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PlaceDevonshire Villa, 33 Carstens Street, Tamboerskloof, Cape Town
The dwelling is an excellent example of late Victorian architecture and was erected in 1893-94 by WN Cook, an affluent draper and silk merchant of Cape Town,…
PlaceResidence, 21 Cuyler Street, Uitenhage
The construction of the original structure with its Cape Dutch and Georgian features, dates from approximately 1840. It is thus one of the oldest dwellings in…
EventMusic teacher Dorothy Boxall dies
Dorothy Ruth Boxall, music teacher and lecturer, writer and organiser of orchestral activities for the youth, died in Johannesburg. Following Boxall's death,…
EventNegotiations between Nelson Mandela and Mangosutho Buthelezi
30 March 1990 Negotiations between Nelson Mandela and Mangosutho Buthelezi 30 March 1990 Nelson Mandela of the African National Congress (ANC) and Mangosutho…
EventJoe Slovo informal settlement outside Cape Town is devastated by a fire
On this day the Joe Slovo informal settlement situated outside Cape Town was devastated by a shack fire. Seven people, including two children, were seriously…
ArchiveStudent international
Paper presented at the 46th Annual Congress of the National Union of South African Students, 16 July 1970. Paper discusses the history of student organisations…
ArchiveBrothers and sisters of Chatsworth
The flyer is aimed at the residents of Chatsworth, an Indian residential suburb in Durban and discusses the bus boycott by the Chatsworth community and the…
ArchiveMeeting with Secretary of State Shultz during a working lunch at the Department of State, Washington D.C. on 26 November 1982
Minutes of a meeting between the Foreign Affairs Minister together with other representatives of the South African Government and the Secretary of State…
ArchiveBoycott - FOSATU and other unions put their muscle behind a country-wide consumer boycott
FOSATU together with the Food and Canning Workers Union, the Commercial Catering and Allied Workers Union, the General Workers Union, the Cape Town Municipal…
PlaceRabula
The Village of Rabula was named after the Xhosa "ukurabula"-'a term given to a child when it becomes irritable'.Rabula is a Farmstead and is located in…
ArchiveTambo pokes a few holes in the blanket
Newspaper article in the Mail and Guardian newspaper of June 5 to 11, 1987, entitled Tambo pokes a few holes in the blanket. Examines the debate over the…
ArchiveAction against students and intimidation of students
Appendix C to the President's Report at the 45th Annual Congress of the National Union of South African Students, University of Cape Town, 6th-14th July, 1969…
EventMac Maharaj announces his retirement
Mac Maharaj announced that he will be retiring at the end of April 2015. He was president Zuma's former special advisor and spokeperson to Jacob Zuma. He was…
ArchiveRelease Mandela Campaign Remembers Rivonia Trial
A2 red and black litho on white; photos, news clips from 1964 Treason Trial; text: Release Mandela Campaign Remembers Rivonia Tria; in terms of international…
ArchiveAn African view of the present urban and industrial situation in South Africa
The accelerated pace of industrialization has affected all population groups in South Africa.The African population was affected to the greatest extent because…
ArchiveBlack Community Programmes
This document contains suggestions for action for the Sprocas Black Community Programmes which were presented for discussion at the Sprocas Co-ordinating Group…
ArchiveThe Alexandra bus boycott
This pamphlet discusses the bus boycott by the people of Alexandra Township against a penny increase in fares. But, the oppressed are using this bus boycott to…
ArchiveLand and national oppression
This paper clearly describes the land rights of the natives in the Cape Colony from the Ordinance and up until the Ten Point Programme and discussing the…
ArchiveRemember June 16 1976
A2 yellow, red and black on white; photo Hector Petersen, youths demonstrating with UDF affiliate banners; text: Remember June 16 1976; 1976 was a year of…
ArchiveAre there South Africans? by Sir Keith Hancock
The twentieth Alfred and Hoernle Memorial Lecture delivered by Sir Keith Hancock in which the title of his talk questions the integrative or disintegrative…
ArchiveBiography of Naphtali Mbuti Nkopane
Biography of Naphtali Mbuti Nkopane who was born on the 18th of August 1944 on a farm near Nigel in the Transvaal. In 1949 his family moved to Evaton in the…
EventNeil Aggett dies in detention
Neil Aggett, Transvaal organiser for the Food and Canning Workers Union and African Food and Canning Workers Union, allegedly commits suicide while in…
EventEleven protesters are killed in Sebokeng
The police opened fire on a crowd of Sebokeng township residents who sought to march on the local offices of the ruling National Party (NP). The incident…
EventKruger repudiates execution of cattle–herds
During the Siege of Mafeking (presently known as Mafikeng) in the Second Anglo-Boer War, two Black cattle-herds were captured and summarily executed near…
EventANC leader, Oliver Tambo, dies after a long illness
On 24 April 1993, former President of the African National Congress (ANC),Oliver “OR” Tambo died in Johannesburg after a long battle with illness. Tambo was…
ArchiveConstitution of the friends of United Democratic Front
Constitution of the friends of United Democratic Front. By this constitution there shall be established a body corporate to be know as the friends of United…
PlaceAmbleside, a Railway Siding in Mpumalanga
Railway Siding 11 km North-East of Carolina on the route Machadodorp to Breyton. It was named in 1868 by Archibald Sinclair, recalling the Wreck of the…
EventDavid Kramer was born on this day
The South African singer, songwriter, playwright and director is born on this day. He is especially well-known for his musicals about the Coloured communities…
PlaceApryntjiesberg / Prentjiesberg
Also known as Prentjiesberg in Afrikaans this literally means 'small pictures mountian', derived from the San paintings found in the area.'Appryntjie' which is…
ArchiveCommission of Inquiry into the riots at Soweto and other places in South Africa held on 17 January 1977, Volume 83
Excerpts from the transcript of evidence from Abednego Bartholomew Clement Xaba, Chairman of the Management Committee of the Edendale Lay Ecumenical Centre in…