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EventAnti-apartheid activist Dr. David Webster is assassinated
David Webster, a social anthropologist at the University of the Witwatersrand and an anti-apartheid activist is shot dead by apartheid security forces. Ferdi…
EventFactions splits from The Afrikaaner Weerstandbeweging
A group of dissatisfied members of the far-right Afrikaaner Weerstandbeweging (AWB) (translated roughly as The Afrikaaner Resistance Movement) break away and…
EventMpush Makambi wins IBO champion title
Former Apla member and South African Middleweight Boxing Champion, Mpush Makambi defeated Adrian Dodson of Britain to take the Middleweight Title Fight. He was…
EventSA politician Roelf Meyer resigns.
Roelf Meyer announces his resignation as the leader of the National Party (NP) in Gauteng and also as Member of Parliament. A year later he co-founds the…
ArchiveSouth Africa is coming back: our children
ANC booklet issued during 1979, International Year of the Child. Issues covered include family life under apartheid, child health under apartheid, child farm…
ArchiveNatives (Prohibition of Interdicts) Act, Act No 64 of 1956
The Act was to prohibit the granting of interdicts or other dilatory orders of court having the effect of staying or suspending the removal or ejectment of…
ArchiveProtecting prisoners
Coloured photograph of two men sitting on a bed in jail. One in a white uniform with a red cross on the pocket of the jacket. Words at bottom - interviews…
ArchiveNgizomxoxela umama ekhaya
Ngiza kumxoxela umama ekhayaUkuthi ngisebunzimeniWakhala wakhalaEsethi 'mtanami'I am going to speak to my mother at homeTo tell her I'm in troubleShe cries,…
ArchiveMinutes of a meeting of the National Executive Committee, held at the Head Office on Sunday on 12th May 1968 at 10:30am
Minutes of a meeting of the National Executive Committee held at the head office, 12 May 1968, to discuss students matters, the expulsion from the Soviet Union…
ArchiveFOSATU victorious!
Victor in a crucial victory in FOSATU's battle against the Government's racial policies, the Natal Supreme Court has ruled that the Registrar and the Minister…
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 Anglo…
ArchiveRequest on the release of political prisoners
Request made by the Japanese government repeatedly seeks from the South African government a release of all political prisoners including Nelson Mandela, and…
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 experience…
ArchiveWomen raise your voice in the future constitution
Green and yellow poster with black lettering. Notice of a cultural event on 11th August 1991 at 10h00 at Medunsa Stadium, Pretoria. Artwork of five people with…
ArchiveJohannesburg Advice Office Annual Report to Black Sash National Conference 1978
Johannesburg Advice Office Annual Report to National Conference on 14 March 1978 discussing interview statistics, political control, pass laws, Urban Areas…
ArchiveThe Black Sash National Headquarters Report to National Conference 1978
The Black Sash National Headquarters Report given at National Conference on 14 March 1978 discussing Pensions, map of removals, death of Steve Biko, October…
ArchiveSPRO-CAS Occasional Publication Number 4: Some implications on inequality
Report of The Study Project on Christianity in Apartheid Society relating to separate development and inequality in apartheid South Africa. Contents include:…
Report on the 1st National Formation School held on the 1st to the 4th December 1969. at the Black Section,University of Natal
The idea behind the Formation school was to allow participants the chance for self-development through participation in discussions and other projects.This…
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…
ArchiveA broken landscape
Black and white poster. Notice of an exhibition of photographs, covering South Africa from 1984 to 1986, by Gideon Mendel at The Market Photo Gallery. From the…
ArchiveTowards a peoples culture
White poster with black lettering. Notice of an Arts Festival at Glenmore Hall, Athlone, on Friday 12th. Black block in centre with black, white and orange…
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…
ArchiveStop rape meeting
White poster with red lettering. Notice of meetings List of speakers: SRC Women's Portfolio, Academic, BSS, POWA. Videos. Meetings on Tuesday 3rd, Wednesday…
ArchiveEducation for barbarism: Bantu (Apartheid) education in South Africa
The author, himself, one of the leaders in the unity movement and in the struggle for liberation, tries to focus attention on the education system in South…
ArchiveJazz Concert
Black, white and yellow poster. Notice of a fundraising jazz concert at Community Arts Project, Chapel Street, Woodstock, on Tuesday 30th September. Concert…
EventAWB members are sentenced for disrupting elections
Five members of the ultra right Afrikaner Resistance Movement (AWB) were sentenced to twenty-six years imprisonment each for their part in a bombing campaign…
ArchiveLetter from Potlako K Leballo to Oliver Tambo
Letter from Potlako K Leballo, Acting President and National Secretary of the Pan Africanist Congress to Oliver Tambo, Acting President of the African National…
ArchiveMunicipal Police in the Eastern Cape: Paper Presented at the Black Sash National Conference 1987
Municipal Police in the Eastern Cape: Paper Presented at the Black Sash National Conference on 13 March 1987 discussing assaults by police, torture, human…
ArchiveDissension in the ranks: White opposition in South Africa
Book that covers debates by the Liberal Party, the South African Institute of Race Relations, the Black Sash, the African Resistance Movement and the South…
Extract from the report of the General Secretary, Bishop Desmond Tutu to the SACC Annual National Conference 1979 July
Extract from the report of General Secretary, Bishop Desmond Tutu to the South African Council of Churches' Annual National Conference regarding detention…