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PlaceAnglo Alpha, a Railway Siding near Colligney, North West
… Railway Siding, 20 km North-West of Colligney and 5 km South-East of Lichtenburg. Takes its name from Anglo Alpha Cement Limited, a subsidiary company of…
ArchiveSpeech opening 47th Annual NUSAS Congress
… Opening speech at the 47th Annual Congress of the National Union of South African Students, University of Natal, Durban, July 1971. He discusses the…
ArchiveSouth Africa - towards a post-apartheid economy: a Consultative Seminar, Holiday Inn, Harare, 28 April - 1 May 1990
… Programme of seminar organised by the ANC Department of Economics and Planning, Congress of South African Trade Unions and the Economic Trends Group …
ArchiveCape Town Massacre : Interfaith prayer service
… White poster with black lettering. Yellow and white image of army tank going across centre of poster. Issued by Riverlea Human Rights Committee. Notice of…
ArchiveChristopher Pruter and memorial cup soccer tournament: remember June 16
… Red and white; with artwork of a footballers' leg. Notice of a soccer tournament, organised by the Cape Youth Congress - Bonteheuwel. Artwork at the bottom…
ArchiveJews for justice
… Notice of symposium entitled 'The road ahead'. Sunday 20th May at Rachel Bloch House (Kaplan Centre), University of Cape Town. List of speakers. Small map of…
ArchiveWriters : banned and exiled : read by
… Notice of reading of banned writers works at The Warehouse, Market Theatre, on … 5th March. By the Anti-censorship Action Group. List of works to be read…
ArchiveJazz Concert
… Black, white and yellow poster. Notice of a fundraising jazz concert at Community Arts Project, … Woodstock, on Tuesday 30th September. Concert in aid of…
ArchiveEvery 83 seconds ...
… Blue poster with red border. Title in red. Rows of green cut out images of women. Red image of woman sitting down with head between hands. Title is the …
ArchiveNow is the chance for the Liberal
… THE apparent invincibility and the singlemindedness of purpose of the Nationalist Government are driving the most powerful groups opposed to apartheid to the…
Zola Skweyiya, former Social Development Minister, to work at ANC Headquarters, 7 May 2009
… which would be invaluable in ensuring the effectiveness of the Office now that most comrades will be moving to the … his reasons thereof. The ANC also felt…
EventPresident Paul Kruger and Sir Alfred Milner meet in Bloemfontein to discuss the franchise question
… ended without any resolution. In September the Parliament of the Orange Free State (now known as Free State) resolved, … the two presidents, to assist the…
The Final Prize: My Life in the anti-apartheid struggle by Norman Levy
… during the 1940s, finding his niche in the left wing of the liberation movement. As an active participant in the … events that shaped the darkest and the…
EventThe PAC is formed
… Leballo were frustrated by the multi-racial character of the African National Congress (ANC). They echoed the sentiments of Anton Lembede, one of the…
EventMike Gatting’s rebel cricket tour is curtailed
… and that the event had been overrun by the politics of the day. It also confirmed that the tour was divisive and … between SACU and the NSC included reducing…
EventANC stalwart and Rivonia Trialist, Govan Mbeki, is released from Robben Island Prison
… On 5 November 1987, Govan Mbeki , member of African National Congress (ANC) National Executive … the government restricted him to the magisterial district of…
EventA vagrant from Johannesburg, Tim Singiswa on a one
… While the cross examination of a state witness in the Boeremag trial before the Pretoria … on his own and draws more interest than the questions of the…
EventNiger President Ibrahim Bare Mainassara is assassinated
… guard while boarding a plain in Niamey, the capital city of Niger. Immediately after the incident, communication … could only be dissolved by the speaker in…
EventFormer NP leader Sam de Beer joins UDM
… Former leader of the National Party (NP) in Gauteng, Sam de Beer, resigned … Roelf Meyer and Bantu Holomisa. De Beer mentioned lack of charisma from the…
EventAmerican troops withdraw from Somalia
… traded with neighbouring countries for weapons at the cost of civilian lives. The seriousness of the situation prompted the United Nations to order a ……
EventSouth African Communist Party leader, Dr. Yusuf Mahomed Dadoo dies
… A political activist and Chairman of the South African Communist Party (SACP) , Dr. Yusuf … at Highgate Cemetery, a few metres away from the grave of Karl…
EventPAC leader Robert Sobukwe is born
… Robert Mangaliso Sobukwe who would become a leader of Pan Africanist Congress (PAC) was born to Hubert and … Province (now known as Eastern Cape). He was the…
EventProf. Raymond Arthur Dart, SA anthropologist and expert on the Taung skull, dies in Sandton, Johannesburg
… Raymond Dart was born in Queensland Australia in 1893. One of nine siblings, he grew up on a farm herding cattle. He won a scholarship to study at the…
EventPieter Willem Frederik Wenning, SA painter, is born in The Hague, Netherlands
… a special liking to the Cape; which became the subject of most of his paintings. In1916, Wenning moved to the Cape, became a … led to him achieving master…
EventCyril Ramaphosa is born
… trade union activist was born in Johannesburg. He was one of the chief negotiators at the Codesa talks that opened the … in Mangaung, Free State. Here he…
EventDarrell Roodt was born on this day
… was born in Johannesburg. Growing up during the height of Apartheid South Africa, he always used the art of film to condemn the racially oppressive regime…
My Spirit Is Not Banned - Resources by Frances Baard and Barbie Schreiner
… by Frances Baard and Barbie Schreiner The Federation of South African Women's Papers, University of the Witwatersrand Historical Documents Section. The Food…
PlaceTylden, Eastern Cape
… Tylden in the region of Eastern Cape is a town in South Africa. Serving as landing site and home of settlers in the 1820's . The Eastern Cape also remains…
ArchiveBoycott the Can
… out soft drinks tin; text: Boycott the Can; The management of Metal Box retrenched 22 black workers and after a week … 1985 workers went on strike demanding…
ArchiveWe Call For An End To Conscription
… silkscreen yellow green black red blend on white; graphics of people working; soliders, people marching; text: We call … society where basic human rights are…