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ArchiveOn trial: Archbishop Denis Hurley
Notice of a Mass and day of fasting on Sunday 17th February at Regina Mundi. In solidarity with the trial of Archbishop Denis Hurley on February 18th at the…
ArchiveWomen unite against Bothas deal
A2 silkscreen Black on green, photo collage of women and townships; Text: Women unite against Botha's deal; August 9 National Women's Day; Away with forced…
ArchiveSouth African Labour Bulletin Volume 6 Number 4 November 1980
South African Labour Bulletin is a refereed journal which supports the democratic labour movement in South Africa. It is a forum for analysing, debating and…
ArchiveSouth African Labour Bulletin Volume 5 Number 4 November 1979
South African Labour Bulletin is a refereed journal which supports the democratic labour movement in South Africa. It is a forum for analysing, debating and…
PlaceBelvedere Avenue 21, Oranjezicht
This double-storey building was erected shortly after the turn of the 20th century and has a number of fine neo-classical and Victorian architectural features…
EventSA Government spoil Chief Albert Luthuli’s chance of Rectorship
It is announced that efforts by Britain's Foreign Secretary, Mr. Butler and Glasgow University to obtain permission from the South African Government for…
EventThe schools boycott spreads to the Black townships
On 28 May 1980 the schools boycott spread to the Black townships. In Durban and Port Elizabeth riot police were called in. At Elsies River, near Cape Town,…
EventSA Boeing 707 crashes in Namibia
Pretoria, a Boeing 707 of South African Airways (SAA), en route to London and only in use for seventeen days, crashed and exploded shortly after take-off from…
Namibia
Black and white poster. Information campaign against rule in Namibia. Issued by Anti-Apartheid-Bewegung in Osterreich (Austria). SWAPO Logo. Photograph of a…
ArchiveHealth for the wealthy : or health for all
Cream poster with black lettering. For a National Health Service. Black and green and cream image of a man in bed with a pay box for treatment, surrounded by…
ArchiveSince June 12, 1986...
Red poster. White block in centre with title in white letters on black blocks, giving information on people detained. Black borders at top and bottom. Bible…
Editorial
The year 1983 will test the strength of the trade union movement. Our organisation will be attacked by retrenchment and opportunist political leadership will…
PlaceMaitland
The railway line from Cape Town reached Maitland on 13 February 1862. The 1891 census indicated that Maitland had a population of 2,035. By 1904, this number…
EventThe Afrikaans Protestant Church, a breakaway faction of Dutch Reformed Church, is formed
Horrified by apparent infiltration of the Dutch Reformed Church (DRC) by non-whites, right-wingers formed their own Church for white Afrikaners only. This…
EventSouth African Students Movement leaders meet to plan protest action against the implementation of Afrikaans
The Naledi High School branch of the South African Students Movement (SASM) held a meeting, which was attended by representatives of all Soweto high schools,…
EventPresident Thabo Mbeki establishes a commission of inquiry to probe alleged illicit activities on the UN's Iraq oil-for-food programme
On 17 February 2006 the Donen Commission of Inquiry was established by President Thabo Mbeki to probe alleged illicit activities of certain South African…
EventTafari Makonnen proclaimed Emperor Haile Selassie I of Ethiopia
Born in 1891 (some sources say 1894), Tafari Makonnen, or Haile Selassie, as he was later known, was born the son of Ras Makonnen Wolde Michael, the Governor…
EventGoldstone Commission investigate the Bisho Massacre
At the request of President F. W. de Klerk, the commission of inquiry, headed by Judge Richard Goldstone, started the investigation into the Bisho massacre. In…
EventP. W. Botha refutes possibility of Black majority rule
At the height of mass revolt in the country and world condemnation, President P.W. Botha rules out any possibility of a Black majority government in South…
EventBartholomew Dias, Portuguese discoverer of the Cape of Good Hope, drowns at sea
The first European known to set foot on South African soil was Bartholomew (or Bartolomeu) Dias. In December 1487 Dias sailed down the African coast, landing…
EventA vagrant from Johannesburg, Tim Singiswa on a one
While the cross examination of a state witness in the Boeremag trial before the Pretoria High Court continues, Tim Singiswa, a vagrant from Johannesburg,…
EventFormer NP leader Sam de Beer joins UDM
Former leader of the National Party (NP) in Gauteng, Sam de Beer, resigned and joined the United Democratic Movement (UDM), led by former NP colleague Roelf…
EventTerror strikes the Olympics Games in Atlanta
The 1996 Atlanta Olympics marked the 100 year celebration of the Olympic Games. The event, unofficially known as the Centennial Olympics, was marred by a…
EventEbola virus kills 153 people in Zaire
Ebola Hemorrhagic Fever (EBF) also known as Ebola virus a virus that kills its host by attacking the lining of the cells and coagulating the blood in the…
EventFormer South African Prime Minister, P.W Botha, dies
Former SA prime minister and later State President from 1978 to 1989, Pieter Willem Botha, died peacefully at the age of 90 at his house Die Anker near…
EventArthur Conan Doyle, medic during the Second Anglo, is born
Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle was born in Edinburgh, Scotland on 22 May 1859. Although Doyle is best known for his writing of the Sherlock Holmes crime novel…
EventSouth Africa’s first democratic elections end as counting begins
Counting began two days after the first ever democratic elections in South Africa. Nearly 20 million people participated in South Africa’s first democratic…
EventCyril Ramaphosa is born
Cyril Ramaphosa, South Africa's former political and trade union activist was born in Johannesburg. He was one of the chief negotiators at the Codesa talks…
ArchiveCOSATU Natal Regional Culture Workshop 23 August
A workshop held by leadership to discuss how COSATU has grown in membership and how difficult it has been to organise this large organisation. They also…
ArchiveResolution on the process of political settlement
COSATU resolution on political settlement. Rejects attempts to impose reformist solutions. Demands unbanning of banned organisations, release of political…