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EventAdelaide Tambo returns to South Africa after 30 years
… active after her grandfather's arrest at the age of ten. While she attended high school, she started to work … for the African National Congress (ANC). At…
EventElephant poaching reaches an all time high
… have been hunted for several centuries, the exploitation of elephant herds on a massive scale began in the 1970s. Organized gangs of poachers used automatic…
EventThe Dutch East India Company decides to send French Huguenot refugees to the Cape
… The Huguenots were French Protestants who were members of the Calvinist Reformed Church that was established in … France for their religious beliefs…
EventWorld Population Day
… Day. This day was established by the Governing Council of the United Nations Development Programme in 1989. It was a result of the interest generated by the…
EventLocal government elections thrown in disarray
… The Constitutional Court's ruling against the use of decree powers by President Nelson Mandela, threw the … disarray. The National Party's (NP) provincial…
EventThe South African Reserve Bank is established
… The South African Reserve Bank was established in terms of the Currency and Banking Act, 1920 (Act No. 31 of 1920) in Parliament.This came into being after a…
EventHelen Suzman is born
… 36 years in Parliament she defended the right to freedom of expression for all South Africans; with great courage she … became its sole representative in…
EventKing Dinuzulu defies British order
… during the Second Anglo-Boer War. Col. H.B. Bottomley of the Imperial White Horse warned the king that, under … armed by the British. There is controversy…
EventSouth African Committee investigates the Jameson Raid report
… The Jameson Raid of 1895 did tremendous harm to the relationship between the … Office in South Africa appointed a Mr Labouchere as head of a South African…
EventFriedrich Engels, German philosopher, dies in London
… 1895 after a long battle with a throat cancer. The son of a successful industrialist, he was sent to England to help … in Manchester Engels was stunned by…
EventChief Malaboch is taken prisoner
… In April 1894, Chief Malaboch (Mmaleboho, Mmaleboxo) of the Bahananwa (Xananwa) people refused to leave his traditional mountain kingdom of Blouberg as…
PlaceQueen’s Tavern, 16 Stamford Hill Road, Durban
… Built as a gentleman's club in 1894, this is one of Durban’s few remaining links with its Colonial past. It is … Monument. Graham Leonard signed it as the…
Presidents address to the 51st NUSAS Congres
… Address by the President of the National Union of South African Students to the 51st Congress of the National Union, University of Natal, Pietermaritzburg, …
Confidential Report on 1970 SASO Conference
… The report contains an overview of the resolutions adopted at the Conference and a discussion of new aspects of SASO policy, in particular the change of…
Confidential Report on 1970 SASO Conference
… The report contains an overview of the resolutions adopted at the Conference and a discussion of new aspects of SASO policy, in particular the change of…
ArchiveConfidential Report on 1970 SASO Conference
… The report contains an overview of the resolutions adopted at the Conference and a discussion of new aspects of SASO policy, in particular the change of…
ArchiveSave our future
… Pink, black and white poster. Details of cost of war. List of human rights violations. Issued by Visayas Ecumenical …
ArchiveMass action for people power: June 16
… White, red and black COSATU poster. Artwork of Hector Pieterson image. Artwork of hands carrying three red flags with images of crowds of people on them…
ArchiveNational Symposium on alcohol use and abuse
… Black and white poster. Notice of a Ministry of Health Symposium on February 22-24th, at University Student Union Hall . Artwork of four hands holding…
ArchiveNicaragua necesita tecnicos
… Multicoloured poster. Artwork of a man and a woman reading books. Four circles representing four different occupations. Ministry of Education, program of…
ArchiveStudent assembly in Arcade
… Cream poster with brown lettering and artwork. Notice of a meeting in Arcade. Artwork of a crowd of people in a semi-circle. List of attractions and speakers…
ArchiveHeritage Day: 24 September 1996
… Brown, black and white poster. Photograph of Enoch Sontonga, and a short history of him in three languages. Artwork of Lovedale Church. Words of Nkosi…
ArchiveFreiheit fur Namibia
… and white poster. Solidarity with SWAPO poster. Artwork of thousands of people fighting. Artwork of map of Africa with Namibia in black and a rising sun. …
ArchiveChurch solidarity with the peasants' stru
… land reform and national industrialization." Artwork of lots of hands trying to catch a piece of land. Rural Missionaries of the Philippines poster. …
ArchiveArchbishop Burnett puts the record straight
… Archbishop Burnett from the Church of the Province of Southern Africa detailing three attacks on the Church by the Minister of Police, the Media and the…
ArchiveWar on Want in Southern Africa
… Black and white War on Want poster. Photograph of women in Zimbabwe working in the fields and small photograph of Angolan refugees. Outline of map of…
ArchiveNuclear South Africa
… Title in white letters on black background. Outline of map of South Africa with major cities represented by large circles. Map surrounded by image of sea…
ArchiveThe defiance campaign
… laws and go to jail so that the jails would be too full, of people who didn't like the apartheid laws. The Defiance … we will have no rights in the white…
PlaceMofolo Arts Centre
… Street in Mofolo, the Mofolo Arts Centre is a hub of cultural and artistic exploration in Soweto. The centre is one of the few institutions that gave…
Planned DA march to Luthuli House, 23 January 2014
… The African National Congress is aware of the intended march by the Democratic Alliance to the ANC … we respect and will always advance and defend the right…