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EventMlungisi Sisulu dies.
… On 3 January 2008 Mlungisi Sisulu, the grandson of Walter Sisulu died in London from Cerebral Malaria. … African exiles studying in the Soviet Union. At the…
EventA Pilot Cellular phone project is launched
… The basic concept of cellular phones began in 1947, when researchers began to … researchers realized that by using small cells (range of service area) with…
Labour Struggles in South Africa The Forgotten Pages 1903 - 1921 by Evangelos A. Mantzaris
… This is a book about forgotten pages of South Africa's rich worker history from 1903 to 1921. It includes socio-historical analysis of the Cape Town 'answer"…
PlaceWupperthal Mission Station, Clanwilliam
… oasis in a very rugged wilderness, 72 km southeast of Clanwilliam and about 250 km from Cape Town . This … von Wurmb and Johan Gottlieb Leipoldt (grandfather…
EventMultiparty negotiating forum meets for the first time since December 1993
… Congress (ANC)'s proposals. The ANC had proposed inclusion of a constitutional principle on self-determination, to include provisions for a notion of a…
Statement congratulating Amanda Coetzer and Wayne Ferreira on winning the Hopman Cup, 8 January 2000
… stars Amanda Coetzer and Wayne Ferreira on their winning of the Hopman Cup. The two are thoroughly deserving of this prestigious accolade. Their win is…
EventPolice constable is buried alive at Ackerville cemetery near Witbank
… On 31 May, Constable S.H. Mandlazi was attacked by a crowd of people armed with spades at the Ackerville cemetery while he was attending the funeral of a…
ArchivePenal reform and race relations
… delivered by Winifred Hoernle is the fourth in the series of the Hoernle Memorial Lectures. This is the first public statement on the report of the Penal…
EventThe Riotous Assemblies Act Commences
… The Riotous Assemblies Act no 17 of 1956, prohibiting any outside gathering that the minister of justice saw as a threat to public peace, commenced. It…
EventEx Defence Minister P.W. Botha denies arms purchase
… The denial of South Africa's involvement in arms dealing with the former … Nations. South Africa's involvement in the murky world of arms dealing began long…
EventNotorious ‘SOWETO’ policeman dies
… Brigadier Theuns Swanepoel ("Rooi Rus"), one of the most feared interrogators of the South African Security Police, dies in Roodepoort. … him as a policeman …
EventSA artist Helen Martins is born
… her queer sculptures at the Owl House in the Karoo village of Nieu Bethesda, was born in Nieu Bethesda in the Eastern … suicide, the house she named "The Owl…
EventActress and teacher Wilhelmina Freund is born
… Wilhelmina Louisa Ida (Minna) Freund, actress and teacher of elocution, was born in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany, when … to South Africa in 1912, she was…
EventThe Stellenbosch Gymnasium is founded
… The Stellenbosch Gymnasium, forerunner of the University of Stellenbosch, was opened with ceremony in a large house in Dorp Street. This was achieved on…
EventDr Alexander Logie du Toit, South African geologist, is born in Cape Town
… Du Toit studied both mining engineering and geology. One of his most famous projects was his study of the Karoo and its dolerite intrusions, of which he…
EventZambian journalist, Fred M’membe is born
… Post constantly clashed with the government, from the time of President Kenneth Kaunda up until President Rupiah Banda’s … times for his reporting. M’membe…
Seedtime: Omar Badsha Retrospective
… A major retrospective exhibition of Omar Badsha’s drawings, woodcuts and photographic essays … acknowledged as having crafted a new vocabulary and a way of…
EventMuntu Myeza, SA anti-apartheid activist, is born.
… Muntu Myeza was Secretary General of the Azanian People’s Organisation (AZAPO), an affiliate of the Black Consciousness Movement. At the age of 22 , he…
ArchiveAddress to NUSAS Congress 1968
… President's address to the 44th Annual Congress of the National Union of South African Students, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, 30th Jun - 9…
The Majefe Affair
… A to the President's Report at the 45th Annual Congress of the National Union of South African Students, University of Cape Town, 6th-14th July, 1969…
ArchiveRegional Conference: Regional Structures Commission
… by the ANC on Regional Structures prepared on the mandate of the planning committee of the Regional Conference, for circulation to the branches. Recommends…
ArchiveLetter from Neville Curtis, NUSAS, to Dear Sir
… Letter from Neville Curtis, President of NUSAS, stating the attitude of the National Union of South African Students towards planned Republic Day …
PlaceOnverwacht
… Onverwacht was established as an enclave of the Qwaqwa Bantustan on the border of the Thaba Nchu section of Bophuthatswana, about 50km from Bloemfontein. The…
Cosatu march: For Who, for What? by Simelane and Nicolson (Daily Maverick), 8 October 2015
… streets and can pull a crowd without the National Union of Metalworkers SA (Numsa) or its expelled general secretary … stops at the premier's office,…
PlaceTokai Arboretum, Tokai Forest
… was laid out in 1885 by Joseph Storr Lister, Conservator of Forests of the Western Conservancy of the Cape Colony, thus marking the beginnings of a Forestry …
PlaceBeau Soleil Music Centre, Salisbury Road, Kenilworth
… The original portion of this double-storey manor house was built by Dirk Cloete in 1877, and boasts of a number of fine neo-Gothic and Victorian…
PlaceFort Klapperkop
… designed by von Dewitz and Werner. The German forts were of the pentagonal reinforced type, which provided good … possibilities. Revolving artillery on the…
PlaceGabon
… common borders with Equatorial Guinea, Cameroon, Republic of the Congo and the Gulf of Guinea. Autocratic presidents ruled Gabon since … and foreign private…
Land Reform and Traditional Leadership in South Africa
… What does King Goodwill Zwelithini’s new claim on the land of KwaZulu-Natal portend for land reform in South Africa? 29 … debate. But rural land reform has…
EventSASOL plant under attack
… on SASOL I, NATREF and SASOL II took place on the night of 31 May/1 June 1980 in order to coincide with Republic Day. The attack was organised by Solomon…