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EventSipho Gumede, South African jazz legend, dies
… Manor near Durban, Sipho Gumede started playing music on a homemade guitar. He joined his first band at the age of 16 and soon became a known and sought…
EventHansi Pauline Pollak, welfare worker and social activist, is born
… Services during the World War II. In 1944 she was seconded to undertake welfare among refugees and displaced persons, as … honorary member of the…
Cutting Through The Mountain
… Cutting Through The Mountain is a collection of interviews with South Africans - most of them … Kasrils, Gill Marcus, Johnny Clegg and Albie Sachs - to name…
EventPrime Minister Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa is killed in Nigeria’s first military coup
… first military coup. Balewa’s term was tumultuous due to tensions in the western Region of the country. Nigeria was comprised of three regions each with a…
Place'Abbakwap' a Mountain were the Fish and Orange Rivers Merge
… confluence of the Fish River with the Orange River. This a Khoikhoi name for 'Rooilepel', and means 'red spoon' when translated from afrikaans. The name is…
ArchiveCommunique of the National Executive Committee of the African National Congress
… Committee of the African National Congress, reporting on a meeting of the NEC in early June, 1989. Condemned the … of the State of Emergency. Examined the…
ArchiveMarch for A Peoples government
… ANC Youth League Anti-Republic Day Protest: March for a people's Government: Bury the racist republic; Forward to an Interim Government and a Constituent…
ArchiveConstitutional Guidelines Seminar, 17 May 1989: Report
… Seminar held in Soweto, 17 May 1989. Objectives were to prepare participants on how to generate and guide debates and discussion at grassroot …
ArchiveSummary notes of a meeting between Mr D W Auret and Mr Marx of the Department of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Minister, Silvino da Luz, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Cape Verde: Praia, Cape Verde, 19 March 1986
… Report from a meeting between representatives of the South African … Affairs Department and the Foreign Minister of Cape Verde to discuss the situation in…
ArchiveDiscussions between Mr Silvino Da Luz, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Cape Verde, and Representatives of the Department of Foreign Affairs and Information: Sal Island, 11 September 1983
… South African and the Republic of Cape Verde with regard to negotiations between Angola and South Africa. Includes a letter from R F Botha, Minister of…
Apartheid and the Medical School
… SOYA condemns the idea of the governments intention to transfer administrative control of the Medical School, Durban from the University of Natal to the…
EventNelson Mukhuba is born
… Nelson Mukhuba, a versatile and talented South African artist, was born in Tshakhuma village, Venda. He worked as a carpenter, welder, gardener and house…
EventRioting erupts in Soweto
… Riots erupt again in Soweto and spread to other townships in South Africa. The Minister of Justice, … Assemblies Act, until the end of August. Click here to…
EventThabo Mbeki announces judicial inquiry
… the establishment of an independent judicial inquiry to investigate allegations that government ministers and … National Intelligence Co-ordinating Committee…
EventLord Kitchener And Louis Botha engage in doomed peace talks during the Second Anglo-Boer War
… Louis Botha at Middelburg. The talks ultimately came to nothing, resulting in Kitchener changing his military … wire and block houses all over the Boer…
The Appeal Court hands down a landmark decision in the case Rikhoto v. East Rand Administration Board (ERAB)
… The Appeal Court hands down a landmark decision in the case Rikhoto v. East Rand Administration Board (ERAB) granting him the right to permanent urban status…
ArchiveMemorandum aan alle lede van die Staatsveiligheidsraad: Onlussituasie - voorgestelde terminologiese riglyne vir amptelike segsmanne
… Memorandum to all members of the State Security Council, from Louis Nel, … communication. Includes an accompanying letter and a press cutting entitled "…
ArchiveBanning and intimidation: list of recommended tactics
… schools, religious bodies and other organisations; how to deal with infiltration into SASO and how to deal with bannings and other forms of intimidation…
ArchiveLong bitter struggle at Frame has ended
… struggle in South African labour history has come to an end. Nearly 2 000 National Union of Textile Worker … complex at New Germany near Pinetown, now have…
ArchiveCC Resolution on Elections
… on elections, on Angola, and on negotiations. Supports a single ANC electoral list and commits to ensure an ANC elections victory. Condemns Savimbi's refusal…
ArchiveSeparate development: the challenge of the Transkei
… and Winifred Hoernle Memorial lecture The Transkei became a semi-autonomous territory in Decmber 1963 and separate territorial development began to take…
PlaceKruger chairs (Die twee Krugerstoele) in the Paul Kruger Church (Geref. Kerkgebou) in Church Street, Pretoria West.
… Paul Kruger used to be a member of the church in Pretoria . This church still … Dutch hymn book on display. This was as declared declared a National Monument…
EventBafana Bafana draws with Nigeria
… The South African national soccer team Bafana Bafana played to a goalless draw against a Nigerian team (Super Eagles) at Soccer City (FNB Stadium) … Special …
EventMandela meet De Klerk in Pretoria
… (ANC) Deputy President Nelson Mandela and State President F.W. de Klerk held discussions in Pretoria on the progress … of the Groote Schuur Minutes and on…
EventManne Dipico resigns from parliament
… advisor, Manne Dipico, resigned from the National Assembly to concentrate his effort on the upcoming local elections scheduled for 1 March 2006. Dipico was…
PlaceCwanguba
… A forest 34km East of Elliotdale. The forest is reputed to have resulted from Imilenya shrubs, planted on the grave of Chief Tsiwo! The name is thought to be…
EventSouth African Cricketer, Dave Nourse ,is born in England
… born in Croydo, England on 26 January 1878. Nourse went to South Africa as a drummer for the West Riding Regiment and decided to stay in the country. A…
ArchiveGrahamstown and group areas: some facts
… of Grahamstown under the Group Areas Act with particular to the Fingo village and other affected areas in Grahamstown. … of the document is handwritten which…
ArchiveStatements on Black Consciousness and human rights
… recommended that these pamphlets be studied as part of a pledge of reconciliation, between God and man and between all men, The other two pamphlets, attached…
ArchiveBill Nair interview
… Interview with Bill Nair where he was asked to first comment on the state of the United Democratic Front … since Murphy and Valli were detained and that…