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EventNuclear Test Ban Treaty signed
… Representatives of the United States, the Soviet Union, and Great Britain … a Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, which prohibited the testing of nuclear weapons in…
EventThe apartheid government establishes a Department for Coloured Affairs’ (CAD)
… Long before the inception of apartheid "Coloured" people in South Africa occupied this … position was intensified during apartheid by the creation of a…
EventWorld Health Day
… World Health Day. This date commemorates the formation of the WHO in 1945. The WHO's Constitution came into effect … celebrated as World Health Day ever…
EventAmy Biehl is murdered in Cape Town
… years old), was dragged from her car by a 100-strong mob of youths in Gugulethu, a township just outside Cape Town, … slogan "One settler, one bullet!" Amy…
EventDate is set for constitutional talks
… preparatory talks in Johannesburg, on a date for the start of negotiations on South Africa's future constitution. … by twelve delegates. A steering group,…
EventAlan Paton is born
… On 11 January, 1903 Alan Steward Paton, author of Cry, the Beloved Country was born in Pietermaritzburg, … in 1918; he went further to study at the…
EventKing George VI is born
… abdication on 12 December 1936. George who was the Duke of York and his wife Elizabeth the Duchess of York were crowned as King George VI. At the end of the…
PlaceuMnambithi was called Ladysmith
… the large surrounding farming district became the centre of attention during the Anglo Boer War. After it it fell … siege from October 1899 to March 1900…
ArchiveThe muzzled muse: literature and censorship in South Africa 1963-1985
… Faculty in Comparative Literature in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy, City University of New York. The thesis …
ArchiveSPRO-CAS Occasional Publication Number 8: Apartheid and the church
… Report of the Church Commission of the Study Project on Christianity in Apartheid Society regarding the effects of apartheid on the Church in South Africa…
ArchiveConcert for peace
… Notice of a concert for charity at Fun Valley on Sunday 17th July … background with black lettering. White stars on outline of map of South Africa containing…
ArchiveTowards peoples culture : Arts Festival 86
… Notice of Arts Festival. Black circle in centre. First part of title in black letters around top of circle. Second part in white letters outlined in black …
ArchiveFrontline states: ANC together: in struggle
… with black lettering, and black border. Green outline of South Africa, with black and white artwork of men with rifles marching across it. Image of black,…
ArchiveSlotavond van remember Soweto ..maand
… poster. Foreign language. Seems to be a concert in support of the struggle in South Africa. List of performers. Artwork of guitarist smashing his guitar…
ArchivePanel discussion: why end conscription?
… End Conscription Campaign poster. Artwork of green, black and red heads of soldiers with hard hats on around the border on a white background. Notice of a…
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…
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…