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Inner-Party Bulletin
… Bulletin produced by the Central Committee of the SACP for internal distribution only. Issue covers probation, discipline and standards of conduct, report on…
EventNew Prime Minister P.W. Botha appoints cabinet ministers
… On becoming prime minister after the resignation of B.J. Vorster, P.W. Botha made some changes in the allocation of portfolios in his cabinet. He retained…
EventBotha announces third naval base
… P.W. Botha, the then Minister of Defence, announced the establishment of a third South African Naval Base to be located at Saldana Bay, about 128 kilometres…
PlaceThe Space
… Photographer, was hired to take rehearsal photos of Athol Fugard , Yvonne Bryceland , Val Donal and Wilson … Commercial Arts venue to operate during the…
David Goldblatt, TJ, 1948-2010 - review by Claire Guillot, 25 January 2011
… One morning, in the middle-class suburb of Johannesburg where he lives, David Goldblatt found his … guard at the entrance make no difference. Since the end…
David Goldblatt: Intersections; Asbestos; Particulars by Sue Williamson, 1 - 25 October 2003
… to impose a working structure on a proposed new series of images which would take the photographer right across the … Goldblatt bought a Global Positioning…
5th Jozi Book Fair
… children, youth, activists and the public! The theme of the Fair is ‘Reading the word and the world: the role of libraries’ and we will have a Conference on…
PlaceMadikwa Game Reserve, North West
… Many of the Farms described by writer Herman Charles Bosman in his … to imagine a leopard joining your siesta in the shade of a Withaak on the slopes of…
PlaceDutch Reformed Church, Wynberg
… by free burghers in 1657, and for more than a century most of them travelled into Cape Town to attended religious services. However because of the distances…
EventFatima Meer, South African anti-Apartheid activist is born
… Durban on the 12th August 1928. She was the daughter of Moosa Meer who was the editor and publisher of Indian Views a weekly publication aimed at the…
EventSouth African poet, writer and political activist, Mafika Pascal Gwala is born in Durban.
… Pascal Gwala was born on 5 October 1946 in Verulam, north of Durban, KwaZulu-Natal. He is the second child of five children of his parents. He matriculated…
EventThe Berlin Airlift comes to an end
… The Berlin Airlift provided tons of supplies to war ravaged Berlin. Under the aid program … western Germany. The Soviets hoped to force the Allies out of…
EventGreat Trek Centenary Celebrations commence
… Boers leaving the Cape Colony and settling in the interior of South Africa. White settlement led to the establishment of the republics of Natalia, the Orange…
EventP.W. Botha becomes Prime Minister
… Party caucus elected Pieter Willem Botha, the Minister of Defence and leader of the National Party in the Cape Province as new Prime … was boosted by the…
EventTrojan Horse Massacre Memorial unveiled
… Horse Memorial was unveiled in Athlone as a remembrance of the three victims who were killed by the security police … to quell social unrest and protests in…
Entering Namibia without visas
… the territory comes under the direct responsibility of the United Nations. Until then, there was no question of anyone entering the territory without a…
PlaceRailway Station and Post Office, Point Road, Durban
… This building was erected in 1900 as part of a general upgrade by the Natal Railways. It replaced an … on 7 March 1986. The Point Railway Station, one of…
PlaceSastri College, 1 Winterton Walk, Durban
… V.S. Srinivasa Sastri , who was appointed as Agent of the Indian Government , to South Africa in 1927. Designed … by the Architect Hermann Kallenbach , a…
PlaceBaxter Theatre, Rondebosch- Cape Town
… to the late Dr. W Duncan Baxter’s bequest for the purpose of building and establishing a theatre. Dr. Baxter made a generous donation to the University of…
PlaceThe Owl House
… Martins , an outsider or self-taught Artist and Owner of Owl House, turned her parents’ House and the yard into a … passed. Martins created the Owl House…
PlaceLowveld National Botanical Gardens
… The character of the Garden is shaped by the two main rivers that cut … Province. The Garden plays a critical role in conservation of rare and endangered…
PlaceIziko Museum's, Cape Town
… word meaning “hearth.” A hearth is the traditional centre of the home where families would get together to share their stories, just as Iziko is sharing the…
PlaceAmalienstein, a Mission Station in the Western Cape
… Former Mission Station of the Berlin Missionary Society , 22 km East of Ladysmith . Named after Amalie von Stein, who was a benefactress of German Missions …
Nelson Mandela Correspondence with family
… Island prisoners settled down to the mindless timetable of imprisonment, filling hours with manual labour which … routine repeated itself in the endless…
My Spirit Is Not Banned - PART 3 by Frances Baard and Barbie Schreiner
… Not Banned by Frances Baard and Barbie Schreiner The start of a bad time The treason trial was the start of a very bad time. At that time they were after all…
PlaceAnton van Wouw House, Museum- Pretoria
… for the famous sculptor Anton van Wouw and is an example of Norman Eaton’s romantic, organic designs. The thatch roof … shade for the windows, the face brick…
PlaceSophiatown
… people moved to Cities in search for jobs. As the number of Black people increased in the Cities, the Johannesburg … (JCC) passed Slum Clearance programmes…
PlaceGrey Street now Yusuf Dadoo Street, Durban-City Centre
… people are aware that Durban has the largest concentration of Indian people outside of India! Originally brought in during the 1860’s by the … started their…
Document 13 - Sarah Mokone [Victor Wessels] “The T.A.R.C.”, Majority Rule : Some Notes. Chapter XIX
… an ad hoc Committee. The Anti-CAD and the Local Committee of the NEUM, opposed in principle to ad hoc committees and ad hoc campaigns which highlighted one…
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…