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ArchiveBantu Investment Corporation Act, Act No 34 of 1959
… The Act was to constitute a Corporation the object of which is to promote … encourage industrial and other undertakings and to act as a development,…
UCT defends stance on artistic freedom after Goldblatt pulls out by Paul Herman (News24), 4 March 2017
… expression, after the David Goldblatt Collection chose to move its collection to Yale University in the US. … artistic freedom and the rights of artists on…
Photography David Goldblatt by Sean Jacobs, 1 September 2009
… at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts and a new media consultant to news and photo organizations) reviews the exhibition … see the competing…
EventAlbert Luthuli is elected as an ANC President
… it became known as the ANC in 1923, and it main aim was to seek the political, social and economic upliftment for the … of this organization grew immensely…
EventSouth Africa becomes a charter member of the United Nations
… South Africa became a charter member of the United Nations (UN) on 7 November … of the government by the National Party (NP) in 1948 led to friction between…
EventKarel Schoeman, well known Afrikaans author, is born
… from the HoÁƒÂƒÂ«r Jongenskool in Paarl in 1956, obtained a BA in languages at the University of the Freestate in 1959, and He went on to study at the…
EventThe first recognised AIDS cases are reported in the USA
… reported that 5 gay men in California were suffering from a rare pneumonia (Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia or PCP). … known as AIDS. Therefore, 1981 is…
EventThe Motsuenyane Commission finds the African National Congress (ANC) guilty of abuse in its camps
… the liberation struggle was aimed at bringing these abuses to an end. When apartheid crumbled in the late 1980s the task of reconstructing a society in which…
EventThe ship São Bento (St Benedict) is wrecked on the Transkei coast
… on the 22 April 1554), the reason for the wreck is said to be due to the greed of Portuguese traders. Unlike the … as the Sao Bento, as well as the Sao Joao,…
EventVanessa Brereton, former human rights lawyer, admits that she was an Apartheid spy
… Vanessa Brereton worked as a human rights lawyer in South Africa, taking on high profile … the treasurer for the Port Elizabeth branch. Her loyalty to the…
EventKing Moshoeshoe II, the paramount chief of Lesotho, is killed in an accident
… King Moshoeshoe II of Lesotho died in a car accident shortly after he reclaimed his royal throne in 1995. The car he was travelling in rolled down a cliff on…
EventChief of the Zondi, Bambata is killed
… In the Mpanza valley in the Umvoti district, a minor chief of the Zondi, Bambatha ka Mancinza Zondi (also spelt Bambada, Bhambada), flatly refused to…
PlaceDelmas
… became famous in the latter part of 2010 for its proximity to the missing tiger known as Panjo. The tiger, only … farming town remains just east of…
Images That Preserve History, and Make It : ‘Rise and Fall of Apartheid’ at Center of Photography by Holland Cotter (The New York Times), 20 September 2012
… Life.” This isn’t an emotional outcry of an exhibition, a tragedy-to-triumph aria, which it could easily have been. It’s dramatic, for sure, but in a…
ArchiveFEDSAW - Western Cape Cultural Festival 27 May 1989 (Tape II)
… FEDSAW - Western Cape Womens' Festival was held to organise women group to go hand in hand and fight side by side to make a better future in South Africa for…
ArchiveFEDSAW - Western Cape Cultural Festival 27 May 1989 (Tape I)
… FEDSAW - Western Cape Womens' Festival was held to organise women group to go hand in hand and fight side by side to make a better future in South Africa for…
ArchiveSearch warrant
… Search warrant to search the United Democratic Front premises and to seize articles such as documents, minutes, correspondence, video-cassettes, related to…
The attack of Syria by Israel, 7 May 2013
… that the cessation of hostilities by all protagonists is a precondition for the evasive attempt to save lives and bringing about lasting peace. We call on…
Beyond the barricades: the 1985 schools boycott and the vicissitudes of the Athlone Students Action Committee(ASAC)
… A dissertation submitted in partial fulfillment of the … at the University of Cape Town. This dissertation seeks to explore the schools boycott experience in…
EventMafika Gwala born
… Soon after joining the University of Zululand, he chose to rather devote his time to political activities firstly … Gwala began to write his first poetry and…
EventCongolese activist,Patrice Lumumba is briefly arrested
… riots in Stanleyville. He was then set free in time to attend the Round Table Conference in Brussels, where his … independence, which it gained from Belgium…
EventSouth African artist Fikile Magadledla is born
… born on 13 December 1952 in Newclare, Johannesburg. He was a self- taught artist, who learned and benefited greatly from … One of his mentors was Harold…
EventItaly invades Ethiopia
… Benito Mussolini determined to establish an Italian empire and to avenge Italy's defeat in 1896 at Adwa by the Eritreans invades Eritrea. A border clash at…
EventThe Bantu Labour Regulations Amendment Bill becomes operative
… Regulation Act in the wake of wide-spread labour unrest to set up a limited system of collective bargaining rights for Blacks. … were not interested in…
EventThe English Cricket Council calls off South African cricket tour
… that the English Cricket Council reverse its decision to invite the South African cricket team on tour. This was as a result of the reaction caused by the…
EventPresidential Job Summit is held
… In response to a call by President Nelson Mandela, representatives of … organisations meet at the Presidential Job Summit to discuss ways to create jobs in…
EventUnited Nations appoints Kofi Annan as secretary
… A Ghanaian citizen, Kofi Annan, was appointed as secretary-general of the United Nations (UN) to replace the outgoing Boutros Boutros Ghali, whose term of ……
EventThe League of Nations hands over German colonies
… body which preceded the United Nations, agreed to hand over three former German colonies as mandates. … of the German colony Deutsche Ostafrika, was…
EventProfessor Roland Levinsky, world leading researcher in biomedicine dies
… of the University of Plymouth, was born in South Africa to a British mother and Jewish father on 16 October 1943. His … on to study medicine and Physical…
EventJoshua Nkomo’s freedom of movement and association in Southern Rhodesia is restricted
… Joshua Nkomo, Ndebele nationalist leader, is served with a restriction order that affects his freedom of movement and … in Southern Rhodesia. This came after…