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PlaceHorse Memorial, junction of Cape and Russell Roads, Port Elizabeth
The memorial, designed by Joseph Whitehead and cast in bronze by the Thames Dillon Works, in Surrey, was unveiled on 11 February 1905 by the mayor of Port…
Culture and Resistance - Cynthia Kross
This article by Cynthia Kross was published in 1982 in the South African magazine Staffrider. (Vol. 5.2) The articles describes the recent 'Culture and…
EventA full scale police search, headed by a specially trained anti-terrorist unit is launched
A full scale police search, headed by a specially trained anti-terrorist unit was launched following a shoot-out between police and suspected nationalist…
EventWilliam Duncan Baxter, SA businessman, politician and financier is born in Dundee, Scotland.
… et al. (Eds) (1970). Standard Encyclopaedia of Southern Africa, Cape Town: NASOU, v. 2, p. 215 …
EventThe Western Desert Force is upgraded
During World War II, the Western Desert Force was upgraded with the addition of two complete corps: the XIII and XXX. General Sir Alan Cunningham was given…
EventThe Group Areas Act comes into effect
… Davenport, T. H. (1977). South Africa: A Modern History . Macmillian: Johannesburg. …
EventSibusiso Ndebele, The premier of Kwa-Zulu Natal province and a National Executive Committee member of the ANC, is born
The current premier of Kwa-Zulu Natal province and a National Executive Committee member of the African National Congress (ANC), Sibusiso Joel Ndebele, was…
EventSmuts refuses call to postpone Anti
During the South African Indian Congress (SAIC) Conference held in Cape Town, a deputation of sixty Indians called on the prime minister, Field Marshal J.C…
EventWole Soyinka is born
The Nigerian, novelist, playwright and poet, Wole Soyinka, was born at Abeokuta, near Ibadan in western Nigeria. Soyinka became the first African to receive…
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…
EventBram Fischer dies
Former leader of South African Communist Party (SACP) Bram Fischer died of cancer at his brother Dr Paul Fischer's house in Bloemfontein. After news of his…
EventButhelezi Chief Councillor of the Zululand Territorial Authority
… C.F.J. (ed)(1981). Five Hundred years: a history of South Africa ; 3rd rev. ed ., Pretoria: Academica, p …
EventMandela is moved to Victor Verster prison
The government moved African National Congress (ANC) leader Nelson Mandela from the Constantiaberg private clinic in Cape Town, where he had been recovering…
EventDon Mattera withdraws from public performances
During the final poetry performance at the Urban Voices Festival, South African poet, journalist and former gangster who turned community activist, Don Mattera…
EventAnti-apartheid activist, Beyers Naude is born
Christiaan Frederik Beyers Naudé was born in Roodepoort, Transvaal, on 10 May 1915. He was named after C.F. Beyers, a Boer general who was close to his father,…
EventJames Sebe Moroka is born
Dr James Sebe Moroka, medical doctor, landowner and politician who was elected president-general of the African National Congress (ANC) from 1949 to 1952, was…
EventPresident Paul Kruger in an appeasement move
… C.F.J. (ed)(1981). Five Hundred years: a history of South Africa ; 3rd rev. ed., Pretoria: Academica, p. 286. …
EventVuyani Bungu wins IBF World Boxing Title
The South African junior featherweight, Vuyani Bungu, registered a stunning victory against highly rated American Kennedy McKinney at Carousel to lift the…
ArchiveLetter from Neville Curtis, NUSAS, to Dear Sir
Letter from Neville Curtis, President of NUSAS, stating the attitude of the National Union of South African Students towards planned Republic Day celebrations…
ArchiveUnlawful Organizations Act, Act No 34 of 1960
The Act was to empower the Governor-General, with a view to the safety of the public or the maintenance of public order, by proclamation in the Gazette to…
ArchiveThis Council of the SACC calls upon all its member churches
The South African Council of Churches (SACC) calls upon all its member churches to participate in the National Day of Prayer for the people of Crossroads which…
PlaceOnverwacht
… [Accessed: 14 February 2013]| Forced Removals in South Africa – The Surplus People’s Reports Vol. 1, pp.17| Forced Removals in South Africa – The Surplus…
EventSASOL plant under attack
The attacks on SASOL I, NATREF and SASOL II took place on the night of 31 May/1 June 1980 in order to coincide with Republic Day. The attack was organised by…
ArchiveCollaborators and falsifiers exposed
With the official opening of the Sultan Technical College, the members of the College Council had taken a decision to prohibit the African students from…
ArchiveANC/UCT Position Paper proposals
Report of a meeting between the ANC and the University of Cape Town on the education crisis. Includes handwritten notes on a consultative meeting between the…
PlaceMill House and Water Mill, farm Naauwpoort, District of Marico
Click on image to enlarge The mill was probably erected during the early 20th century. Its water wheel and cast-iron machinery drove a set of millstones, and…
EventWalter Sisulu’s appeal is dismissed
The Transvaal section of the Supreme Court dismissed an appeal by the African National Congress (ANC) Secretary-General Walter Sisulu against a six years…
EventWalter Sisulu acts against Sophiatown forced removals
… [Accessed: 15 April 2014]|Davenport, T. H. (1977). South Africa: A Modern History. Macmillian: Johannesburg . …
EventGandhi demands end to White ‘hooliganism’
… Reddy, E.S. 1997. Indian Passive Resistance in South Africa, 1946-1948 . Mainstream [Online] 5 April. Available …
EventSipho Mutsi dies in police custody
Seventeen-year-old activist and leader of the Congress of South African Students (COSAS), Sipho Mutsi, died in police custody during interrogation at the…