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ArchiveDock workers blockade SA cargo
… Southampton dock workers belonging to Britain's Transport and General Workers Union on Thursday July 31 refused to load a computer controlled milling machine…
ArchiveCongress votes for unity
… delegates at the second national congress committed FOSATU to building a united working class movement and to unite with other non-racial trade unions. …
Document 32 - The Negotiating Council: resolution on violence
… Click to read Critism and Censorship in the South African "Alternative" Press with particular reference to the cartoons of Bauer and Zapiro (1985 - 1990) -…
PlaceLovedale Missionary School
… of the 19th and early 20th century—from Tiyo Soga to Thabo Mbeki to Steve Biko — were to be educated. Lovedale was established in 1824 by John …
Isitwalandwe / Seaparankoe the Highest Award of Honour, 1955 - 2014
… is the highest honour awarded by the ANC to those who have made an outstanding contribution and sacrifice to the liberation struggle. Isithwalandwe,…
Remember Soweto 16 June 1976
… invited attend the conference ’#ApartheidMustFall to #RhodesMustFall?: The Soweto Uprising of 16 June 1976’, … appreciated if the invitation below could be…
PlaceRhodes Cottage, Main Road, Muizenberg
… used by Cecil John Rhodes, stands on the main road to Simonstown, between Muizenberg and St James. Formerly … of the Rhodes Trust until 1932 when it was…
PlaceGeorge Division
… 66 years various portions of its territory were separated to form new divisions at Mossel Bay in 1848, Knysna in 1856, … farming. The Montagu Pass, which…
Say It out Loud by Mohamed Adhikari
… PART I: PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESSES TO THE AFRICAN PEOPLE'S ORGANISATION The 1906 Presidential … 1906 The Coloured People and the Franchise, 1906 A letter to the…
PlaceRoodepoort Town School, Rex Street
… as Barracks and a Horse Paddock, but it was soon returned to its original function, and continued to be used as a School until 1970. It was declared a…
PlaceHector Pieterson Memorial and Museum, Soweto
… Day, a public holiday in South Africa. The museum is next to the Hector Pietersen Memorial, and the whole area has been … audiovisual displays and historical…
EventJoost Van Der Westhuizen, Springbok rugby scrum-half and captain, is born
… when a video tape showing Joost and a woman who claimed to be his on and off mistress in a compromising position was leaked to the public. Initially Van Der…
EventAdriaan Vlok is born
… of the security forces. President F.W. de Klerk moved him to the less controversial position of minister of … on his dismissal. In the 1990s Vlok made a…
EventCall for a stay-away in Black townships
… The Association of Chambers of Commerce estimates that 75 to 100 percent heeded the call for a stay-away. Police … and Boipatong, and buses are sent under…
EventA Whites-only referendum in SWA gives a support on Black majority.
… percent of them supporting an interim government leading to independence. Before the apparent impasse arose over the … of forthcoming elections. Some of…
EventResolute Treurnicht rejects waiving language policy
… by government authorities on 4 June, who reported it to the Minister of Bantu Administration and Development and … rejected the applications by five Soweto…
EventFourteen are killed in Phola Park violence
… from Thokoza erected a squatter camp on land adjacent to hostels that were predominantly Inkatha Freedom Party … between Phola Park squatters and hostel…
EventElephant poaching reaches an all time high
… tons of elephant tusks through several African countries to destinations in Eastern and Western countries. The huge … nations such as Kenya lost almost all…
EventSheik Yusuf arrives at the Cape of Good Hope
… leader and brother of the sultan of Macassar, was banished to the Cape by the Dutch East India Company (DEIC). He … retinue; they were forty-nine people in…
EventNelson Mandela is voted the greatest South African
… The ranking of the rest of the top 10 had yet to be decided. SABC3 intended to screen documentaries devoted to the top ten over the next nine weeks until…
EventHome Affairs Minister Mapisa
… during anti-terror operations. The meetings, expected to continue until the end of the week, also concerned … the two immigration services. Mapisa-Nqakula…
PlaceCape Maclear, Malawi
… the busiest resort on Lake Malawi. Cape Maclear is close to the islands of Domwe and Thumbwe on Lake Malawi and is in … of the tsetse fly, meant a more…
EventSouth Africa joins the OAU
… consisting of AU member states. The AU continues to carry the aims of the OAU; to promote unity and solidarity between African countries. The organisation…
EventRev. Michael Scott besiege the UN for justice regarding Herero people
… in South Africa and Namibia. Rev. Scott was not a stranger to the UN as he attempted on countless occasions to put pressure on the UN for Namibia’s…
PlaceGreen Lodge, 81 St George Street, Bloemfontein
… boundaries between the Basotho kingdom and the OFS were to be; this omission was the cause of much conflict in later … included Rev Andrew Murray, Judge AW…
ArchiveThe current situation inside SA
… of regime's repression. Demonstrates refusal of the people to submit to Inkatha or the Government. …
ArchiveHelp Our Children Grow
… children dancing around flower text: Let's find new ways to help our children grow! Come to the Children's resource centre …
ArchiveNow that you have touched the women, you have struck a rock you have dislodged a boulder you will be crushed
… the 9th August 1956 when 20,000 women marched to Pretoria to protest against the pass laws. …
ArchiveWhat are parallel Unions?
… We all know an elephant when we see one but if asked to describe one we have to stop and think for a while. …
ArchiveComment
… The government-backed SABC-TV has begun a major campaign to discredit the progressive organisations calling for people not to vote on August 22 by portraying…