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A New Date For the Founding of the South African Society of Artists, and it’s Second Annual Exhibition of 1898
… founding of the South African Society of Artists (SASA) in 1902, it is actually the Society's reincarnation that we celebrate in 2002. The correct date of…
Chapter 9 - Conclusion
… trying to build". These were the words of A.B. Xuma who in 1943 moved a resolution that the ANC bestow honorary life … to state that Gumede was a respected…
EventSABC personality Nic Swanepoel dies
… SA radio broadcaster and TV newsreader Nic Swanepoel passed … for a period of thirty-three years before he retired in 1995. During his flourishing career,…
EventSouth Africa will subscribe to the UDHR
… SA's newly inaugurated state president, Nelson Mandela, announced in his first State of the Nation Address to Parliament that …
’Appeal for action to stop repression and Trials in South Africa’, Statement at the meeting of the Special Political Committee of the General Assembly, New York, 8 October 1963
… Appeal for action to stop repression and Trials in South Africa by Oliver Tambo I wish to express my deep … Africa to sanity, nor do we feel we can be too…
PlaceKing Williams Town, Amatola
… Founded as a Missionary Station in 1826, King William’s Town later (after 1835) served as a … Town is closely tied to Steve Biko , leader of the Black…
Everyone must take responsibility, 21 August, 2012 - Sahra Ryklief
… miners were shot dead by police at Lonmin’s platinum mine in Rustenburg. It is not yet clear why the police were using … without even resorting to teargas. I…
EventForeign Affairs Deputy Minister Pahad is born
… Aziz Pahad , SA Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, was born in Schweizer Reneke, Western Transvaal ( North West Province …
EventWilliam Selborne Dies
… William W. P. Selborne, British High Commissioner in SA and Governor of the Transvaal and Orange River Colony, … of 82. His predecessor was Lord Milner. He…
BiographyAhmed Timol
… Ahmed Timol was born in Breyton, Transvaal on 3 November 1941 to Haji Yusuf Ahmed … and Hawa Ismail Dindar. His father came to South Africa in 1918, at the…
BiographySolomon Kalushi Mahlangu
… Solomon Kalushi Mahlangu was born in Pretoria on 10 July in 1956. He was the second son of Martha Mahlangu. His father … three days away, police presence was…
Document 31 - Letter from E.R. Roux to Victor Danchin, 6 March 1929
… 6 March 1929 Dear Victor, I must apologise for ihe delay in answering your letters, for which thanks very much. I take … book was confiscated by the…
BiographyMzwakhe Mbuli
… the “People’s Poet,” was born into a poor Zulu family in Sophiatown on 1 August 1959. His parents were Roselinah … a Zulu man who was employed as a long…
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1980s
… 25th anniversary of the adoption of the Freedom charter in 1955. 1980 SACTU declares the year as the year of the … January, Security Police in Port Elizabeth…
EventFinance Minister Chris Liebenberg presents his budget
… The SA finance minister, Chris Liebenberg, presented his 1996 - … paving the way for more significant budgetary reforms in the 1997-1998 financial year. He…
EventBafana Bafana wins against Algeria
… The SA soccer team, Bafana Bafana, won their Africa Cup of … The defender, Mark Fish, scored his first goal in international soccer, while John "Shoes"…
EventSouth African multi-title holder, Brian Mitchell wins the WBA title
… Brian Mitchell, won the WBA junior-lightweight title in 1986. He defeated Alfredo Layne of Panama in Sun City, on a tenth-round knockout to lift the title. ……
ArchiveChapter 7 - Planning for people's war `Blow on the embers and it will catch alight', January 1983 - March 1984 by Howard Barrell
… It was...a way in which we could give real meaning to people's involvement; … able to draw in the churches, even the Azapos and other black consciousness…
The diary of Maria Tholo - Introducing by Carol Hermer
… Diary of Maria Tholo by Carol Hermer The riots broke out in Soweto on June 16, 1976 when police fired on a group of … the city centre are the three townships…
EventLesotho’s Foreign Affairs Minister reveals details of agreement with Pik Botha
… Pik Botha, a few months earlier. It was agreed that SA will curb the Lesotho Liberation Army (LLA), the military … be valid. Ntsu Mokhehle, then leader of…
ArchiveKora: A Lost Khoisan Language of the early Cape and the Gariep by Menán du Plessis
… my way from members of the Koranna and Griqua community in Bloemfontein in whose midst the book was first conceived; … Hippisley, Mel Coffee, Carol Wilcher,…
Document 112 - Note from Claremont branch of the National Liberation League of South Africa, 26 March 1938
… of white members occupying any position of importance in the N.L.L. would be against the Principles of the League as laid down in the Programme; which states…
EventMakhaya Ntini is found guilty of rape
… Makhaya Ntini, star bowler of the SA cricket team, was accused of raping a 21-year old student at the Buffalo Park Cricket Ground in December 1998. He…
Cosatu march: For Who, for What? by Simelane and Nicolson (Daily Maverick), 8 October 2015
… At 9:00 on Wednesday morning, only a few people in union T-shirts sat in the shade in Johannesburg's Mary Fitzgerald Square, the … pull a crowd without the…
EventMovie director Henry Cornelius dies
… the production of the crime comedy "Law and Disorder" in 1958. Charles Crichton saw the film to its completion. … with Rene Clair and Alexander Korda before…
African Minds Higher Education Dynamics Series Vol. 2 - Student Politics in Africa Representation and Activism, edited by Thierry M Luescher, Manja Klemenčič and James Otieno Jowi
… Higher Education Dynamics Series Vol. 2 - Student Politics in Africa Representation and Activism, edited by Thierry M …
Critism and Censorship in the South African “Alternative” Press with particular reference to the cartoons of Bauer and Zapiro (1985 - 1990) - by Mario Pissarra
… Critism and Censorship in the South African “Alternative” Press with particular …
Speech by Oliver Tambo at the Symposium on the survival and development of children in the frontline states and Southern Africa, Harare, 5 March 1988
… the Symposium on the survival and development of children in the frontline states and Southern Africa, Harare, 5 March …
Maria de la Queillerie van Riebeeck, wife of Jan van Riebeeck who accompanied him to the Cape of Good Hope, is born in Rotterda
… who accompanied him to the Cape of Good Hope, is born in Rotterda …
A month-long cease-fire ends in the Middle East as Egypt attacks Israeli positions by air. At the same time Iraq attacks by lan
… A month-long cease-fire ends in the Middle East as Egypt attacks Israeli positions by air. …