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Document 19 - Communist Party of South Africa, Memo on S.A.F.N.T.U. (1930)
… Thibedi to the Secretary asking for the use of a table and two chairs belonging to the Party, to which the Secretary … however that in the meantime Thibedi…
PlaceGlen Grey Division
… support by their neighbours the amaGcaleka, the amaThembu and, most notably, the Khoikhoi of the Kat River Settlement, … these groups were moved east of the…
PlaceVryburg, Bophirima Region
… lies on the N14, due West of the Towns of Klerksdorp and Orkney - as in 'Orkney Snork Nie' (Orkney doesn't snore) … Area was part of the proclaimed Republic…
EventChumani Maxwele ignites the #RhodesMustFall Movement at UCT
… action became a catalyst for heightening student activism and movements throughout universities in the country, … on campus that are physical reminders of…
ANC welcomes Cde Mac Maharaj appointment as President Zuma`s spokesperson, 7 July 2011
… welcomes the appointment of Cde Mac Maharaj, a veteran and stalwart of our movement, as President Jacob Zumas spokesperson. As a seasoned leader, negotiator…
ArchiveAfrican Communist, 1959 - 1994
… the government after the police massacres of Sharpeville and Langa in 1960. The delay had been due to fears amongst … movement as a whole. But growing…
PlaceMaloti-Drakensburg Park
… the uKhahlamba Drakensberg National Park in South Africa and the Sehlathebe National Park in Lesotho. The site has … soaring basaltic buttresses, incisive…
PlaceAlphen; Constantia Road, Constantia- Cape Town
… manor House with a well proportioned pediment and a well designed front door, whose construction dates back … originally formed part of the Groot Constantia…
PlaceOld Railway Station Museum, Uitenhage
… engaging structure, with a high pitch roof, dormer windows and ornate fretted timber details. Built on Market Street in … locomotives, a variety of coaches,…
EventSA artist Mmakgoba Sebidi is born
… teacher. She studied with John Mohl while also studying and teaching pottery and clay sculpture at the Katlehong Art Centre in Germiston and in Alexandra…
EventThe last sitting of an all-white Parliament
… South Africa was recognised as a republic and pursued a political course in which Blacks, Coloureds and Indians were denied the right to parliamentary ……
EventANC calls on International community to save lives
… At the end of the Soekmekaar and Silverton trial in Pretoria, three young Black men, Noimbithi Johnson Lubisi 28, Petrus Tsepo Mashigo 20, and Naphtali…
EventThe Big Three are convicted of treason
… Popo Molefe, Patrick Lekota and Moses (Moss) Chikane, collectively known as the "Big Three", were arrested in April 1989 and charged with treason. At the…
EventSir John Robinson forms Natal’s first ministry as Prime Minister
… John Robinson as Prime Minister, Minister of Education, and Colonial Secretary. Robinson, who is regarded as a loyal … Africa as a child in 1850. He later…
EventSouth African Library Week is held from 22 - 27 March 2010 to make people aware of the value of libraries
… In 1997 the Library and Information Association of South Africa (LIASA) was … LIASA has worked diligently to centralise libraries and information related…
EventThe official Commission of Inquiry into the mass media tables its report
… established by law to regulate entry into the profession and sit in judgement on journalists accused of violating a constitutional code of conduct. The…
EventThe Native Affairs Commission went once more to Ntabelanga for negotiations
… over South Africa. About 3 000 people arrived in the area and proceeded to squat there. They erected a tabernacle and some huts without registering…
EventLucas Ntuba Radebe, SA soccer hero, is born in Diepkloof, Soweto
… of the 1980’s. Soccer was one of his favourite pastimes and his talent was soon spotted by Kaizer Chief Scouts, who … went on to become a successful soccer…
EventANC stalwart, Albertina Sisulu dies in Johannesburg
… referred to as the ‘Mother of the Nation’, she was a nurse and one of the most important leaders of anti-Apartheid … women present. In 1948 she joined the…
EventNine members of the ANC are officially banned in Dakawa, Tanzania
… the announcement made during meetings held by Chris Hani and Stanley Mabizela at Mazimbu and Dakawa on 24 December 1989. During the meetings, Mabizela … (a)…
PlaceQueen’s Tavern, 16 Stamford Hill Road, Durban
… National Monument. This Building was still left standing and the old Queens Tavern, which was also due for demolition, … Restaurant, called the British…
ArchiveAppendix 8 Sam will never see his favoured son free of the traitor’s brand by Denis Goldberg
… Act. This means he was not able to be quoted in life – and the ban on anything he said continues after his death. I … Central prison where he has already…
ArchiveMobilise for a merger
… the merging of Chemical Workers Industrial Union and Paper Printing Wood and Allied Workers Union, at Randburg Towers Hotel. List of speakers. Logos of the…
ArchiveConstitutional Guidelines Seminar, 17 May 1989: Report
… Objectives were to prepare participants on how to generate and guide debates and discussion at grassroot level and and establishing the necessary mechanisms…
This doccie about a SA photographer is worth the watch by Garreth Van Niekerk (channel24), 28 May 2017
… documentary of his extraordinarily prolific life and career – we get to see the man behind the camera with new eyes, and it’s quite remarkable. “In the end,…
ArchiveBirth of a reggae superstar 3 August 1964 by Sam Mathe
… a strange pop phenomenon swept through the shebeens and music festivals of South Africa. Based on the artist's name and song title, everybody was convinced…
PlaceClarkebury, Eastern Cape
… Society. James Backhouse visited it in March 1839 and made the following report : "The station of Clarkebury … in front, a chapel, also of brick, but…
The Great Trek Was Not Over Abolition by Ron (Republican Trekker Volk), 30 October 2008
… recent interpretations tend to stress more mundane factors and motivations for the movement. The migratory habits to … throughout the 18th C, had been…
Debate in the House of Assembly during the second reading of the Immorality Amendment Bill on 23 February 1962
… to the attitude of the hon. member for Houghton 1 and I want to say at once that I have not heard a single … is a philosophy which permeates the whole of…
ArchiveSeparate development: the challenge of the Transkei
… The nineteenth Alfred and Winifred Hoernle Memorial lecture The Transkei became a semi-autonomous territory in Decmber 1963 and separate territorial…