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EventANC and government to surge ahead with reforms
… In spite of Inkatha's rejection of the Convention for a Democratic South Africa (CODESA), the … any forum that resembled CODESA. Realising that its powers of…
EventANC government tension continues
… the day that the first serious talks between the Minister of Constitutional Development, Roelf Meyer, and Cyril … to take strong measures against the…
EventAllan Boesak resigns from the church
… The Presbytery of South Africa announced that Dr Allan Boesak, reverend of the Nederduitse Gereformeerde Kerk (Dutch Reformed Church) … anti apartheid orator…
EventDr Cedric Phatudi, Lebowa Chief Minister, dies
… and educational administrator. He served as the president of the Inspectors’ Association of Bantu Education in South Africa from 1947-1969. Lebowa was … and…
EventMandela reshuffles the cabinet
… Nelson Mandela announced changes to the government of national unity. Liebenberg's resignation took effect on April 4, the end of the 1995 - 1996 financial…
EventTrader and art collector Habib Rajab is born
… Rajab was born in Durban. He was a trader and collector of oriental art, remembered for his role in preventing the … also extended to the political and…
EventSouth African cricketer, AB de Villiers is born
… Abraham Benjamin de Villiers is a South African cricketer of note. In 2011, he succeeded Graeme Smith and became captain of the South African One Day…
EventUnrests break out in the Coloured townships
… Unrests broke out in the Coloured townships south-west of Johannesburg. This was preceded in April by the Coloured schools' boycott which began as a result…
EventTalks between the government and ANC on negotiations proceed
… 1990. These talks took place at the most delicate stage of negotiations. Violence in the townships was still … in South Africa. The conditions included the…
Ikwezi
… in Southern Africa, published in England by "a group of South African and Southern African revolutionaries with long histories of devotion to the struggle…
EventThe UDF launches the Million Signatures Campaign and by October collect just under 400 000 signatures.
… and its constitutional reforms, and as a show of support for the UDF. By the end of the campaign in October, it had only managed to collect … to 400 000…
ArchiveNUSAS Press Bulletin
… Press statements issued by Paul Pretorius, President of the National Union of South African Students, and Geoff Budlender on behalf of the Students…
ArchiveNew Brighton Vilgilance Committee
… Report from the Town Clerk of the City of Port Elizabeth to Native Affairs Committee regarding … Committee concerning matters affecting the welfare of the…
ArchiveGandhi: Luthuli: King: Mandela: a legacy for the future
… Light grey background. Artwork of Gandi, Luthuli, King and Mandela with a white dove in front of them. Notice of an exhibition at the Documentation Centre,…
Archive4. The conscientious objectors
… Page 4 of folder 2858. ECC poster. White with black lettering. Artwork of two posters with drawings of Philip Wilkinson at his trial. Quote from part of his …
Archive21 days that rocked the chamber
… National Union of Mineworkers multicoloured poster. Photograph of a man with arms raised, other people behind him, outside the Chamber of Mines building. 9 -…
ArchiveThe church and the elections
… Yellow poster with black lettering. Notice of meeting at Cathedral Place, Wednesday 29th April 1987. Issued by Justice and Peace Commission. List of speakers…
ANC Negotiations Bulletin
… Negotiations Bulletin, No.39, December 1993. Covers period of negotiations. Reports on transforming local Government. Includes Summit of Local Government…
ArchiveChurch state conflict: church leaders respond
… White poster with grey lettering. Large drawing of a cross. Outlines of church leaders around the bottom of cross. List of speakers. Issued by Young…
ArchiveNamibia : A socialist independence?
… black lettering. Students Action Committee poster. Outline of map of Namibia. Image of group of people with fists raised. Meeting on Wednesday …
ArchiveECC fair
… Pink and blue poster. Notice of a fair at Rondebosch Congregational Church hall, Belmont … Road, on Saturday 5th April. ECC Poster. Artwork consists of small…
ArchiveNever-Never-Land
… Multicoloured artwork of a small girl asleep on a toadstool in a field of flowers. Notice of an exhibition of book illustrations at S.A. National …
The ANC launch the Luthuli Volunteer Corps in Magareng Sub Region, Warrenton, Frances Baard Region, 19 September 2013
… remains critical pillar that provides for the role of the masses within its structures and in driving its … which is underpinned by an understanding that the…
PlaceThe Bag Factory
… The Bag Factory is known as one of the leading visual arts facilities in Johannesburg . Since … could further mould their careers Situated on the edge of the…
ArchiveStaffrider Vol.10 No.2 1992
… Nadine Gordimer; ‘Literacy Language’ and the ‘Language of the People’ in the Contemporary SA English Poetry, Phaswane Mpe; The Poetry of Mafika Gwala,…
EventBevil Rudd, the Olympic gold, silver and bronze medalist
… 1894 in Kimberley, Northern Cape.[i] He is the grandson of Charles Rudd, one of the founders of the De Beers diamond mining company.[ii] Bevil was …
PlaceWierda Bridge, Six Mile Spruit, Pretoria
… Wierda Road, this steel girder Bridge is one the first of its kind to be Built in South Africa. It was Built in 1891 … the water line. The Bridge was…
EventThe Queen mother Elizabeth is born.
… Queen Elizabeth Angela was the ninth child and daughter of Claude George Bowes-Lyon, father and Cecilia … She was educated at home, and at the age of 10 she…
EventTanzania gains independence
… mid-eighteenth century due to the economic possibilities of the region, German missionaries from the German Church … had become known as German East Africa…
EventTrade unionist Clements Kadalie dies in East London
… Nyasaland, now Malawi . After being educated at the Church of Scotland mission station, he was trained as a teacher. In 1915, he went to South African in…