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Alan Wieder on the Rivonia Raids & South African Non-Violent Struggle
… the early 1960s attacked the Rovonia farm, then occupied by the African National Congress and the South African …
ArchiveConstitution of the friends of United Democratic Front
… Constitution of the friends of United Democratic Front. By this constitution there shall be established a body …
ArchiveMemorandum on political prisoners
… Memorandum on political prisoners submitted by Alfred Ngokong on behalf of the ANC to the Ad Hoc Working …
ArchiveMotion passed at the 43rd Provincial Synod Meeting of the Church of Province of Southern Africa
… of South Africa, that, aware of the number of detentions by the Security Police and noting that some people cannot …
ArchiveToys are for cuddling not for killing
… of the Prince of Peace?" and "buy toys for peace!". Issued by the End Conscription Campaign. ECC logo. …
PlaceTrevean House, 258 Wakesleigh Road, Bellair, Durban
… This imposing dwelling was designed and erected in 1882 by well-known architects Robert Sellers Upton and Philip …
PlaceAmbleside, a Railway Siding in Mpumalanga
… on the route Machadodorp to Breyton. It was named in 1868 by Archibald Sinclair, recalling the Wreck of the Ambleside, … New Dictionary of South African…
Ahmed Kathrada pays tribute to Nelson Mandela, 6 December 2013
… you continue to bring unity to a world so often torn apart by intolerance, by discrimination, by injustice, by the violence of poverty, and by fear and …
’I am not prepared to sell the birthright of the people to be free’
… response to the latest offer was read on his behalf by his daughter Zinzi to a mass meeting in Jabulani Stadium, … Soweto, on 10 February, 1985. This text…
PlaceVolksrust, Mpumalanga
… project that looked at improving the lives of people, by building houses with sewerage systems and electricity. … As the youths from the urban areas were…
Baroness Castle of Blackburn opened an exhibition on the history of the Anti-Apartheid Movement at the opening session of the Symposium
… I don't know why I should have been honoured in this way by being asked to open this exhibition; awhole stream of … Minister moved a motion, stirred up we…
PlaceCape Town Theatre Laboratory
… Founded in 1998 by Royston Stoffels and Warrick Grier, the Cape Town Theatre …
ArchiveEducation for liberation
… Town Hall, London, on Saturday 3rd April 1993. Organised by the Black Solidarity Committee of the Anti-Apartheid …
ArchivePolitical Report
… Precis of a political report by Jacob Zuma on the socio-economic and political situation …
ArchiveReport of NUSED Congress, July 1971
… 1 to 14, 1971. Includes intentions to coordinate efforts by students from different centres to increase activities in …
ArchiveInternational Bulletin, No 20, December 1988
… Bulletin, No 20, December 1988, produced by the South African Communist Party. Issue covers an SACP …
The Freedom Charter
… in Kliptown, Johannesburg regarding the declaration made by the people of South Africa that South Africa belong to all …
EventWalter Sisulu tries to recruit 5 000 volunteers during ANC meeting to protest forced removal of “Black Spots”
… At the meeting he a spurred people to volunteer by pointing out that "we need 5 000 volunteers but we must …
PlaceCuthbert’s Building, Eloff Street, Johannesburg
… in 1882. Their Johannesburg building was designed by architects Stucke & Bannister and was completed in 1904. …
EventJomo Sono, South African soccer player and director, is born
… was born in Orlando East in Soweto. Sono was brought up by his grandparents after his father died and his mother …
EventBeeld is published for the first time
… is the current editor of Beeld and the paper is owned by Media24. …
EventMelrose House opens as a Museum
… House in Pretoria as a museum. The House was built in 1866 by George Jesse Heyns a Pretoria businessman. It was here …
EventAlexander Kerr dies
… Alexander Kerr Memorial Fund) was started in his memory by the Presbyterian Church of Southern Africa to provide …
EventDr Phillip Blaiberg dies in Cape Town
… 15 days following a successful heart transplant operation by Dr. Chris Barnard in January, 1968. Blaiberg, the …
EventChris Heunis is appointed acting president
… and Planning, was appointed Acting State President by President P.W. Botha who was recovering from a mild stroke …
EventANC Matthews Mapumolo dies in police custody
… custody after he had been confronted at home in Swaziland by a group of armed men. He was shot and, while wounded, …
EventIdi Amin dies
… His eight-year rule in Uganda had been characterised by torture and mass killings in which approximately 30 000 …
EventNew Afrikaner Political Party
… of leading Afrikaner political figures, it was attacked by Freedom Front (FF) leader Constand Viljoen as being …
EventBritish secretary of war, Lord Kitchener drowns near Orkney Islands
… near the Orkney Islands. Kitchener had been sent to Russia by Prime Minister Herbert Asquith to try to get the support …
Archive1997 - President Mandela, State of the Nation Address, 7 February 1997
… today. The major restructuring of parliament represented by these changes epitomizes the maturing of our democracy. Of … health policy. During the course of…