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EventUnion leader, Moses Mayekiso is reported to be under arrest on his return from Sweden.
… Moses Mayekiso was the General Secretary of the Metal and Allied Workers Union (MAWU) and became a member of the South African Communist Party (SACP)…
EventSACC publishes a report condemning apartheid as a false faith hostile to Christian beliefs
… A Commission of the South African Council of Churches (SACC) published a report condemning apartheid as … the country for twenty years and the harsh…
EventSouth African artist Fikile Magadledla is born
… who learned and benefited greatly from his peers. One of his mentors was Harold Jeppe, who introduced him to art circles in Johannesburg. Most of his works…
EventItaly invades Ethiopia
… to as Ualual) in Southern Ethiopia along the border of Somaliland increased the tension. The League of Nations, which Ethiopia had joined in 1923 called for …
EventElizabeth Taylor remarries Richard Burton in Botswana
… Ambrose Masalila, and witnessed by two employees of the Chobe Game Lodge, Fred Knoessen (manager) and Brian Graham (tour guide) in the far-off village of…
EventDr. Albert Hertzog is attacked by Ben Schoeman
… During his first speech as a member of Herstigte Nationale Party (HNP) a far-right political … Dr. Albert Hertzog was scornfully attacked by the Minister of…
EventNelson Mandela announces intentions on nationalisation policy
… his party was prepared to abandon its long-held policy of nationalisation if the business community could provide an … the private sector will be excluded…
EventCOSATU conference prohibited and organisers restricted
… which aimed to include delegates from a broad spectrum of anti-apartheid organisations, and restricted its … included Chris Ndodebandla Dlamini*, first vice…
EventBafana Bafana wins over Ghana
… Bafana Bafana, secured 1-0 victory over Ghana, a co-host of the 2000 Africa Cup of Nations contest at Kumasi stadium in Ghana. The victory … earned South…
EventPresidential Job Summit is held
… to a call by President Nelson Mandela, representatives of government, business, labour and other community and … jobs in the country. The Summit proposed the…
EventUnited Nations appoints Kofi Annan as secretary
… citizen, Kofi Annan, was appointed as secretary-general of the United Nations (UN) to replace the outgoing Boutros Boutros Ghali, whose term of office had…
EventEarly Xhosa author William Gqoba dies
… Eastern Cape. He was born in Gaga, near Alice, and was one of the earliest authors in Xhosa literature. Charles Brownlee rated him one of the best, if not…
EventSkipper Bertie Reed passes away
… (Bertie) Reed (63), international sailing legend and one of the most popular skippers in single-handed racing around … Reed will be especially remembered for…
EventSouth African author and feminist Olive Schreiner is born
… in Wynberg, Cape Town, on 10 December 1920. The Department of Tourism in the Eastern Cape has converted a house into a museum and named it after her. Some of…
EventThe Polio vaccine, developed by Dr. Jonas Salk, is declared safe and effective
… was declared safe and effective. It had taken a whole year of trials and tests for the vaccine to be finally be … made available for use. Salks’s vaccine…
EventSir de Villiers Graaff and Theo Gerdener jointly express their agreement to form a new party
… In a joint declaration the leaders of the United Party (UP), Sir de Villiers Graaff and the … expressed their agreement to form a new party on the basis of…
EventBoeremag members Dirk Hanekom and Henk van Zyl are arrested in Memel. Only Hanekom is charged.
… Two members of the extreme right-wing group, Boeremag, Dirk Hanekom and … They were taken into custody a month after a warrant of arrest was issued against…
EventDr David Webster, a social anthropologist at Wits University and political activist, is shot dead outside his home
… in South Africa. He studied Anthropology at the University of Grahamstown and later went on to teach the subject at the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits…
EventYusuf Dadoo, political activist, is born
… Johannesburg. According to Essop Pahad, the story of Dadoo’s life was inextricably linked to the resistance of racial discrimination and apartheid. Dadoo was…
ArchiveWomen against apartheid in South Africa
… 9 August 1956 by 20000 women against pass laws, the plight of Black women under apartheid, the lives of some of the women who have gone to prison, been…
ArchiveMusic Concert
… Top of poster white with title in dark blue and dark blue image of a saxophone player with the word music interwoven and musical notes. Bottom half of poster…
ArchiveNUSAS in the 1970s
… Position paper by Neville Curtis, President of the National Union of South African Students, prepared for the 46th Annual Congress of the Union, 14th to 25th…
ArchiveThe South African Reality
… a speech presented by Desmond Tutu, General Secretary of the South African Council of Churches, to students at the University of Natal. His speech covers…
ArchiveYou can prevent AIDS
… Multicoloured cartoon of a man and woman in bed with skeleton in between with word AIDS on it. Balloon, from mouth of worman, with words "We cannot run away…
EventNiger's Independence Day
… grant independence to the four regions that it was made up of – namely the Ivory Coast, Niger, Dahomey (now the Republic of Benin) and Volta (now Burkina…
PlaceStaats Model School, Van der Walt Street, Pretoria
… Building when, for a time it was used to House Prisoners-of-War, during the Anglo-Boer War . Single-storied red brick … This is where Winston Churchill…
EventKenneth David Kaunda wins Zambian elections
… wins Zambian elections and will become the first president of an independent republic on 24 October 1964. The victory of Kaunda in the elections signaled an…
EventStampede kills twelve people in Harare
… was filled to capacity with spectators. At the beginning of the match some people in the stadium chanted Movement of Democratic Change (MDC) slogans and…
EventTRC releases documents revealing plot to kill UN Secretary
… United Nations Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold of Sweden. He stated that although the TRC could not verify the authenticity of such a plot, he decided to…
EventThe consortium Midi Television is awarded the first privately owned free
… Enshrined in the South African Bill of rights, is the right to free access to information. In this spirit, the Independent Communications Authority of South…