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ArchiveThe struggle for peace and freedom continues
Blue, black and white poster. List of names of people who died in Gaborone on the 14th June, 1985. Artwork of a pair of black hands behind barbed wire,…
ArchiveFood and Canning Workers Union
Red poster. Black lettering. 1983 Calendar at bottom. Black image of four crossed hands in centre. Black and white images of four people. Neil Aggett. Oscar…
ArchiveForward to freedom in South Africa and Namibia
Green, red, black and white poster. Notice of a demonstration march on Sunday, March 14th, 1982. From Hyde Park to Trafalgar Square. List of speakers at rally…
ArchiveThe expresion Bloody Boer cannot be without significance
Statement by the Honourable Prime Minister, Comrade R.G. Mugabe, at the opening session of the International Conference on children,repression and the law in…
EventThe Black Affairs Administration Act comes into force
The Black Affairs Administration Act No 45 commences. This Act provided for black self-government in townships. It was repealed by section 69 of the Black…
ArchiveOpen letter to all detainees
An open letter, issued by the Southern African Catholic Bishops' Conference and published in the New Nation 2-8 April 1987, to all detainees accusing the South…
ArchiveProgressive theological education
Journal article containing a reconstructed address by Frank Chikane, a Minister of the African Methodist Episcopal Chruch, to the Koinonia Conference of…
ArchiveHamba kakuhle comrade Ace Ayanda Silika
Black and white poster with image of Ayanda Silika who was shot dead in Crossroads while allegedly escaping from the custody of members of the Unrest…
ArticleArt South Africa Today exhibitions
In May 1963, the Cape Times announced the launch of ‘a national art exhibition, open to South African artists of all races’. The first iteration of Art South…
ArticleSouth African Congress of Trade Unions (SACTU)
In the 1930s various trade unions from different backgrounds ranging from conservative craft unions, white racist industrial unions, white dominated racially…
Colonial conquest and resistance, Pre 1900
Several factors seemed to pave the way to apartheid, among them a colonial conquest, land dispossession, economic impoverishment, and exclusion from…
ArchiveDraft transcripts of United Democratic Front
The launch of the UDF on 20 Auqust 1983 marked a dramatic leap forward in the struqqle for freedom in South Africa . It brouoht over 500 qrassroots…
ArchiveStatement by the United Democratic Front issued by Azhar Cachalia (National Treasurer)
Statement by United Democratic Front issued by Azhar Cachalia National Treasurer on 8th October 1986 at Khotso House, Johannesburg, in response to the…
ArchiveExhibitions
Notice of Exhibition at Standard Bank Gallery on 14th September to 16th October 1999. Front page of Drum magazine dated August 1952. Reliving the 50's and 60…
ArchiveNatives Resettlement Board: Annual Report 1958/59
Report of the Natives Resettlement Board for the year ended 31st March 1979, reporting on the forced removals of black people from Sophiatown, Martindale,…
ArchiveCultural evening
White poster with black lettering. Notice of a cultural evening on the 22nd May 1988 at Bozzolli Pavilion. Issued BSS Women's Group. Black and white image of…
ArchiveExhibition : Towards a peoples culture
Black and white poster. Notice of various art exhibitions of art from 11th to 22nd December 1986. Arts Festival '86 Logo. Photograph by Paul Grendon. Artwork…
ArchiveJohn Simpson: PFP
PFP election poster. Blue, white and red poster. Photograph of John Simpson. PFP logo. Rubber stamp on poster of Town Council of Springs, Office of the licence…
ArchiveCartoon
Cartoon in City Press newspaper dated 18th December 1983. Image of a man in uniform ordering group of people to volunteer. Large open truck in background with…
ArchiveTowards the reconstruction of South Africa: the constitutional dimension
Paper by Albie Sachs presented as the Third Annual Ruth First Memorial Lecture in Maputo, 27 September 1985. Considers whether the struggle against apartheid…
ArchiveThe situation in Afghanistan
The Situation in Afghanistan: statement issued by the Central Committee of the South African Communist Party, January 1980, discusses Soviet invasion of…
Cartoon
Cartoon in City Press newspaper dated 18th December 1983. Image of a man in uniform ordering group of people to volunteer. Large open truck in background with…
ArchiveLetter from Jack Simons to Comrade President
Handwritten letter from Jack Simons to Comrade President sent as a cover letter to his four page typescript comment (included) on the address of P W Botha to…
ArchiveGroup Areas Removals in the Western Cape: The
Group Areas Removals in the Western Cape: The Individual Case of Mr Bawa Khalfeys's Shop- Paper Presented at National Conference on 11 March 1980 discussing:…
The long trial of former Defence Minister, General Magnus Malan, ends.
The long trial of former Defence Minister, General Magnus Malan, ends. Malan and other former military officials are cleared of all charges relating to the…
ArchiveVerkiesings in Suidwes-Afrika
Memorandum, written in Afrikaans, regarding elections in Namibia, under United Nations Resolution 435 of 1978, filed an Appendix to the Minutes of a Meeting of…
PlaceDarlington Dam- Lake Mentz
P.W.F. Weyers, a former 'Hawker' (an informal seller of goods). He had lost Cattle in an attack by the Boers during the Anglo-Boer War, was said to have…
ArchiveStatement of the President of the African National Congress of South Africa
Statement of the President of the African National Congress of South Africa, Oliver R Tambo, at the International Conference in support of liberation movements…
ArchiveNorthern Transvaal : Regional Womens Congres
Red COSATU poster with black and white lettering. Notice of meeting on 28th August 1988, at 14 Brown Street, Pretoria. Black and white image of woman with…
ArchiveGandhi: Luthuli: King: Mandela: a legacy for the future
Light grey background. Artwork of Gandi, Luthuli, King and Mandela with a white dove in front of them. Notice of an exhibition at the Documentation Centre, at…