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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…
EventF.W. de Klerk clamps down on KwaZulu
… was long overdue, President F.W. de Klerk imposed a state of emergency in KwaZulu-Natal, coinciding with a report by … 266 political killings in Natal since…
PlaceRugby Museum, V & A Waterfront, Cape Town
… The Rugby Museum has one of the largest private collections of rugby memorabilia and is one of its kind in the world, a must-see for rugby fans, the …
ArchiveCC Resolution on Elections
… Resolutions of the Central Committee of the South African Communist Party on elections, on Angola, … Savimbi's refusal to recognise the democratic right of…
ArchiveAmaqhawe Esizwe
… Black and white poster giving notice of a memorial service on 15th March 1989 at GTH. List of names. Words Hambani Kahle at top. Black Students Interim…
Speak
… Front page of Speak magazine No. 16, August-October 1987. Blue poster. Title of feature article: "Fighting our slavery: Domestic workers … organise" in…
ArchiveRace, culture and personality
… who was concerned with the social and political importance of race problems and more specifically the study of race, culture and the psychology of African…
PlaceCwanguba
… A forest 34km East of Elliotdale. The forest is reputed to have resulted from Imilenya shrubs, planted on the grave of Chief Tsiwo! The name is thought to be…
EventSouth Africa will subscribe to the UDHR
… president, Nelson Mandela, announced in his first State of the Nation Address to Parliament that South Africa will subscribe to the Universal Declaration of…
ArchiveGrahamstown and group areas: some facts
… Map showing the plan of the city of Grahamstown under the Group Areas. Also includes Map showing the proposed zoning of Grahamstown under the Group Areas Act…
ArchiveA bill
… A bill to amend the comprehensive Anti-Apartheid Act of 1986 to prohibit United States depository institutions … to South African depository institutions and…
SABC CEO Jimi Matthews quits: ‘What’s happening at the SABC is wrong' (Tmg Digital), 27 June 2016
… Matthews tweeted a picture of his resignation letter to SABC board chair Professor … made me complicit in many decision which I am not proud of. “What is…
Author uncovers Gandhi’s links with early ANC leaders by Anelisa Kubheka (Daily News), 02 March 2012, Durban
… shown that Gandhi had close ties and friendships with some of the ANC’s early presidents when he was still alive. … Anil Nauriya was speaking at the Durban…
PlaceLittle Lions Head, Mt. Above Llandudno
… Sandy Bay and Hout Bay and is basically a smaller version of Lions Head as they look almost identical. " We went for … day so I decided it would be wrong not…
EventPenny Heyns, South African swimming star, is born.
… Penelope Heyns, was born on the 8th of November 1974 in Springs, Transvaal. Her parents later … excelled in both academics and in athletics. At the age of 13…
EventThe UN orders Libya to hand over two suspects linked to the Lockerbie bombing
… on board were killed, as were eleven people in the town of Lockerbie, where large sections of the plane plummeted. Thus, the air disaster is referred to as…
EventAsiatic Law Amendment Act is passed in Transvaal parliament leading to increased Indian protest under MK Gandhi
… promulgated a new Act which enforced registration of the colony's Indian population. At a mass protest meeting … 11th that year, MK Gandhi adopted his…
PlaceCR Swart Building
… Click on image to enlarge Known as the "Pride of the Free State", the CR Swart Building houses the … a 26th-floor revolving restaurant. The name change of…
EventSoweto students march against government’s language policy
… march, but ended with violence, tears, blood and death of a 13 year old boy, Hector Peterson. The Soweto uprising … when more than 20 000 learners marched…
On Post Colonial African Liberation Movements
… On the 25th of May 2017 the Economic Freedom Fighters Student Command … Ndlozi. This event will take place at the University of Cape Town's New Lecture…
EventMiriam Makeba returns to South Africa
… exile. Known as Mama Africa , she had left in 1959 as part of the cast of the musical King Kong and was barred from returning when … career, addressed the…
EventCourt go-ahead for United Democratic Front meetings
… Democratic Front was granted a court order by the Minister of Law and Order and Divisional Commissioner of Police to go ahead with a meeting to launch the …
ArchiveAfrica South Vol.4 No.1 Oct-Dec 1959
… Maurice Pope. The Potato Harvest, Tony O’Dowd. The Reply of Makerere, Bernard de Bunsen. The Treason Trial, E.V. Stone with illustration by David Marais. The…
Coloured by History, Shaped by Place - New perspectives on Coloured Identities in Cape Town
… This book examines-and plays with the boundaries of-the disconcerting, discomfiting meanings that have grown … It argues that coloured identities are a valid…
After Apartheid – Culture in the New South Africa Vol. 2
… One of the many issues confronting post – apartheid South Africa is that the cultural expression of its citizens was severely limited by the policies of the…
PlaceMarabastad Market Stalls, Pretoria
… where you’ll experience the colours and hustle and bustle of Africa. This area has a mix of ‘muti’ shops, spazas, a mosque, a Hindu temple and the … diverse…
EventDavid Phaswane Mogano, SA artist, is born in Pietersburg , Northern Transvaal
… medium and painted exclusively in it. He joined the group of artists known as Artists Under the Sun. The group … at Joubert Park in the Johannesburg inner…
EventSA joins World War II
… After the invasion of Poland by Germany in September 1939, SA Prime Minister … attempt was rejected by 80 votes to 67. After the refusal of Governor-General…