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ArchiveAfrican Communist, 1959 - 1994
… did not publicly announce its existence until the state of emergency was declared by the government after the police massacres of Sharpeville and Langa in…
Pro Veritate
… a Christian monthly journal, reflects a theological point of view towards the ideologies of the ruling National Party. Christian viewpoints on such … of that…
EventResolute Treurnicht rejects waiving language policy
… Despite the indications of African unrest at Soweto schools being noticed by government authorities on 4 June, who reported it to the Minister of Bantu…
EventPAC leader Robert Sobukwe is released
… was arrested after the Sharpeville anti-pass campaign of 1960 and harshly sentenced to three years in prison. At the end of his sentence, Parliament enacted…
Mission Stations - A-F
… as it was often called in the days when it was a station of the London Missionary Society. At this place, which is … in the annexed etching, there were a…
PlaceDorkay House (1952)
… Dorkay House, a building at the south end of Eloff Street in downtown Johannesburg, functioned as the headquarters for the Union of South African Artists,…
The Liberation Struggle in South Africa
… African World Heritage Sites Land dispossession history of South Africa 19th century South Africa South Africa … Govan Mbeki publishes Transkei in the…
ArticleNelson Mandela Timeline 1940-1949
… poll, he followed his conscience and resigned. The head of the University gave him a choice: either he accepts the … or he leaves the university. He was…
EventWaaihoek women embark on anti-pass passive resistance campaign
… women in Bloemfontein were experiencing the culmination of heavy pass laws being implemented to control the mobility of the Black population in White areas –…
EventA South African Defence Force Capt. Wynand du Toit is captured in Angola
… two other South African commandoes were killed. The rest of the commando unit evacuated successfully. According to sources this mission was part of an…
EventGovernment admits responsibility for Mdluli’s death
… African government admitted responsibility for the death of the African National Congress (ANC) member, Joseph Mdluli … and agreed to pay damages to his…
Mines, Masters and Migrants - Life in a Namibian Compound by R. J. Gordon, (Ravan Press), Johannesburg 1977, reviewed by Philip Schemer
… near Windhoek, and the book presents a sociological study of the black migrant labour force on the mine: in the words of the author, his motivation was " t o…
PlaceBarton Keep, Jacob Mare Street, Pretoria
… in 1888 by EF Bourke, who later became the first mayor of Pretoria. It is one of the last remaining examples of the kind of elegant … for it was empty and…
ArticleFreedom Day: 27 April
… Freedom Day on 27 April is an annual celebration of South Africa's first non-racial democratic elections of 1994. It is significant because it marks the end…
EventThe South African Reserve Bank is established
… The South African Reserve Bank was established in terms of the Currency and Banking Act, 1920 (Act No. 31 of 1920) in Parliament.This came into being after a…
Background to the Freedom Charter 1955
… (ANC) abandoning its traditional reliance on tactics of moderation such as petitions and deputations. In December 1949, with the support of the ANC Youth…
PlaceCathcart District, Eastern Cape
… The District of Cathcart was created in January 1877, and it was raised to … base was largely agrarian, but despite the fertile nature of its soil, the…
The search for Peter Johnson’s story
… In 1975, Peter Johnson, joined the ranks of the uMkhonto we Sizwe and disappeared into exile. Nearly a … died during a guerrilla skirmish just outside the…
EventBanned PAC leader Sobukwe is admitted as attorney
… Robert Sobukwe, former leader of the banned Pan-Africanist Congress (PAC), although still … church. He was, however, allowed to study law and, after being…
ArticlePort Elizabeth the Segregated city
… from 1950 Conclusion 1910-1950 By 1950, the population of New Brighton had grown from 3,650 in 1911 to 35,000. Almost all of the population was Black. This…
ArticleHIV/Aids in South Africa
… says the evidence that HIV is the underlying cause of AIDS is ‘irrefutable’. HIV was isolated and identified as the source of what came to be defined as AIDS…
EventMore than 100 miners are crushed to death near Orkney
… The mining industry in South Africa remains one of the most hazardous professions, this despite the enormous … is a world leader in deep mining, with its…
EventSouth African man walks from England to France through Channel Tunnel
… in France in his flip flops. Trains travelling at speed of 100 mph pass through the tunnel regularly. The speed at … or how he managed to evade surveillance…
PlaceMjanyana Hospital
… The village of Emjanyana was probably established in the mid-1970s, in … Eastern Cape. In 1894 the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel on Foreign…
Document 93 S. B., “Unite Against Reaction and Oppression: United Front Against National Oppression and Fascism”, Umsebenzi, 23 May 1936
… We have dealt last week with the effects and possibilities of the united front in European countries and now we must analyse the methods and chances of a…
Afrikaner Newspapers and the newspaper industry from 1830
… and Giffard say: ‘The Afrikaner press was a creation of Afrikaner political aspirations, established by the … to sell not news so much as a party line.’ [1]…
Chapter 6
… Regeneration of the All-African Convention: The Background In spite of all … force the outrageous treatment to which the people were being subjected. Senator…
“Let us dream you, forbidden landscape”: the Storming project sings change, 17 July 2017
… now.” – Ray Phiri You can’t relegate the activism of the late Ray Chikapa Phiri to the past; as the quote above … them. That’s the point: much as the present…
PlaceSada
… word meaning “at last”), a Township about 30km North of Seymour and 3km South of Whittlesea, was first established in 1964 as a “dumping … at 6 am. Everyone…
Archive'Colonialism had never really ended': my life in the shadow of Cecil Rhodes by Simukai Chigudu
… the university where I am a professor, or over the ways of seeing the world shared by so many of us still living in … on to Oxford’s high street may finally…