-1959
… TIC and the its Youth Congress. Exhibit No. AMK 75 is a letter from A.M Kathrada declining invitation to attend a … his banning order. 28 May, Chief Albert…
EventLegendary artist Johnny Clegg dies
On 16 July 2019, Jonny Clegg died at the age 66 years at his home in Johannesburg, Gauteng after he was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in 2015. He is known…
PlaceIxopo, Kwa-Zulu Natal- Midlands
… name has prevailed. "When pronounced in Zulu, the ‘click’ letter (letter ‘x’) is reminiscent of the cattle’s hooves moving …
ArchiveStaffrider Vol.8 No.1 1989
… Chapman; Bad Boll, Manfred Zylla and H. Willemse; Open Letter to Achmat Dangor, Marianne de Jong. …
ArchiveStaffrider Vol.10 No.3 1992
… Remembering, Abu Solomons; Three Poems, Damian Shaw; Letter from the Vortex, Rustum Kozain; Three Poems, Carsten …
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1950s
… Workers` Union (GWU), E.S. ("Solly") Sachs. 21 January, A letter co-signed by Dr J.S. Moroka and Walter Sisulu is sent … Address. 29 January, The Prime…
Document Center at UKZN. “Burning of the Passes” from the collection of Ela Gandhi, MP. Assention no. 1889-23
… for the advice rests on my shoulders? When the letter was received by Smuts, it was taken as an ultimatum -- … the word used by the General himself. On…
Free Nelson Mandela - Margaret Thatcher
… your message. I should be grateful if you would treat this letter very much as personal to you. The Commonwealth meeting … all sides. The concept of course…
ArchiveHighlights on successes and experienced challenges during the 25 years of freedom and democracy.
… 9 at Mathubesizwe Senior Secondary School. I write this letter to highlight the successes and experienced challenges … the 25 years of Freedom and Democracy…
ArticleSouth Africa and the Olympic Games
… Committee. On a “charge sheet” that accompanied this letter it was stated: That the President of the South African … President of the South African Sports…
ArchiveChanging focus: The art and activism of Omar by Bongani Kona (Mail and Guardian), 4 June 2015
… of Natal, published Badsha’s first photographic essay, Letter to Farzanah . The title of the book is taken from a one-page letter Badsha addressed to his…
PlaceAG Bain Monument, Grahamstown
… his father's foot-steps! Andrew Geddes Bains was a fervent letter writer of satirical sketches of contemporary life, … Andrew Geddes Bains was a fervent…
Event7 People are killed during a SATS strike
… but denied the allegation categorically. After a letter of complaint by the Congress of South African Trade …
ArticleWomen’s Revolts in Natal: 1959
… of a dipping tank by women should be looked upon as a “letter to the authorities, which they will read.” (Drum, … to the organisation of the workers. SACTU…
ArticleYoung Communist League of South Africa (YCLSA)
… been done. ES Sachs, as secretary of the YCL signed the letter sent to the National Council of the CTU. In August … the date of the launch is unknown…
BiographyHerbert Isaac Ernest Dhlomo
… Ilanga and Bantu World. His first published writing was a letter in Ilanga on 18 October 1924 entitled Hardship and …
BiographyIsaac Williams Wauchope
… its inauguration in 1912. [46] This excerpt from Isaac’s letter in Isigidimi amaXosa in 1882 reveals something of …
Yusuf Dadoo Timeline: 1910 - 1919
… the Chairmanship of Ahmed Mohamed Cachalia addresses a letter, to Minister of the Interior, regarding the …
News SABC ‘should be hitting the panic button’ over Jimi Matthews’ resignation by Ndileka Lujabe (City Press), 27 June 2016
… I can longer be part of it,” he said in his resignation letter to Professor Mbulaheni Maguvhe, chairperson of the …
SABC’s Matthews was Motsoeneng’s willing enforcer-in-chief: FJT (TMG Digital), 28 June 2016
… calls for their immediate reinstatement.” SABC staff write letter of complaint to Hlaudi Motsoeneng The forum said that …
EventAppearance of former ministers before the TRC
… P.W.Botha was also subpoenaed, but his lawyers submitted a letter before the commission stating that due to ill health, …