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EventJudas Mahlangu, South African graphic artist, is born
Judas Mahlangu, a South African graphic artist, was born in Brakpan, on the East Rand (now Gauteng). In 1982 Mahlangu started working at the South African…
EventFirst Multiracial Election is held in Zimbabwe
After a war of independence fought between members of various liberation organisations and the illegal Rhodesian government, with the liberation organisation…
EventNational Party adopts five year programme
With the winds of change blowing in South Africa, the ruling National Party (NP) adopted a five year programme of its objectives which included a political …
EventHenry Morton Stanley’s expedition reaches Fort Bodo, Congo
Henry Morton Stanley, an English explorer who lived in America, was commissioned by The New York Herald with the task of finding explorer David Livingstone. No…
EventInternational Literacy Day highlights the importance of literacy in areas such as health and education
International literacy Day was first celebrated in 1966. This day is meant to raise awareness in countries all over the world about the high levels of…
Dream of Total Liberation of Africa is in Sight - Message of the National Executive Committee of the ANC on the 72nd Anniversary of ANC by O. R. Tambo, 8 January 1984
Dear Compatriots, Brothers and Sisters in the Struggle, Comrades, Today, the 8th January, your organisation, the African National Congress, is 72 years…
January 8th Statements -Statement of the National Executive Committee on the occasion of the 72th Anniversary of the ANC - 8 January 1984
Dear Compatriots, Brothers and Sisters in the Struggle, Comrades Today, the 8th January, your organisation, the African National Congress, is 72 years…
ArticleThe history of labour movements in Namibia
Background During the 1930s and 1940s, there were few black workers organisations in Namibia (then known as South West Africa). However, there were a number…
ArticleWestern Cape Youth Uprising timeline 1976
1976 16 June, Extra police patrols are deployed. 24 June, The Principal's office in Hlangisi Primary (Nyanga) was burnt out and the following day the same…
ArticleThe Homelands
The Bantustans or homelands, established by the Apartheid Government, were areas to which the majority of the Blacks population was moved to prevent them from…
Disbanding, 1990-1991
With the ANC now legal, mass demands were made for a constitutional assembly to create a new non-racial, democratic, and unitary South Africa. The UDF had…
Message by Albert Luthuli to the National Conference of the African National Congress Women`s League, 1 August 1959
Here I am, caged in, in the Lower Tugela District, by the oppressor`s ban on me. The confinement resulting from this ban is a painful reminder to me and to you…
PlaceNelson Mandela Bridge, Johannesburg
The Nelson Mandela Bridge is a relatively new addition to the Johannesburg skyline, but has already gained iconic status, with an impressive 295 metre span…
PlaceOpera House, Port Elizabeth
This building, designed in a late Renaissance style based broadly upon the Doric order, was erected in 1891 under the direction of GW Smith, a prominent Port…
PlaceSt Margaret’s House, Parktown, Johannesburg
It was declared a National Monument under old NMC legislation on 5 November 1976. St Margaret's was built in 1905 and is not visible from the road, but what a…
Document 57 - Letter from the Communist League of South Africa to the Workers’ Party of South Africa, 13 January 1936
From: South Africa's Radical Tradition, a documentary history, Volume One 1907 - 1950, by Allison Drew Document 57 - Letter from the Communist League of South…
PlaceCookhouse, Eastern Cape
The Village of Cookhouse was located on the Farm; 'Roodewal', near a River crossing. It probably derived its name from a small stone structure, over the Great…
Speech by Oliver Tambo at the World Conference on Sanctions Against Racist South Africa: Victory is within our grasp, 16 June 1986, Unesco House, Paris
Mr. President, Your Excellency Mr. Perez de Cuellar, Secretary-General of the United Nations, Your Excellency President Abdou Diouf, President of Senegal and…
Victory is Within our Grasp: Statement at the World Conference on Sanctions against Racist South Africa by O. R. Tambo, UNESCO House, Paris, 16 June 1986
Mr. President, Your Excellency Mr. Perez de Cuellar, Secretary-General of the United Nations, Your Excellency President Abdou Diouf, President of…
Address of Nelson Mandela, President of the African National Congress on receiving a Honorary LLD degree at the University of the Witwatersrand 6 September 1991
Mr. Chancellor, Mr. Vice-Chancellor, Distinguished members of the university council and senate, Members of the university staff and students, Friends…
PlaceAogutoas, Village near Port Nolloth
Village at the site of the present Port Nolloth. The Khoikhoi name Aukwatowa; for 'where water took away the old man'. Its location was marked by Bartolomeu…
ArchiveCommission of Inquiry into the riots at Soweto and other places in South Africa held on 11 November 1976, Volume 51
Excerpts from the transcript of evidence from Mr Sehume, a teacher at Moroka High School, Thaba Nchu; Howard Leighton Setlalentoa, a circuit inspector of Bantu…
EventConservationist and entrepreneur Rufus Maruma is born
Makgabo Rufus Maruma, world respected Tourism, Environmental and Waste Management expert and founder of Bohlweki Environmental (Pty) Ltd as well as member…
EventRobert Sobukwe, first PAC president, dies
Founder and first president of the Pan Africanist Congress (PAC), Robert Mangaliso Sobukwe (54), passed away in the Kimberley General Hospital between midnight…
EventAfrican-American tennis player, Arthur Ashe. is denied a visa by the South African Government
The South African government refuses a visa application from the African-American tennis player, Arthur Ashe, to visit South Africa to take part in the…
EventPolitical Organisations are unbanned in Transkei
The Transkei leader, Gen. Bantu Holomisa, announced the unbanning of the African National Congress (ANC), the Pan African Congress (PAC), the South African…
EventSABC is allowed to broadcast Thatcher Case
In a precedent-setting judgement, a full bench of the Cape High Court, comprising of Judges Van Zyl, Essa Moosa and Dan Dlodlo, ruled in favour of the request…
Read SABC CEO Jimi Matthews full resignation letter (Staff Reporter), 27 June 2016
“It is with great sadness that I tender my immediate resignation. “For many months I have compromised the values I hold dear under the mistaken belief that I…
PlaceBritish Fort, Marabastad, Polokwane
It was declared a National Monument under old NMC legislation on 27 January 1938. This English fort or earthworks is situated just east of the national…
EventDeath of Anton Muziwakhe Lembede
Anton (Anthony) Muziwakhe Lembede who was a teacher, lawyer, politician, and principal architect of Africanism in South Africa, died unexpectedly in…