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ArchiveCommunist Party mass meeting
… Cream poster with black and red lettering. Notice of a meeting at Woodstock Town Hall on Thursday, March 18th. List of Speakers. Issued by the Communist…
ArchiveCultural Event
… White poster with black lettering. Notice of a cultural event at Mayfair Boxing Hall, Mayfair, on … 22nd February. Issued by Women's Cultural Group. Artwork…
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,…