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We are here because you were there ... without us there is no Britain
… Beige, red, black and white poster. History of imperialism and the start of the first world war. Various artwork of people fighting. Map of Africa divided up…
Archive1,000 pounds smash fascism fund
… for the home front. Year 1941 pencilled in. Artwork of a raised fist. Issued by the Cape District Committee of the Communist Party of South Africa. List of…
PlaceNapier
… The road to Napier takes you through never ending fields of wheat and barley, where the endangered Blue Crane can … wheat and barley fields, at the Southern…
PlaceGod’s Window
… Drakensberg escarpment God's Window stands at an altitude of 1,829m/6,000ft extending northward over the Blyde River … formations and waterfalls, God's…
Event90-Days Act comences
… The General Laws Amendment Act of 1964 (passed in 1963) or the 90-Day Act, commences on this … without trial, for 90 days. Further, on the expiration of such…
EventGerman torpedoes sink the SS Mendoza close to Durban
… Later it was also used as a liner by the Ministry of War for transporting troops. Towards the end of October 1942 the SS Mendoza sailed without an armoured ……
EventVlakplaas Commander testifies before Harms Commission about secret police killings in 1981
… hit squad, with 16 police officers. The existence of the unit was first revealed publicly in 1988 on the eve of the execution of Almond Nofomela. Before his…
EventMother Teresa is buried
… school and devote herself to working among the poorest of the poor in the slums of Calcutta. Working alone at first but later joined by … the first state…
EventSouth African artist Gerard Sekoto is born
… amongst the Pedi community in the Middelburg district of the Transvaal (now Mpumalanga). He was the son of Andreas Sekoto, a leading member of the new…
PlaceHazyview
… describes the hazy, lazy days during summers, typical of the African Bushveld whilst on Safari. Hazyview is central to the Kruger Lowveld Region of…
ArchiveLeon Trotsky
… Black, red and white poster. 50th anniversary of the death of Leon Trotsky. Artwork of Leon Trotsky, murdered by Stalin on 20th August 1940. Call …
ArchiveEnd Conscription Committee report
… Report and addendum to the report of the End Conscription Committee to the 62nd Annual Congress of the National Union of South African Students, University…
We are here because you were there ... without us there is no Britain
… Yellow, red, black and white poster. History of cotton in the Southern United States of America, the start of the Civil War, and the end of slavery. Series…
ArchiveAffirmation
… lettering. Students Representative Council, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. Signatures gathered at … Airport on 29th January 1971, regarding…
ArchiveNelson Mandela: The struggle is my life: A pictorial exposition
… showing three photographs by Eli Weinberg. One a portrait of Nelson Mandela. One a portrait of Mandela boxing and one of Mandela with Yusuf Dadoo, President…
Health and safety before profits
… letters, on black, yellow, red and white poster. Red image of clenched fist in middle. Black image of factories and oil drums across top of poster. Black…
Seedtimes Retrospective Omar Badsha
… A major retrospective exhibition of Omar Badsha’s drawings, woodcuts and photographic essays … acknowledged as having crafted a new vocabulary and a way of…
TRAC (Transvaal Rural Action Committee) Newsletter, 1983 - 1990
… Rural Action Committee, established in 1983 as a project of the Black Sash, published this Newsletter with the intention of giving communities under threat…
PlaceHouse Preller, Hartebeesport
… journalist and historian who championed the cause of the Afrikaans language. He occupied this house from 1935 until his death, and many of his later…
PlaceKlapperkop Fort, Pretoria
… Klapperkop offers visitors panoramic views of Pretoria in all directions. Not only is it fast becoming a … and mountain biking destination, but with the…
PlacePolokwane Art Museum
… indoor collections, and the outdoor collection consists of many sculptures on permanent display. A mass of metal, made up of melted guns which were…
EventEthiopia requests OAU to stop Somali intervention in the Ogaden Province
… Ethiopia requested the Organisation of African Unity (OAU), predecessor of the African Union to stop Somali intervention in the … 1977. The Somali Army…
EventSA cross-border raid in Maputo kills several
… African army on the planning and control headquarters of the African National Congress (ANC) in Matola, a suburb of Maputo, Mozambique. Three houses were…
EventPope John Paul II visits Africa
… Pope John Paul II began his first tour of Africa, including visits to Zaire (presently known as the Democratic Republic of Congo), Congo, Kenya, Ghana, Upper…
EventTranskei gains complete independence
… The oldest of the independent homelands, Transkei, gained complete … independence as an autonomous republic under the policy of separate development. At its…
EventWinnie Mandela speaks out against Terrorism Act
… Winnie Mandela, wife of the then imprisoned African National Congress leader, Nelson Mandela ends her thirteen years of enforced silence with a strong attack…
EventANC denies responsibilities for the unrest in homelands
… SA homelands. Sisulu described the unrest as consisting of a popular revolt against the homeland's repressive … should be reintegrated into South Africa, as…
EventDelmas Treason Trial starts
… Trial, up to that time the longest trial in the history of SA, started in Delmas, east of Pretoria. Twenty-two Transvaal United Democratic Front (UDF)…
Roelf Meyer and Bantu Holomisa confer
… Roelf Meyer, former chief negotiator of the National Party during the multi-party peace negotiations, met with Bantu Holomisa, former leader of the Transkei…
EventMining agreement on wages and working conditions is signed
… The Chamber of Mines and the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) signed an agreement on wages and working conditions, averting the likelihood of damaging…