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Vote ANC
… with yellow lettering. Nine black and white photographs of short history of the ANC. Coloured photograph of a man and a woman casting their vote. ANC logo. …
ArchiveCommemoration Service
… Notice of Commemoration Service for Brian Mbulelo Mazibuko. To be held of 14th October 1984 at Mathole Cinema. Blue and white poster. Photo of Brian Mbulelo…
ArchiveProgressive theological education
… a reconstructed address by Frank Chikane, a Minister of the African Methodist Episcopal Chruch, to the Koinonia Conference of Theological Education at the…
ArchivePriests, protests and politics
… This article discusses the role of clergy in the church in South Africa and the application of Christian principles to the political and social spheres…
ArchiveMass rally: UWC stadium
… Red and white with artwork of protestors holding banners which read: "The boycott continues" and "Each one teach one". Notice of a rally taking place at the…
ArchiveHamba kakuhle comrade Ace Ayanda Silika
… Black and white poster with image of Ayanda Silika who was shot dead in Crossroads while allegedly escaping from the custody of members of the Unrest…
ArchiveEen Azania : Een Natie : Een Volk
… Light yellow poster. Black lettering. Green artwork of continent of Africa outlined in black, yellow and white. African woman with fist raised and a gun on…
ArchiveOver 1 500 detained since July 20
… One of the major reasons for the State President, PW Botha, declaring a State of Emergency in 36 magisterial districts was to justify the mass detentions of…
EventJody Scheckter
… Scheckter is also infamously known for being the cause of one of the biggest accidents in the history of Formula One.[iv] End Notes [i] Jody Scheckter:…
Answers to questions by Drum: Albert Luthuli, 6 May 1961
… Demonstrations against Proclamation of Republic 6 May 1961 [Drum asked several non-European … the planned demonstrations. The following are answers of Chief…
EventOrlando Pirates captain and goalkeeper, Senzo Meyiwa dies
… township, near Johannesburg,where he was at the time of the tragedy. Meyiwa was one of the best players of Orlando Pirates. He was also a part of Orlando…
EventTwo ANC members gunned down in Swaziland.
… African Press Agency that the incident “had all the singes of the military precision of a well planned pre-emptive strike by an outside group.”The … to City…
Zephania Mothopeng - Searchlight South Africa, Vol 1, No. 2, February 1989
… account. When this was received there was no news of an impending release, although it was known that Mothopeng was grievously ill. Part of the document…
PlaceVictoria Tower, Uitenhage
… Dutch Layout popular in the Cape Colony at the time of the founding of Uitenhage - of broad streets, water culverts and widely spaced thatched …
PlaceRiebeeck Square, Cape Town.
… to outspan their wagons. This changed after the annexation of the Cape by the British in 1806, when a new market was established immediately east of the…
EventDefiance campaign leadership meets with SAIC
… Campaign Executive members meet with the leadership of South African Indian Congress (SAIC) to recommend a … African nationalism and mass action and to…
EventSA Prime Minister, B.J. Vorster reveals that SA scientists have succeeded in developing a new process for uranium enrichment
… Balthazar Johannes Vorster announced in the House of Assembly in Cape Town that South African scientists have … described the success as ‘unequalled in the…
EventUN Secretary-General Hammerskjöld arrives in Congo
… Dag Hammerskjöld, secretary-general of the United Nations (UN), arrived in the Congo to try to … between Katanga troops and the non combatant forces of the…
EventChief Cyprian Zulu warns his people not to participate in the Defiance Campaign
… was planned in the 1950s in response to the enactment of numerous apartheid laws by the South African government. … certain specified unjust and racially…
EventEgypt is placed under martial law in response to widespread riots against the British
… Parliament approved the unilateral official cancellation of the Anglo-Egyptian Alliance Treaty of 1936 and appointed Crown Prince Farouk as king. Between ……
EventAbdullah Abdurahman, medical doctor and Cape community leader, dies in Cape Town
… and Cape community leader, died on this day at the age of 69. Founder and leader of the anti-apartheid African People's Organisation (APO) , he was the first…
EventLesotho addresses political exiles in the country
… to leave the country, to indicate proposed dates of departure and countries of choice. Transit rights through South Africa would be … Prime Minister B.J…
Event26 parties meet to discuss future negotiations
… Nine months after the collapse of Codesa II, twenty-six parties - the most representative gathering of South African political groups ever assembled for ……
EventANC Consultative Conference comes to an end
… 30 April 1991, the ANC shall consider the suspension of the whole negotiation process" and announced that 1991 would be a "year of mass action". It rejected…
EventMalebane Metsing stages a coup in Bophuthatswana
… A dissatisfied faction of the Bophuthatswana Defence Force and some members of the National Executive Committee of the People's Progressive Party, led by…
EventMozambique and Soviet Union reject Margo Commission’s finding
… Mozambique and the Soviet Union rejected the findings of the Margo Commission, led by Justice Cecil Margo. The … into the aircraft crash in which President…
EventGeneral Motors fails to leave RSA quietly
… owned automobile industry in South Africa, pulled out of the country amidst a series of disputes and strikes from workers fearing for their … The decision to…
EventSA sprinter Oscar Pistorius reaches the final
… The seventeen year old Pretoria schoolboy sprinter of Pretoria Boys' High, Oscar Pistorius, fell coming out of the start of his 200m heat for leg amputees,…
EventElisabeth Eybers, South African poet, is born
… mainly written in Afrikaans, although she translated some of her own work - and those of other Afrikaans poets - into English. Her work was also … German,…
EventZulu assault at Holkrantz
… On 6 March 1902 in the district of Vryheid, a Zulu Chief, Sikobobo, attacked a Boer regiment … in which 56 Boers were killed, three captured and 380 head of…