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EventThe name of the military base, Voortrekkerhoogte is officially changed to Thaba Tshwane
… Thaba Tshwane is the military headquarters of the South African National Defence Force (SANDF) in Pretoria. The base … South African Government Information …
EventSt. John Broderick claims concentration camps are improving
… country was experiencing yet another war, the Second South African War also known as the Second Anglo-Boer War, … Boddy-Evans, A. ‘This Day in African…
ArchiveDeportation of NUSAS President Elect
… to the 44th Annual Congress of the National Union of South African Students, 30th June to 9th July, 1968. Contains …
ArchiveTowards racial justice: will there be a change of heart?
… Alan Paton at the 50th Anniversary Conference of the South African Institute of Race Relations on July 3, 1979 in which …
ArchiveNkosi Sikelele I-Afrika
… Since 1997, The South African national anthem has been a hybrid song combining new …
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ArchiveMemorandum to the Shlebusch [sic] Commission of Enquiry into Certain Organisations on the paper presented to the NUSAS seminar at Botha's Hill by Jonty Driver
… Paul Pretorius, President of the National Union of South African Students, on a paper that had been presented at a …
ArchiveMy Spirit Is Not Banned by Frances Baard and Barbie Schreiner
… in the strength of the people.' J.B. Marks addressing the African National Congress of South Africa (ANC) in the …
The Role of the Missionaries in conquest - Chapter XII - End and Beginning
… for the mines, the farms, the towns. In other words, African labour was to be exploited in order to build up the South African State, but the Black man was…
ArchiveStudent walkouts have changed history before. In South Africa, one helped end apartheid by DeNeen L. Brown (The Washington Post), 14 March 2018
… Hector Pieterson, a 12-year-old South African boy, was one of the first students to die. On June … Johannesburg, defiance came at a terrible cost. South…
“Let us dream you, forbidden landscape”: the Storming project sings change, 17 July 2017
… world, it can obscure as much as it reveals. Today’s South African political music is rarely written about: even when … ( Dubul’ iBhunu ), it is prosecuted…
Document 64 - Letter from the Workers’ Party of South Africa to the International Secretariat of the International Communist League (B-L), 1 July 1936
… time of writing there is being held in Bloemfontein an All African Convention to which all political organisations that … the Chamber of Mines, the bourgeois…
ArchiveThe Final Prize - Contents and Preface
… paternalism, condescension and political exclusion of the African representatives by government and white officials … within the system, thwarting future…
David Goldblatt’s Portraits of Ex-Convicts at the Scenes of their Crimes by Max Campbell, 6 October 2016
… at the Scene of the Crime,” a series by the South African photographer David Goldblatt, we see an older woman … Another subject, Hennie Gerber, joined the…
PlaceMapungubwe Cultural Landscape, Joining South Africa with Zimbabwe and Botswana
… State which at its height was the largest kingdom in the African sub-Continent. The establishment of Mapungubwe as a powerful state trading through the East…
ArchiveRelations with Other Groups Committee report
… at the 60th Annual Congress of the National Union of South African Students, Durban, 29 Nov-3 Dec 1983. Included in …
ArchiveInterview with Alexander Hepple
… (1904-1983), politician and author, a member of the South African parliament for the white socialist Labour Party from …
Celebrating 50 years of the Freedom Charter - June 26 1955-June 26 2005
… Picture Researcher : Rita Potenza. Photos from Bailie’s African History Archives, Wits Archive, Mayibuye Centre, …
EventBusiness leader Matome Maponya is born
… (Limpopo Province). He was president of the National African Farmers' Union (1991-97) and member of the Management …
EventSelassie becomes emperor
… by Rastafarians as a Lion of Judah, meaning that he is an African messiah. Click here to read about his burial Click …
EventSA poet Sydney Vernon Peterson dies
… Sydney Vernon Petersen, one of the prominent South African poets and educationist of the 1940s, died in … Sonderling, N.E. (ed.) New Dictionary of South…
EventFinal Commission report on University Christian Movement
… especially with regard to its close ties with the South African Students Organisation (SASO), which was seen in … www.sahistory.org.za [Accessed on 6 June…
EventANC member, Henry Fazzie sentenced to 20 years in jail under the Sabotage Act
… were compromised, and they were detained by South African security forces in Zimbabwe. The group was later …
EventTwelve people are killed in Daveyton
… to open fire when the crowd attacked them, while the African National Congress (ANC) claimed that its supporters …
EventFirst ANC Conference in SA in three decades
… The African National Congress (ANC) held its first Consultative … J.A.; Schoeman, E. & Andor, L.E. (eds)(1999). Southern African Political History: a…
EventANC and IFP joint peace rally is called off
… The African National Congress (ANC) called off a peace rally to …
EventChris Hani succeeds Joe Slovo as Chief of MK
… who had been appointed general secretary of the South African Communist Party (SACP). MK was intensifying its …
EventThe ship São José is wrecked
… About 1300 ships have been wrecked on or near the South African coast since the year 1500. …
EventTsotsi wins Academy Award
… On 6 March 2006, the South African film Tsotsi, starring young actors Presley …
EventThe 4 x 100m men’s relay team win the gold medal for SA at the Olympic Games in Athens
… The South African squad of Roland Schoeman, Lyndon Ferns, Darian …
EventCosatu celebrates its 18 th anniversary
… The Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) celebrated its 18th anniversary …