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ArchiveRobert Shell: A tribute By Martin Plaut, 05 February 2015
… my friend Today I learnt the news I had been expecting and dreading for some months: that Rob Shell had died. Sandy, … foremost scholar of slavery in the…
ANC statement on the high court`s ruling against IT, 29 October 1998
… the High Court - Cape Division on the case between itself and the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. The ANC will be briefed by its lawyers about the…
ANC statement on the passing of Epainette Mbeki, 7 June 2014
… South Africa poorer given her long history of activism and her contribution in the struggle against apartheid. Mrs … Mbeki has for decades been a pillar of…
PlaceAddo Heights, Uitenhage
… Addo Heights is a Farm and is located in Cacadu District Municipality, Eastern Cape, … vertical profile. Despite its very long length of 18,7 km and a…
PlaceLeinster Hall, 7 Weltevreden Street, Gardens
… building has predominantly Georgian architectural features and is one of the last four remaining historical manor houses … in this part of Cape Town. It has…
EventNelson Mandela receives a hero’s welcome in New York
… way New York welcomes its heroes – with mounds of security and miles of tickertape. According to reports, the security … experts, helicopters, boats, a 90…
PlaceKliptown Museum
… Charter through photographs, news clippings, art, song and narration. Artefacts from those people who witnessed the … of the charter are on display, while…
EventSouth African Journalist, Zwelakhe Sisulu is abducted.
… journalist in the apartheid era who fought for justice and freedom. Sisulu was the founder and editor of the New Nation newspaper. He also founded the … son…
EventFourth Nuclear bomb test by France in the Sahara
… the time, was an underlyingFrench ambition to lead Europe and potentially become a superpower in its own right. This … by the creation of the North Atlantic…
EventMaria Mary Burton, former national president of the Black Sash, is born
… Aires, Argentina. She moved to South Africa in 1961, and upon witnessing the injustices of Apartheid, became a … discriminatory policies through marches,…
EventCODESA 1 convenes in Johannesburg
… of South Africa, described by many as tension-driven and known as the Convention for a Democratic South Africa … delegations from nineteen political…
EventThambi Naidoo mobilises the Indians
… important figures in the history of passive resistance and probably, with A.M. Cachalia, saved Gandhi's life when he was attacked and severely beaten by…
EventSA author Hymne Weiss is born
… South African author and translator of books into Afrikaans from six European … Free State). She was a daughter of Jozua Francois Naude and Johanna Zondagh…
EventForced removals at the Crossroads informal settlement
… Khayelitsha (New home). Eviction orders were issued and when the residents refused to move, their homes were … The residents here, were originally from the…
EventThe South African government is to grant self-government to KaNgwane
… of which KaNgwane was to have been part. South Africa and Swaziland were not new to conflicting claims about land. … then-named Natal, to South African…
EventSir Ronald Ross, discoverer of the malaria mosquito is born
… College. In 1881 he joined the Indian medical service and visited Madras, Burma and Andaman Islands developing his interest in poetry, literature and…
PlaceFreshford House Museum, 31 Kellner Street
… that still exists in Bloemfontein. The house was designed and built by the architect John Edwin Harrison for himself and his wife, Kate Caroline. Born and…
EventSophiatown residents are forcefully moved to Soweto
… when around 2 000 policemen, armed with guns, knobkerries and rifles, forcefully moved the families of Sophiatown to … possessions were loaded at the back of…
ArchiveWorkers Art Exhibition
… Black and white poster. Exhibition of poetry, songs and speeches on culture, from COSATU and NACTU and UFITUSA. Date 31st August to 1st October 1991. …
ArchiveWork in Progress 73 March/April 1991
… Creating mass power: beyond the cannon of Mamelodi, Unity and the Freedom Charter, Power and democracy: defining working-class politics, Strikes and faction…
ArchiveWork in Progress 58 March 1989
… Creating mass power: beyond the cannon of Mamelodi, Unity and the Freedom Charter, Power and democracy: defining working-class politics, Strikes and faction…
Land mine kills 6 in South Africa by Sheila Rule (New York Times), 16 December 1985
… African Army reported tonight that six people were killed and five people seriously wounded when a light truck set off … killed were members of two families,…
Archive'Winnie hired me to kill Dr Asvat' (Mail & Guardian), 05 September 1997
… Katiza Cebekhulu, who claims to have first met Dlamini and his accomplice, Cyril Mbatha, at Madikizela-Mandela’s … Cebekhulu claims to have driven two men…
Telegram to Gamal Abdel Nasser, President of the United Arab Republic by Oliver Tambo, 27 May 1967
… National Congress of South Africa expresses full support and solidarity with United Arab Republic and Arab people in their firm stand and struggle to resist…
Rhodes Must Fall Exhibition: "Echoing Voices from Within"
… from Within”, captures with precision the multi-layered and intersectional voice of black bodies – the students, workers and staff who have come together…
EventState of emergency is lifted in Natal
… of the violence caused by a power struggle between the ANC and the IFP in that province. Both the ANC and the IFP welcomed the decision. The state of…
EventF. W. de Klerk is implicated
… Ex-Police Commissioner General Johan van der Merwe and ex-Law and Order Minister Adriaan Vlok, implicated former state President and Deputy President of the…
EventPrince Eugene Napoleon is killed during Anglo-Zulu War
… who studied in England at the Royal Military Academy and joined the British forces, was killed in the Anglo-Zulu War when he and a British reconnaissance…
EventKenyan Politician, Tom Mboya dies
… Founder of the Nairobi People’s Congress Party (NCPC) and key figure in the formation of Kenya African National … independence in 1963, Mboya became Minister…
PlaceBloemfontein Technical College, Douglas Street, Bloemfontein
… The structure was designed by Architect WH Stucke and was erected in 1894-95 by building contractor D Godley. … stone was laid on 16 May 1894 by President…