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EventLucas Mangope leaves Mmabatho due to uprising
… President Lucas Mangope, the leader of the apartheid homeland Bophuthatswana, retreated from the capital, Mmabatho, in the face of a popular uprising after…
EventMangope calls out troops as unrest flares in Bophuthatswana
… the African National Congress (ANC) called for a blockade of the territory. The President, Lucas Mangope, wished for … South Africa. His attempt to prolong…
EventSoweto High School under siege
… African Defence Force soldiers, travelling in a convoy of more than ten armoured vehicles, surrounded the … the strike the next week to support students'…
EventNP demands apology from TRC
… from chairman Archbishop Desmond Tutu and the resignation of vice-chairman Dr. Alex Boraine who had also publicly … Council document that government ordered…
EventAdriaan Vlok applies for amnesty
… Former apartheid era Minister of Law and Order, Adriaan Vlok, applied to the Truth and … Commission (TRC) for amnesty for his role in the bombing of a trade…
EventTogolese football player, Sheyi Emmanuel Adebayor is born
… Adebayor is a Togolese footballer. He was born to parents of Yoruba descent in the city of Lomé. After a talent scout spotted him playing, he was … cup in…
EventJames Kantor, a lawyer, is arrested for his involvement in Liliesleaf farm activities
… Wolpe. Unbeknownst to Kantor, Wolpe was an active member of uMkhonto we Sizwe (MK), the armed wing of the African National Congress (ANC). Though Kantor…
EventProfessor Bob Hepple is born
… was a trade unionist, Labour Party member and Chairman of the Treason Trial Defence Fund. From the emergence of the South African Congress of Trade Unions …
EventThe Simelela Rape Survivors Centre in Cape Town reports on rape in Khayelitsha
… Survivors Centre in Cape Town reported that almost half of the rapes in Cape Town's Khayelitsha township involved … to July 2006 the Centre treated 743 rape…
EventFirst Women Anti-Pass Campaign starts
… campaign was probably the first recorded incidence of protest by women against the Union government. About 700 … passes were stringently enforced to control…
EventBhawani Sannyassi Dayal dies
… Indian rights in SA, died in Ajmer, India. Dayal was one of the organisers of the Indian strike led by Mohandas Gandhi at Newcastle in 1913, and was a…
Message by Albert Luthuli to the National Peace Convention, 4 October 1956, Johannesburg
… Peace is indissolubly interwoven with the question of freedom, for peace without freedom is a mockery Freedom cannot flower to its best except in a climate…
ArchiveNUSAS Press Release No. 4, 1967
… NUSAS press bulletin on the 1967 National Day of Affirmation of Academic and Human Freedom in South Africa. Contains … had accepted the invitation from the…
ArchiveEducation for liberation
… Gold and black poster. Notice of a conference at Camden Town Hall, London, on Saturday 3rd … April 1993. Organised by the Black Solidarity Committee of the…
ArchivePolitical Report
… Precis of a political report by Jacob Zuma on the socio-economic and political situation in South Africa. Covers the crisis of international capitalism, the…
ArchiveAmandla!Maatla!: en film om sydafrikansk ungdom
… Soderlund in 1984 A colour poster, advertising the release of this Swedish documentary, which tells the story of the ANC‘s Solomon Mahlangu Freedom College…
EventAlbert Nzula dies in Moscow
… Albert Nzula, teacher, journalist and leader of the Communist Party of South Africa (CPSA), died of pneumonia in Moscow, USSR. He left SA in 1931 to study in…
EventSouth African Air Force bombs ANC in Maputo
… an African National Congress's 20 May 1983 car bombing of headquarters of the South African Defence Force in Pretoria, ANC bases in a suburb of Maputo,…
EventHeart specialist Dr. Chris Barnard dies
… transplant operation on Louis Washkansky, died at the age of 78 of an acute asthma attack in his hotel room in the coastal town of Phapos, on the Greek…
EventPirates win the African Champions Cup
… Orlando Pirates won the Second Leg of the 1995 African Champions Cup (ACC) Final against ASEC Mimosas with a score of 1 - 0. With this victory, Pirates…
EventAlexander Kerr is born
… Kerr, educationist, church leader and the first principal of the South African Native College (later the University of Fort Hare), was born in Kilmarnock,…
ArchiveLetter from Neville Curtis, President, NUSAS, to SRC Presidents and National Executive
… General circular letter from the President of the National Union of Students, Neville Curtis, quoting from a letter from C.D.T. Sibisi informing him that the…
Archie Gumede Inaugural Memorial Lecture Invitation
… Professor Ahmed C Bawa, Vice-Chancellor and Principal of the Durban University of Technology and Mr Don Gumede, Founder of the Archie Gumede Foundation…
EventThabo Mbeki addressed the Pan African Parliament held in Midrand
… he mentioned that Africa needs large volumes of capital effectively to address the challenge of the eradication of poverty and underdevelopment. He said…
ArchiveWe have survived!
… Yellow, red, black and white poster. Notice of an Aboriginal Poster Exhibition. Commemorating 200 years of Aboriginal Resistance in Australia - 1788 - 1988. …
ArchiveStrategic issues in the struggle for national liberation in South Africa
… change in the country: provision for the legal recognition of Black trade unions, abandonment of the legal reservation of certain jobs for Whites only,…
EventGill Marcus is born
… Gill Marcus, former Deputy Minister of Finance from 1996-1999, Deputy Governor of the South African Reserve Bank and Manager of Spoornet, was born in…
EventSA artist Vuminkosi Zulu is born
… Former graduate of the famous Rorke's Drift School of Art, South African artist Vuminkosi Zulu , was born in … Zulu became a world-renowned artist and his…
EventAndries Hendrik Potgieter is born
… Andries Hendrik Potgieter, the leader of a Voortrekker group which he led during the battle of Vegkop when attacked by the Matabele (Ndebele), was born ……
ArchiveLetter from Duncan Innes, President, NUSAS, to SRC Presidents and National Executive
… Circular letter from the President of the National Union of South African Students, Duncan Innes, reporting on a meeting between a delegation from NUSAS and…