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ArchiveNatal and the 1960 Republican Referendum
Thesis has been submitted for the partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in the Department of History, University of Natal,…
ArchiveGrahamstown and group areas: some facts
Map showing the plan of the city of Grahamstown under the Group Areas. Also includes Map showing the proposed zoning of Grahamstown under the Group Areas Act…
EventDieter and Ruth Gerhard are detained
The South African government announced at a special press conference that a senior South African naval officer, Commodore Dieter Gerhardt and his second wife,…
EventMandela and Tambo meet in Sweden
While on a mission to foreign countries to ask them to break political ties and tighten sanctions against South Africa in order to speed political change,…
Homeless Giving Tourists a Negative Perception - Fietas Museum by Wim Pretorius and Iavan Pijoos, (News24.com), 15 February 2016
… the surrounding area. The government was not processing land claims from owners forced to move during apartheid, …
The Cape Town Gazette and African Advertiser, a bilingual newspaper and the first to publish news and advertisements, is published for the first time.
Pierre Jacy Fourie, boxer and winner of middle and lightweight SA titles in the 60’s and 70’s, is killed when his car strikes a
Pierre Jacy Fourie, boxer and winner of middle and lightweight SA titles in the 60’s and 70’s, is killed when his car strikes a
ArchiveDraft Code of Conduct for SACP members in an election list and serving Parliament and government structures at national, regional and local levels
Internal discussion document proposing a code of conduct in the light of impending elections for a Constituent Assembly.
The Duke and Duchess of Cornwall and York (the future King George V and his wife) arrive in Durban for a quick royal visit to N
Document 34 - Memorandum of agreement for reconciliation and peace between the IFP/KwaZulu government and the ANC and the South African government/NP
A tribute to the late African National Congress (ANC) President Oliver Reginald Tambo during the unveiling of two memorials to him in the borough on Wednesday…
A taxi war breaks out in Katlehong, East Rand.
BiographyJudge Erns Jansen
Judge Erns Jansen was born in Pietermaritzburg on 27 June 1918. He was the son of Ernest Jansen, Minister of Native Affairs in the National Party…
BiographyCharles Llewellyn
Charles Bennett (Buck) Llewellyn was born in Pietermaritzburg to an English father and black mother. Being of mixed–raced meant that Llewellyn was…
PlaceMcGregor, Western Cape
… in 1862 and divided into 2½ha. Plots. By 1905, all the land had been bought by 19 smallholders and farmers, and …
Passive Resistance 1946 - A Selection of Documents compiled by E.S. Reddy & Fatima Meer - Support from persons and Organisation - 1946
… becomes you. Least you should do is withdraw threatened land and franchise measure and call Advisory Round Table … areas in Natal where Indians and others…
Book 2: The Impact and Limitations of Colonialism - Chapter 2 - The Development of a Colonial Slave Society by Wayne Dooling
… to provide some of their own servants with plots of land close to the port of what came to be called Cape Town. … the first free burghers had been granted…
Document 91. ‘April 6: People’s Protest Day’. Flyer issued by the ANC (Transvaal) and the Transvaal Indian Congress
… go on tolerating the ill-treatment they suffer in the land of their birth. Today our people are suffering as never … deteriorated through the passage of such…
BiographyGuy Tillim
… and Collective Body, Museion, Bolzano, Italy Home Lands - Land Marks, Haunch of Venison, London, UK Contemporary …
Liberation
… marginalised people of South Africa, who are landless and land hungry, declare our need for all the world to know. We … little food, no water and no…
PlaceDiepsloot, Johannesburg
… as well as shacks. (These shacks are built on any piece of land with nothing already on it. Some landowners charge rent to others to stay in a shack on their…
PlaceWitwatersrand, Johannesburg (Gauteng)
… companies have expended fewer resources to police the land. Not surprisingly, the settlements face a large number … electricity and sanitation. Having no…
ArchiveSouth African political prison-literature between 1948 and 1990: the prisoner as writer and political commentator
Thesis submitted in accordance with the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Literature and Philosophy in the subject English at the University of South…
EventViolence erupts in Bophuthatswana Townships and Kathlehong
Violence erupted when 50 000 (or 100 000 according to police) residents from GaRankuwa, Mabopane, Soshanguve and areas in the Odi district presented a petition…
Working Life - Factories, Township and Popular Culture 1886 - 1940 - New Factories, New Workers
… cheap because it was based on migrant labour, so that the land helped to support the low wages given by the mining … workers. They Argued that Africans were…
EventAnsuyah Ratipul Singh, medical doctor and community worker, poet, dramatist and novelist, is born in Durban.
On 12 June 1917, Dr Ansuyah Ratipul Singh, medical doctor, novelist and community worker, was born in Durban. She moved to London where she completed her…
ArchiveMusic for two pianos and four hands
Pink and black poster. Notice of a concert at Baxter Concert Hall, on Saturday 20th October 1984. Concert by S.A. College of Music. List of music played by…
EventPresidents of Mozambique and South Africa meet
In search of peace two Southern African presidents, Joaquim Chissano of Mozambique, successor to Samora Machel who mysteriously died in a plane crash in South…
ArchiveTestimony before the house foreign affairs subcommittees on African Affairs and International Economic Policy and Trade
Testimony made by Chester A. Crocker before the house foreign affairs subcommittees on African Affairs and international economic policy and trade.
ArchiveNUSAS Circular to SRC Presidents, Chairmen, Local Committees, Student Editors and SANSPA and Executive of NUSAS
Circular from John Daniel, Vice-President of NUSAS, to SRC Presidents, Chairmen, Local Committees, Student Editors and SANSPA and Executive of NUSAS, regarding…