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ArchivePolice reserves are traps
… This pamphlet discusses the formation of police reserves, and APDUSA examines the so-called reasons for the formation of the police reserves as been lies,…
ArchiveNUSAS July Festival
… Blue, black and white poster. Black lettering. Notice of Festival at Wits University. 2nd to 7th July. Artwork of outline of South Africa with jail bars over…
1st May : May Day meeting
… White poster giving notice of May Day meeting. Image of black flag with title in white letters. Black image of factory with closed sign on it. List of…
ArchiveUDUSA
… White background with red lettering. Image of university at top right hand corner. Union of Democratic University Staff Association. Tribute and … to Comrade…
Focus week on Namibia
… White poster with red lettering. Black outline of map of Namibia with a man working inside it. Notice of seminars on Wednesday 27th at SS2 and Thursday 28th…
ArchiveUnderneath every womans curve lies a muscl
… and white poster. See red women's workshop poster. List of parts of the body which could be used in self-defence. Artwork of a woman carrying a handbag and a…
We are here because you were there ... without us there is no Britain
… Orange, black and white poster. Photographs of people of different countries which were taken over by Britain. Photographs of people from these countries…
We are here because you were there ... without us there is no Britain
… Blue, black, red and white poster. Artwork and photographs of German people, including Hitler. History of the Nazi occupation and attrocities and start of…
ArchiveWe are here because you were there ... without us there is no Britain.
… Yellow, brown, black and white poster. Map of ancient world. Ancient civilisations. History of how the Spanish destroyed the Aztecs, the Incas and the Mayas…
ArchiveOn the eve
… EIGHTEEN months after the Queenstown Conference of the African National Congress, which gave birth to the idea, the Congress of the People of South Africa to…
EventRay Simons dies
… born in Latvia in 1914, died in Cape Town at the age of 91. Simons was instrumental in the formation of the Federation of South African Women (FEDSAW) and…
EventClarence Makwetu Passes Away
… At the age of 88, Clarence Makwetu passed away in Queenstown Private … at 13:30 after a long illness. Makwetu was born on the 6th of December 1928 in the…
EventProposal made to stop sending Black troops to assist in WW1
… on this day: “That this House strongly disapproves of sending coloured men and natives from South Africa to … war or otherwise.” This motion was against the…
PlaceWelgelegen Farm, Stellenbosch
… Welgelegen is a working Farm nestled in the Valleys of the Bottelary Hills just outside of Stellenbosch. This Farm with its Vineyards , Proteas and … for…
EventFEDSAW Western Cape Region launched
… The Federation of South African Women (FEDSAW) was one of the women’s rights organisations that emerged in the 1950s … particular. FEDSAW was multi racial…
EventSACC publishes a report condemning apartheid as a false faith hostile to Christian beliefs
… A Commission of the South African Council of Churches (SACC) published a report condemning apartheid as … the country for twenty years and the harsh…
EventSouth African artist Fikile Magadledla is born
… who learned and benefited greatly from his peers. One of his mentors was Harold Jeppe, who introduced him to art circles in Johannesburg. Most of his works…
EventItaly invades Ethiopia
… to as Ualual) in Southern Ethiopia along the border of Somaliland increased the tension. The League of Nations, which Ethiopia had joined in 1923 called for …
EventElizabeth Taylor remarries Richard Burton in Botswana
… Ambrose Masalila, and witnessed by two employees of the Chobe Game Lodge, Fred Knoessen (manager) and Brian Graham (tour guide) in the far-off village of…
EventDr. Albert Hertzog is attacked by Ben Schoeman
… During his first speech as a member of Herstigte Nationale Party (HNP) a far-right political … Dr. Albert Hertzog was scornfully attacked by the Minister of…
EventNelson Mandela announces intentions on nationalisation policy
… his party was prepared to abandon its long-held policy of nationalisation if the business community could provide an … the private sector will be excluded…
EventCOSATU conference prohibited and organisers restricted
… which aimed to include delegates from a broad spectrum of anti-apartheid organisations, and restricted its … included Chris Ndodebandla Dlamini*, first vice…
EventBafana Bafana wins over Ghana
… Bafana Bafana, secured 1-0 victory over Ghana, a co-host of the 2000 Africa Cup of Nations contest at Kumasi stadium in Ghana. The victory … earned South…
EventPresidential Job Summit is held
… to a call by President Nelson Mandela, representatives of government, business, labour and other community and … jobs in the country. The Summit proposed the…
EventUnited Nations appoints Kofi Annan as secretary
… citizen, Kofi Annan, was appointed as secretary-general of the United Nations (UN) to replace the outgoing Boutros Boutros Ghali, whose term of office had…
EventYusuf Dadoo, political activist, is born
… Johannesburg. According to Essop Pahad, the story of Dadoo’s life was inextricably linked to the resistance of racial discrimination and apartheid. Dadoo was…
EventEarly Xhosa author William Gqoba dies
… Eastern Cape. He was born in Gaga, near Alice, and was one of the earliest authors in Xhosa literature. Charles Brownlee rated him one of the best, if not…
EventSkipper Bertie Reed passes away
… (Bertie) Reed (63), international sailing legend and one of the most popular skippers in single-handed racing around … Reed will be especially remembered for…
EventSouth African author and feminist Olive Schreiner is born
… in Wynberg, Cape Town, on 10 December 1920. The Department of Tourism in the Eastern Cape has converted a house into a museum and named it after her. Some of…
EventThe Polio vaccine, developed by Dr. Jonas Salk, is declared safe and effective
… was declared safe and effective. It had taken a whole year of trials and tests for the vaccine to be finally be … made available for use. Salks’s vaccine…