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EventUnited Party disbands
… by the majority faction after members had left the party to join other new political parties and the ruling National Party (NP). Subsequently, the main group…
EventUS ambassador Andrew Young visits SA
… The United States Ambassador to the United Nations, Andrew Young, paid a two day visit to South Africa at the invitation of mining … community leaders and…
EventHelen Joseph dies
… at the age of 87 in Johannesburg , South Africa. She came to SA in 1931 and, with Lilian Ngoyi and other prominent women, led the women's march to the Union…
EventSADC treaty is signed in Namibia
… A treaty, which effected the establishment of the Southern … (SADC), was signed in the Namibian capital, Windhoek, to replace its forerunner, the South…
EventPolitical activist Mziwonke ‘Pro’ Jack is assassinated.
… (ANC) activist, Mziwonke 'Pro' Jack was gunned down next to his home in Cape Town. Jack was a taxi conflict mediator in Cape Town when he was murdered. … The…
EventThe Population Registration Act of 1950 is repealed
… was repealed by the South African parliament. The Act was a pillar of the Apartheid system. It required people to register from birth as belonging to one of…
EventWorld Conference on Racism starts in Durban
… from hundred and sixty countries descended on Durban to attend the weeklong third United Nations-sponsored World … slavery reparations, the Israeli…
Isizwe
… the journal published by the United Democratic Front to stimulate discussion, debate and training within their ranks, consisted of articles on topics…
2012 ANC National Policy Conference: Statement on the update of Conference Proceedings,28 June 2012
… ANC has resumed its third day and is proceeding according to schedule. Commissions have resumed on time this morning … After each commission`s report is…
ArchiveStaffrider Vol.8 No.1 1989
… Contents and Contributors CONTENTS: Comment, A.W. Oliphant STORIES: The Prophets, Bheki Maseko; Happiness is a Punch in the Eye, Lawrence Maimane; A Day in…
EventAnatii, the South African rapper is born
… born in Bisho, Eastern Cape on 8 January 1993. [1] He is a South African rapper. Anatii produced and wrote the hit … in 2009.[2] He was even commissioned by…
PlaceKhomani Cultural Landscape
… Botswana and the West by Namibia , is where you will find a small group of the Khomani San a people who, until recently, were thought to have vanished. Their…
PlaceThe Wilds Park, Houghton Estate, Johannesburg
… Company Ltd. Donated the original portion of The Wilds to the Johannesburg Town Council on condition that it be kept as an open space for Public Recreation,…
EventPolice arrest members of Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK) High Command at Lilliesleaf Farm
… of the ANC, were arrested on this day. This moment came as a terrible titanic dream in the history of the ANC. Amongst … of MK, was not arrested at the time…
EventThe first Boeing 707 jet aircraft arrives in South Africa
… as military purposes. This aircraft is no longer used to transport cargo or passengers, as more reliable and … South Africa during apartheid, particularly…
EventEvelyn Dalberg, SA opera singer, is born in Germany
… Evelyn Dalberg, a prominent opera singer in South Africa, was born on 23 May … Guildhall School of Music in London, where she obtained a Performer's Diploma…
EventThe SA author and journalist, Herman Charles Bosman, shoots and kills his stepbrother David Russell during a quarrel
… Bosman, who wrote under the pseudonym Herman Malan, was a South African author and journalist. He was educated at … of the Witwatersrand (WITS), and later…
EventAt least 100 people drown in a flood at Laingsburg
… 1981, Laingsburg in the Western Cape was devastated by a severe flood. The hard rains immersed the whole town in … their lives and the bodies of 72 people…
EventJohn Traicos makes his International Cricket Test debut for South Africa
… On 5 February 1970, a disciplined and perfect off-spinner, John Traicos one of … Born on 17 May 1947 in Zagazig, Egypt, Traicos returned to international…
EventHeadman Tshabalala, founding member of the band Ladysmith Black Mambazo, is shot and killed
… only known in the Ladysmith area, but by 1967, they began to make recordings for Radio Zulu and went on to win several … shot dead on *6 December 1991. He…
EventSA author, Nadine Gordimer, is born
… film, Frontiers, and for four of the seven screenplays for a television drama based on her own short stories, entitled … Africans, the moral and…
EventAbout 22 000 miners on Witwatersrand gold mines go on strike in what became known as the Rand Rebellion
… were subsequently laid off and those who were not had to be satisfied with lower wages and the deskilling of certain jobs. The strike occurred during a…
EventSA Artist, Father Frans Claerhout, is born
… Belgium. After completing his studies, he immigrated to South Africa in 1946 as a Catholic missionary. He was initially posted to the Orange … and linocuts,…
EventChief Kausobson Kausob is killed
… The chief of a group of San that inhabited the area between the Modder, … in battle near Slypklip on the Vaal River. According to the anthropologist Stow,…
Labour Struggles in South Africa The Forgotten Pages 1903 - 1921 by Evangelos A. Mantzaris
… This is a book about forgotten pages of South Africa's rich worker history from 1903 to 1921. It includes socio-historical analysis of the Cape … Chapter 2 -…
PlaceWupperthal Mission Station, Clanwilliam
… Wuppertal is a most attractive oasis in a very rugged wilderness, 72 km southeast of Clanwilliam and … writer C. Louis Leipoldt ) arrived in the Cape in 1829…
EventCPSA is founded
… South Africa (CPSA) took place in Cape Town from 30 July to 1 August 1921, however, the party was founded on 29 July … Revolution. The founding conference…
ArchiveBanned
… Statement calling on the public to support a petition of the Students Representative Council … of the University of Cape Town, asking the United Party to…
Forging Solidarity: Southern Perspectives of Popular Education
… Animating this colloquium is a two-fold question: In what ways are popular educators in … the ‘south’, and particularly in South Africa, responding to…
ArchiveStatement of the National Executive Committee of the African National Congress on the announcement by FW de Klerk concerning the release of Walter Sisulu and other political prisoners
… and other political prisoners. Calls for more sanctions to be imposed and for the struggle to be intensified. …