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EventSASO leader, Abram Tiro is assassinated
… Botswana. Tiro was completing an application form to continue his studies through the University of South … boycott lectures and their institutions were…
EventPrime Minister opens SA’s first atomic reactor
… was begun by the Atomic Energy Board in the early 1970s to develop a unique uranium enrichment technology. Although initially devoted to peaceful nuclear…
EventCODESA’s starting date set
… (CODESA) . Its opening session in Johannesburg was going to be on December 20 - 21. The SA government and the ruling … agreed that all the parties, including…
EventAdam Tas is arrested
… other farming officials. The Tas petition was submitted to the Lords Seventeen, the governing body of the Dutch East … der Stel and the fact that abuse of…
EventMilton Obote (81), Uganda’s former dictator, dies in a South African hospital
… president. He was overthrown by Idi Amin in 1971 and fled to Tanzania. He returned with the Tanzanian-aided invasion of … in 1980 amid accusations of fraud…
EventHolomisa on corruption
… head of Sun International, had donated two million rand to the African National Congress (ANC) before the 1994 … elections. Holomisa claimed this was an…
EventSouth Africa concludes an agreement with the Marconi Company for a high
… radio station, in the same year that radio was revealed to the public for the first time at the Great Empire Exhibition. In 1926, developments took place to…
EventCongo Free State becomes the Belgian Congo
… King Leopold II of Belgium handed over the Congo to the Belgian state on this date. Previously he held it as a private project undertaken to extract rubber…
EventThe Rev. John Langalibalele Dube dies
… dies in Umhlanga, Natal. He was the first Black person to receive an honorary D.Phil. from a South African … African Native National Congress (SANNC), later…
”A House in Harrington Street”, photographic exhibition by Nicholas Eppel
… The Centre for Curating the Archive, invites you to A House in Harrington Street, by Nicholas Eppel. Eppel’s … resident, Elizabeth Barrett, and stand as a…
EventEducationist George Molefe is born
… Molefe was one of the first black Presbyterian ministers to graduate at Fort Hare College in 1932. He was ordained in … same year in the Bantu Presbyterian…
EventSA jazz singer, Letta Mbulu is born in Soweto
… Hugh Masekela. At the end of the tour Mbulu returned to South Africa, but did not stay long because of the apartheid government policies. She returned to the…
EventThree cases of Buboinic plague are reported in Cape Town
… of segregated residential areas with Africans being forced to move to the periphery of the city. African people and their … for the spread of the disease…
EventRwandan and Burundian presidents J Habyarimana and C Ntayamira are killed in an air crash
… in Dar-es-Salaam, Tanzania, at which they discussed ways to end the ethnic violence in Burundi and Rwanda. The … worsened an already bleak political…
EventEx-mutineers consider resigning from the ANC
… one of the meetings at Dakawa, Tanzanian Field Force had to be called in to stabilise the situation as the meeting turned chaotic. According to reports the…
PlaceBloemfontein City Hall
… House in New Delhi, India. This can be contributed to by that fact that Sir Gordon Leith knew Edwin Lutyens (the … architect of Viceroy's House, in India.)…
No.46 - Steve Biko by Hilda Bernstein, 1978, South Africa
… Steve Biko was the number forty sixth person to die in security police detention in South Africa. And for … how political detainees are treated. What exactly…
EventPaul Adams, former South African cricket player, is born
… Adams had a very unusual way of bowling that people found to be strange and rather funny. It was this bowling style that made it hard for him to breakthrough…
PlaceStatue Of Cecil John Rhodes, in the Company's Gardens
… of the Iziko South African Museum . The original plan was to use the Statue as a visual landmark at the top of Adderley Street; however, Sir Herbert Baker…
The new policy of the USA towards South Afri
… written by the Black People's Convention in response to the invitation to have talks with Mr Andrew Young the Unites States Ambassador to the United Nations,…
ArchiveCommittees Drift go-ahead
… Press cutting relating to the Government's go-ahead with the Committeees Drift Glenmore scheme to resettle Black people from Grahamstown in the Ciskei. ……
ArchiveBlack Peoples Convention: rejection of foreign investment
… National Congress held in December 1973 resolved to reject the involvement of foreign investors and this letter sent from BPC to 31 foreign firms calls on…
ArchiveHuhudi Youth Organisation
… looking undernourished from hunger. Words on poster: No to hunger, no to high rents, no to Pudumong! …
ArchiveTussle at VW over tour kombis
… was called off in July just a week before the team was due to leave New Zealand. It was determined protest and resistance to the tour by people here and…
PlaceKwazulu Natal Province
… under apartheid on 1 December 1977. According to the apartheid social planner’s ideal of 'separate development', it was intended to be the home of the Zulu…
PlaceTulbagh, Western Cape
… the territory North of the Great Berg river was annexed to the new District of Tulbagh, and declared a separate … about January 1896 its Northern Districts…
David Goldblatt: Intersections by Matt Damsker
… Goldblatt brings a somewhat haunted sense of the outsider to his large-format, austere color images. They open out on a … apartheid for so long, but his…
ArchiveStatement of the Deputy President of the African National Congress, Nelson Mandela, at the Opening of the ANC National Conference
… Nelson Mandela's address to the opening of the African National Congress (ANC) … transformation and the Conference will enable ANC to formulate strategies to…
ArchiveUnderstanding Moratorium, South African Council of Churches Task Force, March 1976
… South African Council of Churches Task Force, in regarding to MORATORIUM (Withdrawing overseas Missionary personnel and funds from churches in Africa), to…