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EventHumphrey Ndlovu, veteran IFP leader dies
… was the Party’s West Rand Regional Chairperson from 1991 to 2000. Ndlovu was very active in Soweto during the 1990s. He was a strong proponent of tribalism…
EventWalter Sisulu evades security police and goes underground
… while he was awaiting the outcome of an appeal against a 6 year sentence. On the following day it was published in the Rand Daily Mail (a newspaper banned in…
EventThe South African War field doctor, Arthur Conan Doyle is born
… medicine at Edinburgh University where he graduated as a doctor in 1885. After graduation Doyle practiced medicine … until 1891. During the South African War…
EventDie Huisgenoot, oldest still existing Afrikaans magazine, appears ten months after Die Burger
… Huisgenoot is a weekly Afrikaans-language general interest magazine. The … magazine was founded in 1916 as the de huisgenoot, then a monthly magazine. One of…
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… in Pietermaritzburg, during the period January 1954 to December 1957. With effect from January 1958, publication began in Cape Town, on a fortnightly basis,…
The Segregation Fallacy and Other Papers by D.D.T Jabavu
… These papers are selected from a number of essay and address published from time to time and are here brought together after the necessary …
PlaceRuth Prowse School of Art
… was bequeathed as an Arts and Culture Centre. Prowse was a respected Artist and advocated for the preservation of … in Woodstock in 1970. In 1980 the…
EventArmed Policemen appeared at Langa funeral service
… panicking, pushing and jostling against each other in a bid to get out of the building. Mr Fikile Kobese, an executive …
PlaceAmanzamnyama, a small size Town in Kwa-Zulu Natal
… means 'black water', from Zulu. Zimeme High School is a public school in Amanzamnyama, KwaZulu Natal. In 2014 there … 234 registered learners. The school…
Seedtimes Retrospective Omar Badsha
… A major retrospective exhibition of Omar Badsha’s drawings, … woodcuts and photographic essays from the mid-1960s to 2000s. His drawings are being shown for…
ArchiveNUSAS Congress 1984: Head Office report
… Office of the National Union of South African Students to the Annual Congress of the National Union, University of …
ArchiveSPRO-CAS Occasional Publication Number 10: So
… undelying the alternatives; Domination and discrimination: a critique of "Separate Development'; Democratic stability and consesus in a divided plural…
Searchlight South Africa: a Marxist journal of South African Studies
… Searchlight South Africa: a Marxist journal of South African Studies was founded by Baruch Hirson from 1988-1993, and to a large extent written by him in…
EventAnna 'Sister Nannie' Tempo died
… Anna 'Sister Nannie' Tempo, was born of a slave mother and father who were kidnapped as children off … of one Miss Schreiner and subsequently dedicated her…
ArchiveThe Higher education of Blacks in the United States
… with the higher education of Blacks". With reference to race relations, he describes the historical developments … role of race relations between the race…
EventMK operatives, Jerry Mosolodi, Terry Mogoerane and Thabo Motaung are executed
… and Thabo Motaung were executed for their part in a hit on Wonderboom police station. The ANC declared the execution a crime against humanity and defended…
PlaceThe Roman Catholic Church, Polokwane
… began in 1895, and the church was completed in 1897. Prior to completion occasional services were held by visiting … Cathedral in Biccard Street is the seat…
EventBonnie Ntshalintshali, SA artist, is born
… Natal. She fell into art when she apprenticed as a studio assistant for ceramics artist Fèe Halsted-Berning. … soon shined through and Halsted-Berning…
ArchiveA Crime Against Humanity - Analysing the Repression of the Apartheid State edited by Max Coleman
… Introduction Part A: The unfolding of total strategy 1948 - 1989 1. The … in crisis Part C: The era of destabilisation 1990-1994 8. A new total strategy…
EventGambia gains independence
… this day in history Gambia became the 36th African nation to gain independence. The Gambia (officially the Republic of The Gambia) commonly known as Gambia,…
EventNelson Mandela is acquitted of high treason
… Congress (ANC), was acquitted of treason charges after a four year long trial. Mandela was one of the 156 leading … Indian Congress (SAIC). These mass…
EventPolitical activist Mohammed Shaik is born
… personnel or buildings. He carried out the attacks in a way to achieve maximum propaganda for the African National …
EventC.J. Langenhoven dies in Oudtshoorn
… the only official national anthem of SA from 2 May 1957 to 20 April 1994, when Nkosi Sikelel' iAfrika was also … recognised as the national anthem. Since 10…
EventSA artist Mizream Maseko is born
… his schooling in the Transvaal. He began his career as a house painter and was inspired to paint by the works he saw in the houses. Maseko gave up … and…
EventPope John Paul II visits Africa
… Paul II began his first tour of Africa, including visits to Zaire (presently known as the Democratic Republic of … During his visit he again established…
EventWinnie Mandela speaks out against Terrorism Act
… Mandela ends her thirteen years of enforced silence with a strong attack on the country's Terrorism Act. Mandela was … was the Mandela name and her two young…
EventSA trade unionist Raymond Budd dies
… trade unionist Raymond Francis (Ray) Budd, who also played a role internationally, died in Tonbridge, London, England. … and talents in various commissions…
EventTrade Unionists convicted of kidnapping and assault
… Unions (COSATU) offices for five hours on 28 August 1990. A fine of R2 000 each or one year in prison with a year suspended for three years was imposed…
EventSA signs Safeguards Agreement with the IAEA
… (NPT) in 1991, the South African government entered into a Comprehensive Safeguards Agreement with the International … program had been terminated and…
EventAllan Boesak resigns from the church
… his duties as Reverend of the Bellville congregation. In a statement read by Reverend A J Van Wyk, the church said that Boesak had "willfully and … Stoffel…