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Apartheid and the Medical School
… SOYA condemns the idea of the governments intention to transfer administrative control of the Medical School, Durban from the University of Natal to the…
ArchiveThe African National Congress calls for your support
… Series of two page pamphlets on various aspects of the ANC struggle and fight against apartheid: call for … South Africa, the National Anthem, sanctions, the…
Accuser insulted as Zuma hailed at court (IOL), 14 February 2006
… be named, has been in hiding for three months, for fear of intimidation. Shortly after the rape charge was brought against Zuma, the home of the victim's…
ArchiveStaffrider Vol.9 No.4 1991
… A. Monkwe; Till We Meet, Mavis Smallberg; In the Shacks of Inanda, Gladman Mvukuzane Ngubo. Essays: The West End Becoming, David Goldblatt; The Renewal of…
PlaceStation Building, Point Road, Durban
… the brick and ochre plaster mouldings on the façade are of special interest. It was declared a National Monument … therefore, showcases the gorgeous…
ArchiveEgalite
… Multicoloured poster. Oval of rainbow colours, containing artwork of two people, one white, one black, with a red heart in the centre, holding a globe of the…
ArchiveWe are there because you were there ... without us there is no Britain
… Green, yellow, black and white poster. History of Zimbabwe. Artwork of an African man and child with a book. Photographs of scenes from Zimbabwe. Green map…
ArchiveRally
… Notice of rally at Dube "Y" on 29th September 1984. Speaker Rev F … White poster with black lettering. Black and white image of man holding cross in one hand…
EventPhakisa Freeway opens
… 1999.[i] The Phakisa Freeway was constructed by means of combining the traditional oval and road course.[ii] The racecourse hosted the penultimate leg of the…
PlaceAi-Ais, Namibia
… Ai-Ais Hot Springs Resort is at the source of a mineral and sulphur-rich hot Spring, and means 'burning water' in the Local Dialect. One of the eyes of the…
Kirstenbosch Summer Sunset Concerts 2017
… Summer Sunset Concerts run annually from the end of November until the beginning of April. Every Sunday, families and groups of friends flock to the gardens…
Placem'Bashe Lighthouse
… recommended putting up a few beacons on the coast East of Port Alfred. And a beacon was finally erected on a hilltop just west of the present lighthouse at M…
PlaceVenda
… for the bantustan, or homeland , was in the North East of South Africa close to the Zimbabwe border. Its North … Its capital was Thohoyandou and it was the…
PlaceLions Bridge, Church Street, Arcadia, Pretoria
… The bridge was designed by the Department of Public Works of the ZAR, under the guidance of Sytze Wierda. It was built by JJ Kirkness and was …
EventMandela signs a law into bill creating the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC)
… an integral and restorative component in the advent of democracy in South Africa. Its role was primarily to … the Apartheid era, through public hearings. The…
EventMinister announces compulsory education for Black children
… The minister of (Black) education and training, Dr Ferdinand Hartzenberg, … near Pretoria. Implementation would start at the beginning of 1981 for children…
EventRylands Civic Association collectively rejects the proposed move to remove non
… roll. At a meeting in Gleemoor Town Hall, the Chairman of the association representing the Indian group area of Rylands, Athlone only known as E. Moosa said;…
EventThe British successfully thwart the Zulu attack at Rorke’s Drift
… During the Anglo-Zulu war Lord Chelmsford, commander of the British forces, took over the buildings of the Swedish Mission at Rorke's Drift, near Isandlwana …
WhatsYourHeritage
… This event is an initiative of the University of Cape Town Graduate School of Business Solution Space and the Bertha Centre for Social …
ArchiveMafika Gwala Second Annual Lecture and Book Launch, 5 October 2016
… in 2015 and is run in partnership with both the University of Kwa Zulu Natal (UKZN) and the National Institute for … culture’ in the 1970’s and 1980’s. The…
EventHuman Rights Day is celebrated for the first time in South Africa
… in South Africa. It shares the day with the anniversary of the infamous Sharpeville Massacre, which occurred in 1960. This gross violation of human life…
EventZANU-PF wins the first free elections in Zimbabwe
… first free elections in Zimbabwe. Robert Mugabe, president of ZANU since 1977, became the prime minister. Joshua Nkomo … in the new 100-seat parliament…
EventUnited Front launch in jeopardy
… The proposed launch of the United Front was threatened when the Azanian People's Organisation (AZAPO) denounced fourteen of the more than seventy-five…
EventArchbishop Desmond Tutu is arrested
… outside parliament while leading a protest march (one of many) against the death sentence of the 'Sharpeville Six'. Tutu was freed a few hours later. … and…
EventFamine anniversary in Ethiopia
… Following major American television's first airing of the famine crisis in Ethiopia, the world celebrated the … as famine anniversary. The day was used to…
EventUS invades Afghanistan
… The United States invasion of Afghanistan, codenamed Operation Enduring Freedom, took place after the destruction of the Twin Towers on 11 September 2001 in…
EventCellist and music teacher Betty Pack is born
… orchestras, was born in Nylstroom, Transvaal. At the age of 16, she gave her first public performance of the Dvorak cello concert. A year later she was…
EventSouth African Aerial Transports services are inaugurated
… were inaugurated in South Africa with the amalgamation of a London-based company, the South African Aerial … African Aerial Transports Ltd company, under the…
EventCelebrated nurse, Constance Nothard, is born
… Constance Annie Nothard, nursing sister and recipient of the Florence Nightingale Medal, the highest award of the International Red Cross Society, was born…
EventNelson Mandela delivers a speech marking his first 100 days in office
… 18 August 1994, the first democratically elected President of the Republic of South Africa, Nelson Mandela, delivered a speech to the joint sitting of…