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EventCOSATU withdraws from parliamentary session on budget
The Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU) walked out of a parliamentary budget session on the grounds that its view was being ignored. COSATU had…
EventPrime Minister of Transkei George Matanzima is born
George Mzimvube Matanzima, younger brother of Kaiser Matanzima and prime minister of the Transkei in 1979 and 1987, was born in Qamata, Transkei. The…
EventHarold Cressy is born in Rorke’s Drift
Harold Cressy, co-founder of the Teachers League of South Africa (TLSA), educationist and teacher, is born in Rorke's Drift, Kwazulu-Natal. He was the only…
PlaceCoerney, Port Elizabeth
Coerney is a River and Railway station 64 km North of Port Elizabeth, on the route to Rosmead, situated in the Sundays River Valley in Sarah Bartman District…
EventBaden Powell is born in London, England
Lord Robert Stephenson Baden-Powell, founder of the Boy Scout movement in 1908 and British hero at the siege of Mafeking, is born in Paddington, London. Baden…
EventIFP makes election threat
Officials of the Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) announced that they would not present their list of election candidates to the Independent Electoral Commission …
EventA statement is issued following talks between John Vorster and Ian Smith
A statement issued simultaneously in Lusaka, Zambia and Salisbury, giving details of proposals agreed to after two days of talks between South African Prime…
EventThe district of Uitenhage is founded in the Eastern Cape and named after Jacob Abraham Uitenhage de Mist
The town of Uitenhage in the Eastern Cape Province was founded when then Commissioner-General Jacob Uitenhage de Mist felt there was a need to improve the…
ArchiveFifty seven years of NUSAS - Have we learned our lessons?
Critical overview of history of the National Union of South African Students in which the speaker questions the success of some of the policies and activities…
ArchiveCrisis News
Crisis News, published by the Western Province Council of Churches, Cape Town, "attempts to tell the truth of what is happening in our country", particularly…
PlaceAmsterdam, Mkhondo Local Municipality
Town some 77 km East of Ermelo. It formed part of the Scottish Settlement established by Alexander McCorkindale. It was proclaimed a Town in June 1881. At…
EventJohn “Shoes” Moshoeu was born on this day
On this day the South African and International soccer player was born in Diepkloof, Soweto. One of the most successful players to have ever played the game…
ANC`s Subcommittee on Education, 18 January 2016
The ANC`s Subcommittee on Education will hold a media briefing today on ANC decisions concerning urgent matters affecting education. Details of the briefing…
PlaceAmikoob, a Plain in the Willomore Area; (Vogelstruisleegte)
Khoikhoi name of Vogelstruisleegte, a plain some 21 km North of Willowmore. The people who roam the Karoo, are the descendants of the San (Bushman) and Khoi…
PlaceAchab se Berg, Northern Cape
Hill 23 km East of Aggeneys and 34 km from Pofadder, in the Northern Cape of South Africa. The name is taken from the Farm Achab. Aggeneys the Town was founded…
ArchiveCommission of Inquiry into the South African Council of Churches held at Pretoria on 9 May 1983, Volume 61
Transcript. Evidence from D P Conradie, of the Commission of Inquiry into the South African Council of Churches (SACC), chaired by the Honourable Mr Justice C…
ArchiveCommission of Inquiry into the riots at Soweto and other places in South Africa held on 26 October 1976, Volume 40
Excerpts from the transcript of evidence from Joseph Bafunani Mokoena, a scholar at the Phatametsane High School; Ignatius Wilhelm Ackermann, the Chief…
ArchiveThe United Democratic Front (UDF): a case study of democratic organisation, 1983-1987
Thesis has been submitted for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the Department of Political Science, University of Natal, Durban, 1998. According to the…
PlaceWoolsack House, Rondebosch
Woolsack Drive is next to Rosebank and is located in City of Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa. Woolsack Drive has a length of 0.02 kilometres. This…
ArchivePOTWA
A2 black on yellow silkscreen; cartoons of workers and bosses; text: POTWA Post and Telecommunication workers Assoication; (Mr Privatisation speech): My…
ArchiveA vote for SAIC is a vote accepting racial inferiority. Reject Aparthate!
Handdrawn A2 poster ink on card; hand putting ballot in box; text: A vote for SAIC is a vote accepting racial inferiority; Reject Apartheid;text on ballot box…
ArchiveWhite and Black nationalism, ethnicity and the future of the homelands
This is the twenty-sixth lecture in the Hoernle Memorial Lecture series delivered by Chief M Gatsha Buthelezi who addresses the future of South Africa with…
The African Element in Gandhi by Anil Nauriya
Many books have been written on Gandhi’s twenty-one years in South Africa, the birth of Satyagraha and the transformation of Gandhi from a lawyer-servant of…
PlaceHillside House, 14 Bird Street, Port Elizabeth
The property was originally granted to George Daniel Diesel in 1824. The building was presumably erected after that date and is richly decorated with a number…
EventDr Ernst Gideon Malherbe, SA educationist, is born in Luckhoff, OFS.
Dr Ernst Gideon Malherbe was born on 8 November 1895 at Luckhoff. He studied at the Stellenbosch University and the University of Columbia and was a founding…
EventMinister of Bantu Administration and Development, MC Botha announces that he will not stand for re-election.
M.C. Botha, Minister of Bantu Administration and Development announced that he will not stand for re-election and will resign as Minister in November 1977. At…
EventDaryll Cullinan, SA cricket player, is born in Kimberley.
Daryll John Cullinan is a former cricket player who played test cricket and One Day Internationals. He was an all-rounder with a right-hand batting style and a…
EventKwame Nkrumah orders release of political prisoners
President Kwame Nkrumah of Ghana (formerly Gold Coast), a leading exponent of Pan-Africanism, ordered the release of the last of his political prisoners,…
EventAndrew Vusi Fasedemi is born
Andrew Vusi Fasedemi, businessman and marketing strategist was born in Cardiff, Wales. He is managing director of several companies such as, inter alia, Wisdom…
EventThomas Kgope is born
Thomas Kgope, talented SA artist, was born in Rustenburg, Transvaal. After Kgope showed interest in art, artist Norman Catherine, for whom he worked as…