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EventBarend Strydom kills 8 People in Pretoria
… in the legislative capital. Strydom claimed to be the head of a white supremacist group called the ‘Wit Wolwe’ (White … that the organisation did not exist…
EventThe First Gay Pride March is Held in South Africa
… march was organised by the Gay and Lesbian Organisation of the Witwatersrand (GLOW) and attracted a crowd of about 800 people. Speakers at the event included…
Photography David Goldblatt by Sean Jacobs, 1 September 2009
… Fred Ritchin (associate professor of photography and communications at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts and a new media consultant to news and…
EventUmkhonto we Sizwe bombs Church Street, Pretoria
… One of South Africa’s deadliest terror attacks took place in … in 1983, when Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK), the armed wing of the African National Congress,…
PlaceSeal Island
… Hout Bay has now become well known as the port of departure for scenic day trips to Seal island or Duiker Island, home to a colony of thousands of Cape Fur…
PlacePlumstead
… Plumstead was developed on the site of an old VOC Military Camp some 13km South of Cape Town and, by 1823, was already a growing Village. The … a Railway…
Document 44 - Letter from Leon Trotsky to T. W. Thibedi, 4 September 1932
… that the material hindrances would be great in this time of deep crisis, Are many negro comrades unemployed in … not correct. It is true that we are only at…
EventZambian president Kenneth Kaunda refuses to take part in UK
… People Union (ZAPU). However, following the assassination of Hebert Chitepo in Lusaka in 1975, ZANU and its military … National Liberation Army (ZANLA) under…
EventMK’s Luthuli Detachment and ZAPU in a joint operation
… in Wankie (now Hwange) Game Reserve, near the border of Zambia and Botswana. The operation became know as the … For the ANC this would achieve the immediate…
EventSouth Africa closes its borders with Lesotho
… off fundamental food and fuel supplies. The relationship of the South African and Lesotho in the 1970s and early 1980s … friction. This was the case…
EventThe South African Air Force is established
… Force was established. This made it the first air force of the Commonwealth, with Lt-Col. Pierre van Ryneveld appointed Director of Air Services. The origin…
EventThe ANC celebrates its centenary anniversary in Bloemfontein
… all the country’s nine provinces and paid homage to each of the twelve presidents of the ANC. Amongst the ANC presidents for the past 100 years … Nelson…
ArchiveQuote from Nelson Mandela: Soweto-South Africa: February 13-1990
… Multicoloured poster. Reproduction of part of the Pathfinder Mural in Greenwich Village, New York. Portrait of Mandela painted by Dumile Feni. Complete mural…
ArchiveConference for a democratic future December 1989
… Red and yellow images of rays from a sun coming up from bottom of poster. Black images of people marching across bottom of the sun. Black block with …
We are here because you were there ... without us there is no Britain.
… History of piracy. Blue, red, white and black poster. Artwork of Queen Elizabeth 1 and Sir Francis Drake. Artwork of a sailing ship. Map of Trade Routes…
Archive500 anos: ato de protesto
… White poster with artwork of map of South America with a black christian cross, with red blood dripping from it, on top of the map. Artwork of hands breaking…
ArchiveUDF Commission report
… Report of the United Democratic Front Commission to the 62nd Annual Congress of the National Union of South African Students, University of Natal, …
ArchiveTroops out
… Red, yellow, blue, black and white poster. Notice of ECC peace festival. Saturday 29th June at Wits Great Hall. List of speakers. Artwork of a white dove…
ArchiveFirst Cape Womens Festival
… Notice of festival at Samaj Centre on 15-16th April. List of attractions. Black and white poster. Artwork of an African woman dancing. Festival organised by…
ArchiveYoung Christian Students Rally
… Black and white poster. Notice of a rally at the Central Methodist Church on the 23rd September. Issued by Southern Transvaal YCS. Outline of fish containing…
ArchiveInterview with the NUSAS President, Neville Curtis - the new NUSAS
… Text of interview by Varsity, a University of Cape Town student newspaper, with Neville Curtis, President of NUSAS. Subjects covered include recent Congress…
Letter from S. S. Mazibuko to the President
… This letter is from the Vice President of the South African Students' Movement to the President informing him of the departure of the National Organiser and…
ArchiveLetter from S.S. Mazibuko to the Chairman
… This letter is from the Vice President of the South African Students' Movement to the Chairman informing him of the departure of the National Organiser and…
ArchiveWomen vote! and make your voices count
… Black and white poster. Artwork of women holding a banner with title on it. Border of different images of women in oval shapes. Artwork of a woman casting…
Voting station
… Multicoloured artwork of a voting station. Title in blue and red letters in three languages. A VEETU poster of University of the Western Cape. Description of…
Madiba The African Opera
… the African Opera is the biographical opera in the life of Nelson Mandela whose libretto was written by the late … with Orchestration by KutlwanoMasote. The…
EventNigeria gained independence from the United Kingdom
… 1 October 1960. And an Executive Council, made up entirely of Nigerians, was led by a Prime Minister, Alhaji Sir … Tafawa Balewa. Its first government was a…
EventNational Heritage Day celebrates South African cultural diversity
… National Heritage Day is one of the newly created South African public holidays. The day … celebrate their cultural traditions in the wider context of the…
EventWell-known political activist and academic, Dr. Neville Alexander is born
… university degrees in History and German at the University of Cape Town. In 1962 he founded the Yu Chi Chan Club (YCCC) … Dulcie September. The organization…
EventThe Balfour Declaration is accepted
… Lord Arthur Balfour who chaired the drafting Committee of the Declaration. It granted autonomous status to the … status, in no way subordinate one to another…