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PlaceTable Bay
Table Bay is a natural inlet of the Atlantic Ocean, overlooked by Cape Town and the famous Natural Table Mountain. Bartolomeu Dias was the first European to…
EventThe Afrikaans Protestant Church, a breakaway faction of Dutch Reformed Church, is formed
Horrified by apparent infiltration of the Dutch Reformed Church (DRC) by non-whites, right-wingers formed their own Church for white Afrikaners only. This…
EventJacob Matlala, SA junior flyweight, wins the WBO world champion title
Jacob "Baby Jake" Matlala was born on 8 January 1962 in Soweto, Johannesburg. He began his professional boxing career in 1980. Matlala’s first crack at a world…
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 Zaire's first Prime Minister (the former Belgian…
EventSA and British governments clash over interpretation of the Simonstown Agreement
On 5 March 1960, the South African and British governments were in open conflict over the interpretation of the Simonstown Agreement. The South African…
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, USA, for which he is arrested and spends six months in prison. …
Artist Bill Ainslie is born
William Stewart (Bill) Ainslie, South African artist and founder of several art training projects, was born in Bedford, Eastern Cape as a descendent of an…
EventTafari Makonnen proclaimed Emperor Haile Selassie I of Ethiopia
Born in 1891 (some sources say 1894), Tafari Makonnen, or Haile Selassie, as he was later known, was born the son of Ras Makonnen Wolde Michael, the Governor…
Event’Viva Frelimo’ rallies, organised by the BPC and SASO, take place even though they were banned by Government
The achievement of independence in Mozambique inspired the South African Black Consciousness Movement organisations, the Black People's Convention (BPC) and…
EventPolicewomen are enlisted as full members of South African Police Force for the first time.
On 1 January 1972, for the first time in the history of the South African Police (SAP), policewomen were enlisted as 'full members of the force'. Two white…
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 1990,…
EventBartholomew Dias, Portuguese discoverer of the Cape of Good Hope, drowns at sea
The first European known to set foot on South African soil was Bartholomew (or Bartolomeu) Dias. In December 1487 Dias sailed down the African coast, landing…
EventA vagrant from Johannesburg, Tim Singiswa on a one
While the cross examination of a state witness in the Boeremag trial before the Pretoria High Court continues, Tim Singiswa, a vagrant from Johannesburg,…
EventNiger President Ibrahim Bare Mainassara is assassinated
The Niger president, Ibrahim Bare Mainassara, was assassinated by his own presidential guard while boarding a plain in Niamey, the capital city of Niger…
EventTerror strikes the Olympics Games in Atlanta
The 1996 Atlanta Olympics marked the 100 year celebration of the Olympic Games. The event, unofficially known as the Centennial Olympics, was marred by a…
Event200th Anniversary of the Abolition of the Slave Trade Act
The 25 March 2007 saw the 200-year-celebration of the abolishment of the slave trade in the British Empire. The Abolition of the Slave Trade Act was passed by…
EventOver 60 people are killed by RENAMO in Mozambique
On 28 November 1987 more than 60 people were killed, and scores were left wounded when an army-escorted civilian convoy was attacked by guerrillas from the…
ArchiveCOSATU Natal Regional Culture Workshop 23 August
A workshop held by leadership to discuss how COSATU has grown in membership and how difficult it has been to organise this large organisation. They also…
ArchiveSouth Africa - towards a post-apartheid economy: a Consultative Seminar, Holiday Inn, Harare, 28 April - 1 May 1990
Programme of seminar organised by the ANC Department of Economics and Planning, Congress of South African Trade Unions and the Economic Trends Group in Harare,…
ArchiveA broken landscape
Black and white poster. Notice of an exhibition of photographs, covering South Africa from 1984 to 1986, by Gideon Mendel at The Market Photo Gallery. From the…
ArchiveEnlightened self-interest and the liberal spirit
The paper discusses how by placing together of self-interest and the liberal spirit might not be beneficial to the liberation struggle and to South Africans on…
EventThe International Monetary Fund buys gold from SA
The International Monetary Fund announces that it will agree to purchase gold from South Africa, subject to certain conditions. The price of $35 per oz. is…
ArchiveNow is the chance for the Liberal
THE apparent invincibility and the singlemindedness of purpose of the Nationalist Government are driving the most powerful groups opposed to apartheid to the…
Archive=Commission of Inquiry into the riots at Soweto and other places in South Africa held on 21 February 1977, Volume 111
Excerpts from the transcript of evidence from Columbus Malebo, and a press statement issued by the Chairman of the Commission to the Rand Daily Mail, to the…
ArchiveCommission of Inquiry into the riots at Soweto and other places in South Africa held on 29 November 1976, Volume 65
Excerpts from the transcript of evidence from Peter Sawyer, a technical official from Cape Town, who had witnessed the use of tear gas to disperse crowds, to…
ArchiveYou will bite the dust!
Speech delivered by Archbishop Tutu at St Geoge's Cathedral in Cape Town at an inter-faith service convened to replace a banned protest rally to have taken…
ArchiveEducation as an instrument for liberation.
This Address to a fund-raising banquet for the South African Students Organization in Durban, June 1973, discusses the traditional role of education, looks at…
ArchiveWomens Health Conference
A3 litho poster yellow and purple: text: Women's Health Conference, Health in our Hands, University of Witwatersrand Johannesburg 2-4 December 1994. This is…
ArchiveA call for solidarity with the students and people of South Africa fighting against racism
Report by Neville Curtis, President of the National Union of Students calling on people to join the struggle against racism (Kumasi statement). Appendix to…
ArchiveFort Hare crisis
Appendix B to President's Report, presented at 45th Annual Congress of the National Union of South African Students, 1969. Includes fact-sheets on events at…