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Interview with Xolelwa Kashe-Katiya and Ngqabutho Madida from SAHO: Bush Radio on Africa Day 25 May 2012
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Max, a 180 kg gorilla, is shot in his neck and shoulder by a robber who got into his cage.
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Ethiopian King Haile Selassie urges his countrymen to fight to the last man against the invading Italian army.
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Remarks by President Mbeki at the Opening of the South Africa-Qatar Business Forum, Doha, Qatar, 7 May 2008
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A young man on horseback races through the streets of Stellenbosch shouting “Victorie! Victorie!” – the sign that the burgher
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Libyan radio calls for Arab suicide squads to strike US embassies and other interests "wherever they may be."
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Jack Hindon (44), the man after whom the SA medal for outstanding service is named, dies in Pretoria.
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Burundi authorities arrest five people, including two soldiers, after they attempted to kill Burundian leader Maj. Pierre Buyoy
EventSADF takes over security of Northern Natal from the SAP to prevent infiltration into SA by Liberation Movements
The deteriorating state of security that marked the eighties convinced the Apartheid government that a revision of its approach to infiltration by the…
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Karl Gottlieb Mauch, purported to be the first man to discover gold in SA, is born in Stetten
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Document 56 - Thomas Ngwenya, “What are the National Groups in South Africa?” Forum Club, Cape Town, May 1954
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Someday, African National Congress May Hit The Target By Joseph Lelyveld (The New York Times), August 16, 1981
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South Africa signs a treaty with Great Britain for the continuation of the trade agreement of 16 May 1960.
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A limpet-mine explosion kills a man outside a crowded centre in Northcliff, Johannesburg. Police suspect that the victim was ca
Statement released by the Transvaal Regional Committee of the National Medical and Dental Association (NAMDA), 29 May 1985
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Sathyandranath Ragunanan (Mac) Maharaj, political activist and former SA Minister of Transport, is born in Newcastle, Natal. He
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International Workers’ Day commemorates the historic struggle of working people throughout the world. Although May Day has been
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The third session of the Pan African Parliament (PAP) begins at Gallagher Estate in Midrand, north of Johannesburg.
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Zululand becomes part of the colony of Natal, after the initial annexation by the British in May 1887.
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President Swart appoints a one-man commission, Mr Justice J.H. Snyman, to inquire into the riots in Paarl, CP.
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The independent Afrikaans newspaper Vrye Weekblad, critical of government policy, is published with Max du Preez as editor.
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Jean Max Friedrich (Johan) Welz, painter and architect who emigrated to SA in 1937, dies in Cape Town.
BiographyHotep Idris Galeta
‘Cecil Galeta’ was born on 7 June 1941 and grew up in Cape Town, South Africa. However, he was more commonly known as Cecil Barnard; Barnard was his father's…
BiographyErnest Cole
Ernest Cole was born on 21 March 1940 as Ernest Levi Tsoloane Kole, in Eersterust, Pretoria. He left school when Bantu Education was introduced, and…
ArchiveSA Air Force operation, And here is the (restricted) news, The Star, 24 May 19983
ArchiveInterviews with Mac Maharaj, 21 June 2016, 11 July 2016 and 3 November 2019
ArchiveMcBride's 'test case' of reconciliation by Janet Smith, Saturday Star, 22 May 2010
ArchiveThe ‘Indian Chap’: Recollections of a South African Underground Trainee in Mao's China by Nandha Naidoo
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"Strategy and Tactics"- Statement adopted by the ANC at the Morogoro Conference, April-May 1969 (abridged)
BiographyGlynn Griffiths
Glynn Griffiths was born on 20th March 1950 and grew up in the tough diamond mining town of Jagersfontein in the Free State in South Africa,though he was a…