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EventFinal evacuation of Sophiatown by black residents
Forced removals from Sophiatown had started in 1955 and by 1963 the demolition of the existing houses started. The area was reassigned to White residents and…
ArchivePopulation Registration Act, Act No 30 of 1950
The Act was to make provision for the compilation of a Register of the Population of the Union; for the issue of Identity cards to persons whose names are…
ArchiveCommissions presented at 5th General Students
The memorandum contains commissions to assess, among others, the theory of the struggle pertaining to the Black culture, the feasibility of research into…
ArchiveMetal workers dissatisfied with industrial council wage increases
Disatisfaction with this year's industrial council wage agreement has already led to strikes at two Transvaal companies and another one could be on the way as…
ANC statement on The Farming Sector Initiative, 1 November 2014
The African National Congress welcomes the Western Cape Farming Sector Engagement initiative by the national government today in Paarl, Western Cape. This…
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…
EventSA Government spoil Chief Albert Luthuli’s chance of Rectorship
It is announced that efforts by Britain's Foreign Secretary, Mr. Butler and Glasgow University to obtain permission from the South African Government for…
ArchiveNatives (Prohibition of Interdicts) Act, Act No 64 of 1956
The Act was to prohibit the granting of interdicts or other dilatory orders of court having the effect of staying or suspending the removal or ejectment of…
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…