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EventIFP makes election threat
Officials of the Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) announced that they would not present their list of election candidates to the Independent Electoral Commission …
EventA statement is issued following talks between John Vorster and Ian Smith
A statement issued simultaneously in Lusaka, Zambia and Salisbury, giving details of proposals agreed to after two days of talks between South African Prime…
EventThe district of Uitenhage is founded in the Eastern Cape and named after Jacob Abraham Uitenhage de Mist
The town of Uitenhage in the Eastern Cape Province was founded when then Commissioner-General Jacob Uitenhage de Mist felt there was a need to improve the…
38. The Natal Franchise Bill, 1894: Do not make our sons pariahs
… made to compare your petitioners with the Natives of South Africa. Very often it was said that the Natives had a better … of the British Indian subjects in…
Statement on Mama Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, 13 September 2011
Mama Winnie Madikizela-Mandela was admitted at the Johannesburg Hospital on Saturday as a result of a pain in her ankle. She was checked by doctors and…
EventJohn “Shoes” Moshoeu was born on this day
On this day the South African and International soccer player was born in Diepkloof, Soweto. One of the most successful players to have ever played the game…
ANC`s Subcommittee on Education, 18 January 2016
The ANC`s Subcommittee on Education will hold a media briefing today on ANC decisions concerning urgent matters affecting education. Details of the briefing…
EventCharges against Cape Times editor, Mr Anthony Heard are dropped
The charges against the Cape Times editor, Mr Anthony who was convicted for publishing an interview of the African National Congress leader, Oliver Tambo were…
ArchiveInternational Bulletin, No 25, December 1989
Bulletin, No 25, December 1989, produced by the South African Communist Party. Issue covers an SACP delegation to the 14th Congress of the Romanian Communist…
ArchiveA vote for SAIC is a vote accepting racial inferiority. Reject Aparthate!
Handdrawn A2 poster ink on card; hand putting ballot in box; text: A vote for SAIC is a vote accepting racial inferiority; Reject Apartheid;text on ballot box…
EventRuben Xulu is born
South African artist Ruben Xulu was born in Hlabisa, Natal. Xulu, born deaf, began carving with Bernard Gcwensa at Hlabisa mission station and embarked on a…
EventArtist Allina Ndebele is born
South African artist and master weaver Allina Ndebele, nee Khumalo, who returned to her father's village and established a small workshop to teach…
EventThe Black Consciousness Movement of Azania is formed in London
… World Socialist Movement ," Black consciousness in South Africa ",From: World Socialist Movement ,[Online], available …
EventHarry Gwala is awarded Isitwalandwe/Seaparakoe
On the occasion of the 80th anniversary of the African National Congress (ANC) on 8 January 1992, Harry Gwala was awarded the Isitwalandwe/Seaparankoe, the…
EventPik Botha visits Soviet Union
South African foreign minister, Pik Botha, visits the Soviet Union, where he re-established consular relations which had been severed in 1956. Though the visit…
EventF.W. de Klerk announces the release of political prisoners
… ' Negotiating the Release of Political Prisoners in South Africa ', [online],Available at www.csvr.org.za [Accessed: 01 …
EventThe People’s Progressive Party (PPP) is banned
The one-year-old parliamentary opposition People Progressive Party (PPP) under the leadership of the former African National Congress (ANC) member Rocky…
EventNNP federal council decides to disband the party
… Piompo J.,Nijzink L.(2005), Electoral Politics in South Africa: Assessing the First Democratic Decade ,(HSRC Press& …
EventSifiso Nkabinde is shot dead by assassins
Sifiso Nkabinde, former Secretary General of the African National Congress (ANC) in the Natal Midlands and at the time of his death secretary-general of the…
EventP.W. Botha appears in court
Former State President P.W. Botha appeared in court for refusing to testify at the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC). The former South African State…
EventPFP Leader Colin Wells Eglin born
Founding member of the Progressive Federal Party (PFP), Colin Wells Eglin was born in Sea Point, Cape Town. During his political career, Eglin was instrumental…
EventBishop Zulu is born
Alphaeus Hamilton Zulu, Anglican bishop of Zululand and Swaziland was born in Nquthu, Natal. He was the only son of Johannes and Miriam Kolo Zulu and was a…
EventThe name of the military base, Voortrekkerhoogte is officially changed to Thaba Tshwane
Thaba Tshwane is the military headquarters of the South African National Defence Force (SANDF) in Pretoria. The base had been known as Voortrekkerhoogte…
ArchiveDeportation of NUSAS President Elect
Appendix B to President's address to the 44th Annual Congress of the National Union of South African Students, 30th June to 9th July, 1968. Contains general…
ArchiveMoral suasion
This is the 30th lecture delivered by Dr. Hugh Ashton in the Alfred and Winifred Hoernle Memorial Lecture series on january 18, 1978 at the University of Cape…
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ArchiveMemorandum to the Shlebusch [sic] Commission of Enquiry into Certain Organisations on the paper presented to the NUSAS seminar at Botha's Hill by Jonty Driver
Personal comments to the Schlebusch Commission of Inquiry into Certain Organisations by Paul Pretorius, President of the National Union of South African…
“Let us dream you, forbidden landscape”: the Storming project sings change, 17 July 2017
“We cannot keep digressing and hiding behind the truth, saying ‘It’ll work someday’. There’s no such thing. If we have to change things, let’s change them…
ArchiveThe Final Prize - Contents and Preface
From the book: The Final Prize by Norman Levy “Everyone has a story”, Sephiwe, the librarian at the Robben Island Mayibuye Archive, said to me as he handed me…
Chaskalson transcended his bias and loyalties by Tony Leon, 4 December 2012
JAMES Baldwin once described the US as "the most desperately schizophrenic of republics". I wonder what he would have made of the presence of so many of the…
PlaceKwaMashu
The development of KwaMashu Township, in the KwaZulu-Natal province and located some 19km north of Durban, resulted from the mass resettlement of the slum…