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ArchiveHow many???
… the moment? Every worker knows that the only real answer to this question is that it is too many. But it is important to know just how many people are…
PlaceAllemanskraal or Aldam, Free State Province
… The name is derived from the Allemanskraal dam, some 9 km to the North-West. The Sand River Convention was signed there in 1852, which gave independence to…
Place'Abbakwap' a Mountain were the Fish and Orange Rivers Merge
… spoon' when translated from afrikaans. The name is said to refer to the hollow spoon shape of the mountains and the colour of …
ArchiveCommunique of the National Executive Committee of the African National Congress
… of Emergency. Examined the drive towards a workers' summit to mobilise resistance to the Labour Relations Amendment Act. Rejects the …
ArchiveMarch for A Peoples government
… a people's Government: Bury the racist republic; Forward to an Interim Government and a Constituent Assembly; 11am Friday 31 March from Taxi Rank Prinsloo to…
ArchiveConstitutional Guidelines Seminar, 17 May 1989: Report
… Seminar held in Soweto, 17 May 1989. Objectives were to prepare participants on how to generate and guide debates and discussion at grassroot …
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
… Affairs Department and the Foreign Minister of Cape Verde to discuss the situation in southern Africa with regard to the implementation of the settlement…
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
… South African and the Republic of Cape Verde with regard to negotiations between Angola and South Africa. Includes a letter from R F Botha, Minister of…
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
… welder, gardener and house painter until he chose to promote his own Vhavhenda culture through his music and … skills. Mukhuba used mainly Marula and…
EventRioting erupts in Soweto
… Riots erupt again in Soweto and spread to other townships in South Africa. The Minister of Justice, … Assemblies Act, until the end of August. Click here to…
EventThabo Mbeki announces judicial inquiry
… the establishment of an independent judicial inquiry to investigate allegations that government ministers and … National Intelligence Co-ordinating Committee…
EventLord Kitchener And Louis Botha engage in doomed peace talks during the Second Anglo-Boer War
… Louis Botha at Middelburg. The talks ultimately came to nothing, resulting in Kitchener changing his military … wire and block houses all over the Boer…
The Appeal Court hands down a landmark decision in the case Rikhoto v. East Rand Administration Board (ERAB)
… Rand Administration Board (ERAB) granting him the right to permanent urban status. This ruling may affect about … Black contract workers in urban areas, who…
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, … rule or conflict inevitable - Naude", which is referred to in the Memorandum. …
ArchiveBanning and intimidation: list of recommended tactics
… schools, religious bodies and other organisations; how to deal with infiltration into SASO and how to deal with bannings and other forms of intimidation…
ArchiveLong bitter struggle at Frame has ended
… struggle in South African labour history has come to an end. Nearly 2 000 National Union of Textile Worker … complex at New Germany near Pinetown, now have…
PlaceDock House, Victoria and Alfred Waterfront-Cape Town
… Station. The Entrance and Boundary Wall are adjacent to the Moorings Complex, situated in Portswood and Quarry … restored building, situated in the V&A…
EventMacassar Gas Disaster (AECI stockpile catches fire)
… after a 15 000 ton sulphur dioxide stockpile belonging to the local African Explosives and Chemical Industries … [iii] Residents, along with local farmers…
EventPeter Scott, South African alpine skier is born
… a South African alpine skier. [ii] His family immigrated to France when Peter was nine years old, where he began … He is coached by Alexander Heath. [vi]…
PlaceStaats Model School, Van der Walt Street, Pretoria
… escaped from this Building when, for a time it was used to House Prisoners-of-War, during the Anglo-Boer War . Single-storied red brick with ochre dressings…
EventDeath of Maria Koopmans-De Wet
… were living in Wale Street at that time. They later moved to Marie’s parental home in Strand Street. In 1879 Johan … Marie wore black for the rest of her…
EventKenneth David Kaunda wins Zambian elections
… Angola, South Africa, Mozambique, Namibia and Zimbabwe to use his country as a launch pad for the struggle against … Kaunda played an important role in…
EventThe Korean War ends
… all volunteers and highly experienced, sailed for Japan to offer assistance to the UN forces. Altogether 243 officers and 545 men of the … wounded, while…
EventDate set for start of Passive Resistance Campaign
… the chairmanship of E. I. Asvat, a decision was taken to launch a Passive Resistance Campaign (as decided upon at … of 7 May) on 1 August 1939. The campaign…
EventA.G. Visser, SA physician and poet, dies in Heidelberg, Transvaal
… left teaching and enrolled at Edinburg College in Scotland to study medicine. In 1918, he became a member of the … language through his poetry, which was…
EventArchbishop Desmond Tutu is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize
… made specific mention of his part in the transition to democracy in South Africa. Despite sustained government … protest against the Bantu Education Act 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 … national, Jose Ramos, who bore a striking resemblance to Joe Slovo. For a short…
EventHansi Pauline Pollak, welfare worker and social activist, is born
… Services during the World War II. In 1944 she was seconded to undertake welfare among refugees and displaced persons, as … services for the World Council of…
Cutting Through The Mountain
… Kasrils, Gill Marcus, Johnny Clegg and Albie Sachs - to name but some of them - recall formative experiences, … their personal identities, what being Jewish…