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Survey of race relations in South Africa: 1949-1950
… A Survey of race relations in South Africa in 1949-1950 and includes chapters on: Rights and duties of liberals in South Africa; Institute activities and…
Document 42 - “Boycott the Dummy Elections: 2 000 Demonstrate AT Mass Rally”, The Torch , National Edition, 1 April 1958
… Rally filled the old Drill Hall on Sunday, March 30th, and overflowed on to the pavements at the greatest political … of the 1,100 seats provided were filled…
Le Rona Re Batho by Phyllis Naidoo - Introduction
… 9 December 1982, I started writing about my comrades and the raid generally. When we sought help for our … Maseru. When South Africa closed the borders to…
35. Colour legislation in the Orange River Colony
… History of Indian South Africans edited by Surendra Bhana and Bridglal Pachai The draft Ordinance of October 1903 … upon the disabilities the Ordinance…
Die Eerste Vryswartes Van Stellenbosch - 1679-1720 by Prof. J.L. Hattingh, University of the Western Cape, Bellville, 1981
… did this because it seems that others, as well as Manuel and Antonie of Angola, were already living in the area. This farm, as that of Manuel and Antonie,…
EventMafika Gwala born
… South African poet, writer and BCM member Mafika Gwala was born today in the town of … South African Students Organisation. Sometime during 1966 and 1967…
EventUnion leader, Moses Mayekiso is reported to be under arrest on his return from Sweden.
… Moses Mayekiso was the General Secretary of the Metal and Allied Workers Union (MAWU) and became a member of the South African Communist … Party (SACP)…
EventPresidential Job Summit is held
… Mandela, representatives of government, business, labour and other community and development organisations meet at the Presidential Job … most economically…
EventWalter Battiss is born in Somerset East
… family in 1906. He became one of South Africa's first and most important abstract painters. He first became interested in archaeology and primitive art as a…
EventFirst Nobel prizes are awarded
… Swedish chemist and inventor of dynamite, Alfred B. Nobel, established the … will. This bequeathment allegedly shocked his relatives and the countries where…
EventBattle of Viervoet (Basotho-British war)
… In 1851, the British controlled the area between the Orange and Vaal Rivers (the Orange River Sovereignty). Due to border … This line divided territory…
EventProfessor Roland Levinsky, world leading researcher in biomedicine dies
… of Plymouth, was born in South Africa to a British mother and Jewish father on 16 October 1943. His father was born in the Lethuania/Poland area and had fled…
Founding members of friends of United Democratic Front
… for 8 years, Nadine Gordimer is the author of 16 novels and short story collections, Richard Luyt was a principal and vice chancellor of the University of…
EventIgnatius Royston Dunnachie (Roy) Campbell, SA satirical poet, is born in Durban.
… Dunnachie (Roy) Campbell was born in Durban, Natal, and was considered one of South Africa’s most esteemed … (now Durban Boys' High), where he counted…
Inqaba ya basebenzi
… the workers' struggle for national liberation, democracy and socialism. Issues discussed include wage negotiations, … working conditions, campaigns for a…
Letter from Oliver Tambo to the Prime Minister of Lesotho, Dr. Leabua Jonathan, 13 January 1982
… We received with great shock and anger the news of the brazen and outrageous invasion of the Kingdom of Lesotho by the … on December 9th. The multiple…
EventA conference is held in Geneva, Switzerland (1949) to revise the original Geneva Conventions.
… The Geneva Conventions, are comprised of four treaties and three protocols, which establish the standards of international law for the treatment of civilians…
Ubuntu Awards 2018
… who embody principles of Integrity, Passion, Patriotism and Humility. 2018 marks the centenary of the first … Honouring Madiba; a global champion of human…
PlaceDitsong National Museum of Military History, Johannesburg
… an 80ha site next to the Johannesburg Zoo, houses weapons and other artefacts from the many conflicts that South Africa … the Anglo-Boer Wars, the Anglo-Zulu…
PlaceOld Locomotive “Emil Kessler”, Johannesburg
… on the side of the loco.) The engine weighs 12,7 tonnes and was manufactured by Emil Kessler of Esslingen in Germany. It was brought from the coast by ox…
EventGeneral Barry Hertzog, former South African Prime Minister, dies
… immigrant family in 1866. He attended school in Kimberly and Stellenbosch, and completed a Bachelor's degree in England, as well as … treatment of Afrikaners…
EventSouth African Communist Party leader Abram Fischer is sentenced to life imprisonment on charges of communism
… Bram Fischer served on the Johannesburg District Committee and the Central Committee of the Communist Party of South … revise the African National Congress …
EventVlakplaas Commander testifies before Harms Commission about secret police killings in 1981
… In 1981, Dirk Coetzee, Jan Viktor and Jac Buchner began Vlakplaas, a parliamentary hit squad, … in a November 1989 in an interview with Vrye Weekblad, and…
EventSouth African Defence Force (SADF) attacks a Namibian refugee camp in Cassinga, Angola
… West Africa People’s Organisation (SWAPO) refugee camp and People’s Liberation Army of Namibia’s (PLAN) military … the massacre. More than 600 Namibians,…
65. Letter from the Natal Indian Congress to Smuts, 1945
… History of Indian South Africans edited by Surendra Bhana and Bridglal Pachai A new and younger set of persons, impatient with old methods of compromise and…
Document 13 - Declaration of the Organization of African Unity (OAU) ad hoc committee on southern Africa on the question of South Africa; Harare, Zimbabwe (The Harare Declaration) Sections 14-24
… Published and launched in January 2009 in partnership with Vivalia … of the Pretoria regime to engage in negotiations genuinely and seriously, could create…
History of Muslims in South Africa: Introduction by Ebrahim Mahomed Mahida
… - since the time of their arrival at the Cape of Good Hope and their struggle with the Dutch East India Company, together with their socio-economic and…
EventSoweto students march against government’s language policy
… protest march, but ended with violence, tears, blood and death of a 13 year old boy, Hector Peterson. The Soweto … white students. Police used teargas to…
PlaceGallery 101
… the Swiss Fernand Francis Haenggi (b. 1934, Dijon, France) and his mother Mrs F.M.L. Haenggi founded Gallery 101 to … CBD. In the late 1960s the gallery…
Document 70 - Letter from the Workers’ Party of South Africa, Johannesburg, to the Cape Town branch, 26 August 1937
… here. As you are aware Comrades Lee, Kahn , Freislich and Heaton recently left for Europe and needless to say, this has weakened our ranks considerably…