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ArchiveTowards peoples culture : Arts Festival 86
… Notice of Arts Festival. Black circle in centre. First part of title in black letters around top of circle. Second part in white letters outlined in black …
ArchiveFrontline states: ANC together: in struggle
… with black lettering, and black border. Green outline of South Africa, with black and white artwork of men with rifles marching across it. Image of black,…
ArchiveSlotavond van remember Soweto ..maand
… poster. Foreign language. Seems to be a concert in support of the struggle in South Africa. List of performers. Artwork of guitarist smashing his guitar…
ArchivePanel discussion: why end conscription?
… End Conscription Campaign poster. Artwork of green, black and red heads of soldiers with hard hats on around the border on a white background. Notice of a…
We are here because you were there ... without us there is no Britain
… Beige, red, black and white poster. History of imperialism and the start of the first world war. Various artwork of people fighting. Map of Africa divided up…
Archive1,000 pounds smash fascism fund
… for the home front. Year 1941 pencilled in. Artwork of a raised fist. Issued by the Cape District Committee of the Communist Party of South Africa. List of…
PlaceNapier
… The road to Napier takes you through never ending fields of wheat and barley, where the endangered Blue Crane can … wheat and barley fields, at the Southern…
PlaceGod’s Window
… Drakensberg escarpment God's Window stands at an altitude of 1,829m/6,000ft extending northward over the Blyde River … formations and waterfalls, God's…
EventGerman torpedoes sink the SS Mendoza close to Durban
… Later it was also used as a liner by the Ministry of War for transporting troops. Towards the end of October 1942 the SS Mendoza sailed without an armoured ……
EventVlakplaas Commander testifies before Harms Commission about secret police killings in 1981
… hit squad, with 16 police officers. The existence of the unit was first revealed publicly in 1988 on the eve of the execution of Almond Nofomela. Before his…
EventMother Teresa is buried
… school and devote herself to working among the poorest of the poor in the slums of Calcutta. Working alone at first but later joined by … the first state…
EventSouth African artist Gerard Sekoto is born
… amongst the Pedi community in the Middelburg district of the Transvaal (now Mpumalanga). He was the son of Andreas Sekoto, a leading member of the new…
PlaceHazyview
… describes the hazy, lazy days during summers, typical of the African Bushveld whilst on Safari. Hazyview is central to the Kruger Lowveld Region of…
ArchiveLeon Trotsky
… Black, red and white poster. 50th anniversary of the death of Leon Trotsky. Artwork of Leon Trotsky, murdered by Stalin on 20th August 1940. Call …
We are here because you were there ... without us there is no Britain
… Yellow, red, black and white poster. History of cotton in the Southern United States of America, the start of the Civil War, and the end of slavery. Series…
ArchiveAffirmation
… lettering. Students Representative Council, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. Signatures gathered at … Airport on 29th January 1971, regarding…
Health and safety before profits
… letters, on black, yellow, red and white poster. Red image of clenched fist in middle. Black image of factories and oil drums across top of poster. Black…
Seedtimes Retrospective Omar Badsha
… A major retrospective exhibition of Omar Badsha’s drawings, woodcuts and photographic essays … acknowledged as having crafted a new vocabulary and a way of…
TRAC (Transvaal Rural Action Committee) Newsletter, 1983 - 1990
… Rural Action Committee, established in 1983 as a project of the Black Sash, published this Newsletter with the intention of giving communities under threat…
PlaceHouse Preller, Hartebeesport
… journalist and historian who championed the cause of the Afrikaans language. He occupied this house from 1935 until his death, and many of his later…
PlaceKlapperkop Fort, Pretoria
… Klapperkop offers visitors panoramic views of Pretoria in all directions. Not only is it fast becoming a … and mountain biking destination, but with the…
PlacePolokwane Art Museum
… indoor collections, and the outdoor collection consists of many sculptures on permanent display. A mass of metal, made up of melted guns which were…
EventEthiopia requests OAU to stop Somali intervention in the Ogaden Province
… Ethiopia requested the Organisation of African Unity (OAU), predecessor of the African Union to stop Somali intervention in the … 1977. The Somali Army…
EventPope John Paul II visits Africa
… Pope John Paul II began his first tour of Africa, including visits to Zaire (presently known as the Democratic Republic of Congo), Congo, Kenya, Ghana, Upper…
EventTranskei gains complete independence
… The oldest of the independent homelands, Transkei, gained complete … independence as an autonomous republic under the policy of separate development. At its…
EventDelmas Treason Trial starts
… Trial, up to that time the longest trial in the history of SA, started in Delmas, east of Pretoria. Twenty-two Transvaal United Democratic Front (UDF)…
EventMining agreement on wages and working conditions is signed
… The Chamber of Mines and the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) signed an agreement on wages and working conditions, averting the likelihood of damaging…
EventLabour pioneer Samuel Long is arrested
… Samuel Alfred (Taffy) Long, heralded as one of South Africa's greatest working-class martyrs, was arrested after the defeat of Fordsburg during the Rand…
EventMary Elizabeth Barber, pioneer naturalist, dies
… Barber was a remarkable woman with an extensive knowledge of natural history, especially botany and entomology and … with valuable information for his work…
Le Rona Re Batho by Phyllis Naidoo - Introduction
… From the book: Le Rona Re Batho (An account of the 1982 Maseru Massacre) by Phyllis Naidoo, South Africa, … help that would suit politicos. One medico, in…