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ArchiveCrisis News
… Town, "attempts to tell the truth of what is happening in our country", particularly in the Western Cape and from a theological point of … viewpoints about…
EventRiky Rick, one of the most esteemed South African hip hop artists is born
… Rikhado Makhado, stage name Riky Rick, was born in the KwaMashu township of northern Durban, KwaZulu Natal on … throughout South Africa. He released another…
PlaceHugh Eksteen Photographic Museum, Polokwane-Limpopo
… Housed in an 1890 Dutch Reformed Church in Polokwane, is the Hugh Eksteen Photographic Museum. Browse … also spelled Eksteen) Eksteen moved North from Cape…
EventDelagoa Bay railway line is officially opened
… of the Transvaal Republic after it was occupied by Britain in 1877. This link between the land-locked Transvaal Republic … Kruger as it would give the…
PlaceLoftus Versveld Stadium, Hatfield
… Loftus Versfeld received a welcomed revamp and renovation in preparation for the 2010 FIFA World Cup™, hosted by South … the audio-visual equipment and the…
EventPatrice Lumumba, Prime Minister of the Congo Republic, is assassinated
… under the command of Katangan authorities. He was put in a line up and shot. The execution is thought to have taken … up and dismembering the corpses, then…
EventThe Flag of the Union of South Africa is hoisted on Prince Edward Island
… as they realised that Islands could also become engulfed in a war of a global scale and play a strategic role. The … commissioned an inquiry about the…
EventThe first family at the Cape moves into the fort
… ashore on 7 April, barely one day after dropping anchor in Table Bay, to select the best site. 100 men were occupied … rampart, Reijger, was completed and…
EventTRC gathers evidence against Winnie Madikizela-Mandela
… which centred on the brutal killing of Stompie Seipei in 1988. The TRC heard from a series of witnesses who … four youths and dismissed the claim that she…
EventFormer Minister of Defence and others are charged with murder
… Location: back to this day in history search archive Former South African Defence Force … and 19 other former senior military officers were charged in the…
Document 13 - Declaration of the Organization of African Unity (OAU) ad hoc committee on southern Africa on the question of South Africa; Harare, Zimbabwe (The Harare Declaration) Sections 14-24
… Published and launched in January 2009 in partnership with Vivalia Press. Editors : Cornelius … readiness on the part of the Pretoria regime to engage in…
’Asinamali’
… Spirit Is Not Banned by Frances Baard and Barbie Schreiner In 1957 a message came through from SACTU that we must … to write something about this pound a day…
PlaceAchab se Berg, Northern Cape
… Hill 23 km East of Aggeneys and 34 km from Pofadder, in the Northern Cape of South Africa. The name is taken from … nearby Mine. This range of Hills…
ArchiveThe failure of the Coloured Persons Represen
… Thesis submitted in fulfilment of the requirements for the Degree of Master of … latter's gradual adaptation and development, culminating in the inauguration…
ArchiveSPRO-CAS Occasional Publication Number 5: Education beyond apartheid
… Education Commission of The Study Project on Christianity in Apartheid Society examining the education system in South Africa under apartheid rule. Content…
Speak - the voice of the community
… newspaper reported on the communities' sustained efforts in creating residents' associations, including women's … action against the Government elections…
PlaceMartello Tower, Simonstown
… The circular tower was erected in 1796 on the orders of James Craig to improve the defence … that this is the oldest British structure of its kind in the…
EventA Cape Passive Resistance Council is formed
… Passive Resistance Council was formed at a mass meeting in Cape Town, attended by 1 500 people. Among the first … of the Resisters to join the passive…
EventRSA golf team is expelled from Greece
… Cup international men's team golf championship starting in Athens on 8 November. The action by the Greek Foreign … Apartheid to condemn all practices of…
EventThe People’s Progressive Party (PPP) is banned
… Congress (ANC) member Rocky Malebane-Metsing, was banned in Bophuthatswana by President Lucas Mangope. He announced … aborted coup attempt by the PPP…
EventMerenstejin Sinks
… as it is now spelled) a Dutch merchant ship that was built in Amsterdam, Holland in 1693 with a passenger capacity of 315, is wrecked off … their lives. The…
EventNoby Ngombane is murdered
… State government's policy monitoring and evaluation unit in the premier's office, was shot dead at his house in Bloemfontein. The murder trial of Ngombane's…
EventBishop Zulu is born
… Zulu, Anglican bishop of Zululand and Swaziland was born in Nquthu, Natal. He was the only son of Johannes and Miriam … Kolo Zulu and was a member of the…
EventSt. John Broderick claims concentration camps are improving
… Commons that every effort was made to improve conditions in concentration camps in South Africa. The camps were set up during one of the toughest and…
ArchiveFederation or desolution
… The 33rd lecture in the Alfred and Winifred Hoernle Memorial lecture series delivered by Alan Paton in Johannesburg on 23rd May 1985, in which he believes…
Document 17 - The Groote Schuur Minute
… Unbanning the ANC, is an admission that your banning in March 1960 was wrong. It was a mistake. Your embrace of a … democracy goes further and says that we…
Speech by President Mandela at the Chief Albert Luthuli Centenary Celebration, 25 April 1998, KwaDukuza
… for the treatment of Chief Bhambatha's injured warriors in 1906. This year marks the centenary of the birth of one of … will last forever to us who worked…
ArchiveThe international situation
… the 9th National Conference of the Non-European Movement in Pietermaritzburg, on the 3rd-5th of January, 1962. This … discussed with focus on the…
Liberation
… Liberation was founded in Johannesburg as a magazine of quality, focusing on issues of concern to Blacks and non-establishment Whites in South Africa. It was…
EventNotices served on Solly Sachs
… The first notice ordered Sachs to relinquish his position in the Union within thirty days and not to participate in any way in the activities of the union…