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Chapter 24. Sack All Non-Europeans
In May 1948, when the Nationalist Government came to power, the union was engaged in a struggle with the clothing manufacturers. The agreement for the industry…
’Under Investigation’ video material going live on facebook
Under Investigation is an ambitious community development project being run in Steytlerville in the Eastern Cape. The project has several elements but centres…
ArchiveChapter 11 The escape by Denis Goldberg
… Communist Party, and despite the conflicts in South Africa between the Communist Party and the Trotskyites, …
EventBusiness Day reports that minister of law and order, Adriaan Vlok, said that apartheid has become an albatross around the country's neck.
Business Day reports that minister of law and order, Adriaan Vlok, said that apartheid has become an albatross around the country's neck. 'If you ask a black…
EventPolitical activist Mziwonke 'Pro' Jack is assassinated.
The African National Congress (ANC) activist, Mziwonke 'Pro' Jack was gunned down next to his home in Cape Town. Jack was a taxi conflict mediator in Cape Town…
Sue Williamson Book Launch
Join us for the launch of the catalogue accompanying Sue Williamson’s retrospective exhibition, ‘There’s something I must tell you’.The exhibition is on view…
PlaceEldorado Park, a Township of Johannesburg/Soweto
… https://www.tripmondo.com/south-africa/gauteng/eldoradopark/ …
EventWhite entrepreneurs to be given contracts in the 'homelands'
Prime Minister B J Vorster announces that White entrepreneurs will be given long-standing contracts in the 'homelands' to speed up economic development. This…
Equal Rights: The treatment of Coloured People in the North, 1901
… be accepted as the only guiding principle throughout South Africa. But unfortunately a wide departure from British …
Say It out Loud - Equal Rights: The treatment of Coloured People in the North, 1901
… be accepted as the only guiding principle throughout South Africa. But unfortunately a wide departure from British …
EventGandhi demands end to White 'hooliganism'
Speaking at a prayer meeting in New Delhi, Mahatma Karamchand Gandhi called on the South African government to stop the hooliganism by Whites. The authorities…
EventWalter Sisulu's appeal is dismissed
The Transvaal section of the Supreme Court dismissed an appeal by the African National Congress (ANC) Secretary-General Walter Sisulu against a six years…
ArchiveCelebrating 25 years of Democracy and Freedom
Hey Listen South Africans I’m talking about TaTa Nelson Mandela The real hero who fought for our freedom I can hear the echo of his voice from that cold…
ArticleThe Destruction of Sophiatown
… Lodge, T (1983) Black Politics in South Africa since 1945 (Johannesburg) pp 95-108 |Giliomee, H and Mbenga, B. (2007) New History of South Africa Cape…
The Boerenvereenigingen: precursor to the Afrikaner Bond
In the 1870s a series of farming associations emerged in the Cape, both in the west and in the east. While both English and Afrikaner associations emerged, the…
ArchiveKora: A Lost Khoisan Language of the early Cape and the Gariep by Menán du Plessis
This project has been beset throughout by many difficulties, so that it has taken far longer to bring it to fruition than initially expected. This makes me all…
SAHO Commemorates 40 Years Since Soweto Uprising: Intergenerational Dialogue by Sindile Moya
Sindile Moya was head prefect in Zimasa Higher Primary School in Langa during 1976. He was involved in protests on the ground, as well as helping to organise…
ArchiveStaffrider Vol.11 No.1, No.2, No.3 and No.4 1993
Contents and Contributions Contents: Comment: AW Oliphant, Stories: Going to See Mr. BV, Shimmer Chinodya; Nhamiwa's Magic Stick, Maria Munsaka; The Jungle…
PlaceCrossroads Township
Crossroads Township is situated in Cape Town in the Wynberg district, some 12 km east of Athlone in the Western Cape Province. Crossroads emerged as a…
PlaceDurbanville
The site currently known as Durbanville was originally called: 'Pampoen Kraal'. On 2 September 1836 it was renamed; "D'Urban" in honour of Sir Benjamin D'Urban…
EventThe 'Afrikaner Volksfront' is founded
Afrikaner Volksfront flag A new coalition made up of twenty-one right wing parties, known as Afrikaner National Front (Afrikaner Volksfront or AVF) was…
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…
EventSA painter Frederick Timpson I'Ons (85) dies
Frederick Timpson l'Ons (85), SA painter of the early life in the Eastern Cape, died in Grahamstown. He was born in Islington, Middlesex, England on 15…
EventIan Roberts is born
The South African actor, playwright and singer was born on this day in Fort Beaufort in the Eastern Cape. It was his character of Boet in a series of…
EventVorster announces that the ‘homelands’ will be perfectly free to form a federation among themselves
The Prime Minister Balthazar Johannes Vorster indicated that the 'homelands' will be perfectly free to form a federation among themselves, once they have…
EventNational Party refuses to serve on Buthelezi Commission of Inquiry
… Commission’ [Available at the National Library of South Africa, Cape Town Campus ] pg4.| GCIS Profile information …
PlaceMakhandra Aerodrome, Grahamstown
Grahamstown has a small Airport. There are two larger Airports located in close proximity to Grahamstown. The closest is the Port Elizabeth Airport which is…
PlaceCyril Ceoghegan Cycling Track, Durban
The track is named after champion cyclist and ex SACF (South African Cycling Federation) president, Cyril Geoghegan. It is situated in Durban, Kwa Zulu Natal,…
PlaceRissik Street Post Office, Johannesburg
The correct name of Johannesburg's Old Post Office clock is the "Coronation Clock'. This might be a good point for city councillors to stress when they next…
Address by Nelson R. Mandela to the plenary session of the Multi-Party negotiations process World Trade Centre, Kempton Park, 17 November 1993
Honourable Justices, Leaders and Members of all delegations present here today. We have reached the end of an era. We are at the beginning of a new era. …