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ArchiveMessage of the Honourable R F Botha, Minister of Foreign Affairs, to the Governments of the United States, Angola and Zambia: 6 March 1984
Message from Pik Botha, Minister of Foreign Affairs to the Governments of the United States, Angola and Zambia Iinforming them that due to the infilitration of…
ArchiveLetter from Duncan Innes, President, NUSAS, to SRC Presidents and National Executive
Circular letter from the President of the National Union of South African Students, Duncan Innes, reporting on a meeting between a delegation from NUSAS and…
The Freedom Charter
Black poster with copy of Freedom charter in white block with black lettering, in English with small parts in African languages. Copies of the Freedom Charter…
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…
Interview with Swami Gounden by Vino Reddy, 29 May 2002
… if we, you know, triumph and if we have a democratic South Africa and we want a democratic constitution, what would you … the name into - it was called 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…
PlaceAndries Pretorius Monument , Graaf Reniet
a Monument 2,5 km North of Graaf-Reinet. It was erected in honour of the Voortrekker leader General Andries Wilhelmus Jacobus Pretorius (1798-1853), whose…
ArchiveDokumente van belang
List of documents found by the South African Police at Plot No 9, Travallyn, in the district of Krugersdorp on 8 July 1963 and on "Liliiesleaf" Farm in Rivonia…
ArchiveAddress to NUSAS Congress 1968
President's address to the 44th Annual Congress of the National Union of South African Students, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, 30th Jun - 9…
Negotiations: a strategic perspective
Statement by the African National Congress on negotiations as adopted by the National Executive Committee on 25 November 1992. Covers shifts in the balance of…
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…
ArchiveStatement made by Senator O P F Horwood in Senate on June 4, 1971
Statement made by Senator Owen Horwood in Senate, 4 June 1971, suggesting that university authorities should act strongly to stop the activities of the…
ArchiveWestern Cape Region - Regional Conference: Problems and challenges of the Western Cape
Report by Reg September on the problems and challenges of the Western Cape, presented to the African National Congress Western Cape Region Conference, 29 and…
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…
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…