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EventScientists identify Green Monkey disease as responsible for more than 300 deaths in Northern Zaire and the Sudan
… first identified in green monkeys. It gets its namefrom the city of Marburg, Germany, where it caused small epidemics. In 1974, the virus killed more than…
EventFormer City Press Editor Mathata Tsedu’s son is found burnt beyond recognition in the boot of his car
… The remains of Avhatakali Netshusaulu, accountant and son of the former City Press editor Mathata Tsedu, were found in the boot of his car after he had been…
Document 35 - Letter from John Gomas to the Executive Bureau, Communist Party of South Africa, 29 October 1930
… by Allison Drew Document 35 - Letter from John Gomas to the Executive Bureau, Communist Party of South Africa, 29 … 29 October 1930 The…
EventVictor Sidney Norton, journalist and first South African-born editor of the Cape Times, dies in Cape Town
… influence his son’s future career path. Norton joined The Star Newspaper in 1927, but was soon transferred to the Bulawayo Chronicle in Rodesia (now Zimbabwe…
ArchiveMeeting between a South African delegation led by the Minister of Foreign Affairs, the Honourable R F Botha and a United States delegation led by Dr C Crocker, Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs: Santa Maria, Sal Island, 31 October 1984, Af
… delegation and a United States delegation to discuss the situation in Mozambique and Angola … Meeting between a South African delegation led by the Minister…
EventA 19 year old Mzwandile Kekana is testifying at the trial of 14 Cookhouse people charged with murdering a teacher.
… Mziwandile Kekana, a 19 year old boy, testified in the Port Elizabeth Supreme Court that the people who accused him of being a police informer were … who…
ArchiveMemorandum presented by National Union of South African Students to the Select Committee on Certain Organisations - August 1972
… Official memorandum presented by the National Union of South African Students to the Select Committee on Certain Organisations, including NUSAS (the…
Representatives of the African National Congress (ANC), Natal Indian Congress (NIC) and Transvaal Indian Congress (TIC) meet in
… Representatives of the African National Congress (ANC), Natal Indian Congress … and Transvaal Indian Congress (TIC) meet in Johannesburg. The Presidents of…
ArchiveEducation and race relations in South Africa: the interaction of educational policies and race relations in South Africa
… This is the eleventh address in Heornle Memorial Lecture series delivered by T.B. Davie, on the changing relations between the State and the schools and…
ArticleSharpeville Timeline
… 16 December 1959 - At the annual African National Congress (ANC) conference, … Chief Albert Luthuli declared that 1960 would be the "Year of the Pass", …
ArchiveVerwoerd lets loose terror on All-African Convention and Unity Movement of South Africa: the struggle goes on
… Circular by the All-African Convention and the Unity Movement on the arrests and bannings of some members of these … All-African Convention and Unity…
ArchiveCommission of Inquiry into the riots at Soweto and other places in South Africa held on 1 December 1976
… Excerpts from the transcript of evidence from Mr Curry, to the Commission of Inquiry into the riots at Soweto and other places in South Africa, … Commission…
PlaceRegina Mundi, Catholic Church, Soweto
… Regina Mundi Catholic Church is located in the Township of Soweto, in the Suburb of Moroka. The Church forms part of the rich … when Archbishop Emeritus…
ArchiveAssessment report of NUSED to the 49th Congress of NUSAS, Rhodes University, November 30 to December 3, 1972
… Report from the National Union of Students Education Department to the 49th Annual Congress of the National Union of South African Students, Rhodes ……
EventSADF officers dismissed
… State President F.W. de Klerk announced that 23 members of the South African Defence Force (SADF), including two … were being forcibly retired or suspended…
EventReggie Hadebe ANC Regional Executive Committee member and Media officer in the Natal Midlands Region, is gunned down
… Regional Executive Committee member and Media officer in the Natal Midlands Region, Mr Reggie Hadebe, was gunned down in an ambush on the Richmond-Ixopo road…
Gender, Modernity & Indian Delights - The Women's Cultural Group of Durban, 1954 - 2010 by Goolam Vahed and Thembisa Waetjen
… Prelims Preface Chapter 1: The chow-chow pickle jar. Chapter 2: Stepping out. Chapter 3: … 5: Iqraa. Chapter 6: Bake, Jumble and Trust. Chapter 7: In the…
EventSA Prime Minister P. W. Botha warns the country that confrontation will be inevitable if his proposed President’s Council fails
… South African Prime Minister P. W. Botha warns the country that confrontation will be inevitable if his proposed President's Council fails. The Council was…
EventA painting by SA painter Irma Stern is auctioned for the record price of R1.1 million in Johannesburg
… paintings have since broken that record five times, with the latest being the 2011 sale of her painting for R34 million. … A painting by SA painter Irma…
EventThe Azanian People's Liberation Army (APLA) disbands
… The Azanian People's Liberation Army (APLA) was the underground military wing of the Pan African Congress … Cape. According to the evidence of APLA victims…
ArchiveIt is an obvious fact that who ever took pain to discredit and talk ill of the SSRC
… A handwritten note supporting the Soweto Students Representative Council … fact that who ever took pain to discredit and talk ill of the SSRC …
Fourteen people are killed when the SAP use violence to break up a township meeting in Queenstown, Eastern Cape.
… Fourteen people are killed when the SAP use violence to break up a township meeting in … Coleman, M. (ed)(1998). A Crime Against Humanity: analysing the…
EventPatrick Ramaano Mphephu, Venda chief and former prime minister of the Venda homeland, is born in Dzini, Transvaal.
… Ramaano Mphephu, Venda chief and former prime minister of the Venda homeland, is born in Dzini, Transvaal. … Ramaano Mphephu, Venda chief and former prime…
ArchiveRegional youth congress we say: No to forced removals: No to high rents: Forward to the peoples government
… say: No to forced removals: No to high rents: Forward to the peoples government … say: No to forced removals: No to high rents: Forward to the peoples…
ArchiveCape Western Region Fact Paper on Work of Dependents Conference presented at the Black Sash National Conference 1972
… Fact Paper on Work of Dependents Conference presented at the Black Sash National Conference on 18 October 1972, … Fact Paper on Work of Dependents Conference…
ArchiveEnd Conscription Campaign Annual Report for Cape Western Region: Report Presented at the Black Sash National Conference 1986
… 1986 discussing conscription, Black Sash involvement in the End Conscription Campaign, resistance, protests, list of … Annual Report for Cape Western Region:…
Document 91 - John Gomas, “The Native Representation Bill is Passed: What Must be Done Now?” Umsebenzi, 25 April 1936
… 1907 - 1950, by Allison Drew Document 91 - John Gomas, "The Native Representation Bill is Passed: What Must be Done Now?" Umsebenzi, 25 April 1936 Despite…
Speech by President Nelson Mandela at the state banquet in honour of President Abdou Diouf Pretoria, 30 July 1996
… The State (A) South Africa shall be an independent, unitary, … and non-racial state. (B) Sovereignty shall belong to the people as a whole and shall be…
Address by Oliver Tambo to the joint session of Parliament of Trinidad and Tobago, Port-of-Spain, 2 July 1987
… Honourable Speaker, President of the Senate, Honourable Prime Minister Arthur Napolean Robinson and members of the Cabinet, Honourable Members and Senators,…
Political Report by Limpopo ANC Chairperson Cde Cassel Mathale during the Limpopo ANC Provincial General Council, 10 June 2012
… Deputy Secretary Provincial Treasurer PEC members The leadership of the Alliance partners The Veterans League The ANC Youth League and the Women`s … by…