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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…
BiographyClive Van den Berg
Van den Berg Clive was born in Zambia. He studied at UN(P) and obtained a BA(FA). He lectured in Art History at UN(P) in 1982. From 1983 he was a lecturer at…
Chief Vuna Miya
Between 1953 and 1957, there was conflict around Bantu Affairs (BA) and various other issues in the Bergville area, [Natal, now KwaZulu-Natal]. As a result,…
BiographyShulamith Muller
Shulamith Muller (nee Movshowitz) was born in Pretoria in December 1922. She studied law at the University of Pretoria, and was admitted as an attorney in 1948…
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…
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)…
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…
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…
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…
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…
ArticleThe history of Migrant Labour in South Africa
… white workers and after their unions gained recognition in 1913, black workers decided to protest against their working …