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EventTwo actors, Athol Fugard and Zakes Mokae arrive in Cape Town to stage a play on the ‘Colour-bar’
… "The Blood Knot" was the much talked about play in South Africa which had a cast of only two characters, a White and … Play' from Cape Time , (National…
EventANC Constitutional proposals are disclosed
… the resumption of the Convention for a Democratic South Africa (CODESA) talks. The ANC rejected De Klerk's proposals …
EventIFP proposes truce with ANC
… to read more about the role of State violence in South Africa. Click here to read about the increase of Inkatha …
EventSchools closed in the Western Cape
… standards of education for Black children in South Africa. The boycotting students were also reacting to the …
EventBafana Bafana loses to Germany
… reigning European champion while Bafana Bafana had won the Africa Cup of Nations in 1996. However, Germany had the upper …
EventANC stalwart, Albertina Sisulu dies in Johannesburg
… important leaders of anti-Apartheid resistance in South Africa. It was with Walter that she attended the first …
EventThe State Theatre in Pretoria opens
… of construction, it was the first of its kind in Southern Africa. The theatre consists of five arenas, a large public …
Passive Resistance 1946 - A Selection of Documents compiled by E.S. Reddy & Fatima Meer - 1948 - Press Reports on the Campaign
… treated the three men, all of whom were born in South Africa. As they did not carry permits they were liable on … of the UN Assembly that we were Union…
Launch of the Luthuli Volunteer Corps, 12 June 2013
… of our country provides. Current generations of South Africa have the real prospect of living to see the final … build a truly non-racial, democratic and…
EventSolomon Popoli Linda, singer and composer, dies
… over 100,000 copies, making Linda a musical star in South Africa. Although Mbube is Linda's best known recorded song, … to Gallo Record Company for 10…
ArticleYusuf Dadoo Timeline: 1920 - 1929
… women activist and poet Sarojini Naidu to visit South Africa. Sarojini Naidoo becomes the President of the Indian … for V. Srinivasa Sastri, the first…
Alfred Nzo Lecture in memory of Comrade Alfred Baphethuxolo Nzo delivered on 28 June 2014 by Dr Zwelini Mkhize Treasurer General of the ANC in Mount Ayliff ; Alfred Nzo District in Eastern Cape Province
… ANC instructions to work for the movement outside South Africa. Nzo took up posts in various countries including … and many multi lateral forums to ensure…
New Generation Sculpture
… there is an indigenous independent and vital art in South Africa and that it has been flourishing for years, unÂheeded … be compared with folk traditions…
EventSANNC (ANC) meeting is attended by a large number of people
… by a large number of people, men and women, from South Africa, Botswana, Lesotho, and Swaziland. The meeting was … Plaatjie, S. 1996. Native Life in South…
EventSA artist Ernest Methuen Mancoba is born
… studies in 1938. Mancoba never returned to live in South Africa again, but visited the country after 1994 for his …
ArticleKey sites in and around Soweto
… St. Peter Claver School Sunvalley* The New Church of South Africa UBC (Council Office) Vista University …
Chapter 2 - The Soweto Uprising of June 1976: A Turning Points Event
… then bloodshed and violence are going to happen in South Africa almost inevitably. A people can take only so much and … situation in my beloved homeland, my…
Book 5: People, Places and Apartheid - Chapter 2 - The Soweto Uprising of June 1976: A Turning Points Event by Phil Bonner
… then bloodshed and violence are going to happen in South Africa almost inevitably. A people can take only so much and … situation in my beloved homeland, my…
BiographyAlexander Kgobe
It was alleged that in 1958 Alexander Kgobe alias Malemane, from La Pucella, Potgietersrus District, Transvaal [now Mokopane, in Limpopo Province] wrote…
BiographyMtetunzima Ganyile
Mtetunzima Ganyile, from Amanikwe Location, Bizana District, [Eastern Province, now Eastern Cape] was described in the motivation for his banishment as one of…
BiographyMashudu Jonathan Mudau
Mashudu Jonathan Mudau was born on 1 January 1953 at Mbaleni, Northern Transvaal (now Limpopo). He started his schooling at Makwarela Primary and passed…
We are the soldiers of Sisulu by Thabo Mbeki 2003
… people to produce an enduring vision for a liberated South Africa, as contained in the Freedom Charter. When the … to act in solidarity with others elsewhere…
Speech by President Nelson Mandela at a banquet in honour of President Nujoma of Namibia Cape Town, 13 May 1996.
… the lead in a countrywide rebellion that shook white South Africa to the core. And although the uprising was eventually … hundreds of lives and millions of…
EventThe ANC celebrates its centenary anniversary in Bloemfontein
… of Black people from power in the new Union of South Africa. Pixley Seme, Alfred Mangena, Richard Msimang and … H. and Mbenga, B. (2007) New History of…
ArchiveThe end conscription campaign 1983-1988: a study of white extra-parliamentary opposition to apartheid
… of Arts in the subject history at the University of South Africa. This thesis includes chapters on the role of South …
EventPresident Jacob Zuma arrives in Moscow to attend the commemoration of the 70th Anniversary of Victory in the Great Patriotic War.
… visit was meant to build the warm relation between South Africa and the Russian Federation with cooperation in … South Africa Government,(2015),P resident…
ArchiveInterview with Duma Nokwe
… Banned, detained and in 1962 house-arrested, he fled South Africa in early 1963. He occupied leadership positions in the …
EventANC members, Walter Sisulu and Duma Nokwe go overseas under false names
… Poland, Russia and Communist China. They returned to South Africa on December 1953 and attended the 41st annual …
EventJohannesburg municipal workers strike
… the largest and most industrialised city in South Africa. The strike involved over 10,000 African municipal … African hotels,(2013),' A history of Apartheid…
EventANC and government to surge ahead with reforms
… rejection of the Convention for a Democratic South Africa (CODESA), the African National Congress (ANC) and …