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Zweli Mkhize denies Redi Tlhabi’s book allegations, says he hasn’t read it, 18 - September - 2017
The presidential contender says he saw Jacob Zuma as an older brother and treated Khwezi as he would a daughter. Presidential contender and ANC treasurer…
ArchiveConcert: St Lukes YCM
Green, red, black and white poster. Fund raiser for Zeerust SACC Youth Convention 1985. Notice of a fundraising concert.
TRC Cradock Four Amnesty Hearings
This article was written by Saif Pardawala and forms part of the SAHO and Southern Methodist University partnership project
ArchiveRefugees and exiles: challenge the churches
Yellow poster with black lettering. Multicoloured photographs in a circle in the centre showing scenes of refugee life. SACC poster.
ArchiveDisco studio 45
SACC Youth Convention '85 poster. Notice of a disco at Huhudi Hall on the 7th February 1985. List of performers.
ArticleAll Members of South Africa’s 5th Democratic Parliament 2014
Surname First names Party Abrahams …
Passive Resistance 1946 - A Selection of Documents compiled by E.S. Reddy & Fatima Meer - Special Focus: Wrangling between political groups - 1947
From the book: Passive Resistance 1946 - A Selection of Documents compiled by E.S. Reddy & Fatima Meer 1947 Kajee accused of betrayal at NIC mass meeting …
ArchiveIqiniso izonqoba : Truth will overcome
COSATU poster. White with red lettering. Black and white image of hands holding rope around man's neck and microphone with initials SABC.
EventUDF activist Toto Dweba's mutilated body is found
According to Coleman (ed.) in A Crime Against Humanity, the mutilated body of Toto Roy Dweba, member of the United Democratic Front (UDF) and of the Natal…
David Goldblatt, once and future freedom hero by Rebecca Davis (Daily Maverick), 28 November 2012, South Africa
Last Wednesday David Goldblatt wrote an email to the Chancellor of Orders explaining that he was declining the Order of Ikhamanga, a national honour awarded by…
Article on the pass law deputation in July 25, 1889
Pirie was, on Thursday last, the scene of a large representative and important gathering of Natives of the district of King William's Town to hear the Native…
20. Johannesburg Parsees claim special status
From the book: A Documentary History of Indian South Africans edited by Surendra Bhana and Bridglal Pachai A petition dated 17 September 1906 was sent to…
The ‘special branch’
From the book: My Spirit Is Not Banned by Frances Baard and Barbie Schreiner We had to work very hard to "Be successful with our campaigns and our organizing…
PlaceA History of Ottosdal and Letsopa
Precolonial and Early History Almost four hundred years ago, Khoe-San people moved into the interior of South Africa from the Cape (what is today the…
ArchiveCome with me
White poster with blue border. Bible quote "Come with me" from 2 Kings 6:1-6. Black and white photograph of two young girls. Quote by Lilla Watson. SACC Youth…
Closing speech by Oliver Tambo at the ANC conference "Peoples of the world united against apartheid, for a democratic South Africa", 04 December 1987, Arusha
The time has come for all of us to leave this friendly city which has been our home for a few days, and return to our respective theatres of struggle. The…
Closing Speech at the ANC Conference "Peoples Of The World United Against Apartheid, For A Democratic South Africa" by O. R. Tambo, Arusha, 4 December 1987
The time has come for all of us to leave this friendly city which has been our home for a few days, and return to our respective theatres of struggle. The…
ArchiveAppendix 8 Sam will never see his favoured son free of the traitor’s brand by Denis Goldberg
Sam Goldberg is dead. But he lives on. One of the characters in the sell-out play, “Cincinatti”, was based on Sam, who died in Johannesburg this week. Sam was…
ArchiveMonth of Compassion 1987
Black background. Title in black letters. Black and white photograph of two men building a shack. Words "I was homeless - but not helpless". Request 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.
ArchiveComment
The government-backed SABC-TV has begun a major campaign to discredit the progressive organisations calling for people not to vote on August 22 by portraying…
ArchiveBuild a better church for the future of all our youth
Blue background with title in red letters. Coloured photographs of people at church. The month of compassion August 1985. Request for donations and gifts to…
ArchiveWomen : a power for change
Black poster with pink lettering. Title repeated four times. Notice of National Conference by South African Council of Churches from 24th to 28th June 1985. …
ArchiveThis is the time: time to end apartheid, time for peace
Extract from the report of the General Secretary of the South African Council of Churches (SACC), Frank Chikane, to the 1989 National Conference on the state…
Funeral of Sean MacBride: Oliver Tambo, 05 May 1988
Our Banners Dipped As a young man, Sean MacBride, an Irishman, spent time in prison for his part in the struggle for independence of his own people. From 1973…
`We will come back with Msholozi`- erupts Pondoland, 12 December 2008
Sounds of "sizobuya naye uMsholozi" (we will come back with Msholozi), "ngena Jacob, ukhetho luyeza" (enter Jacob, elections are coming), "amandla ase masebene…
PlaceAlgoa Bay, East Coast of Cape of Good Hope
Old name for Algoa Bay was Angra da Roca named in 1488, by Bartolomeu Dias when he was the first European to land there. He planted a wooden cross on a small…
EventCourt approves same-sex couple's right to marry
In October 2002, Marie Fourie and her partner of twelve years, Cecelia Bonthuys had been refused the right to marry on the basis of the common law…
EventDemonstrators close down businesses and government offices in Lesotho
On 17 September 1998, demonstrators closed down businesses and government offices in Lesotho as protests against the outcome of the 23 May 1998 election…
ArchiveService of witness and solidarity with church leaders
White poster with black lettering. Photo of clergy march to parliament in February 1988. Notice of a service on Tuesday 31st May 1998, at Regina Mundi, Soweto…