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ArchiveChapter 4 Political activity 1950-1963 by Denis Goldberg
… we coordinated the activities of COD, the ANC, the South African Coloured People’s Congress (SACPC) and the South African Congress of Trade Unions (SACTU)…
Extract from a speech made in the House of Assembly on January 1976 in reply to a motion of no confidence in the Government by the Leader of the Opposition
… that this was indeed what was thought. Thanks to our African initiative - I am still grateful that I said what I … visitors on a reasonable scale. In spite…
Museums, Heritage & Meaning Making Conference
… conference from 21–24 October 2025 at the Iziko South African Museum, Cape Town — marking 200 years of … to submit abstracts and register to attend. Iziko…
EventIFP proposes a truce with ANC
… The Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) proposed a truce with the African National Congress (ANC) as an effort to distil … ANC and itself. The IFP blamed the…
PlaceTaj Hotel, Cape Town
… as the Board of Executors, built in 1890, and the South African Reserve Bank building, on St. George's Originally home to the South African Reserve Bank and…
ArticleKey sites
… was an invention born of the City’s racist regulations. African people were not allowed to served in Indian … Market would be rebuilt on the adjacent land on…
PlaceThe Dakawa Arts and Crafts Centre
… as the Dakawa Development Centre, it began as a project of African National Congress (ANC) exiles during the time of … Morrow, Sean. Dakawa Development…
PlaceGreatmore Studios
… and in 1988, with the assistance of Loder and South African veteran artist, David Nthubu Kolaone , Greatmore …
Death of ANC Education Secretary, Seretse Choabi, 29 August 1991
… The African National Congress regrets to announce the untimely …
Apartheid’s Twisted Dream: David Goldblatt’s South Africa by Joseph Lelyveld, 2 July 2010
… As a matter of crude shorthand, the South African photographer David Goldblatt might be described as …
SABC CEO Jimi Matthews quits: ‘What’s happening at the SABC is wrong' (Tmg Digital), 27 June 2016
… August local government elections. On Friday‚ the South African National Editors’ Forum said it was “shocked by the …
PlaceAlberton, Germiston
… is still a very exclusive Area, some of the famous South African's who live there are: Japie Mulder (Springbok rugby … New Dictionary of South African Place…
PlaceHaarlem
… these mountains. Then came the small livestock farmers of African origin, to be followed by a particularly tough … New Dictionary of South African Place…
PlaceElim
… and fig trees. This town is one of the few surviving South African mission stations . It was founded in 1824 as the … cottages and fig trees, is one of the…
Beyond the Apartheid University?
… University? Interrogating the transformation of the South African Higher Education landscape. Sub-themes to be …
PlaceLoftus Versveld Stadium, Hatfield
… extents and hear about its history and future in the South African sporting world. Loftus Versfeld is situated in …
PlaceFreedom Park
… common humanity. Freedom Park was established as the South African government's response to the Truth and Reconciliation …
PlaceOld gaol, Seventh Avenue, Roodepoort
… used as holding cells for a short while before the South African Red Cross Society moved in. The building was declared …
Document 21 - Letter from S. P. Bunting to E. R. Roux, 27 October 1930
… add "also delegates (European and Coloured) from the South African Trades & Labour Council and the Furniture and Garment …
EventPansy Tlakula, Chairperson of the Independent Electoral Commission, announces her resignation
… parties such as the United Democratic Movement (UDM), the African Christian Democratic Party (ACDP), Congress of the …
Event90-Days Act comences
… enables authorities to align Umkhonto We Sizwe with the African National Congress (ANC) and Poqo with the Pan … Liebenberg, B. J. & Spies, S. B. (eds)(1993)…
EventMapungubwe is ‘discovered’
… have been the centre of the largest known kingdom in the African sub-continent. The civilization thrived as a …
EventSA and Mozambique revive Nkomati Accord
… for attacks on one another. Mozambique agreed to expel the African National Congress (ANC) from their country while …
EventWolraad Woltemade drowns at sea after saving 14 people from a sinking ship
… 2002, as part of the move towards establishing a new South African honours system. … Schirmer, P. (1980) The concise illustrated South African encyclopaedia …
EventLord Charles Henry Somerset, governor of the Cape Colony, is born in Badminton, England
… in Eastern Cape. In Cape Town he launched the South African Public Library in the Cape through a proclamation in …
EventMother Teresa is buried
… 1988. Further reading: Feature: The Nobel Prize and South African Winners of the award. Feature: Mohandas K. Gandhi …
EventThe Rand Revolt strikers’ stronghold at Fordsburg Square falls to the government
… active role in the uprising. On 15 March 1992, the South African government's artillery bombarded the strikers' … : Human & Rousseau|SAHO, The Rand Revolt ,…
EventGeneral C.R. de Wet was found guilty of treason for leading the Afrikaner rebellion of 1914
… in chief of the Orange Free State forces in the South African War (1899-1902) and was a leader in the Afrikaner …
EventFawcett Commission into Concentration Camps in South Africa
… of Afrikaners in concentration camps during the South African War. A British woman, Emily Hobhouse became the …
ArchiveCongress Resister 1983 - 1989
… community to the forthcoming elections for the South African Indian Council (SAIC). It was decided that the …