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EventMiriam Makeba returns to South Africa
… exile. Known as Mama Africa , she had left in 1959 as part of the cast of the musical King Kong and was barred from returning when … career, addressed the…
EventCourt go-ahead for United Democratic Front meetings
… Democratic Front was granted a court order by the Minister of Law and Order and Divisional Commissioner of Police to go ahead with a meeting to launch the …
ArchiveAfrica South Vol.4 No.1 Oct-Dec 1959
… Maurice Pope. The Potato Harvest, Tony O’Dowd. The Reply of Makerere, Bernard de Bunsen. The Treason Trial, E.V. Stone with illustration by David Marais. The…
Coloured by History, Shaped by Place - New perspectives on Coloured Identities in Cape Town
… This book examines-and plays with the boundaries of-the disconcerting, discomfiting meanings that have grown … It argues that coloured identities are a valid…
After Apartheid – Culture in the New South Africa Vol. 2
… One of the many issues confronting post – apartheid South Africa is that the cultural expression of its citizens was severely limited by the policies of the…
PlaceMarabastad Market Stalls, Pretoria
… where you’ll experience the colours and hustle and bustle of Africa. This area has a mix of ‘muti’ shops, spazas, a mosque, a Hindu temple and the … diverse…
EventDavid Phaswane Mogano, SA artist, is born in Pietersburg , Northern Transvaal
… medium and painted exclusively in it. He joined the group of artists known as Artists Under the Sun. The group … at Joubert Park in the Johannesburg inner…
EventSA joins World War II
… After the invasion of Poland by Germany in September 1939, SA Prime Minister … attempt was rejected by 80 votes to 67. After the refusal of Governor-General…
EventLucas Mangope leaves Mmabatho due to uprising
… President Lucas Mangope, the leader of the apartheid homeland Bophuthatswana, retreated from the capital, Mmabatho, in the face of a popular uprising after…
EventMangope calls out troops as unrest flares in Bophuthatswana
… the African National Congress (ANC) called for a blockade of the territory. The President, Lucas Mangope, wished for … South Africa. His attempt to prolong…
EventNP demands apology from TRC
… from chairman Archbishop Desmond Tutu and the resignation of vice-chairman Dr. Alex Boraine who had also publicly … Council document that government ordered…
EventAdriaan Vlok applies for amnesty
… Former apartheid era Minister of Law and Order, Adriaan Vlok, applied to the Truth and … Commission (TRC) for amnesty for his role in the bombing of a trade…
EventTogolese football player, Sheyi Emmanuel Adebayor is born
… Adebayor is a Togolese footballer. He was born to parents of Yoruba descent in the city of Lomé. After a talent scout spotted him playing, he was … cup in…
EventJames Kantor, a lawyer, is arrested for his involvement in Liliesleaf farm activities
… Wolpe. Unbeknownst to Kantor, Wolpe was an active member of uMkhonto we Sizwe (MK), the armed wing of the African National Congress (ANC). Though Kantor…
EventProfessor Bob Hepple is born
… was a trade unionist, Labour Party member and Chairman of the Treason Trial Defence Fund. From the emergence of the South African Congress of Trade Unions …
EventThe Simelela Rape Survivors Centre in Cape Town reports on rape in Khayelitsha
… Survivors Centre in Cape Town reported that almost half of the rapes in Cape Town's Khayelitsha township involved … to July 2006 the Centre treated 743 rape…
EventFirst Women Anti-Pass Campaign starts
… campaign was probably the first recorded incidence of protest by women against the Union government. About 700 … passes were stringently enforced to control…
EventBhawani Sannyassi Dayal dies
… Indian rights in SA, died in Ajmer, India. Dayal was one of the organisers of the Indian strike led by Mohandas Gandhi at Newcastle in 1913, and was a…
EventSA raises concern with the Dutch government
… its ambassador to The Hague to inform the Dutch government of its displeasure over a grant of 100,000 guilders being made to the Defence and Aid Fund for…
ArchiveAcknowledgements by Howard Barrell
… - King Kong, friend, commander and the greatest hairy one of them all - who planted the seed for this study, cleared … Africa Educational Trust generously…
Message by Albert Luthuli to the National Peace Convention, 4 October 1956, Johannesburg
… Peace is indissolubly interwoven with the question of freedom, for peace without freedom is a mockery Freedom cannot flower to its best except in a climate…
ArchiveNUSAS Press Release No. 4, 1967
… NUSAS press bulletin on the 1967 National Day of Affirmation of Academic and Human Freedom in South Africa. Contains … had accepted the invitation from the…
ArchiveEducation for liberation
… Gold and black poster. Notice of a conference at Camden Town Hall, London, on Saturday 3rd … April 1993. Organised by the Black Solidarity Committee of the…
ArchivePolitical Report
… Precis of a political report by Jacob Zuma on the socio-economic and political situation in South Africa. Covers the crisis of international capitalism, the…
ArchiveAmandla!Maatla!: en film om sydafrikansk ungdom
… Soderlund in 1984 A colour poster, advertising the release of this Swedish documentary, which tells the story of the ANC‘s Solomon Mahlangu Freedom College…
EventAlbert Nzula dies in Moscow
… Albert Nzula, teacher, journalist and leader of the Communist Party of South Africa (CPSA), died of pneumonia in Moscow, USSR. He left SA in 1931 to study in…
EventHeart specialist Dr. Chris Barnard dies
… transplant operation on Louis Washkansky, died at the age of 78 of an acute asthma attack in his hotel room in the coastal town of Phapos, on the Greek…
EventPirates win the African Champions Cup
… Orlando Pirates won the Second Leg of the 1995 African Champions Cup (ACC) Final against ASEC Mimosas with a score of 1 - 0. With this victory, Pirates…
EventAlexander Kerr is born
… Kerr, educationist, church leader and the first principal of the South African Native College (later the University of Fort Hare), was born in Kilmarnock,…
ArchiveLetter from Neville Curtis, President, NUSAS, to SRC Presidents and National Executive
… General circular letter from the President of the National Union of Students, Neville Curtis, quoting from a letter from C.D.T. Sibisi informing him that the…