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King Kong a venture in the theatre
… This is the story of an inter-racial venture in South Africa. Many hundreds of white people and Africans in the …
Giyani, Polokwane
… status in the Constitution.” SABC 2 premiered South Africa’s first Xitsonga drama series Giyani — Land of Blood … in honour of the 3.5-million Vatsonga…
PlaceComoros
… . It is 3572.4 km from the 'Mother City", Cape Town, South Africa! The Comoros Nation became Islamic in the early 16th … these islands as a trading outpost…
EventMedical Association agrees to investigate Biko’s death
… further investigation. The Medical Association of South Africa (MASA) gave the green light to its ethical committee … report. The finding was greeted with…
EventMalawi voters take part in the first multiparty election in three decades
… regimes of the southern continent, in particular, South Africa and the Portuguese administration in neighbouring … multiparty election in three decades…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
EventJohn Fairbairn (70), journalist and outspoken critic, dies in Cape Town
… Regarded as the father of free press in South Africa, John Fairbairn left England and arrived in the Cape … in Every Step of the Way: The Journey to Freedom…
EventThe UN Special Committee on Apartheid reports on SA
… this date, gave a detailed review of developments in South Africa's racial policies since 6 November 1962. The report …
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 …
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…
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…
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…
PlaceSeshego, a Township
… Bantustan that was in Northern Transvaal, South Africa. It comprised two major and several minor exclaves … Lebowa was the actual residence of more than half…
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 …
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…
ArchiveOttilie Abrahams: An Honest and Upright Person by Harry Boesak (Pambazuka News), 14 July 2018
… managed to evade imprisonment in colonial South West Africa, but was unable to do so in a post-colonial black … from all national liberation movements in…
Archive`The struggle is my life`- Nelson Mandela press statement
… and during the strike, the freedom loving people of South Africa gave massive and solid support to the historic and … Authorities when the demand all over…