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PlaceWorkers’ Museum, Johannesburg
… The excellent Portrayal of Life as a Migrant Worker, found at the Worker’s Museum in Newtown, Johannesburg , was master-minded by Henry Paine, a local…
EventThe Defiance Campaign against apartheid laws begins
… Following the adoption of a Programme of Action in the 1949 annual congress, the ANC … was launched. It was announced on 6 April 1952 that a campaign to…
EventPresident P. W. Botha offers Nelson Mandela conditional release from prison
… is that he renounces violence, and violent protest, as a means to bring about change in South Africa. Mandela communicates … Zindzi Mandela , who reads his…
EventP.W. Botha becomes Prime Minister
… as new Prime Minister and Party leader. His elevation to the new position was boosted by the qualities that he earned as a Minister of Defence and the well…
EventRobert Kennedy, American politician, speaks at the University of Cape Town about the racial inequality of apartheid
… Kennedy, the brother of former American president John F. Kennedy and American politician, made a parliamentary address at the University of Cape Town (UCT)…
EventThe Bisho Massacre occurs
… of Bisho, the capital city of Ciskei, and demanded an end to the military government of Brigadier Joshua Gqozo and the … the Bisho Massacre, occurred when…
EventLiberation struggle activists, Gwala and Mothopeng are released from Robben Island
… members of the banned liberation movements, Harry Gwala , a member of the African National Congress (ANC) and Zephania Mothopeng a member of the Pan…
EventAcclaimed South African poet Sheila Cussons dies
… at the HoÁƒÂƒÂ«r Meisieskool Pretoria before going on to study for a degree in Fine Arts at the University College of Natal (now … graphic art before moving…
EventLady Diana Spencer, Princess of Wales, is killed in a car accident in Paris
… Charles, was killed with her companion Dodi Fayed in a car accident in Paris. Her funeral was broadcast in South Africa by the SABC. The Funeral Speech …
Class, Consciousness and Organisation:Indian Political Resistance in Durban, South Africa, 1979 - 1996 by Kumi Naidoo
… Magdalen College, D. Phil., Michaelmas, 1997 Resistance to the apartheid system, led by the African National Congress … The apartheid state attempted to co…
5. Muslims of Durban complain about the vexatious curfew law
… From the book: A Documentary History of Indian South Africans edited by … residing in the borough of Durban, beg respectfully to bring to your kind notice…
Imbewu Yesini
… questioning the narratives and expectations assigned to us as women and men. "Imbewu Yesini" bears witness to the wounds that have come to separate us. It…
EventInternational Labour Organisation (ILO) suspends South Africa
… in Geneva. The resolution was passed by thirty-two votes to fourteen with two abstentions. The ILO objected to South … people to work as manual workers and…
EventThe Herstigte Nasionale Party is established
… (HNP) (Reconstituted National Party) was established as a right wing splinter group of the South African National … SA prime minister, General J.B.M. Hertzog…
EventChief Buthelezi considers registering the IFP for April 1994 election
… his Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP). The elections were set to take place on April 27. This announcement emerged after … the day before. Both the IFP and the ANC…
EventAmerican Troops pull out of Somalia
… American troops a re pulled out of Somalia following a series of gun battles Somali militias under the Command of … General Mohammed Farrah Aidid. American…
EventAnnexation of the Orange Free State is announced
… C R de Wet of the Orange Free State (Boer Republic) failed to defend their capital town Bloemfontein. The British … from the Free State capital was delayed…
Ikwezi
… Ikwezi, a Xhosa word meaning "rising star", was a Marxist-Leninist journal devoted to proletarian socialist revolution in Southern Africa, …
ArchiveBantu Homelands Citizenship Act, Act No 26 of 1970
… Act to provide for citizenship of certain Bantu homelands and for the issue of certificates of citizenship to Bantu persons; in connection therewith to amend…
Digging deeper into our history by Nicole Mccain (News24), 13 September 2016
… for the insurance company 1905, was renovated and extended to facilitate the merger of collections in 2010. The renovated building boasts a range of special…
Cape Slave Naming Patterns by Robert Shell
… be observed that the whole heathen mythology is ransacked to find the names which are generally bestowed in a manner not the most honourable to those deities…
PlaceSouth Sudan
… Egypt attempted to colonize the region of Southern Sudan by establishing the … revolutionaries overran the region in 1885. In 1898, a British force was able…
’Under Investigation’ video material going live on facebook
… but centres on the enquiry of five young people eager to understand and build on the history of their home town … Theatres of Learning for primary school…
The Durban Moment: Revisiting politics, labour, youth and resistance in the 1970s
… South Africa The ´Durban Moment´ popularly refers to the period in the early 1970s when Durban became the … democratic worker controlled unions. On the…
PlaceFort Cox
… Fort Cox was a "post of occupation" established by the British military in … in honour of Major William Cox of the 75th Regiment and a former Officer…
ANC WL deeply saddened at death of Cde Nokuhamba Nyawo, 7 March 2012
… The ANC Womens League is deeply saddened to hear that Comrade Nokuhamba Nyawo passed away on Monday (5th March 2012). Nyawo was a true cde and a truly…
Speech at the Funeral of M.P. Naicker, London by O. R. Tambo, 8 May 1977
… (Extract) We are gathered here to pay our last respects to a man who because of his belief … the land of his birth - South Africa... He died whilst on a…
PlaceAloes Railway Station, Port Elizabeth
… and Coega, 16 km North of Port Elizabeth on route to Alicedale. Takes its name from the genus of plants with … of "the Liverpool of South Africa." The 'Apple…
PlaceGreenmarket Square, Cape Town.
… Street, or Sea Street as it was previously known, was a fashionable road that initially ran alongside Cape Town's … when the VoC brought vegetables from its…
PlaceNational Botanic Gardens, Pretoria
… 1946. After the University of Pretoria granted approval to the Department of Agriculture for the development of a botanical garden on a piece of land. (This…