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EventSADF troops kill SWAPO guerrillas
81 South West African nationalist guerrilla fighters were killed by South African soldiers on 23 May 1980, during the protracted conflict for Namibian…
ArchivePhotographer Ernest Cole: Of bondage and freedom – Discovery of trove of negatives a game changer by Ivor Powell (Daily Maverick), 30 November 2017
By the age of 25, when Ernest Cole fled South Africa for exile in New York, he had already cut the template for the way the experience of apartheid would be…
ArchiveTranscript of meeting: church leaders and SACC presiduim with the Prime Minister and members of the Cabinet
Transcript of a meeting between Church leaders and SACC presiduim with the Prime Minister and members of the Cabinet held in Pretoria on August 7th 1980.
ArchiveGeneral Union of Palestinian Women
Multicoloured poster. Artwork of a woman with both hands raised, breaking handcuffs. World Conference in Denmark on 30th July 1980. General Union of…
ArchiveUne aube nouvelle jaillet
Yellow, green, black and white poster. 25th Anniversary of the ANC. 1955-1980. Artwork of numbers 25 with photographs of various scenes inside the numbers.
ArchiveSummary of Congress reports and recommendations for 1981
Summaries of reports presented at the 58th Annual Congress of the National Union of South African Students, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, 29…
ArchiveT B Davie memorial lecture : Raymond Suttner
White poster with black lettering. Photo of Raymond Suttner. Regarding The Freedom Charter. The People's Charter in the 1980's. Lecture at Jameson Hall on…
How to Approach Heaven by Jon Soske (Chimurenga Magazine)
The struggle for freedom is a reckless, foolish and sacrosanct adventure—so believed Albert Luthuli, president of the African National Congress from 1952-1968…
Seedtimes Retrospective Omar Badsha
A major retrospective exhibition of Omar Badsha’s drawings, woodcuts and photographic essays from the mid-1960s to 2000s. His drawings are being shown for the…
EventBarclays Bank changes its name to First National Bank
After protests against Barclays Bank's involvement in South Africa and its apartheid government, Barclays Bank (SA) announced its new name - First National…
EventUN and OAU take a stand against Apartheid policy
An International Conference on Sanctions against South Africa was hosted by the United Nations (UN) and the Organisation of African Unity (OAU) at UNESCO House…
EventA British Sports Council team begins a three-week fact-finding tour of South Africa to probe racial discrimination in sport
In May 1962 Dennis Brutus, Secretary of the South African Sports Association, wrote to Otto Mayer, the then Chancellor of the International Olympic Committee …
EventThe Kenya-Uganda railway is completed
The Uganda railway line in Kenya was seen as a very ambitious infrastructure at its inception with the cost of the project causing most of the controversy. The…
Mines of the beloved country: Through the mind of a photographer and essayist by J Brooks Spector (Daily Maverick), 5 November 2012
Back in the mid-1970s, when the writer was still feeling his way along the dark moral landscape that was South Africa, a South African colleague insisted we…
Albertina Sisulu, Freedom Fighter
By Sara We salute one of our best known heroines of South Africa, Albertina Nontsikelelo (Blessings) Sisulu, on her 70th birthday in October. Albertina…
EventCarl Niehaus is sentenced to 15 years in prison for high treason for being a member of ANC underground
Carl Niehaus grew up in Zeerust, North West Province, and completed his higher education at Rand Afrikaans University (RAU). A student of theology, Niehaus was…
ArchiveBlack uprooting and relocation
Resolution of the Twelfth National Conference of the South African Council of Churches, Hammaskraal, May 1980 regarding the negative socio-economic effects on…
Address by Nelson Mandela to the National Consultative Conference, 14 December 1990
… with increasing intensity during the decade of the 1980s. It is thanks also to these qualities of leadership, …
ArchiveFundacion Augusto C. Sandino. FACS
Multicoloured poster. Number 10 - 1980-1990 surrounded by a laurel wreath. Artwork of a map of Nicaragua, in the middle of the earth, split into two halves,…
ArchiveReport on a Consultation of representatives of SACC member churches on racism and change in South Africa
Pamphlet on a Consultation of representatives of SACC member churches, held at the Koinonia Conference Centre, Johannesburg,10-12 May 1982 for a follow up to…
ArchiveThe situation in Afghanistan
The Situation in Afghanistan: statement issued by the Central Committee of the South African Communist Party, January 1980, discusses Soviet invasion of…
ArchiveGroup Areas Removals in the Western Cape: The
Group Areas Removals in the Western Cape: The Individual Case of Mr Bawa Khalfeys's Shop- Paper Presented at National Conference on 11 March 1980 discussing:…
ArchiveMakgato and Batlokwa Removals: Notes to be presented to Dr Piet Koornhof, Minister of Co-operation and Development, at an Interview
Makgato and Batlokwa Removals: Notes to be presented to Dr Piet Koornhof, Minister of Co-operation and Development, at an Interview on 22 February 1980…
ArchiveStatement by the General Secretary of South African Council of Churches, Desmond Tutu
Statement by the General Secretary of South African Council of Churches, Desmond Tutu, of October 21, 1980, in response to the warning by the Minister of…
Rethinking the William Fehr Collection
The William Fehr Collection had been on exhibition at the Castle – more or less unchanged – from the 1950s. The core of the collection comprises historical…
PlaceRiversdale Division, Western Cape
The Division of Riversdale was originally located on the Eastern boundary of the District of Swellendam, which had been proclaimed in 1745. It was proclaimed a…
EventNew Zealand imposes a blanket ban on sports teams from South Africa
At the height of apartheid in South Africa, New Zealand imposed a blanket ban on virtually all visits by sports teams from South Africa. The move by New…
EventDemonstrators strip to deter bulldozers
Shanty town women stripped to the waist and confronted bulldozers sent by authorities to demolish their homes at Dobsonville in Soweto. The women's protests…
EventPaul Adams becomes SA’s youngest Test Cricket player
South African cricket player, Paul "Gogga" Adams, became South Africa's youngest Test Cricket player, when he featured in his first test debut at the age of 18…
EventWhite sympathisers join evicted Black squatters in a protest
About 100 White sympathisers joined evicted Black squatters in a protest against the demolition of shanty dwellings outside Cape Town. This was the third day…