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EventWalter Sisulu tries to recruit 5 000 volunteers during ANC meeting to protest forced removal of “Black Spots”
On 26 June 1954 Walter Sisulu addressed a meeting of the African National Congress (ANC) at the Communal Hall in Johannesburg. At the meeting he a spurred…
EventMembers of SASO and BPC held under Terrorism Act
Fourteen people, including leading members of the South African Students Organisation (SASO) and the Black People's Convention (BPC) are arrested and held…
EventANC Matthews Mapumolo dies in police custody
Matthews Mapumolo, an African National Congress (ANC) member, dies in police custody after he had been confronted at home in Swaziland by a group of armed men…
Farewell To His Comrades: Message, September 19, 1983
[Message to a meeting of the Central Committee of the South African Communist Party, written and signed hours before his death, September 19, 1983] Dearest…
PlaceChurch Square, Dickson street, Woodstock
Church square in Woodstock has given rise to Apartment blocks, for much needed accomodation of Doctors and Nurses, aswell as students! Being so close to the…
ArchiveThe student movement in the struggle for democracy
Speech by the guest speaker, Joe Phaahla, President of the Azanian Students' Organisation (AZASO), at the 59th Annual Congress of the National Union of South…
ArchiveANC National Conference: Building the ANC
Report by the African National Congress Commission on Building Organisation for the ANC National Conference in July 1991 in Durban. Covers who builds the ANC,…
ArchiveReport on Comrade Secretary General's Delegation to Bulgaria
Report on a visit, headed by Alfred Nzo, by the African National Congress, to Bulgaria, to receive the Dimitrov-International Prize Award on behalf of Nelson…
ArchiveStudent political action
Report by the Student Political Action Committee to the 62nd Annual Congress of the National Union of South African Students, University of Natal,…
ArchiveHistory of Wages Commissions: formation, aims and structure
Working notes from the National Union of South African Students Labour Directive, July workshop, University of the Witwatersrand, 2-4 July 1982. Discusses the…
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…
ArchiveRecommendations of Consultative Conference
Recommendations of the South African Communist Party Consultative Conference. Recommends transforming the party, that there should be internal democracy and…
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…
ArchiveWe have survived!
Yellow, red, black and white poster. Notice of an Aboriginal Poster Exhibition. Commemorating 200 years of Aboriginal Resistance in Australia - 1788 - 1988…
EventWelcome Ncita, junior featherweight of SA, wins the IBF
Mdantsane born Welcome Ncita became the first South African to win the International Boxing Federation (IBF) world bantam weight title on 10 March 1990, when…
EventSA Sculptor Thomas Lehupela is born in Thaba ‘Nchu
… of the history of sculpture in the 20th Century South Africa Johannesburg: Johannesburg Art Gallery, p. 117|South …
EventSA artist Vincent Baloyi is born
South African Artist Vincent Baloyi was born in Newclare, Johannesburg. He joined the National Arts Society and the SAAA, taught art at the Open School (1981…
EventGill Marcus is born
… Hayes, S. (ed)(2000). Who's Who of Southern Africa 2001 ... , Graighall: Jonathan Ball.|Prakash …
EventSA artist Vuminkosi Zulu is born
… aspects of the history of sculpture in 20th century South Africa , Johannesburg: Johannesburg Art Gallery. | Xakaza, …
EventPolitical Activist, Barbara Hogan, is sentenced for High Treason
Barbara Hogan is sentenced in the Rand Supreme Court to an effective ten years in prison for high treason and membership of the banned African National…
EventF.W. de Klerk marries Marike Willemse
Former South African State President F.W. de Klerk married Marike Willemse on this date. The couple met at the University of Potchefstroom where they were both…
EventWhite entrepreneurs to be given contracts in the ‘homelands’
Prime Minister B J Vorster announces that White entrepreneurs will be given long-standing contracts in the 'homelands' to speed up economic development. This…
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…
EventDr. J. S. Moroka dies
Dr. James Sebe Moroka, medical doctor, politician, and great-grandson of Chief Moroka I of the Barolong Boo Moroka in Thaba Nchu the then district of…
EventBeverly Mashinini wins a bronze medal
A 23-year-old Pretoria girl, Beverly Mashinini, won a bronze medal in Athens, Greece. She was a member of the South African Paralympic team Amakrokokroko,…
EventClarence Makwetu Expelled from PAC
The Chairman of the Pan-Africanist Congress and disciplinary committee announces that former party President and Robben Island detainee Clarence Makwetu has…
EventChurch leaders initiate peace summit in Durban
At a regional peace summit initiated by Church leaders and held in Durban, Zulu King Goodwill Zwelithini urged his followers to stop killing each other. This…
EventSA architect Gerard Moerdijk is born
… et al. (eds) (1970). Standard Encyclopaedia of Southern Africa, Cape Town: NASOU, v. 7, p. 482. Wallis, F. (2000). …
EventKenya becomes a one party state
Almost a year after Kenya gained independencethe Kenya African National Union (KANU) under Jomo Kenyatta and its main opposition party united to form a party…