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Interview with Archibald Gumede 29 July 1990
… POM When we were talking to one of the people yesterday in one of the townships, we talked to one 15 year old boy and I asked him would he have been ……
Freedom In Our Life Time - Introduction
… at the Bantu Men's Social Centre in downtown Johannesburg to launch the African National Congress Youth League (ANCYL). … days. The Fort Hare administration…
PlaceSchanskop Fort, Pretoria
… Republiek" decided that something must be done to protect Pretoria against possible attacks. Fort Schanskop … 1897 and completed in 1897. It was Built in…
ArticleSharpeville Massacre, 21 March 1960
… ANC, Chief Albert Luthuli , announced that 1960 was going to be the "Year of the Pass." Through a series of mass actions, the ANC planned to launch a…
ArticleThe development of Music in South Africa timeline 1600-2004
… strings, based on that of Malabar slaves. They used it to blend Khoi and Western folk songs. Then there was the … own slave orchestra in the 1670s. 1800s In…
BiographyMargaret Mary Smith
… for singing, playing the violin and writing. From 1934 to 1936, she attended Rhodes University College (now Rhodes … an Honorary Curator for the East London…
ArticleAnti-pass campaigns, 1910s
… that women of all races were still virtually restricted to the home, migrant labour had already begun to forge differences between the experience of African…
Mission Stations - G-H
… name was variously spelt as Speke or Sepeke, is reported to have been a Pedi chief. Alexander Merensky reported as … of the roof. By alternately pushing…
ArchivePreface by Denis Goldberg
… prisoner and 24 years thereafter I felt it was time to write about my life in South Africa in struggle, in prison, in exile, in freedom and back home in my…
ArticleThe 1992 Whites only referendum ‘For’ or ‘Against’ a negotiated constitution
… of a referendum in which only white people were allowed to participate. The aim of the referendum was to measure White support for the process to negotiate…
EventThe Bisho Massacre occurs
… of Bisho, the capital city of Ciskei, and demanded an end to the military government of Brigadier Joshua Gqozo and the … the Bisho Massacre, occurred when…
EventAt least 100 people drown in a flood at Laingsburg
… the Buffalo River that flows North-south through the town to burst its banks. The average rainfall was 175mm. The force … Laingsburg 24 hours later as all…
EventNigeria gained independence from the United Kingdom
… of conservative parties, and it came into power on the back of increasingly enthusiastic demands for political … British recognised that the independence…
BiographyNjabulo Simakahle Ndebele
… Simakahle Ndebele was born on 4 July 1948 in Johannesburg to Nimrod Njabulo Ndebele and Makhosazana Regina Tshabangu. … moorings. In both my poetry and…
ArchiveReflections on life in a rearview mirror by Jo Ractliffe, 27 Jun 2011
… photographer Jo Ractliffe about his journey. I’d like to start with your 80th birthday—that Sunday morning when a group of us were summoned to your house at…
ArticleFootball in South Africa Timeline 1862-2012
… (later known as FASA) is formed. 1895 SAFA affiliates to the English Football Association 1896 Indian football clubs come together to form the Transvaal…
BiographyZamokwake Samuel Gumede
… He attended the Langkloof Higher Primary School from 1962 to 1969. In 1981 he was introduced to Sister Johanna at the Mariannhill Mission where he …
Bellington Mampe
… was announced by the government only in 1964.In reply to a question in parliament on 29 March 1983 regarding Mr … further information is made available, it…
BiographyJohn Kutlwano Legingoane
… He financially supported his whole family. According to his grandfather, Shadrack Ledingoane, “Tsenolo [John’s … remember him but calls out his name when a…
BiographyMakhosandile Mkhonjwa
… what I will eat tomorrow and in the future. How am I going to build a house, send the children to school and support his siblings? I do not know where help …
BiographyThembelakhe Mati
… as well as his mother and three sisters. According to his cousin, Lanford Gcotyelwa, “I only heard about his … He was found in the mortuary. He was taken by…
ArticlePoqo
… Poqo was formed as an armed wing to the Pan Africanist Congress (PAC) during the 1960's and … the time, such as uMkhonto we Sizwe , Poqo made no effort to…
Nelson Mandela Correspondence around Mandela’s health
… time when the Press reported that he had cancer, he wrote to Winnie: Mhlophe, I feel tremendous both in flesh and … mental work, trot around in the early…
Burundi: The ambiguous coup by Simon Allison (Daily Maverick), 14 May 2015
… too,” said Niyombare on Tuesday as soldiers loyal to him surrounded the state broadcaster, the airport and other key government buildings. Niyombare was…
Placem'Bashe Lighthouse
… , part way between East London and Port St Johns. It was back in 1890's that the Cape Colonial Lighthouse Commission, … away from the original lightkeeper's…
ArticleGangsterism in Sophiatown
… that in a sense, gangs in Sophiatown can be likened to Eric Hobsbaum's "social bandits" that were a phenomenon of … seen as part of the resistance rather…
Johnny Gomas Voice of the working class: A political Biography by Doreen Musson
… in the broad movement of liberation. He is a voice we have to listen to even though it has not been heard for many years. He, more … Doreen Musson, with…
PlaceGuinea-Bissau
… Bijagos . The country of Guinea-Bissau, borders Senegal to the North and Guinea , to the South and East. Despite its size, is host to a large … a History of…
EventGideon Nieuwoudt dies
… Location: back to this day in history search archive Gideon Nieuwoudt a … with cancer. In 1982, two student activists who belonged to the Congress of South…
EventProf. James Smith, who identified the first coelacanth found in South Africa, is born
… his PhD at Oxford. After he returned from Oxford, he began to teach chemistry at Rhodes University in Grahamstown. However, Smith gradually switched over to…