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EventThe first Comrades Marathon takes place
… The first Comrades Marathon was run by Vic Clapham, ex World … Clapham wanted to remember those who had fallen in the war by ultimate testing of body and…
So truth be in the field
… A study of the history of South Africa, from an anthropologists point. With emphasis on the moral elements of social action including the injustice … So…
ArchiveSo truth be in the field
… A study of the history of South Africa, from an anthropologists point. With emphasis on the moral elements of social action including the injustice … So…
EventSA is readmitted to the IOC
… One month prior to the establishment of the democratic dispensation, South Africa was readmitted to … Keesing's Record of World Events , news Digest for…
EventWinnie Mandela sued by the government
… Lawyers representing the government announced on 14 August 1998 that they were suing Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, the ex-wife of former president, Nelson…
EventPirates win the African Champions Cup
… Orlando Pirates won the Second Leg of the 1995 African Champions Cup (ACC) Final against ASEC … Pirates win the African Champions Cup …
ArchivePrevention of Illegal Squatting Amendment Act: Punitive Squatting Act signed: 9 February 1989
… Circular relating to the prevention of Illegal Squatting Act of 1951 which prohibited the creation and occupation of almost all informal housing … Prevention…
EventJ.M. Coetzee wins the Booker Prize
… languages. In 1968, he became an assistant professor of English at New York State University. A year later he … won Britain's Booker Prize, Coetzee taught…
ArchiveThe road to Oslo and beyond
… Albert Lutuli's Nobel Peace Prize award with extracts from the speech by Mr Gunnar Jahn, President of the Nobel Institute on the occasion of the presentation…
EventThe Rev. John Langalibalele Dube dies
… The Rev. John Langalibalele Dube (Mafukuzela), politician and founder and first editor of the Zulu newspaper Ilanga lase Natal (now Ilanga), dies in … The…
EventAllan Boesak resigns from the church
… The Presbytery of South Africa announced that Dr Allan Boesak, reverend of the Nederduitse Gereformeerde Kerk (Dutch Reformed Church) … Reporter. (1990)…
EventThe “Sharpeville Six” narrowly escape executions
… Francis Mokhesi and Reid Mokoena, better known as the "Sharpeville Six", narrowly escaped their scheduled hangings by fifteen hours. A huge sigh of relief…
ArchiveArchbishop Burnett puts the record straight
… Archbishop Burnett from the Church of the Province of Southern Africa detailing three attacks on … Archbishop Burnett puts the record straight …
PlacePort Elizabeth and the City Hall
… The Port Elizabeth City Hall, which is located in Market Square, was built between 1858 and 1862. The attractive clock tower was only added in 1883. The City…
EventThe Herstigte Nasionale Party is established
… The Herstigte Nasionale Party (HNP) (Reconstituted National … Party) was established as a right wing splinter group of the South African National Party (NP)…
EventThe Kenya-Uganda railway is completed
… The Uganda railway line in Kenya was seen as a very ambitious infrastructure at its inception with the cost of the project causing most of the controversy…
ArchiveThe Black Conciousness Movement, Black People
… One of the major decisions taken by the BPC was the establishment of an external office .This became necessary because of the … The Black Conciousness…
PlaceAberfeldy a Settlement in the Free Sate
… Aberfeldy in the region of Free State is located in South Africa - some 284 km South of Pretoria, the Country's Capital. Aberfeldy is a small Settlement near…
EventThe TRC report points out culprits
… The Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) report, which accused prominent leaders from across the political spectrum of human rights violations, was…
ArchiveResolution on the International Communist Movement
… all communists should urgently come together to evaluate the serious problems facing the movement, such as US agression in Vietnam, attempts to … Africa, and…
ArchiveAPDUSA Bulletin 8: APDUSA salutes the people
… With the elections of the tricameral parliament now over, APDUSA expresses its … results. These results reflect an overwhelming rejection of the new…
ArchiveNational Anti-CAD Committee report of proceedings: Second National Anti-CAD Conference
… Report of the proceedings of the Second National Anti-CAD Conference held at Cape Town, … National Anti-CAD Committee report of proceedings: Second National…
EventMadalitso Muthiya becomes the first Zambian to play in the prestigious US Open Golf tournament
… Zambian golfer Madalitso Muthiya began playing golf at the age of six. After he broke a bedroom window while playing with … to buy him his own. When Muthiya…
EventThe Comoros declared an Independent State
… cartographer Diego Ribero first claimed to have discovered The Comoros in 1505, the islands became a French colony in 1843 following a military takeover of…
ArchiveExtract from Minutes of State Security Council Meeting, 14 April 1980
… Minutes from a State Security Council Meeting in which the situation in Namibia, and other issues were discussed. … Extract from Minutes of State Security…
ArchiveExtract from Minutes of State Security Council Meeting, 18 February 1980
… Minutes from a State Security Council Meeting in which the situation in Zimbabwe, and other issues were discussed. … Extract from Minutes of State Security…
ArchiveExtract from Minutes of State Security Council Meeting, 24 March 1980
… Minutes from a State Security Council Meeting in which the situation in Zimbabwe, Lesotho and other issues were … Extract from Minutes of State Security…
ArchiveExtract from Minutes of State Security Council Meeting, 25 February 1980
… Minutes from a State Security Council Meeting in which the situation in Zimbabwe, Mozambique and other issues were … Extract from Minutes of State Security…
ArchiveThe Black Peoples Convention (BPC) - South
… The report contains historical background of the founding of the Black People's Convention, principles and … The Black Peoples Convention (BPC) - South …
ArchiveExtract from Minutes of State Security Council Meeting, 23 June 1980
… Security Council Meeting in which operations in Angola, the situation in Zimbabwe and other items were discussed. … Extract from Minutes of State Security…