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Lele Mabele, PAC unionist, is shot outside his home.
… A Crime Against Humanity: analysing the repression of the apartheid state, Johannesburg: Human Rights Committee, p. 252. … Lele Mabele, PAC unionist, is shot…
ArchiveDunlop worker wins history workshop prize for his writing
… Dunlop worker wins history workshop prize for his writing …
ArchiveEditorial: SA waits to judge FW - by his actions
… Editorial: SA waits to judge FW - by his actions …
“Don’t Support Apartheid Sport”: Appeal By Chief A. J. Luthuli and Dr G. M. Naicker, June 1962
… "don't Support Apartheid Sport": appeal By Chief A. J. Luthuli And Dr G. M. … of this country. Sportsmen of the world condemn apartheid in sport! In South…
ArchiveLetter to Petros Sipho Mkhize from his father in Macambini, KwaZulu-Natal
… circa 1960s (the family attributes it to the period of his imprisonment - to be confirmed) … Letter to Petros Sipho Mkhize from his father in Macambini,…
BiographyMads Nørgaard
… documenting and capturing the Mother City and her people. His work is, by and large, a body of social documentation. The subject of his lens shifts: from…
ArchiveTribute to Anti-apartheid campaigner, Helen Suzman, by African National Congress, 1 January 2009
… National Congress (ANC) pays tribute to the late anti-apartheid campaigner Helen Suzman who has died at the age of … 91. As a Member of Parliament and a…
BiographyMoyisile Douglas Tyutyu
… Port Elizabeth, Transkei (now Eastern Cape Province). His interest in politics was sparked from a young age when he … how Black people were being treated at…
EventAt a summit SA Trade Unions resolve to defy apartheid and labour laws
… Non-racial unions agreed to continue their defiance of Apartheid laws, specifically labour laws. The summit passed … At a summit SA Trade Unions resolve to…
EventThe Committee of Artists of the World against Apartheid is established in Paris
… The Committee of Artists of the World against Apartheid was established in Paris with the support of the United Nations Special Committee against Apartheid…
BiographyAlex Hepple
… the Johannesburg suburb of La Rochelle on 28 August 1904. His father, Thomas Hepple (1869-1942), an immigrant from … Amalgamated Society of Engineers and was…
BiographyBheki Myeni
… Myeni's parents died when he was a young boy and he and his brothers moved to Matyana, a village near Empangeni in … sticks and making clay models when he…
BiographyKhanare Elais Monesa
… and a brother, who were both financially dependent on him. His wife was 9 month pregnant at the time of his death. Upon hearing of his death she was…
BiographyMarthinus Hattingh
… with photography since an early age he decided to make it his career and decided to study photography. He completed his studies at Port Elizabeth Technikon…
BiographyGertrude Hope (nee Posthumus) Cooper
… Wilfrid Edward Cooper who was then busy studying for his LLB degree at the University of South Africa (UNISA). He … neighbours but who had to bear the brunt…
Nine French soldiers and an American aid consultant are killed in bombing attacks in Ivory Coast’s rebel-held north, after the
… Nine French soldiers and an American aid consultant are killed in bombing attacks in …
Nine French soldiers and an American aid consultant are killed in bombing attacks in Ivory Coast’s rebel-held north, after the
… Nine French soldiers and an American aid consultant are killed in bombing attacks in …
American Dr Jonas E. Salk announces new vaccine to immunise against polio, with the aid of which polio has been largely eradica
… American Dr Jonas E. Salk announces new vaccine to immunise …
US officials announce the arrests of three members of Rwanda’s ethnic Hutu rebel movement for the 1999 murders of two American
… ethnic Hutu rebel movement for the 1999 murders of two American …
Eight American and British officers land from a submarine on an Algerian beach to take measure of Vichy French to the Operation
… Eight American and British officers land from a submarine on an …
Mohammed Valli Moosa, Murphy Morobe and Vusi Khanyile end their 37-day sit-in at the American Consulate-General in Johannesburg
… Morobe and Vusi Khanyile end their 37-day sit-in at the American Consulate-General in Johannesburg …
William Rowntree is nominated as the new American ambassador to South Africa to replace J.C. Salterwaite, due to leave South Af
… William Rowntree is nominated as the new American ambassador to South Africa to replace J.C. …
An American Lear jet, on its way to Johannesburg for repair, is shot down over Eritrea by Ethiopia, killing two people.
… An American Lear jet, on its way to Johannesburg for repair, is …
Gen. Mark Wayne Clark, commander of the 5th American Army in North Africa and Italy in World War 2, is born.
… Gen. Mark Wayne Clark, commander of the 5th American Army in North Africa and Italy in World War 2, is …
American troops are pulled out of Somalia following a series of gun battles with Somali troops under the command of General Moh
… American troops are pulled out of Somalia following a series …
Address by President Zuma on the occasion of his Inauguration as fourth President of South Africa
… Address by His Excellency Mr Jacob Zuma on the occasion of his … de Klerk, who worked with Madiba in the resolution of the apartheid conflict, and…
BiographyIsaac Lesiba ‘Bra Ike’ Maphotho
… (Blouberg Municipality) on 26 February 1931. He completed his Standard 6 (Grade Eight) at Uitkyk Secondary School in 1952. Maphotho left his home towards…
BiographyWinston Monwabisi Ngozi
… was the first-born in a musical family. In the 1960’s the Apartheid government continued its project of racial divide, … later tried the clarinet and trumpet…
BiographyAlfred Baphetuxolo Nzo
… 1925 at Benoni, Transvaal, into a family of five children. His father was a clerk at Modder B mine, which was later … Cape to receive missionary education…
BiographyRichard Steele
… father and a South African mother, in Pretoria, in 1956. His father emigrated to South Africa at the end of the Second … in township soup kitchens at the…