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EventPolice detain Valli Moosa and Murphy Morobe in Port Elizabeth
… publicity secretary Murphy Morobe in a pre-dawn raid on the home of Judge Dayalin Chetty in Port Elizabeth. The two men had been on the run from the police…
EventFake versions of the new South African banknotes hit the streets
… On 7 February 2005, reports were issued of the use of fake … the fake note did not have a shimmering gold band visible on the back when the note was tilted…
EventFormer MK members are dismissed from SANDF
… paid attention to the trainees' complaints and called on the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Defence to immediately act on the findings in its report on…
EventNaledi High School is founded
… uprisings were first felt, commemorated 50th anniversary on 8 June 2013. On 8 June 1976, security police arrived at Naledi High School … in Soweto schools…
EventAn inquest into the death in detention of the white trade union leader, Dr. Neil Aggett opens
… Security Police, was greeted with astonishment and anger. On 05 February 1982, Aggett, Transvaal organiser of the Food … his untimely death, he was 28 years…
PlaceDutch Reformed Church, Weyers Street, Durbanville-Bergsig
… In the year 1824 a number of farm owners, living on the outskirts of Cape Town. Petitioned Lord Somerset, the … church to be built for them! The foundation…
PlaceKruger chairs (Die twee Krugerstoele) in the Paul Kruger Church (Geref. Kerkgebou) in Church Street, Pretoria West.
… church still has the chairs Paul and his Wife used to sit on during services, with the same Dutch hymn book on display. This was as declared declared a…
PlaceDutch Reformed Church, 23 Main Street, Jansenville
… by AH Reid of Port Elizabeth. The cornerstone was laid on 16 August 1884, and the building was consecrated on 20 June 1885. It was declared a National…
ArchiveStatement issued by the S A Council of Churches in reply to the Baptist Union
… about the withdrawal of the Baptist Union from the Council on the issue of the claim on monopoly of non-violence. The Council has reacted to the statement on…
PlaceRainbow Restaurant and Jazz Club, Durban
… The Rainbow Restaurant opened its doors for trade on Thursday 17 December 1981. It was the first such … in South Africa during the Apartheid years, have…
Storming: The Insurrections Ensemble by Marcus Grossman, September 2015
… Global Studies Programme It was Shakespeare’s puzzling take on colonialism that Cesaire and many others decided to … and Pritam Ghoshal and many more…
David Goldblatt: Intersections; Asbestos; Particulars by Sue Williamson, 1 - 25 October 2003
… Attempting to impose a working structure on a proposed new series of images which would take the … latitude and longitude line in South Africa, and standing…
PlaceOatlands, Simonstown
… House, and later as the Commandant's House. The land on which this property is situated, originally formed part of … James Craig, when they first occupied…
PlaceThe Old Supreme Court Adderley Street, Cape Town
… was declared a National Monument under old NMC legislation on 8 September 1967. It all began wth the proper Housing of … the Dutch with a problem, when the…
5th Jozi Book Fair
… the role of libraries’ and we will have a Conference on the theme before the Fair. The Fair is a project of Khanya … to working people’ with Anton Harber…
PlaceSt. Wendolins Ridge, Pinetown
… Wendolins was situated about 14 km from Central Pinetown, on land owned by the Roman Catholic diocese of Mariannhill … Colonization Company and Marianhill…
PlaceStendahl Mission
… it was agreed that the Stendahl community would remain on the land, however this was a verbal agreement and … acquired by Sun Valleys Estates, the people…
South African Labour Bulletin
… out with gun in hand. Elephant's foot for one tyre. Flag on top with hammer and sickle on it. Words - 'Mercedes Benz sleep in. Focus on centralised…
ArchiveBiography of Naphtali Mbuti Nkopane
… Biography of Naphtali Mbuti Nkopane who was born on the 18th of August 1944 on a farm near Nigel in the Transvaal. In 1949 his family … in the rent protest…
PlaceVictorian dwelling, 7 Belvedere Avenue, Oranjezicht
… Architectural features including cast iron elements on the Verandah and Balcony, as well as on the Boundary Wall. It was declared a National Monument under…
ArchiveMemories of Trafalgar High, District Six by Warren Ludski
… newspaper that operated out of Orange House. Fifty years on since the dreaded announcement on February 11 that District 6 was to be a whites only area, ……
EventHeart specialist Dr. Chris Barnard dies
… who performed the world’s first heart transplant operation on Louis Washkansky, died at the age of 78 of an acute asthma … attack in his hotel room in the…
Thirty years ago by Raymond Suttner (extract from 'Inside Apartheid's Prison')
… 30 YEARS AGO- RETURN TO PRISON 30 years ago on 12 June 1986 I was re-detained for 27 months. 18 of these … in Houghton (Johannesburg) and drove towards…
Chapter 4: Public Response to Vigilantism and Political Violence in Kwazulu-Natal
… with the KwaZulu-Natal situation had a detrimental effect on the whole scenario of vigilantism and political violence … in that region. All the role players…
Statement by Oliver Tambo to the Press, 16 November 1984, Addis Ababa
… and South Africa. The positions adopted by the Summit on South Africa and on southern Africa constitute the basis for a renewed … SWAPO and the ANC. We say…
Statement to the Press by O. R. Tambo, Addis Ababa, 16 November 1984
… and South Africa. The positions adopted by the Summit on South Africa and on southern Africa constitute the basis for a renewed … SWAPO and the ANC. We say…
Document 3 - Peace Treaty of Vereeniging
… he, in less than one and half hours, able to reflected on the activities, programmes and achievements of our … vision we share of a better life for all. We…
EventBarend Strydom kills 8 People in Pretoria
… On 15 November 1988, 21 year-old Barend Strydom went on a killing spree with his pistol and attempted to shoot … attempted murder and given the death penalty…
Photography David Goldblatt by Sean Jacobs, 1 September 2009
… The Photography of David Goldblatt,” currently on view at New York’s New Museum through October 1. … in the less obvious particulars. Hung unceremoniously on…
EventThe Motsuenyane Commission finds the African National Congress (ANC) guilty of abuse in its camps
… abuse. Although the focus of these inquiries were largely on the role played by the agents of the apartheid government, reports on acts of violence committed…