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EventThe Korean War ends
The undeclared Korean War ended after three years of fighting between North Korean and Chinese Communists against the United Nations (UN) forces (mainly South…
EventDate set for start of Passive Resistance Campaign
In July 1939 at a meeting of 6,000 Indians, held at the Indian Sports Ground in Johannesburg under the chairmanship of E. I. Asvat, a decision was taken to…
EventA.G. Visser, SA physician and poet, dies in Heidelberg, Transvaal
Andries Gerhardus Visser was born on 1 March 1878 on the farm Zaaifontein, in the district of Fraserburg, South Africa. Visser attended the Huguenot Memorial…
EventArchbishop Desmond Tutu is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize
Archbishop Mpilo Desmond Tutu, world renowned preacher and strident voice against apartheid, first Black Secretary General of the South African Council of…
EventThe South African security police bombed two houses in Manzini, Swaziland
In response to attacks on the Sasol oil refinery in Secunda, the South African security police bombed two houses in Manzini, Swaziland. The attacks claimed the…
EventSipho Gumede, South African jazz legend, dies
Born in the predominantly Indian community of Cato Manor near Durban, Sipho Gumede started playing music on a homemade guitar. He joined his first band at the…
EventHansi Pauline Pollak, welfare worker and social activist, is born
Hansi Pauline Pollak was born in Johannesburg in 1905. She served as an officer in command of the Women Army Auxiliary Services during the World War II. In…
Cutting Through The Mountain
Cutting Through The Mountain is a collection of interviews with South Africans - most of them prominent and all of them Jewish - who fought against…
EventPrime Minister Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa is killed in Nigeria’s first military coup
Abubakar Tafawa Balewa was the first Prime Minister of Nigeria after it gained independence. He served his term as Prime Minister from 1957 until he died in…
Place'Abbakwap' a Mountain were the Fish and Orange Rivers Merge
Mountian in the Richtersveld, at the confluence of the Fish River with the Orange River. This a Khoikhoi name for 'Rooilepel', and means 'red spoon' when…
ArchiveCommunique of the National Executive Committee of the African National Congress
Communique of the National Executive Committee of the African National Congress, reporting on a meeting of the NEC in early June, 1989. Condemned the extension…
ArchiveMarch for A Peoples government
A2 silkscreen black on white; photo of youths marching with ANC banner; Text: ANC Youth League Anti-Republic Day Protest: March for a people's Government: …
ArchiveConstitutional Guidelines Seminar, 17 May 1989: Report
Report of the Congress of South African Trade Unions Constitutional Guidelines Seminar held in Soweto, 17 May 1989. Objectives were to prepare participants on…
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 Foreign Affairs Department and the Foreign Minister of Cape Verde to discuss the situation…
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
Report on discussions held between South African and the Republic of Cape Verde with regard to negotiations between Angola and South Africa. Includes a letter…
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, Jimmy Kruger, again banned public meetings under the…
EventThabo Mbeki announces judicial inquiry
South Africa's first Executive Deputy President Thabo Mbeki announced the establishment of an independent judicial inquiry to investigate allegations that…
EventLord Kitchener And Louis Botha engage in doomed peace talks during the Second Anglo-Boer War
On February 28 British commander Lord Kitchener met Boer commander Louis Botha at Middelburg. The talks ultimately came to nothing, resulting in Kitchener…
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, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, regarding guidelines for the use of terminology…
ArchiveBanning and intimidation: list of recommended tactics
SASO memorandum deals with proposed methods of infiltration into schools, religious bodies and other organisations; how to deal with infiltration into SASO and…
ArchiveLong bitter struggle at Frame has ended
The longest recognition struggle in South African labour history has come to an end. Nearly 2 000 National Union of Textile Worker members at the giant…
ArchiveCC Resolution on Elections
Resolutions of the Central Committee of the South African Communist Party on elections, on Angola, and on negotiations. Supports a single ANC electoral list…
ArchiveSeparate development: the challenge of the Transkei
The nineteenth Alfred and Winifred Hoernle Memorial lectureThe Transkei became a semi-autonomous territory in Decmber 1963 and separate territorial development…
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 has the chairs Paul and his Wife used to sit on during services, with the same…
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) Johannesburg…
EventMandela meet De Klerk in Pretoria
African National Congress (ANC) Deputy President Nelson Mandela and State President F.W. de Klerk held discussions in Pretoria on the progress which has been…
EventManne Dipico resigns from parliament
Former Northern Cape Premier and President Thabo Mbeki's parliamentary advisor, Manne Dipico, resigned from the National Assembly to concentrate his effort on…