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EventZola Budd and Annette Cowley are banned from the Commonwealth Games
… England. The Commonwealth Games was to commence in July of the same year (1986) in Edinburgh, Scotland. The governing body of Games were already faced with…
PlaceCity Hall, Rissik Street, Johannesburg
… a grandiose Edwardian style heralding the subsequent pomp of the Georgian era. The Duke of Connaught and Strathern, laid the corner stone on 29 … It took…
EventDjibouti, France’s last colony, gains independence
… Djibouti is a very small country located on the horn of Africa. It is so small that it has an estimated population of less than a million, one of the least…
Event12 people are killed after Kenyan jets bombed Somali town
… when two Kenyan jets bombed the southern Somali town of Jilib. This was an attempt by east African nation to rid Somalia of the Islamic al Shabaab rebels. …
EventTwelve Africans are acquitted at the Supreme Court
… on trial at the Supreme Court in Grahamstown, accused of having conspired to take over a town and kill Whites, were … from seven to one year's imprisonment…
EventUN Special Envoy visits SA
… Following the unanimous adoption of resolution 765 by the UN Security Council, Cyrus Vance was dispatched to South Africa as Special Representative of the UN…
EventUpington 14 are sentenced
… sentences on fourteen Blacks (Upington 14) for the murder of Lucas Tshenolo Sethwala, a Black police constable who … his home with stones on 13 November 1985…
EventCelebrated South African photographer, David Goldblatt, receives Hasselblad honours
… David Goldblatt was honoured for his portrayal of social and political life in the country of his birth. David Goldblatt received the 2006 Hasselblad … acute…
EventArchibald Campbell Mzoliza Jordan is born
… and having obtained an M.A. Degree at the University of South Africa in 1944, he was appointed to the Department of African Languages at Fort Hare. In 1946…
EventCommunity leader James Sofasonke Mpanza is born
… meaning We shall all die), community leader, founder of the Sofasonke Party and a champion for better housing for … Johannesburg's Blacks, was born in…
EventDe Klerk calls for stringent safety measures
… President F.W. de Klerk announces the calling up of military reservists to curb political violence will top the agenda of the forthcoming multiparty…
EventLansana Conte’ leads a coup that deposes Guinea’s interim government
… Lansana Conte’ was the second president of Guinea. On 3 April 1984, a week after the death of President Ahmed Sékou Touré, Conte’ who was a Lieutenant … to…
EventZimbabwe is suspended from the commonwealth
… Zimbabwe was suspended from the Commonwealth of Nations after the country’s 2001 elections were found to … motivated violence. The announcement was made by a…
EventSouth African model, Candice Swanepoel is born in Mooi River, KwaZulu-Natal
… 20 October 1988 She grew up on a farm and had aspirations of becoming a ballerina. Swanepoel did not think of herself as beautiful, even though she was thin…
EventSADF commandos bombs the ANC office in Maputo
… later and admitted his role in the raid. This was one of many cross border raids by the SADF in the 1980s. Some of the cross border raids include Matola,…
EventSA Artist, Andries Johannes Botha, is born in Durban
… 1952 in Durban. He studied Fine Arts at the University Of KwaZulu-Natal and later went on to teach the subject at … years. Botha’s first job as a lecturer…
EventThe ANC unveils its proposed constitutional principles
… a discussion document, which to some extent had the effect of shifting public focus away from the prospect of a total breakdown. Among the things that the…
EventThe second elections to the Coloured Persons’ Representative Council result in the Labour Party holding the majority seats
… anti-apartheid Labour Party (LP). The LP won thirty-one of the fourty elective seats in the Council.. The leader, … as complete economic and political…
ArchiveFifth Annual Symposium on Ethnomusicology
… Cream poster with brown lettering. University of Cape Town Faculty of Music Notice of a Symposium. Artwork of cave men paintings. …
ArchiveWhy vote?
… Black and white background of people. Small blocks of multicoloured artwork of various voting scenes and one of a white dove. …
Nelson Mandela Correspondence around birthdays and anniversaries
… and Winnie Mandela at their wedding in 1957. © A copy of Alf Kumalo’s photograph I remember 14 June nostalgically. In spite of the difficult times, we went…
Apartheid
… Netherlands anti-apartheid campaign. Map of Southern Africa. Photographs of scenes of South Africa. Photograph of a pass book. Information on …
My Spirit Is Not Banned - PART 4 by Frances Baard and Barbie Schreiner
… I am old now, I still keep myself busy. Some friends of mine, and my minister, they were on the Winterveld … Mabopane. It is a very poor area, and the people…
They will answer to God - Ahmed Timol’s brother, News24 in Politics Web online, 27 June 2017
… the High Court in Johannesburg during the first sitting of the inquiry looking into Timol’s death, Mohammed, who is younger by seven years, said the…
ArchiveStaffrider Vol.7 No.3 and No.4 1988
… Jacobs; Go Away, We're Asleep by J. Makunga; The Spirit of Two Worlds Jayapraga Reddy. PHOTOGRAPHY: Staffrider and … by Nkathazo Mnyayiza; There is by Mafika…
ArchiveSecond Definitive Series 1993-10-01: butterflies
… White background with artwork of outlines of butterflies on it. Coloured replicas of postage stamps of butterflies, issued in 1993. Windhoek, …
Nelson Mandela
… Red, black and white poster. Photograph of Nelson Mandela. Notice of a concert in Sweden in aid of the ANC. List of artists. …
ArchiveSoweto Township
… Multicoloured poster. Artwork of a map of Soweto. Words of The Freedom Charter around border. Artwork of new South …
ArchiveWhose tomorrow is tomorrow?: whose world is the world?
… Multicoloured poster. Artwork of the world in the centre of the poster, sketches of royalty and leaders, photographs of people in communities. …
ArchiveMinneskonsert for Johnny Mbizo Dyani
… Black and white poster. Rainbow of black, green and yellow at top. Notice of a concert in aid of ANC. List of artists. …