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EventPrime Minister Smuts set to replace Pegging Act
Prime Minister Jan Christiaan Smuts announced the intention of the government to introduce new legislation to replace the Pegging Act, due to expire on 31…
ArchiveLetter from Lybon Mabasa to the Secretary, IDAMASA
Letter from Lybon Mabaso, Convenor, Community Develoment of the Black Peoples Convention, Johannesburg, to the Secretary, IDAMASA with an invitation to send…
EventBritish racing driver Tom Pryce dies in a freak accident during the South African Grand Prix at Kyalami
Welsh racing driver Tom Pryce died on the tracks during the South African Grand Prix in Kyalami on 5 March 1977. The horrific accident left two people dead; a…
Call to A. N. C. Ranks by Albert Luthuli, 1 November 1954
Urging Congress branches to ensure 100 per cent attendance at the forthcoming A.N.C. National Conference, due to begin at Durban on December 16, President…
EventRobert Sobukwe is sentenced to three years’ imprisonment
Founding member and president of the Pan Africanist Congress, Robert Mangaliso Sobukwe, was sentenced to three years' imprisonment for incitement of Blacks to…
EventControversial Catholic Archbishop Milingo agrees to renounce marriage
Roman Catholic Archbishop Emmanuel Milingo of Zambia married Maria Sung on 27 May in a ceremony performed by the Unification Church Revered Sun Myung Moon…
EventNico Basson says that SADF had supplied weapons and covert assistance to IFP in order to weaken the ANC
Speaking before journalists, a retired army major, Mr. Nico Basson, said that the South African Defence Force (SADF) had supplied weapons (such as AK-47…
Oliver Tambo interview to Sechaba, 01 March 1976
Racists humiliated "The MPLA has always had the closest relations with the ANC - for well over ten years - and together with FRELIMO of the People`s Republic…
ArchiveLetter from Lybon Mabasa to the Secretary, SASM
Letter from Lybon Mabaso, Convenor, Community Develoment of the Black Peoples Convention, Johannesburg, to the secretary, South African Students Movement with…
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…
Why is sexual violence so endemic in South Africa and why has it been so hard to combat? by Jessica Clarke
Why is sexual violence so endemic in South Africa and why has it been so hard to combat? Abstract This essay will firstly lay out government legislation…
EventFormer Ivorian president is extradited to the ICC
Former Cote d'Ivoire President, Laurent Koudou Gbagbo, was extradited to the International Criminal Court (ICC) following an arrest warrant issued by the…
1983, Volume 7 Dawn page 3 Article: Response to a Crisis
RESPONSE TO A CRISIS JAMES MAKHAYA, A combatant of MK, discuss the November white referendum The history of the Nationalist Party is pock-marked with the…
EventThe last Apollo Moon mission returns to Earth
The first phase of humankind's active exploration of the Moon came to an end when Apollo 17's lunar module left the lunar surface on December 14, 1972. A…
Articles, podcasts and videos pertaining to Roy Padayachie
Articles, podcasts and videos pertaining to Roy Padayachie: Jacob Zuma's eulogy to Roy Padayachie by Jacob Zuma Minister’s surprise visit to KZN hospital gets…
EventThe AA is formed to coordinate motoring clubs
The Automobile Association of South Africa (AA) was formed at a meeting in Port Elizabeth attended by several provincial and other motoring clubs, in order to…
EventHundreds of thousands of Hutus flee to Zaire
Between April and mid July 1994, between 800 000 and 1 million Tutsis and moderate Hutus were murdered by Rwanda's Hutu regime. The catalyst for the genocide…
EventWaluz and Derby-Lewis are sentenced to death
Presiding Judge C.F. Eloff sentenced Polish immigrant and supporter of the Neo-Nazi Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging (AWB), Janusz Waluz, and Conservative Party …
EventFirst air flight from London to South Africa
By the 1920s, the development of heavier than air flight had progressed considerably, partly due to the outbreak of World War One. Britain, having emerged…
Letter from Neville Curtis, NUSAS, to Dear Sir
Letter from Neville Curtis, President of NUSAS, reporting on the reason for opposition to the sale of "instruments of violence" to the Nationalist Government…
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 Manani…
EventMandela and de Klerk agree to restart talks
Mandela and de Klerk agree that they would go back to constitutional negotiations, after the ANC had suspended talks after accusing the government of…
ArchiveLetter from Priscilla Hall to Agneta Ekman-Wingate
Letter from Priscilla Hall to Agneta Ekman-Wingate appealing for funding, publicity and moral support for the people of Glenmore resettlement against…
ArchiveLetter from Oliver Tambo to the NEC Secretariat
Letter from Oliver Tambo to the NEC Secretariat regarding the NWC agenda, giving the Zambian Security adequate notice of the ANC's intention to bring 100…
EventUnion of South Africa officially ceases to exist
In March 1961, at a Conference of Commonwealth Prime Ministers held in London, the South African Prime Minister, H.F. Verwoerd formally announced that South…
ArchiveCircular from N Pityana to all SRCs and SASO
Circular letter written to Student Representative Council's in support of the resolution by Black students to boycott Black Universities if any further Black…
EventHalley’s Comet reaches the closest point to earth
Halley's Comet is named after the astronomer Edmund Halley, who in 1705 calculated the orbit of the comet around the sun. Halley was also the first astronomer…
EventMedicines Control Council threatens to de-register Nevirapine
The Medicines Control Council (MCC) threatens to de-register Nevirapine unless further studies and appropriate documentation can show its efficacy in the…
EventP.W. Botha petitioned to open all sports venues
The Sowetan reported that a petition calling for all sports venues to be opened to all races was handed to the state president, P.W. Botha. The petition,…
ArchiveSport: Threat to the security of the state
Brutus expounds on Special Branch interference in sports in line with apartheid ideology of white dominance. Instances of harassment of people and events…