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ArchiveHands off the media
… Red poster with black lettering. Image of a yellow fist over all. Notice of a Lunch time rally at Khotso House on Monday, October 19th. List of speakers…
ArchiveGrassroots concert : Youth jive!
… Grassroots publication. Notice of a concert at Rocklands Civic,on Friday, August 9th. List of performers. Black and white artwork of a man playing a trombone…
EventBram Fischer, Q.C. Jumps Bail
… Fischer Q.C., fails to arrive in court to face charges of membership of the illegal Communist Party, which was unlawful under the Suppression of Communism…
ArchiveLetter from D Nokwe to OAU Secretary General
… Letter from D Nokwe, Secretary-General of the African National Congress, to the Organisation of African Unity Secretary-General in Ethiopia. Includes several…
ArchiveThe church and the struggle for a democratic alternative
… May 19, 1988, calling for the renewal and transformation of the Church as a site of struggle as part of the national democratic struggle. …
ArchiveAlexandra: Paper Presented at National Conference 1986
… conditions, violence, protests, police violence, State of Emergency, occupation of township by troops, use of lethal force by government. …
ArchiveWhite students and change
… Paper presented at National Seminar of the National Union of South African Students, April 1973. Discusses how White students can participate in and promote…
ArchiveReal men dont abuse women
… Multicoloured poster, with artwork of the face of a woman and a hand over the face and at the bootom of the poster is the contact details for NISAA Institute…
ArchiveChild care centre : we need it now!
… Black and white poster with photo of back of woman with two children climbing stairs to university. otice of Mass Meeting on Thursday at SS 2. Issued by SRC…
ArchiveBeth Goldblatt : Wits united
… Yellow, black and white poster. Photo of woman with yellow sticker in front of her face with list of appointed representatives and words 'this election sucks…
ArchiveMeeting with Dr Jonas Savimbi: Pretoria, 12 April 1984
… Dr Johas Savimbi and representatives from the Department of Foreign Affairs to discuss general developments concerning Angola. The issue of the release of…
EventJody Scheckter
… Scheckter is also infamously known for being the cause of one of the biggest accidents in the history of Formula One.[iv] End Notes [i] Jody Scheckter:…
Answers to questions by Drum: Albert Luthuli, 6 May 1961
… Demonstrations against Proclamation of Republic 6 May 1961 [Drum asked several non-European … the planned demonstrations. The following are answers of Chief…
EventOrlando Pirates captain and goalkeeper, Senzo Meyiwa dies
… township, near Johannesburg,where he was at the time of the tragedy. Meyiwa was one of the best players of Orlando Pirates. He was also a part of Orlando…
EventTwo ANC members gunned down in Swaziland.
… African Press Agency that the incident “had all the singes of the military precision of a well planned pre-emptive strike by an outside group.”The … to City…
Zephania Mothopeng - Searchlight South Africa, Vol 1, No. 2, February 1989
… account. When this was received there was no news of an impending release, although it was known that Mothopeng was grievously ill. Part of the document…
PlaceVictoria Tower, Uitenhage
… Dutch Layout popular in the Cape Colony at the time of the founding of Uitenhage - of broad streets, water culverts and widely spaced thatched …
PlaceRiebeeck Square, Cape Town.
… to outspan their wagons. This changed after the annexation of the Cape by the British in 1806, when a new market was established immediately east of the…
EventSA Prime Minister, B.J. Vorster reveals that SA scientists have succeeded in developing a new process for uranium enrichment
… Balthazar Johannes Vorster announced in the House of Assembly in Cape Town that South African scientists have … described the success as ‘unequalled in the…
EventUN Secretary-General Hammerskjöld arrives in Congo
… Dag Hammerskjöld, secretary-general of the United Nations (UN), arrived in the Congo to try to … between Katanga troops and the non combatant forces of the…
EventEgypt is placed under martial law in response to widespread riots against the British
… Parliament approved the unilateral official cancellation of the Anglo-Egyptian Alliance Treaty of 1936 and appointed Crown Prince Farouk as king. Between ……
EventAbdullah Abdurahman, medical doctor and Cape community leader, dies in Cape Town
… and Cape community leader, died on this day at the age of 69. Founder and leader of the anti-apartheid African People's Organisation (APO) , he was the first…
EventLesotho addresses political exiles in the country
… to leave the country, to indicate proposed dates of departure and countries of choice. Transit rights through South Africa would be … Prime Minister B.J…
Event26 parties meet to discuss future negotiations
… Nine months after the collapse of Codesa II, twenty-six parties - the most representative gathering of South African political groups ever assembled for ……
EventMalebane Metsing stages a coup in Bophuthatswana
… A dissatisfied faction of the Bophuthatswana Defence Force and some members of the National Executive Committee of the People's Progressive Party, led by…
EventMozambique and Soviet Union reject Margo Commission’s finding
… Mozambique and the Soviet Union rejected the findings of the Margo Commission, led by Justice Cecil Margo. The … into the aircraft crash in which President…
EventGeneral Motors fails to leave RSA quietly
… owned automobile industry in South Africa, pulled out of the country amidst a series of disputes and strikes from workers fearing for their … The decision to…
EventSA sprinter Oscar Pistorius reaches the final
… The seventeen year old Pretoria schoolboy sprinter of Pretoria Boys' High, Oscar Pistorius, fell coming out of the start of his 200m heat for leg amputees,…
EventElisabeth Eybers, South African poet, is born
… mainly written in Afrikaans, although she translated some of her own work - and those of other Afrikaans poets - into English. Her work was also … German,…
EventZulu assault at Holkrantz
… On 6 March 1902 in the district of Vryheid, a Zulu Chief, Sikobobo, attacked a Boer regiment … in which 56 Boers were killed, three captured and 380 head of…