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Commission of Inquiry into the South African Council of Churches held at Pretoria on 9 May 1983
Excerpt from transcript of evidence from Wolfram Kistner, Director of the Commission of Justice and Reconciliation in the SA Council of Churches, of the…
Document 129 - “The Programme of the 4th International in South Africa”, Workers Voice, 1 July (1943)
Nelson Mandela’s christmas and new year message to the people of South Africa 25 December 1993
”Christianity, Basis of Native Policy?” Article in The Workers’ Herald by James S. Thaele, December 21, 1923
Countrywide State of Emergency is declared in terms of the Public Safety Act No 3 of 1953.
”A Call to Unity.” Manifesto adopted by the National Executive Committee of the AAC August 26, 1943
Opening of the first session of the second Kavango Legislative Assembly at Rundu on 8 November 1973
UDF Poster ‘BOTHA’S EMERGENCY LEGALIZED MURDER’ by UDF, 20/08/1983 - 20/08/1991, South Africa
UDF Poster ‘Detentions, Banings, Repression, Harrassement’ by UDF, 20/08/1983 - 20/08/1991, South Africa
Charter of the Organization of African Unity, 479 U.N.T.S. 39, entered into force Sept. 13, 1963.
Message by Albert Luthuli for the Observance of South Africa Freedom Day on June 26, 1953
Hyde Villiers Clarendon, governor-general of the Union of SA from 1931 to 1937, is born.
President F.W. de Klerk reshuffles his cabinet. This is to come into effect on 1 April 1993.
Death in Black and White: Suicide, Statistics, and Race in Natal, 1880-1916 by Julie Parle
William Henry Brann (54), SA cricket player in three tests, 1922 /1923, dies in Port Elizabeth.
A Legislative Assembly is instituted in the Venda homeland, with partial self-government granted on 1 Feb. 1973.
Bilateral consultations between South Africa and the United States delegations: Washington DC, 17-19 March 1983
Minutes of bilateral consultations between South Africa and the United States to exchange views on wide-ranging questions of common concern related to southern…
BiographyJeremiah W Dunjwa
Jeremiah W Dunjwa was born in Cape Town. An organiser of the 1919 passive resistance campaign against passes in the Transvaal, secretary of the Transvaal…
BiographyPious Goodman Mei
Born in 1912, he joined the African National Congress in 1936. As an organiser for the Congress of the People and organising secretary of the African Textile…
EventFighting breaks out on the Johannesburg market square
… On 4 July 1913, a scuffle broke out between police, mounted soldiers … increased among the miners on the Reef. In May 1913, the miners at the New…
BiographyFrank Chikane
Frank Chikane, the son of James and Erenia Chikane, was born on 3 January 1951 in Johannesburg. His father was a preacher in the Apostolic Faith Mission (AFM)…
BiographyJoseph Morolong
Born in 1927 in the Northern Cape, Morolong participated in ANC campaigns in the Cape Town area and was a member of the South African Congress of Trade Unions…
Lennox Madikane
Lennox Madikane was a member of the Pan African Congress (PAC) and Poqo, the military wing of the PAC. Following Poqo attacks in Paarl, Cape Province (now…
ArticleDr G M 'Monty' Naicker - Timeline
MILESTONES 1910 - Birth of Mohambry (Monty) Naicker to Papiah Gangathura, a fruiterer, and Dhanamal, of Leopold Street, Durban. 1917-1926 - Attended the…
ArticleThe Founding of the SANNC
After actively petitioning the National Convention and being ignored during 1910 and 1911, delegates to the South African Native Convention (SANC) decided to…
Archive of documents pertaining to Pixley ka Isaka Seme
Archive of documents pertaining to Pixley ka Isaka Seme: Article by Pixley ka Isaka Seme ILanga Lase Natal, 1912 (PDF) How Congress Began - R.V. Selope Thema,…
BiographyDavid Nthubu Koloane
The use of artworks for public education by the National Roads Safety Organisation convinced Koloane of the role of art in communication. Together with Louis…
BiographyRichard Rive
Richard Rive was born on 1 March 1931 in Cape Town, and grew up in District Six, which was a Coloured, or “mixed race”, area under apartheid. With the aid of…
BiographyFrancis William Reitz
Francis William Reitz was born in Swellendam in 1844. He became an advocate and from 1874 was the President of the Orange Free State Appeal Court. He became…
BiographyJoseph Nkatlo
Joseph Nkatlo was vice-chairman of the Liberal Party in the Cape, he was a delegate to the December 1960 consultative conference of African leaders in…