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PlaceAbenab, Limpopo
… A Village situated some 32 km north of Grootfontein. it came into being in 1921, to serve a Mine producing; lead, vanadium and zinc. Which closed down …
ArchiveProgramme of Mass Action against Natal violence continues
… Natal violence and the organisations are determined to continue with their programme of mass action for peace, until the government takes decisive steps to…
ArchivePress statement on stop hanging of Meilies and Jantjies.
… South Africans and the international community to demand government to stop hangings of Wellington Mielies and Moses Jantjies. …
ArchivePress statement on the release of the Sharpeville Six
… of the Sharpeville Six as they calls on State President to exercise his presidential pregotative to save the lives of the Sharpeville Six who are now facing …
Itll Be A Great Day
… full colour litho child's drawing of boat; text: It'll be a great day when our day care centres have all the money they need and the navy has to hold a bake…
ArchiveBlockade Namibian uranium
… Namibian uranium contracts. (CANUC, London). Artwork of a signpost pointing west to Nambia and east to United Kingdom. Artwork of a circle with a fist coming…
ArchiveAngola Group Discussion: Oatlands, Virginia, 18 March 1983
… Minutes of a meeting with delegates from the United States of Amercia and South Africa to discuss the political and military situation in southern Africa wih…
ArchiveMemorandum on the raising of affiliation fees of the National Union of South African Students
… giving reasons for the recent increase in affiliation fees to the National Union of South African Students. The projects … Union are listed, as well as the…
ArchiveWe shall win
… An address, representing a joint statement by ANC, ZAPU, SWAPO, PAIGC, MPLA, to the Fifth Assembly of Heads of State and Government of the … for African…
Archive6. Alternative national service
… lettering. End Conscription Campaign. Demands submitted to the Geldenhuys Committee on the 13th August 1985. … alternative service as discussed by ECC and…
ArchivePeace call up
… End Conscription Campaign. Meeting to discuss aternatives to military call up. White poster with black lettering. Image of a tree with a child on a swing…
ArchiveLiberty, equality, fraternity-today
… Africa and its citizens would benefit by working together to gain democracy and to ensure that the country moves away from discrimination. …
EventFinal evacuation of Sophiatown by black residents
… of the existing houses started. The area was reassigned to White residents and called Triomf (meaning triumph). Click here to read more about Sophiatown. …
ArchivePopulation Registration Act, Act No 30 of 1950
… The Act was to make provision for the compilation of a Register of the … Population of the Union; for the issue of Identity cards to persons whose names are…
ArchiveCommissions presented at 5th General Students
… The memorandum contains commissions to assess, among others, the theory of the struggle pertaining to the Black culture, the feasibility of research into …
ArchiveMetal workers dissatisfied with industrial council wage increases
… year's industrial council wage agreement has already led to strikes at two Transvaal companies and another one could be on the way as metal workers attempt…
EventSA Government spoil Chief Albert Luthuli’s chance of Rectorship
… Foreign Secretary, Mr. Butler and Glasgow University to obtain permission from the South African Government for Albert Luthuli to leave Natal and be…
ArchiveNatives (Prohibition of Interdicts) Act, Act No 64 of 1956
… The Act was to prohibit the granting of interdicts or other dilatory … the removal or ejectment of natives in certain cases, and to provide for other…
ANC statement on The Farming Sector Initiative, 1 November 2014
… today in Paarl, Western Cape. This initiate seeks to address persisting problems of farm evictions, working … conditions and the previous initiatives that…
PlaceTable Bay
… Table Bay is a natural inlet of the Atlantic Ocean, overlooked by Cape … Table Mountain . Bartolomeu Dias was the first European to explore the region in…
EventThe Afrikaans Protestant Church, a breakaway faction of Dutch Reformed Church, is formed
… their own Church for white Afrikaners only. This followed a meeting of around 2500 Dutch Reformed Church members which … took place towards the end of 1986…
EventJacob Matlala, SA junior flyweight, wins the WBO world champion title
… boxing career in 1980. Matlala’s first crack at a world title, the IBF flyweight title, in September 1991 was against Dave McCauley in which he suffered a…
EventPatrice Lumumba, former Prime Minister of the Democratic Republic of Congo, is shot
… Patrice Lumumba gained the reputation of being a powerful and charismatic leader during his brief reign as … led the Movement National Congolais (MNC), which…
EventSA and British governments clash over interpretation of the Simonstown Agreement
… arms. The British Foreign Secretary Michael Stewart gave a reply to the South African communication, stating that Britain was … to Hendrick Lutting, the…
EventMartin Luther King is arrested for his role in a bus boycott
… Reverend Martin Luther King leads a public bus boycott by Black people in Montgomery, Alabama, … rights leaders of all time. His moving speech, "I have a…
Artist Bill Ainslie is born
… training projects, was born in Bedford, Eastern Cape as a descendent of an early British settler who had arrived in the Cape Colony in 1833. A successful and…
EventTafari Makonnen proclaimed Emperor Haile Selassie I of Ethiopia
… by transforming its government and institutions from a feudal system into a constitutional monarchy, as well as opposing and resisting Italian attempts to…
Event’Viva Frelimo’ rallies, organised by the BPC and SASO, take place even though they were banned by Government
… (BPC) and the South African Students' Organisation (SASO), to organise a 'Viva Frelimo' rally. If Portuguese colonialism could be … Myeza. These rallies…
EventPolicewomen are enlisted as full members of South African Police Force for the first time.
… but the women were still excluded from certain SAP units to the extent that a separate women's police section was instituted to deal with … there should be…
EventGen. Jannie Geldenhuys announces that CCB will be disbanded
… In February 1990, President F.W. de Klerk appointed Mr Justice Louis Harms, a Supreme Court judge, to investigate into alleged hit-squads. On 11 February…