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BiographyKing Mzilikazi
… founded the Matabele kingdom (Mthwakazi), Matabeleland, in what became Rhodesia and is now Zimbabwe. He was born ca. … African military leader after the Zulu…
EventCI and SACC offices are raided
… two religious formations considered to have links with the Black Consciousness Movement (BCM) were raided by security police. … to the BCM and the Soweto…
ArchiveCommission of Inquiry into the riots at Soweto and other places in South Africa held on 21 September, Volume 9 and Volume 10
… of Inquiry into the riots at Soweto and other places in South Africa, … of Inquiry into the riots at Soweto and other places in South Africa held on 21…
EventDr Louis Luyt is born
… Dr Louis Luyt , SA entrepreneur and self-made millionaire, former president … of the SA Rugby Football Union and politician, was born in Britstown, Cape…
ArticleThe History of LGBT legislation
… history of Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transsexual life in South Africa by exploring relevant legislation and their … paranoia by trying to control nearly every…
Federation of Unions of South Africa (FEDUSA)
… 700 000 members and is the second largest union federation in the country. In November 2016, at the federation’s sixth National … unions: • Airline Pilots…
ArticlePolokwane/Pietersburg Timeline 1835-1995
… 1849 Treaty of Derdepoort signed by the three Boer States in Transvaal to formalise unity talks. These subsequently … fruitless 1852 British grant Transvaal…
BiographyMichael Guthrie Scott
… Internship Michael Guthrie Scott was born on 30 July 1907 in the village of Lowfield Heath, Sussex. The youngest of … all the squatter camps in Johannesburg,…
ArticleCulture and Resistance Conference, Botswana, 1982
… hundred artists and activists from South Africa living in exile and within the country, as well as foreign … Zyl, and Beyers Naudé in Johannesburg, Federated…
PlaceJohannesburg, Gauteng Province
… Africa!" 'Joburg' as it is called by locals, was founded in the heydays of one of the World's biggest and richest gold … Stock Exchange (JSE) rates as one of…
ArticleTrevor Andrew Manuel and Economic Freedom Fighters - High Court of South Africa - Gauteng Local Division - Johannesburg
… REPUBLIC OF SOUTH AFRICA IN THE HIGH COURT OF SOUTH AFRICA GAUTENG LOCAL DIVISION, … OF INTEREST TO OTHER JUDGES REVISED. 30 MAY 2019 In the matter between…
EventSouth African boxers,Zolile Mbityi and Peter Malinga both win world titles
… 22 October 1999 was a red-letter day in South African boxing history, as both Zolile Mbityi and … Malinga captured world titles. Mbityi, South African (SA)…
”South Africa - Time of Challenge” - Report to the Plenary Session of the Central Committee of the South African Communist Party, October 1973
… of the South African Communist Party, October 1973 Events in the last nine months have confirmed the broad lines of the … four months alone scores of strikes…
EventZeph Mothopeng, President of the PAC dies
… of the Pan Africanist Congress (PAC) since 1984 dies in Johannesburg at the age of 77. Mothopeng's death came at … leaders in the multiracial negotiations…
BiographyDr. Frene Noshir Ginwala
… Dr Frene Noshir Ginwala was born on 25 April 1932 in Johannesburg in what was then the Province of the … the 1930s the ANC lost its important role as a voice…
EventUDF organises boycott of Coloured and Indian parliamentry elections
… of the Coloured and Indian elections to parliament in 1984. The UDF was against the exclusion of African people … this as a serious form of repression by the…
BiographyNokukhanya Luthuli
… as public a figure as her husband was, she was significant in her own right and made a considerable contribution to her … of the Bhengu family. Dube’s…
EventSouth African Aerial Transports services are inaugurated
… Air services were inaugurated in South Africa with the amalgamation of a London-based … the South African Aerial Navigation Company and the SA-based South…
EventNavanethem (Navi) Pillay is born
… for Human Rights was born on 23 September 1941 in Clairwood, Durban . She went to the University of Natal … In the mid 1970's, Pillay defended detained…
ArticleTimeline of South African Football Coaches from 1992 – 2022
… that painfully failed at the last hurdle against Egypt in Burkina Faso. Trott Moloto (1998-2000) Under him, Bafana beat European opposition when they beat…
PlaceFort Schanskop
… After the Jameson Raid in 1896, Pres Paul Kruger of the “Zuid-Afrikaansche … of construction and Celso Giri the building contractor. Black labourers carried…
“Exodus without a map”: What happened to the Durban moment? by Edward Webster
… I had known Vishnu for nearly forty years, it was only in 2013 that I got to work with him. It was on a special … were low, and the apartheid system was…
A history of Volkskas and the Absa Banking group
… Volkskas was one of the four largest banking conglomerates in South Africa, and one of the three biggest Afrikaner … profits were derived from industrial…
Address delivered by Nelson Mandela, Deputy President of the African National Congress to the graduation ceremony at MEDUNSA 23 March 1991
… graduation ceremony, especially as it marks the progress in achieving unity in the university, unity of purpose … produced annually by all medical schools,…
Articles, podcasts and videos pertaining to Roy Padayachie
… death a huge loss - Jacob Zuma Roy Padayachie - SA Minister of Communications, Part 1 (video) Roy Padayachie - SA Minister of Communications, Part 2 (video)…
An African Perspective the Management of Life and Death and its Implications for Nation Building and Reconciliation in South Africa
… its Implications for Nation Building and Reconciliation in South Africa …
Somalia: A Government at the War with its People - Testimonies about the killings and the Conflict in the North, January 1990
… People - Testimonies about the killings and the Conflict in the North, January 1990 …
The Settler Economies: Studies in the Economic History of Kenya and Southern Rhodesia 1900-1963 (African Studies) by Paul Mosley
… The Settler Economies: Studies in the Economic History of Kenya and Southern Rhodesia … The Settler Economies: Studies in the Economic History of Kenya and…
ArchiveGroup Areas Board: investigation in terms of the Group Areas Act, 1950 (Act No. 41 of 1950) as amended: Grahamstown
… Group Areas Board: investigation in terms of the Group Areas Act, 1950 (Act No. 41 of 1950) as …
ArchivePerspectives on ethnic and racial conflict in South Africa - a critical assessment of the Churches response from 1960 to the present
… Perspectives on ethnic and racial conflict in South Africa - a critical assessment of the Churches …