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ArchiveSechaba as mondstuk in die ANC se stryd teen blanke oorheersig, 1967-1989
Voorgele ter vervulling van n deel van die vereistes vir die graad D. Phil. in die Fakulteit Lettere en Wysbegeerte, Universiteit van Pretoria. Die ontbanning…
ArchiveStatement made by Senator O P F Horwood in Senate on June 4, 1971
Statement made by Senator Owen Horwood in Senate, 4 June 1971, suggesting that university authorities should act strongly to stop the activities of the…
ArchiveANC Perspective on models for South Africa's future constitutional dispensation
Report of a Group A, Commission 5 on the African National Congress's Perspective on models for South Africa's future Constitutional dispensation, prepared…
The Majefe Affair
Appendix A to the President's Report at the 45th Annual Congress of the National Union of South African Students, University of Cape Town, 6th-14th July, 1969…
PlaceConradie Care Centre, Pinelands
It's a very old, single story Hospital divided into probably about 40 Buildings. The place has been trashed by vagrants, even the flooring of some of the…
ArchiveBiography of Moses Mabokela Chikane
Biography of Moses Mabokela Chikane who was born in 1948 August 14 in area of Groblersdaal first of the family of nine, he was detained under section 28 of the…
EventTeboho “Tsietsi” Mashinini dies in West Africa
On 5 July 1990, Teboho “Tsietsi” Mashinini died under strange circumstances in Conakry, Guinea. Mashinini was hospitalised with multiple injuries, apparently…
EventA full scale police search, headed by a specially trained anti-terrorist unit is launched
A full scale police search, headed by a specially trained anti-terrorist unit was launched following a shoot-out between police and suspected nationalist…
EventSelassie returns to Ethiopia after attempted coup
Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie returned immediately to his country after a short successful coup launched on 13 December 1960 by the Imperial Bodyguard, the…
EventCommission on Native Education is appointed
The government appointed the Eiselen Commission whose terms of reference were to inquire into and to report on all aspects of native education. The…
EventWole Soyinka is born
The Nigerian, novelist, playwright and poet, Wole Soyinka, was born at Abeokuta, near Ibadan in western Nigeria. Soyinka became the first African to receive…
EventDesmond Tutu is appointed first Black Anglican Bishop of Johannesburg
Desmond Mpilo Tutu was appointed and ordained as the first Black Anglican Bishop of Johannesburg a month after winning the Nobel Peace Prize. The following…
EventPolice pounce on AWB members
Security Police arrested the leader, Eugene Terreblanche (Terre'Blanche), and eight other members of the right-wing group the Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging (AWB…
EventBram Fischer dies
Former leader of South African Communist Party (SACP) Bram Fischer died of cancer at his brother Dr Paul Fischer's house in Bloemfontein. After news of his…
EventJoaquim Chissano meets with RENAMO leader
Mozambican President Joaquim Alberto Chissano met with Afonso Dhlakama, leader of the ResistÁƒÂƒÂªncia Nacional MoÁƒÂƒÂ§ambicana (RENAMO), to sign a peace…
EventANC leader Nelson Mandela meets Boutros Boutros
African National Congress (ANC) President Nelson Mandela met with the United Nations (UN) Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali at Dakar. The two leaders…
EventPresident F. W. de Klerk announced the opening of four hitherto Whites-only residential areas to mixed settlement
President F. W. de Klerk announced the opening of four hitherto Whites-only residential areas to mixed settlement. They included two districts in Johannesburg,…
EventMandela is moved to Victor Verster prison
The government moved African National Congress (ANC) leader Nelson Mandela from the Constantiaberg private clinic in Cape Town, where he had been recovering…
EventPiet Retief is baptized in Drakenstein, Western Cape
Piet Retief was one of the leaders of the Great Trek that introduced Afrikaner settlement to the interior. Prior to their departure from Cape Town he wrote a…
9 Ships run ashore in Table Bay
Nine ships were wrecked and 208 lives lost in Table Bay during a severe gale at the Cape, proving again that the Cape was quite aptly called 'Cape of Storms' …
EventThird Pan African Parliament session begins in Midrand
The third session of the Pan African Parliament (PAP) began at its temporary home in Gallagher Estate in Midrand, north of Johannesburg. The session was opened…
EventDon Mattera withdraws from public performances
During the final poetry performance at the Urban Voices Festival, South African poet, journalist and former gangster who turned community activist, Don Mattera…
EventGeneral Louis Botha dies
General Louis Botha, soldier, statesman and first prime minister of the Union of South Africa, died in Pretoria after a heart attack. The heart failure was…
EventAnti-apartheid activist, Beyers Naude is born
Christiaan Frederik Beyers Naudé was born in Roodepoort, Transvaal, on 10 May 1915. He was named after C.F. Beyers, a Boer general who was close to his father,…
EventJames Sebe Moroka is born
Dr James Sebe Moroka, medical doctor, landowner and politician who was elected president-general of the African National Congress (ANC) from 1949 to 1952, was…
PlaceRiebeek Kasteel
The village of Riebeek Kasteel was established in about 1861, and was located at the foot of the Mountain of the same name. The Area was first visited in 1661…
EventVuyani Bungu wins IBF World Boxing Title
The South African junior featherweight, Vuyani Bungu, registered a stunning victory against highly rated American Kennedy McKinney at Carousel to lift the…
EventPresident Nelson Mandela announces his intentions to promote national unity
South Africa's first democratically elected president, Nelson Mandela announced that in order to promote national unity he was willing to bring into government…
EventJani Allan, South African Journalist, is born
Jani Allen made a name for herself as a columnist for the Sunday Times between 1979 and 1989. Her work as a journalist became so popular that she was voted …
ArchiveLetter from Neville Curtis, NUSAS, to Dear Sir
Letter from Neville Curtis, President of NUSAS, stating the attitude of the National Union of South African Students towards planned Republic Day celebrations…