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ArchiveOur right to know
White poster with red block containing title in black letters. Notice of Public Meeting on Wednesday 27th August, at Justice Hall, Ecumenical Centre, 20 St…
ArchiveViolence and the cross in South Africa today
Journal article containing extracts of an address by Dr Manas Buthelezi at South African Leadership Conference held in July 20, 1979, about violence and the…
ArchiveResolutions on violence
Resolutions of the National Executive Meeting of the African National Congress, 18 and 19 September 1990: Resolution on violence and resolution arising from…
ArchivePeace call up
End Conscription Campaign. Meeting to discuss aternatives to military call up. White poster with black lettering. Image of a tree with a child on a swing…
Polokwane the Segregated city
Contents The Segregated City, 1910-1948 The Apartheid City A decade of Turbulence, 1976-86 Ructions within Afrikaner Politics Forced removals in the…
BiographyMichael Guthrie Scott
This article was written by Ben Forstate and forms part of the SAHO Public History Internship Michael Guthrie Scott was born on 30 July 1907 in the village…
ArchiveVuyisile Mini: commemoration rally
Black, red, yellow and white poster. Notice of commemoration rally to celebrate 20 years of COSATU. Photograph of Vuyisile Mini. COSATU, SACP and ANC logos…
ArchiveItumeleng Films presents
Black and white poster. Notice of a video film festival at University of Botswana, Science Lecture Theatre, on July 11th-20th. List of films to be shown on…
ArchivePeace in Namibia
Black and white poster. Artwork of map of Namibia. Notice of a meeting at St. George's Cathedral on Sunday 20th May. Issued by Black Sash. List of speakers. …
PlaceBelvedere Avenue 21, Oranjezicht
This double-storey building was erected shortly after the turn of the 20th century and has a number of fine neo-classical and Victorian architectural features…
PlaceGrahamstown, now known as Makhanda
Within a few decades Grahamstown was the most important city in the Cape Colony after Cape Town. In 2018 the city changed its name to Makhanda. Makhanda was a…
PlaceAnglo Alpha, a Railway Siding near Colligney, North West
Railway Siding, 20 km North-West of Colligney and 5 km South-East of Lichtenburg. Takes its name from Anglo Alpha Cement Limited, a subsidiary company of Anglo…
ArchiveCape Town Massacre : Interfaith prayer service
White poster with black lettering. Yellow and white image of army tank going across centre of poster. Issued by Riverlea Human Rights Committee. Notice of…
ArchiveJews for justice
Notice of symposium entitled 'The road ahead'. Sunday 20th May at Rachel Bloch House (Kaplan Centre), University of Cape Town. List of speakers. Small map of…
ArchiveHoliday Fun
White poster with blue, red and grey lettering. Notice of fun events at J D Opperman Centre on 20 - 24 June. Issued by Eldorado Park Youth Congress. Sporting…
ArchiveMusic for two pianos and four hands
Pink and black poster. Notice of a concert at Baxter Concert Hall, on Saturday 20th October 1984. Concert by S.A. College of Music. List of music played by…
ArchiveBiography of Jerry Pelamoitse Tlhopane
Biography of Jerry Pelamoitse Tlhopane. Jerry Pelamoitse Tlhopane was born on the 4th July 1958 in Evaton location of Vereeniging. In 1978 he was charged and…
EventThe State of Emergency is declared in thirty six magisterial districts.
The increasing popular resistance and violent township protests amid the 1980s forced the South African government to declare a State of Emergency. On 20 July…
ArchiveMinutes of the Black Sash Annual National Conference held at Pietermaritzburg
Minutes of the Black Sash Annual National Conference held on October 20 to 23 1964 in the supper room of the City Hall in Pietermaritzburg. Discussed were:…
PlaceAndriesburg, Eastern Cape
A Mountain, 2 106 m high about 30 km North-West of Queenstown and 20 km South-East of Sterkstroom. It is known by the Xhosa name of 'KwaHelisi', derived from…
ArchiveSouth Africa in Crisis: paper presented at the Black Sash National Conference at Pietermaritzburg
South Africa in Crisis: paper presented at the Black Sash National Conference at Pietermaritzburg on 20 October 1964. Mentioned: United Nations, role of white…
ArchiveLeon Trotsky
Black, red and white poster. 50th anniversary of the death of Leon Trotsky. Artwork of Leon Trotsky, murdered by Stalin on 20th August 1940. Call to Socialism…
PlaceGeorge
The Town of George lies halfway between Cape Town and Port Elizabeth on South Africa’s ever-popular Garden Route. George Airport now welcomes over 800,000…
ArticlePoor Whites and their Political Weapon: Constructing the Kakamas Dam
The term “poor whites” was coined during the 19th century, as the mineral revolution and development of mines forced smaller farmers off their land.[1] This…
ArchiveStatess policy of deception
Rejecting any participation in the negotiations meetings of 29 November and of 20-21 December 1991, the New Unity Movement says in its latest statement that…
ArchiveSouth Africa : The Cordoned Heart Poster
Black and white poster. Second half of title in red letters. Photo of men carrying coffins with flowers in top. Exhibition on 4th March at Gertrude Posel…
ArchiveMeeting between Minister R F Botha, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Ambassador H Nickel of the United States: Cape Town, 21 March 1984
Meeting, following on from the meeting of the previous day, 20 March 1984, between South Africa and the United States to discuss the joint statement issued in…
ArchivePACT Dance Company: 2nd Season 1994
Artwork of the back of a naked black man with his hands behind his head, and four white hands around his body. Notice of a dance programme at State Theatre,…
ArchiveThe sixteenth annual Richard Feetham Memorial Lecture by Helen Joseph
Students Representative Council and Academic Freedom Committee of the University of Witwatersrand. Dark brown poster with cream lettering. Notice of a lecture…
BiographyLouis Botha
Louis Botha was born near Greytown in Natal in 1862. He was the son of Voortrekker parents and was brought up on a farm in the Free State, and was educated at…