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EventPolitical activist and trade unionist James La Guma is born
… and trade unionist James Arnold (Jimmy) La Guma, member of the South African Communist Party (SACP) and president of the South African Coloured People's…
EventGeneral Lord Roberts marches on Pretoria
… In the middle of the South African War II (Anglo-Boer War II), General Lord … The War had started eight months earlier due to a number of interrelated…
PlaceStasiegebou, Sannaspos
… This Railway Station Building of sandstone was completed shortly before the Anglo-Boer War (1899-1902). It is one, of only a few Station Buildings erected…
Devout domesticity?
… Table of contents Acknowledgements Dedication Abstract … and Organisation in the Political Development of Indian South Africans, 1860 – 1979 3…
Zweli Mkhize slams Zuma in hard-hitting statement, 01 April 2017
… consultations which take place with senior officials of the ANC during such appointments and changes to the composition of the national executive, the…
PlaceLuderitz, Namibia
… art-deco architecture and excursions to the ghost town of Kolmanskop. Luderitz in southern Namibia is isolated on a … Desert and has only one road in, yet,…
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…
ArchiveTransformer les epees en charrues
… White background. Artwork of yellow wheat growing out of a haystack of rifles. Artwork of half the world in blue with Africa and …
PlaceOld Post Office, Rissik Street, Johannesburg
… landmarks and the Rissik Street Post Office is one of them. Built in 1897, it’s among the city’s oldest … building oozing character and charm, it boasted a…
EventIt is widely reported that British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher criticised the ANC, calling it a terrorist organisation
… in general help cement her reputation as a supporter of South Africa's Apartheid regime. Throughout the summit … sanctions would result in "the further…
ArchiveWe rule you: we condemn you: we exploit you: we judge you: we jail you: we control you: but we carry you
… White and black poster. Artwork of a pyramid of men in command, each layer of men has an opinion. The bottom of the pyramid is a layer …
ArchiveRastafarian womens organisation presents fund raising dance
… Multicoloured poster. Artwork of a map of Africa, with women and children wearing red scarves. Notice of a fund rasing program at The Factory, Chippenham…
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…
EventDemocratic Party (DP) indicates its policies and outlines its proposed reforms
… (NP) merged, indicates that it represents a coalition of the policies of the National, United and Progressive parties, and outlines … 8 April 1989 its…
EventDr. Silas Modiri Molema dies in Mafikeng
… politician and historian, died in Mafeking at the age of 74. He was the eldest son of Silas Thelesho Molema, maternal uncle of Chief Montshioa of the…