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ArchiveWomen against apartheid in South Africa
… 9 August 1956 by 20000 women against pass laws, the plight of Black women under apartheid, the lives of some of the women who have gone to prison, been…
ArchiveMusic Concert
… Top of poster white with title in dark blue and dark blue image of a saxophone player with the word music interwoven and musical notes. Bottom half of poster…
ArchiveThe South African Reality
… a speech presented by Desmond Tutu, General Secretary of the South African Council of Churches, to students at the University of Natal. His speech covers…
ArchiveYou can prevent AIDS
… Multicoloured cartoon of a man and woman in bed with skeleton in between with word AIDS on it. Balloon, from mouth of worman, with words "We cannot run away…
The ANC and the Women’s League
… cold, and it was raining outside. It was in the middle of June, in the winter. Was - and another woman. I became the … come together for the Women's League…
ArchiveNUSAS bannings condemned
… reporting on the condemnation by several leading figures of the banning of eight office bearers of the National Union of South African Students. People …
ArchivePACT Dance Company: 2nd Season 1994
… Artwork of the back of a naked black man with his hands behind his head, and four white hands around his body. Notice of a dance programme at State Theatre,…
Archive9. Know your rights
… Page 9 of folder 2858. ECC poster. White with black lettering. … for ECC booklet "Know Your Rights in the SADF". Cartoon of a girl saying goodbye to a…
ArchivePeoples education for peoples power!
… Title in red letters at bottom of poster. Dark green and black background. 10 fighting years 1976 - 1986. Photo of youth wearing yellow T-shirt with image of…
Inner-Party Bulletin
… for internal distribution only. Issue covers the questions of the Party's re-emergence as a legal organisation. Includes the Political Bureau Report, a…
ArchiveThe sixteenth annual Richard Feetham Memorial Lecture by Helen Joseph
… Representative Council and Academic Freedom Committee of the University of Witwatersrand. Dark brown poster with cream lettering. Notice of a lecture at…
ArchiveDecember 16 to 26: Xmas against the emergency
… Black and white poster with an image of a mans hand in a fist; holding barbed wire and the logos of NECC, SACC, UDF and COSATU on the fingers. The other…
PlaceVictorian dwelling, 14 Kohling Street, Tamboerskloof, Cape Town
… This double-storey Structure has a number of prominent Victorian features including cast iron … on the Verandah and a Boundary Wall and Gateway of note. It…
EventMosibudi Mangena is born
… Mosibudi Mangena, the National Minister of Science and Technology and President of the opposition party Azanian People's Organisation (AZAPO) … Limpopo…
ArchiveLetter from Jen Curtis, Secretary-General, NUSWEL, to Wages and Economics Commission Chairmen
… Confidential circular letter from Jen Curtis of the National Union of Students Welfare and Social Activities Department about the aims and goals of the Wages…
EventNiger's Independence Day
… grant independence to the four regions that it was made up of – namely the Ivory Coast, Niger, Dahomey (now the Republic of Benin) and Volta (now Burkina…
PlaceStaats Model School, Van der Walt Street, Pretoria
… Building when, for a time it was used to House Prisoners-of-War, during the Anglo-Boer War . Single-storied red brick … This is where Winston Churchill…
EventThe last quagga in the world dies in a zoo in Amsterdam, the Netherlands
… the Netherlands. The quagga had once roamed the pastures of the Karoo and the southern Free State. It differed in … from other zebra in that it was striped…
EventKenneth David Kaunda wins Zambian elections
… wins Zambian elections and will become the first president of an independent republic on 24 October 1964. The victory of Kaunda in the elections signaled an…
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…
PlaceOld Court House, Victoria Embankment, Durban
… district. It was loop-holed during the Anglo-Zulu War of 1879. It bore witness to both the South African Wars and … into Durban’s biggest history museum. It…
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…