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EventDisclosure of 1982 SA
… It is disclosed that South Africa and Swaziland had signed a non-aggression pact in February 1982. The two countries now also agree to exchange trade…
EventWinnie Mandela receives a 6 months’ sentence
… Winnie Mandela (now Winnie Madikizela-Mandela), restricted to a Black township at Brandfort, Orange Free State, was sentenced to six months' imprisonment …
EventTrans-Kalahari main road is opened
… The first road in Africa south of the Sahara to connect the Atlantic and Indian Ocean, the Trans-Kalahari … road, was opened. The road, linking Maputo in…
ArchiveANC Branch Letter
… Discussion Paper, no. 5 called 'Mass organisation is key to victory! Organising for elections and for government' and … Commission on Negotiations discussion…
ArchiveLetter from Isaac Tembani protesting the forced removals of the Mfengu people from their land in Tsitsikamma
… of the Mfengu people from their land in Tsitsikamma to Kieskammahoek. The letter appeals against the evictions and explains the wishes of the Mfengu people…
ArchiveMinutes of a meeting between Dr Chester Crocker and Dr Savimbi in Cape Town on 11 February 1985
… Minutes of a meeting between Dr Chester Crocker and Dr Savimbi, in which the SADF were observers, to discuss issues relating to the withdrawal of Cuban…
ArchiveOffensiewe optrede teen SWAPO
… Magnus Malan, Chief of the South African Defence Force, to the Chairman of the State Security Council (SSC), with regard to offensives against SWAPO in the…
PlaceAbeam, Namibia Border Post
… A small Town and Border Post between Namibia and South Africa … and Noenieput. The name has Khoikhoi origins and thought to mean: 'spying pool', referring…
ArchiveCommission of Inquiry into the riots at Soweto and other places in South Africa held on 25 November 1976, Volume 62
… from the transcript of evidence from Lawrence Louis Meyer a parent whose son had been shot by riot police and Jeffrey David April, a witness to the shooting,…
ArchiveDeclaration of the OAU ad-hoc Committee on Southern Africa on the question of South Africa
… Includes statement of principles, outlines steps to be taken for negotiations to take place, presents guidelines for the process of negotiation, and a…
ArchiveSupport Sharpeville Six
… text: Support Sharpeville Six; We will not allow them to hang; Ried Mokoena, Reginald Sefatsa, Therese Ramashamola, … Khumalo; Down with Puppets; Away with…
ArchiveWorkers resist controls on our union
… Article about how the government and the bosses tried to prevent the workers from organising and how they tried to weaken any organisation the workers…
EventBritish reinforcements arrive at Ladysmith
… British reinforcements arrive to relieve troops stationed at Ladysmith after a siege of 4 months, during the Second Anglo-Boer War (1899-1902). Ladysmith was…
Natives Land Act, Act No 27 of 1913
… The Act was to make further provision as to the purchase and leasing of land by Natives and other …
Nelson Mandela
… Mandela in centre. Nelson Mandela in gold lettering. Note to the people of Sweden in Mandela's handwriting . The path to people's victory is illuminated by…
ArchiveDiscussions between South African and United States delegations: Washington, 17-19 March 1983
… Minutes of a meeting between delegates representating South African and the United State of America, to discuss international relations between the Soviet…
ArchiveEnd Conscription Committee report
… Report and addendum to the report of the End Conscription Committee to the 62nd Annual Congress of the National Union of South …
ArchiveDraft report for the Commission on the Improper Interference Bill
… National Union of South African Students for submission to the Commission on the Improper Interference Bill. States … the National Union and its policy and…
Working Life - Factories, Township and Popular Culture 1886 - 1940 by Luli Callinicos
… Introduction Chapter 1 - Change to Wage Labour Chapter 2 - The Early Years Chapter 3 - Where … Chapter 8 - The World the Workers Made Chapter 9 - Themes to…
ArchiveNon Violence News, Third quarter, 1985
… and blood strife, and the concern that leaders opposed to apartheid seem to be searching again on non-violence solutions. Also …
ArchiveNon-Violence News, Third Quarter, 1982
… nonviolent means of change and the trial of Neil Mitchell, a Roman Catholic high school teacher who refused to do his call-up duties with the South African…
ArchiveNUSAS July Festival
… lettering. Notice of Festival at Wits University. 2nd to 7th July. Artwork of outline of South Africa with jail bars over it with a white dove flying out of…
ArchiveShould we participate in tri-cameralism? A position promoting the idea
… An article about whether or not to participate in a tri-cameralism, a writer starts off by saying that, entering parliament, is … Should we participate in…
Enlightened self-interest and the liberal spirit
… and the liberal spirit might not be beneficial to the liberation struggle and to South Africans on the whole. The relationship between the …
ArchiveResolutions of the Eight National Conference of the South African Council of Churches, July 27-29, 1976
… National Conference, which includes the call for detainees to be charged or released, the right for students to non-violent protest and the rejection of the…
EventW. E. B. Du Bois (95), writer, scholar, intellectual, Pan
… William Edward Burghardt Du Bois was a giant among African American activists. He was a key founder of the NAACP, the largest and oldest civil … rights…
EventZimbabawean Independence Day
… The day marked the end of racial segregation after a protracted war of liberation that claimed many lives. In the ninety year span that Zimbabwe was a colony…
PlacePhillipton
… (prior to 1910) Philipton was established in 1829 as a station of … was Superintendent of the Society's missions at the Cape. A staunch abolitionist and…
PlaceOld Morley
… In 1828 the Wesleyan Missionary Society established a station at Amadola . A year later it was attacked and burnt down by amaMfengu … in 1835 and were…
EventMarc Lottering was born on this day
… history, was born in Cape Town. [i] Endnotes [i] Getting to know Marc Lottering, http://www.iol.co.za/tonight/news/getting-to-know-marc-lottering-978181#.U…