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EventPolitical activist Mohammed Shaik is born
Mohammed Iqbal Shaik, political activist and member of the Dolphin Unit of the Special Operations Unit, Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK), was born in Vrededorp,…
EventSA artist Mizream Maseko is born
Mizream Maseko (also Mizraim, Mizriam, Mizram), South African artist, was born on this date. He completed his schooling in the Transvaal. He began his career…
EventJohannesburg municipal workers strike
The biggest strike by the migrant municipal workers took place in Johannesburg, the largest and most industrialised city in South Africa. The strike involved…
EventProgressive Federal Party is formed
The Progressive Reform Party of South Africa and the 'Japie' Basson dissident group of United Party (UP) members merged to form the Progressive Federal Party …
EventThe South African Military History Society is established
The South African Military History Society (SAMHS) was formed following an appeal by Commandant-General H.B. Klopper to all South Africans to take an interest…
EventWalvis Bay is handed over to Namibia
The South African government ended eighty-four years of control over the Walvis Bay enclave by handing over the port and twelve offshore islands to the…
EventCOSATU intensifies campaign against apartheid
South Africa's largest labour federation, the Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU), held its third annual congress from 12-16 July 1989. The…
EventBus drivers strike because of lack of protection
Bus drivers, who were members of the Transport and General Workers' Union (TGWU), a COSATU affiliate, went on strike because of lack of protection from Inkatha…
EventMakgatho Mandela dies
Former president Nelson Mandela's only surviving son, Makgatho Mandela, died of HIV/AIDS in the Linksfield hospital in Johannesburg. His father put up a brave…
EventThe ANC leader in the KwaZulu Natal midlands, Sifiso Nkabinde, is expelled from the ANC
Sifiso Nkabinde was expelled on the 7 April 1997 for allegedly being a spy for the Apartheid regime and for fomenting violence between African National…
EventMandela reshuffles the cabinet
Following a decision by the finance minister, Chris Liebenberg, to relinquish his cabinet post for private reasons, president Nelson Mandela announced changes…
EventMoses Josiah Madiba is born
Moses Josiah Madiba, the author, educationist and first African chancellor of the University of the North, was born at Uitvlucht, Pietersburg (now Polokwane)…
EventTraditional Bushman artist Vetkat Regopstaan Kruiper, aged 38, dies suddenly from natural causes
Regopstaan Kruiper, also known as Vetkat, was a prolific artist. He was born at the camp Twee Rivieren in the Kalahari Gemsbok National Park (now Kgalagadi…
EventExplorer Karl Gottlieb Mauch dies
German explorer Karl Gottlieb Mauch, allegedly the first person to discover gold in South Africa, died in poverty in Stuttgart, Germany. He made geologic and…
EventDrum Magazine calls for the release of all political prisoners
The popular Drum Magazine called on South African Prime Minister B.J. Vorster to follow the example of Rhodesian Prime Minister Ian Smith and to release all…
EventNigerian Political Scientist Professor Claude Ake is born
Professor Claude Ake, a Nigerian political scientist, was a visiting professor at Yale University where he taught political science. Ake died in a plane crash…
EventPieter Willem Botha resigns as state President of SA
South African President, Pieter Willem Botha, resigned from his position as state president seven months after a minor stroke that led to his admission in…
EventThe UN Security Council condemns all violations of its embargo against South Africa
In 1963, the Security Council called upon states to stop the sale of arms to South Africa, and repeated the call in 1970 and again in 1972. It was however only…
EventHenry Olonga, Zimbabwean Cricketer is born
Henry Khaaba Olonga was born in Lusaka, Zambia, to a Kenyan father and a Zimbabwean mother. The family moved back to his father’s homeland, Kenya, before…
EventThe 41st annual conference of the ANC in Queenstown gets underway
The 41 annual conference of the African National Congress (ANC) in Queenstown, Eastern Cape, continues. Amongst the ANC leaders who attended the event was…
EventA memorandum containing a proposed constitutional dispensation is delivered to the CPRC
A memorandum containing complete details of a proposed constitutional dispensation was delivered to the Coloured Persons' Representative Council (CPRC)by the…
EventThe Kenya-Uganda railway is completed
The Uganda railway line in Kenya was seen as a very ambitious infrastructure at its inception with the cost of the project causing most of the controversy. The…
East Cape Update
East Cape Update, published by East Cape News Agencies in Grahamstown, aimed to provide a reliable index of in-depth information and analysis of the Eastern…
Ikwezi
Ikwezi, a Xhosa word meaning "rising star", was a Marxist-Leninist journal devoted to proletarian socialist revolution in Southern Africa, published in England…
EventCommandant General Hiemstra announces the outcomes of Anglo-South African deliberations
The head of the South African Defence Force, Commandant General Hiemstra, announced the successful conclusion of Anglo-South African talks on aspects of the…
A Place of Freedom
Phoenix represented an island of freedom in a society that moved from informal segregation in the early years of the twentieth century to full-blown apartheid…
PlaceBrandvlei, Karoo
Abiekwakop is a Hillock 50 km North of Brandvlei, in the Kenhardt District. A Khoikhoi name derived for the bushes they used, to make digging apparatus. …
ArchiveVervoers bond VNV
Artwork of buses, planes, and boats. White poster with green and red lettering and artwork.
ArchiveRussian or Eastern European poster
Blue, grey, white and black poster. Black and white photographs. Photograph of men and women protesting.
ArchiveFree Namibia
Campaign to free Namibia. History of Namibia and SWAPO and oppression. Black, white and red poster.