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PlaceThe art lover’s summer road trip through the Western Cape
The province’s blend of ocean horizons, historic architecture, vineyard valleys and mountain passes hasn’t only shaped its landscapes; it has inspired…
ArchiveAll over Africa: notes on current events
ArchiveNegotiations begin over mine Code of Conduct
EventChurch Council meets PW Botha over unrest
A delegation of the South African Council of Churches (SACC) met with President P W Botha and other government leaders, following calls by the church for…
EventOver 17 million arrested under pass laws
Minister of Law and Order Adriaan Vlok said that between 1921 and 1986 more than 17 million people had been arrested under influx control laws in South Africa.
EventANC and IFP to meet over violence
The African National Congress (ANC) and Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) announced that they would hold a meeting of the two parties in Durban, in an attempt to end…
Archive300 strike at Wispeco over factory negotiations
Disgusting behaviour of ANC-CP over Soweto
ArchiveDefenceless Driefontein scores a victory over tardy police
ArchiveAcademics and activists meet over debated terrain
The Struggle over land - Khoikhoi meet Dutch
The struggle over land - Basotho lose out
EventA coalmine explosion in Rhodesia kills over four hundred workers
Over four hundred mine workers lost their lives in Rhodesia’s (now Zimbabwe) worst mine disaster ever. The disaster stunned the whole country and the world…
BiographyDeseni Soobben
Deseni Soobben was 10 when her grandfather, a businessman returned from a trip to Japan and gave her a Kodak lnstamatic camera. Soobben matriculated from…
”Apartheid Over Our Dead Bodies:” Speech, July 1948
Speech at mass welcome meeting in Johannesburg organised in his honour by the Transvaal Passive Resistance Council on his release from prison] I am deeply…
EventSAA takes over the South-West African Airways (SWAA)
A year after its establshment, South African Airways (SAA), took over South-West African Airways (SWAA), which had since 1932 been providing a weekly air-mail…
BiographyLetlapa Mphahlele
… Assistant Chief Representative. His deployment was a cover for an Azanian People’s Liberation Army (APLA) … passports and firearm licence was hidden. This…
EventThe UN ends SA mandate over South West Africa
The United Nations (UN) debated the South West Africa issue (now Namibia) year after year with increasing acrimony. On 18 July 1966 the International Court of…
South Africa ends eighty-four years of control over Walvis Bay by handing the port over to Namibia.
BiographySheik Yusuf
Sheik Yusuf, ruler of Gowa on the Islands of Celebes in South East Asia, was born in 1626. He was also the brother of the Sultan of Macassar. In 1646 Yusuf…
BiographyRebecca Makgomo Masilela (nee Kekana)
Affectionately known as ‘Magogo’ (meaning grandmother – a title bestowed to her for her motherly, nurturing character), Rebecca Makgomo Masilela (nee Kekana)…
BiographyVernon Celliers Berrange
… the aid of Manni Brown who posed as a tour operator as a cover to deliver weapons to the ANC. From Swaziland, Vernon …
BiographyMoses Ndlovu
… he managed to escape the security police until 1976. His cover was blown when Gwala and Azaria Ndebele ordered him to …
ArchiveForeign debt: rolled over, but not playing dead
ArchiveTowards a living wage: workers demands over sixty years
ArchiveOver 100 000 mourn the death of Raditsela
Archive2 400 textile members lose jobs over past year
ArchiveNew approach needed to win over angry students
BiographyMargaret Roach Killie Campbell
… photographs, maps and government publications, which cover a broad sweep of information about southern Africa, …
BiographyAlbert Newall
… [Accessed: 04 September 2019] Book Cover of Images of the Cape (1965) …