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ArchiveANC Lives
Black and white photos of ANC members. lack, green and yellow poster. Black and white lettering.
PlaceFranschhoek Motor Museum
The Franschhoek Motor Museum offers visitors a special opportunity to look back at more than 100 years of motoring History with its unique and exciting…
EventTricameral Parliament inaugurated
On 3 September 1984, Members of Parliament convened in Cape Town to promulgate a new South African Constitution with a three-tier parliament which would re…
ArchivePasop: de Britten terug naar dr eiland!
Black and white poster. Artwork of people inside a building watching television and background of banks and hotels.
ArchiveDen Haag, 29 October: geen nieuwe kernwapens in Europa
Black and white poster. Cartoon of a man and a woman and two children marching. Also artwork of a rocket.
ArchiveBadiri! from South Africa
Red, black and white poster. Notice of a concert of Jazz, poetry and dance. Artwork of a cello and a drum.
ArchiveGuguletu Langa
White poster with black and white image of township and people with army tank and soldier in foreground.
EventKing George V visits the SANLC
The South African Native Labour Contingent were recruited and employed to assist Britain in the First World War with labour duties. Black South African men…
EventNiger's Independence Day
Rationed away to French colonialists at the 1885 Berlin Conference, the French West African colony was controlled strictly as an outpost for the French…
ArchiveStaffrider Vol.7 No.1 1988
Contents and Contributors Comment: A.W. Oliphant, Short stories: Mr.Shabangu by Mark Glaser; Siyayinyova by Zakhele Charles Ndaba; Tsafendas’s Diary by…
PlaceStaats Model School, Van der Walt Street, Pretoria
Sir Winston Churchill escaped from this Building when, for a time it was used to House Prisoners-of-War, during the Anglo-Boer War. Single-storied red brick…
PlaceSeal Point Lighthouse, Cape St. Francis
Commissioned on 11 May 1950 The Cape Seal lighthouse lies within the Robberg Nature and Marine Reserve on the seaward tip of what is known as Cape Seal in…
EventThe last quagga in the world dies in a zoo in Amsterdam, the Netherlands
The last quagga in the world died in a zoo in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. The quagga had once roamed the pastures of the Karoo and the southern Free State. It…
EventUN Security Council urges SA government to end Rivonia Trial
On June 9, 1964, just two days before the final verdict was reached, the UN Security Council passed a resolution urging the South African government to end the…
EventFollowing the infamous Treason Trial, ANC leader Chief Albert Luthuli is banished by the Apartheid Government for five years
Chief Albert John Luthuli, President of the African National Congress (ANC) from 1952 to 1967 and Nobel Peace Prize winner in 1961, was one of South Africa's…
EventUDF leaders are charged with treason
Three leading members of the United Democratic Front (UDF), Archibald Gumede, Paul David and Billy Nair were charged with high treason. These anti-apartheid…
EventArchbishop Desmond Tutu is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize
Archbishop Mpilo Desmond Tutu, world renowned preacher and strident voice against apartheid, first Black Secretary General of the South African Council of…
EventLeaders of six homelands reject new constitution
After a prolonged parliamentary session lasting 127 days, the new tricameral constitution was passed by 119 to 35 votes on 31 August 1983 and signed into law…
EventCar bomb explodes outside Air Force headquarters
On the afternoon of 20 May 1983, two African National Congress (ANC) cadres, Freddie Shangwe and Ezekial Maseko, drove to Church Street in Pretoria and parked…
EventArmscor’s Chairman announces the production of a record breaking South African artillery system
On 28 March 1982, the Chairman of Armscor announced that South Africa had developed a 155mm artillery piece that outranged it's counterparts of a similar…
EventThe South African security police bombed two houses in Manzini, Swaziland
In response to attacks on the Sasol oil refinery in Secunda, the South African security police bombed two houses in Manzini, Swaziland. The attacks claimed the…
EventIdi Amin, Ugandan dictator, flees after a seven year reign
Idi Amin Dada Oumee fled Uganda on 29 March 1979* first to Libya and eventually to Saudi Arabia. Amin began his career as a cook in the King's African Rifles…
EventA military coup deposes the Lesotho Government
On 15 January 1986, General Justin Lekhanya, the Head of the Lesotho Army, ousted Lesotho prime minister Chief Leabua Jonathan in a military coup. Jonathan had…
EventThe first Comrades Marathon takes place
The first Comrades Marathon was run by Vic Clapham, ex World War One veteran and other 34 runners, who initiated it as a reunion. Clapham wanted to remember…
EventFirst postage stamp in Africa is issued in the Cape Colony
On 1 September 1853, the first adhesive postage stamp in Africa was issued in the Cape of Good Hope, a British colony at the time. The triangular shaped stamp…
EventInitial experiments on the body of Egyptian King,Tutankhamen, conclude he is a fifteen year old boy
Tutankhamen (also spelled Tutankhamun/Tutankhamon) was an Egyptian Pharoah who ruled in the period known as the 18th Dynasty, the years between 1332 and 1323…
EventDr Wilson Carswell, medical adviser to the government’s Aids unit, says about 100 000 South Africans are infected with HIV
On 21 May 1991 the medical adviser to the government, Dr Wilson Carswell made the shocking announcement that 100 000 South Africans are infected with the Human…
’Under Investigation’ video material going live on facebook
Under Investigation is an ambitious community development project being run in Steytlerville in the Eastern Cape. The project has several elements but centres…
ArchiveDefend our community against Aids
Yellow, red, black and white poster. Black and white artwork of people campaigning against aids. NPPHCN poster and logo.
ArchiveAfrican National Congress 1990 calendar
January to December 1990 calendar. White poster with green and yellow and black lettering. Photograph and quote of Oscar Mpetha.