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Black Affairs Administration Act No 45, providing for Black self-government in townships commences.
The Security Council of the UN institutes an embargo on Rhodesian import and export.
Somali gunmen kidnap two Italian aid workers and an Egyptian UN peacekeeper is killed.
UN security council urges use of force to prevent civil war in the Congo.
Document Center at UKZN. “Burning of the Passes” from the collection of Ela Gandhi, MP. Assention no. 1889-23
On 14 August Gandhiji wrote to Smuts that he was approaching him "on the eve of what promises for Indians to be an interminable struggle". He said: On Sunday …
BiographyMildred Lesiea
Mandu Mildred Ramakaba-Lesiea was born on 28 January 1933 in Langa, Cape Town, Western Province (now Western Cape), the only official area for African…
BiographyJennifer Schreiner
Jennifer Schreiner (known as Jenny) was born in Johannesburg, Transvaal (now Gauteng) in 1956 to G.D.L. Deneys and Else Schreiner. Else and Deneys were…
BiographyKing Sekhukhune
Sekhukhune was King of the Marota people (commonly called Bapedi) who originated from the Bakgatla of the Western Transvaal. Sekhukhune, like Moshoeshoe King…
BiographyErnest Cole
Ernest Cole was born on 21 March 1940 as Ernest Levi Tsoloane Kole, in Eersterust, Pretoria. He left school when Bantu Education was introduced, and…
African Union Anthem lyrics in English, French, Spanish Portuguese, Arabic and Swahili
English Version Let us all unite and celebrate together The victories won for our liberation Let us dedicate ourselves to rise together To defend our liberty…
BiographyPeter McKenzie
Peter Michael McKenzie was born on 10 February 1955, in Durban, Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal). He was the youngest child of Duggie and Hilda McKenzie. He attended…
BiographyDaniel Cornelis Boonzaier
Born in Patatsrivier, Carnarvon District, Cape, 1865 and died in Cape Town in 1950. D.C. Boonzaier was a SASA member, but there is no surviving record of…
ArchiveTheoria: a journal of studies in the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences No.83/84 1994
ArchiveTheoria: a journal of studies in the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences No.81/82 1993
The People's Past: Towards Transforming the Present by Luli Callinicos (Critical Arts Vol 4 No 2), 1986
ArchiveWelcome to Mariental : Another blot on our stained conscience : No to the war in Namibia
Offset litho; black and white
ArchiveAnd now we have no land: An update on the struggle of the Mogopa people
ArchiveNo-one can stop us: Namibian women speak out about their struggles, hopes and dreams
Checkpoints outside Suez City, Egypt, are now under the control of the UN Emergency Force.
Uganda asks the United Nations (UN) to condemn the Israeli hostage rescue raid on Entebbe.
The United Nations (UN) Security Council authorises a commission to investigate acts of genocide in Rwanda.
SOUTH AFRICAN PRESIDENT, NELSON MANDELA, DELIVERS REMARKS TO THE UN GENERAL ASSEMBLY 21 September 1998
Elite Unit Act No 18, establishing an intelligence organisation, which could investigate almost anything, commences.
SA signs International Labour Organisation Convention, no. 116, concerning the partial revision of conventions adopted.
James Baker, former US secretary of state, resigns as the UN mediator for Western Sahara.
EventUN Special Committee on Policies of Apartheid appeals for assistance to families of apartheid victims.
The United Nations Special Committee on the Policies of Apartheid issued an appeal to member states and organizations to assist families of persons persecuted…
EventThe UN General Assembly adopts resolution 1881, requesting South Africa to release all political prisoners
With the inception of apartheid in 1948, numerous repressive laws limited the freedom and movement of black South Africans. External resistance to the policy…