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EventJohn Traicos makes his International Cricket Test debut for South Africa
On 5 February 1970, a disciplined and perfect off-spinner, John Traicos one of international cricket's most unusual members, made his Test debut - for South…
EventHeadman Tshabalala, founding member of the band Ladysmith Black Mambazo, is shot and killed
Headman Tshabalala was born in 1945 in Ladysmith, Kwa-Zulu Natal. In 1960, he joined the first incarnation of the band Ladysmith Black Mambazo and sang…
EventSA author, Nadine Gordimer, is born
South African author and winner of the 1991 Nobel Prize for Literature, Nadine Gordimer, was born in Springs, Transvaal (now known as Gauteng).One of South…
EventAbout 22 000 miners on Witwatersrand gold mines go on strike in what became known as the Rand Rebellion
In January 1922 some 22 000 white miners downed their tools and went on strike in what became known as the Rand Rebellion or the Red Revolt. Eventually martial…
EventSA Artist, Father Frans Claerhout, is born
Father Frans Claerhout, acclaimed artist, priest and humanitarian was born on this day in Pittem, western Belgium. After completing his studies, he immigrated…
EventChief Kausobson Kausob is killed
The chief of a group of San that inhabited the area between the Modder, Riet and Vaal Rivers early in the nineteenth century, Kausobson Kausob, was killed in…
Labour Struggles in South Africa The Forgotten Pages 1903 - 1921 by Evangelos A. Mantzaris
This is a book about forgotten pages of South Africa's rich worker history from 1903 to 1921. It includes socio-historical analysis of the Cape Town 'answer"…
PlaceWupperthal Mission Station, Clanwilliam
Wuppertal is a most attractive oasis in a very rugged wilderness, 72 km southeast of Clanwilliam and about 250 km from Cape Town. This picturesque place has…
EventCPSA is founded
The founding conference of the Communist Party of South Africa (CPSA) took place in Cape Town from 30 July to 1 August 1921, however, the party was founded on…
ArchiveStaffrider Vol.2 No.2 Apr-May 1979
Content and Contributors CONTENTS Two letters on the banning of Staffrider Vol 2 No. 1 March 1979, Soweto Speaking to Miriam Tlali,Khauleza Creative…
PlaceClanwilliam, Stellenbosch District
Clanwilliam is famous for its rooibos tea and oranges. Situated at the foot of the Cedarberg Range where the Dissels River flows into the broad Olifants River…
PlaceLowveld National Botanical Gardens
The character of the Garden is shaped by the two main rivers that cut across it, namely the Crocodile and Nels Rivers. Before these two rivers converge in the…
ArchiveBanned
Statement calling on the public to support a petition of the Students Representative Council of the University of Cape Town, asking the United Party to explain…
Forging Solidarity: Southern Perspectives of Popular Education
Animating this colloquium is a two-fold question: In what ways are popular educators in the ‘south’, and particularly in South Africa, responding to various,…
ArchiveStatement of the National Executive Committee of the African National Congress on the announcement by FW de Klerk concerning the release of Walter Sisulu and other political prisoners
Statement of the National Executive Committee of the African National Congress on the announcement by FW de Klerk concerning the release of Walter Sisulu and…
Banned
Statement calling on the public to support a petition of the Students Representative Council of the University of Cape Town, asking the United Party to explain…
ArchiveResolution on the International Communist Movement
States that all communists should urgently come together to evaluate the serious problems facing the movement, such as US agression in Vietnam, attempts to re…
ArchiveANC Perspective on models for South Africa's future constitutional dispensation
Report of a Group A, Commission 5 on the African National Congress's Perspective on models for South Africa's future Constitutional dispensation, prepared…
ArchiveThe boycott as weapon of struggle
The most potent weapon in the armoury of a nation struggling for liberation and racial oppression are boycotts. The attitudes of the leaders' and intellectuals…
ArchiveConsultation in preparation for the meeting with law professors from white South Africa
Notes regarding a meeting to discuss and work out an agenda for an African National Congress meeting with South African Law professors. Proposed agenda…
ArchiveSpeak
Speak, published by Speak Collective, is a publication focussing on issues of interest mainly to women. Violence against women, including wife battery and rape…
EventManilal Gandhi leads a resistance group across the Natal
Certificate given to active supporters of the Passive Resistance Campaign During the Defiance Campaign, Manilal Gandhi leads a batch of Passive Resistors…
EventDesmond Tutu is appointed first Black Anglican Bishop of Johannesburg
Desmond Mpilo Tutu was appointed and ordained as the first Black Anglican Bishop of Johannesburg a month after winning the Nobel Peace Prize. The following…
EventSADF seals off Vaal townships
A combined force of seven thousand South African Defence Force (SADF) troops and the South African Police (SAP) sealed off the Vaal Triangle townships of…
EventPolice pounce on AWB members
Security Police arrested the leader, Eugene Terreblanche (Terre'Blanche), and eight other members of the right-wing group the Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging (AWB…
EventNew Group Areas Amendment Bill excludes sports
A Group Areas Amendment Bill, introduced on 7 March 1982 and enacted on 21 April, maintained the existing commitment to the principle of separate residential…
EventPFP stays its ground concerning president Vorster
Progressive Federal Party (PFP), official opposition in parliament, refused to congratulate John Vorster on his appointment as State President on the grounds…
EventJustice Minister, Jimmy Kruger, announces mass arrest
The Minister of Justice, Jimmy Kruger, made an announcement to the effect that 697 were being held for various security reasons. The breakdown of the total…
EventJoseph Lekganyane of the ZCC (Dove) dies
Joseph Engenas Matlhakanye Lekganyane, leader of the St Engenas Zion Christian Church (the Dove) with support spanning rural and urban areas, died in Warmberg,…
EventJoaquim Chissano meets with RENAMO leader
Mozambican President Joaquim Alberto Chissano met with Afonso Dhlakama, leader of the ResistÁƒÂƒÂªncia Nacional MoÁƒÂƒÂ§ambicana (RENAMO), to sign a peace…