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ArchiveInterview with Robert Mangaliso Sobukwe
… Oral interview, in Kimberley, South Africa, with Robert Sobukwe (1924 to 1978), who was elected …
EventSir Julius Jeppe, founder of the Witwatersrand Township Estate and Finance Corporation, dies in London
… in July 1859. Jeppe and his family immigrated to South Africa in 1870 and settled in Pretoria. …
EventFormer Colonial Prime Minister John Merriman dies
… the Cape Colony before the formation of the Union of South Africa in 1910, John Xavier Merriman, died in Stellenbosch at … et al. (eds)(1970). Standard…
EventEgypt Establishes Diplomatic Relations With Israel
… nations. Egypt's military forces, the fifth largest in Africa, is one of the best in the region. The new diplomatic …
EventUnited Party disbands
… The United Party, main political opposition party in South Africa, was formally disbanded by the majority faction after … C.F.J. (ed)(1981). Five Hundred…
EventHelen Joseph dies
… May Joseph , died at the age of 87 in Johannesburg , South Africa. She came to SA in 1931 and, with Lilian Ngoyi and …
EventEuropean Community observers arrive in SA
… police officers, lawyers and economists, arrived in South Africa to assist in preventing violence, defusing tension, …
EventSADC treaty is signed in Namibia
… Co-ordination Community (SADCC), of which South Africa was not a member until the new treaty was signed in … Burger, D. (ed)(2002). South Africa Yearbook…
EventWorld Conference on Racism starts in Durban
… World Conference on Racism, staged in South Africa. The conference was unfortunately charecterised by … Burger, D. (ed)(2002). South Africa Yearbook 2001/02,…
EventJRR Tolkien born in Bloemfontein
… Arthur Tolkien, were British but worked in a bank in South Africa. He was a sickly child, so he and his mother and …
EventMadikizela Mandela is accused of misuse of funds
… South Africa's deputy minister of arts, culture, science and …
EventGambia becomes a republic
… Gambia is one of the smallest countries in West Africa. It gained its independence from Britain on 18 …
Document 20 - F. Carneson, “The Franchise Action Committee”, Discussion, 1, 3, June 1951
… From: South Africa's Radical Tradition, a documentary history, Volume Two …
ArchiveProfile of a Death Row Prisoner: Paper Presented at the Black Sash National Conference 1989
… Death Penalty, statistics of capital punishment in South Africa. …
ArchiveStudents and action in society
… African socialism; Black power; Black power in South Africa and Student as rebel. Included are recommendations for …
ArchiveANC womens section : South African women march to freedom
… striped border and title. Green outline of map of South Africa on left hand side over list of demands. …
EventThe national Chairman of SABRA warns of sour relations in the Union
… “Recent events in Africa have robbed the Union of precious time. This country …
Forging Solidarity: Southern Perspectives of Popular Education
… educators in the ‘south’, and particularly in South Africa, responding to various, precarious economic, …
ArchiveWorking in the apartheid city: worker struggles in Durban, 1959-1979
… sector, and with the trade unions, in Durban, South Africa, beween 1959-1979, during the apartheid era. …
ArchiveA decent respect for the opinions of mankind: Academic freedom and human freedom
… Declaration of Academic and Human Freedom in South Africa signed by Student Representatives. …
PlaceJewish Pioneers Memorial Synagogue, Raleigh Street, Port Elizabeth
… were mainly Eastern European Jews who hah came to South Africa , after severe pogroms and persecution in Russia, …
PlaceDie Stem Parsonage, Simonstown, Cape Town
… verandah was added in 1820. The music for part of South Africa's national anthem, Die Stem van Suid Afrika, was …
PlaceRiebeek West
… General J C Smuts , Prime Minister of the Union of South Africa. By Franco Frescura …
EventManilal Gandhi leads a resistance group across the Natal
… and our feature on the History of Indians in South Africa for more. …
EventDesmond Tutu is appointed first Black Anglican Bishop of Johannesburg
… the Anglican Church with a 1.6 million membership in South Africa. He used this position to intensify his opposition to …
EventUS Senator Edward Kennedy visits SA
… Senator Edward Kennedy of the United States visited South Africa to show his anti-apartheid support to the South …
EventPolice pounce on AWB members
… aiming to create an Afrikaner Republic within South Africa. …
EventThe House of Assembly votes for inquiry into NUSAS & SAIRR
… Movement (UCM), the Christian Institute of Southern Africa and their subordinate organisations. …
EventSiamese twins are separated in Cape Town
… was the first of its kind in the medical history of South Africa. Since that first operation more Siamese twins have …
EventANC leader Nelson Mandela meets Boutros Boutros
… international community in investigating violence in South Africa and, in particular, the convening of the Security …