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EventMandela visits Zambia
… release from prison on 11 February 1990, after 27 years in jail, he had been following a gruelling schedule of … the headquarters of the African National…
EventThe Harms Commission officially restricts investigations into South African security force
… and unlawful acts of the security forces, were laid out in a Government Gazette. The commission's terms of reference … not be linked to the murder of Anton…
EventThe National Union of Mineworkers start South Africa’s longest wage strike
… At the time it was the second largest trade union in South Africa. NUM represented mainly Black mineworkers in the gold and coal mines belonging to the…
EventQueen Mother Elizabeth turns 100
… her 100th birthday with thousands of people lining up in the streets of London to cheer her. The Queen Mother is … full of presents and cards at Clarence…
EventWork is stopped at the Kimberley mine
… yielding production. This event ended a pioneering episode in South African engineering history. The history of the Kimberly mine began with the discovery of…
EventBhambatha becomes chief
… as a popular chief and earned the respect of the elders in the Amazondi traditional council. Related: References: … impi yamakhanda (1906 uprising) as…
EventGerhardus Cornelis Oosthuizen buys a section of land, which is later declared part of the Witwatersrand gold reef
… on the property. When the main gold reef was discovered in the Roodepoort area of Johannesburg in 1886, Langlaagte was incorporated into a group of nine ……
PlaceAgate Terrace, Port St. Johns
… here. The 'Meliskerk' was wrecked off the Coast there in 1943. Agate Terrace is halfway between the river mouth and where the beach ends abruptly in a very…
ArchiveBuild UDF
… Black and white; artwork of bricks in the shape of a hand in a fist. …
ArchiveKhumbula, Unganikezeli, Onthou, Remember June 16
… Black and white, text in red, with artwork of school children in protest. …
Minutes: Vergadering van die AG-Werkgroep op 22 Augustus 1986, Kantoor van die Administrateur-Generaal, Windhoek
… Minutes, written in Afrikaans, of a meeting of the AG-Workgroup held in Windhoek. …
Oliver Tambo call for the observance of the 70th birthday of Nelson Mandela, 18 June 1988
… challenge to the full might of Pretoria`s tyranny. In spite of fierce repression under the state of emergency, … July 1988. Let the apartheid regime know the…
Call for the Observance of the 70th Birthday of Nelson Mandela by O. R. Tambo, June 1988
… challenge to the full might of Pretoria's tyranny. In spite of fierce repression under the state of emergency, … July 1988. Let the apartheid regime know the…
Apartheid’s Twisted Dream: David Goldblatt’s South Africa by Joseph Lelyveld, 2 July 2010
… and the scope of his achievement. It does not prepare you in any serious way for the stirring experience that awaits … (I first met Goldblatt—a long-time…
PlaceXanadu Nature Estate, Hartebeespoort
… The beautiful Xanadu Nature Estate , in Hartbeespoort, is set on 240 Hectares and overlooks the … they can observe bird and game activity. (link availible in…
ArchiveEritrea never kneel down
… War on Want poster. Title in black letters. Coloured photographs of people in Eritrea. …
ArchiveThe bus boycott, Johannesburg: The explosive penny
… Incomplete article by I B Tabata about a bus boycott in Johannesburg following an increase in fares. …
ArchiveMisani : Udlame lwamaphoyisa : Notheleweni
… Black, green and yellow poster. Word Misani in white letters. Other letters in black. …
Minutes: Vergadering van die AG-Werkgroep op 19 en 20 Maart, 1987, Kaapstad
… Minutes, written in Afrikaans, of a meeting of the AG-Workgroup held in Cape Town. …
ArchiveMeet the chief
… Ribebe is the traditional leader of the Sambiyu people in the Kavango in Namibia …
ArchiveMosambiek: Die huidige stand MBT moontlike onderhandelinge tussen RENAMO en FRELIMO
… Memorandum, written in Afrikaans, outling the situation in Mozambique with regard to FRELIMO and RENAMO …
ArchiveHuman rights now!
… White image of man breaking apart black background. Title in black letters underlined in red. …
ArchiveCulture : a national memory
… White poster with red artwork corners. Title only in red letters. COSATU Logo in red. …
ArchiveExtract from Minutes of State Security Council Meeting, 9 June 1980
… Incomplete Minutes from a State Security Council Meeting in which the situation in Zimbabwe was discussed. …
ArchiveFallen Comrades
… freedom fighters who have been captured, killed or wounded in the fighting in Zimbabwe. …
ArchiveVukani zizwe
… Handwritten circular in Xhosa, with English translation, distributed in the Port Elizabeth area calling for a strike. …
PACT : elite culture
… PACT in blue letters in blue outlined oblong box. Photo of a man with glasses. …
ArchiveIzinswizwa zasishiya kulomhlaba
… A song about the attacks by vigilantes in Mphopomeni during 1986, in which SAWCO workers were killed. …
ArchiveSecunda stewards acquitted
… In February this year an armed man was discovered by workers in a general meeting at Secunda. …
EventDesmond Dube was born on this day.
… actress Lillian Dube. [1] He is an actor who had a role in well known films including: Hotel Rwanda, Honeville and Long Run, the latter in which he starred…