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PlaceAmbrosiushoek, Gaansbaai Western Province
Name employed in the 18th Century for the Coastal Area on the peninsula between Danger Point and Gansbaai. Dutch for 'Ambrose corner', the name is thought to…
ArchiveReport of NUSAS President
Report of the President of the National Union of South African Students at the 58th Annual Congress, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, 29 November…
Archie Gumede Inaugural Memorial Lecture Invitation
Professor Ahmed C Bawa, Vice-Chancellor and Principal of the Durban University of Technology and Mr Don Gumede, Founder of the Archie Gumede Foundation…
ArchiveAPDUSA Bulletin 5: War on sellouts!
In this pamphlet APDUSA expresses their concerns over the results of the elections on August 22 and 28 1984 ; as well as what the consequences will be of those…
ArchiveInterview with Robert Mangaliso Sobukwe
Oral interview, in Kimberley, South Africa, with Robert Sobukwe (1924 to 1978), who was elected Founding President of the Pan Afticanist Congress in April 1959…
ArchiveStrategic issues in the struggle for national liberation in South Africa
Paper examining reforms introduced by the government and whether they are adequate to initiate change in the country: provision for the legal recognition of…
Nelson Mandela, The Rivonia Trial Court statement, 1964 (Video)
From media critic David Tereshchuk's multimedia site THE MEDIA BEAT, Nelson Mandela's famous declaration to the court in his 1964 terrorism trial, expressing…
An evaluation of South African novelist Nadine Gordimer (1923-2014) by Sandy English (World Socialist Website), 30 September 2014
An evaluation of South African novelist Nadine Gordimer (1923-2014) by Sandy English “Sailors gag on stinking meat, children refuse to go to school. No one…
EventSA Sculptor Thomas Lehupela is born in Thaba ‘Nchu
Molatodi Thomas Lehupela, South African sculptor, was born in Paradys Location, Thaba 'Nchu in the Orange Free State (now Free State Province). In 1984…
EventThe UN sets up Commission on Apartheid
The General Assembly of the United Nations adopted resolution 616(VII) to establish a three-member United Nations Commission on the Racial Situation in the…
EventSA artist Vuminkosi Zulu is born
Former graduate of the famous Rorke's Drift School of Art, South African artist Vuminkosi Zulu, was born in Mapumulo in KwaZulu-Natal. He left school at…
EventSAA takes over the South-West African Airways (SWAA)
A year after its establshment, South African Airways (SAA), took over South-West African Airways (SWAA), which had since 1932 been providing a weekly air-mail…
EventUnited Party disbands
The United Party, main political opposition party in South Africa, was formally disbanded by the majority faction after members had left the party to join…
EventUS ambassador Andrew Young visits SA
The United States Ambassador to the United Nations, Andrew Young, paid a two day visit to South Africa at the invitation of mining magnate Harry Oppenheimer…
EventHelen Joseph dies
South African political and human rights activist, Helen Beatrice May Joseph, died at the age of 87 in Johannesburg, South Africa. She came to SA in 1931 and,…
EventSADC treaty is signed in Namibia
A treaty, which effected the establishment of the Southern African Development Community (SADC), was signed in the Namibian capital, Windhoek, to replace its…
EventPolitical activist Mziwonke ‘Pro’ Jack is assassinated.
The African National Congress (ANC) activist, Mziwonke 'Pro' Jack was gunned down next to his home in Cape Town. Jack was a taxi conflict mediator in Cape Town…
EventThe Population Registration Act of 1950 is repealed
The Population registration Act (Act No 30 of 1950 ) was repealed by the South African parliament. The Act was a pillar of the Apartheid system. It required…
EventWorld Conference on Racism starts in Durban
Delegates from hundred and sixty countries descended on Durban to attend the weeklong third United Nations-sponsored World Conference on Racism, staged in…
Isizwe
Isizwe = The Nation, the journal published by the United Democratic Front to stimulate discussion, debate and training within their ranks, consisted of…
2012 ANC National Policy Conference: Statement on the update of Conference Proceedings,28 June 2012
The National Policy Conference of the ANC has resumed its third day and is proceeding according to schedule. Commissions have resumed on time this morning and…
ArchiveStaffrider Vol.8 No.1 1989
Contents and Contributors CONTENTS: Comment, A.W. Oliphant STORIES: The Prophets, Bheki Maseko; Happiness is a Punch in the Eye, Lawrence Maimane; A Day in…
EventAnatii, the South African rapper is born
Anathi Bhongo Mnyango, stagename Anatii was born in Bisho, Eastern Cape on 8 January 1993. [1] He is a South African rapper. Anatii produced and wrote the hit …
PlaceKhomani Cultural Landscape
The area in the Southern Kalahari, bordered in the East by Botswana and the West by Namibia, is where you will find a small group of the Khomani San a people…
PlaceThe Wilds Park, Houghton Estate, Johannesburg
In 1925 the Township owners of Houghton Estate, the Johannesburg Consolidated Investment Company Ltd. Donated the original portion of The Wilds to the…
EventPolice arrest members of Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK) High Command at Lilliesleaf Farm
South African police raided the African National Congress (ANC) underground headquarters, the Liliesleaf Farm in Rivonia, just outside Johannesburg. Apparently…
EventThe first Boeing 707 jet aircraft arrives in South Africa
On 15 July 1960, the first Boeing 707 jet aircraft arrived in South Africa from America. This aircraft has remained in the service of the South African Air…
EventEvelyn Dalberg, SA opera singer, is born in Germany
Evelyn Dalberg, a prominent opera singer in South Africa, was born on 23 May 1939, in Leipzig, Germany. The daughter of Frederick Dalberg and German Soprano…
EventThe SA author and journalist, Herman Charles Bosman, shoots and kills his stepbrother David Russell during a quarrel
Herman Charles Bosman, who wrote under the pseudonym Herman Malan, was a South African author and journalist. He was educated at Jeppe High School and the…
EventAt least 100 people drown in a flood at Laingsburg
On 25 January 1981, Laingsburg in the Western Cape was devastated by a severe flood. The hard rains immersed the whole town in water, only the roofs of the…