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EventThe English Cricket Council calls off South African cricket tour
… South African cricket team on tour. This was as a result of the reaction caused by the all-White composition of the South African team among the anti…
EventSAP fighting in Zimbabwe
… West Africa (renamed Namibia), from Zambia, at the urging of the Liberation Committee of the Organisation of African Unity (OAU) in Kampala in July, 1967…
EventANC stage marches in major cities
… across the country in protest at the delays in the release of political prisoners. These mass mobilisation campaigns were seen as another way of the ANC…
EventVan Riebeeck establishes the first burgher commando
… the 'First Hottentot War' (though it was rather a series of skirmishes), started at the Cape. This was in line with an … The Burgher Militia acted at first…
EventGifted writer and actor William Modisane is born
… in the late 1950s). Blame Me on History was an examination of what apartheid did to the character and self-esteem of the educated Black man. The book was…
EventWorkers embark on strike action
… Sixty-one Xhosa-speaking workers, under the leadership of their Headman known as One O'clock, went on strike at the … complained about beatings that they…
EventGeneral Sir Redvers Henry Buller’s troops relieve British forces at Ladysmith
… 1899. They were besieged almost a month after the outbreak of the Second South African War (also known as Second … were besieged for equally long periods. At…
EventZimbabwean politician and trade unionist Morgan Tsvangirai is born
… Morgan Richard Tsvangirai was born in the Bahure area of Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe). He is the eldest of nine children. Tsavangirai joined the…
EventJazz musician Victor Ntoni dies at the Helen Joseph Hospital in Johannesburg
… On 28 January 2013 Victor Mhleli Ntoni died of heart attack, after he was admitted to hospital on … playing with saxophonist McCoy Mrubata. He was part of…
EventIgnatius Royston Dunnachie (Roy) Campbell, SA satirical poet, is born in Durban.
… Campbell was born in Durban, Natal, and was considered one of South Africa’s most esteemed English poets. The son of Dr Samuel George Campbell, Campbell…
EventBritish troops land in Madagascar.
… a mountainous large island in the Indian Ocean, consists of many rivers and high rainfalls. was previously a French … landed in the Bay and Bay Ambararata…
EventDr JT van der Kemp, controversial missionary and physician, dies
… among the Xhosa. He became involved with the Khoi Khoi of the Cape Colony and was interested in alleviating their … equal opportunities with White people saw…
Inqaba ya basebenzi
… published in London by the Marxist Workers' Tendency of the African National Congress documents the workers' … campaigns for a national minimum wage and…
ArchiveChief Albert John Lutuli - 1898-1967
… Chief Albert John Lutuli, President-General of the African National Congress of South Africa, died at 2.30 in the afternoon of Friday, July 21st, 1967. …
ArchiveReflections on the political situation in South Africa
… Opening address by the Chairperson of the Natal Indian Congress at the 57th Annual Congress of the National Union of South African Students, Durban, November…
ArchiveNUSAS Press Release
… regarding developments and plans for the National Union of South African Students and a confirmation of a special congress to complete the reassessment of…
ArchiveNow is the time for worker rights
… Multicoloured poster. Notice of COSATU Special Congress, 10-12 September 1993. COSATU logo. Yellow, red and black border. Photograph of crowd in front of…
ArchiveCommonwealth Day
… Two tone green background and yellow lettering. Artwork of world in centre with three multicoloured photographs of children. Commonwealth Secretariat Logo…
ArchiveSouth African Labour Bulletin September 1990
… Cover of South African Labour Bulletin. Volume 15 Number 3, … Grey, brown, red, black and white poster. Photograph of ANC conference. List of contents. …
ArchiveVisual Aid: operation hunger: 1988
… Sale of photographs in aid of Operation Hunger. Black and white poster. April 17th to May 28th 1988 at The Market Galleries. List of photographers. …
ArchiveConcert in the park
… Venue - Ellis Park on 11th January 1986. Photograph of huge crowd of people at Ellis Park. List of performers. …
ArchiveScience winterschool
… Black and white poster. Notice of ecology action courses from 4 to 10th July. U.S.S.A.S.A. poster. Artwork of two fish in a circle. List of venues and…
ArchiveMarch against retrenchments and violence
… poster. Cream, black and red poster. COSATU logo. Notice of a march on Saturday, June 15th. List of demands. Artwork of two men with fists raised. …
ArchiveECC rally
… Yellow, black and white, ECC poster. Notice of a rally at Sea Point Civic on Thursday, 4th June. Artwork of a white dove of peace on a black circle. …
ArchiveFreedom is in your hand!
… Issued by the ANC Department of Information and Publicity. Green, yellow, black and white poster. Demands of the Freedom Charter. Artwork of a hand casting a…
ArchiveImmediate prospect for SACP
… Article in Voice of Women , Number 3, 1983, on the immediate prospect for SACP. It discusses the Suppression of Communist Act of 1950, the Freedom Charter,…
ArchiveStoppa Machen!
… Black, white, grey, red and blue poster. Artwork of a tennis racquet. Photograph of a soldier with a machine gun. Bottle of Coke with Chile on it. Chile…
ArchiveTrade unions face the future
… THE voluntary liquidation of the Trade and Labour Council marks the closing of a chapter In South African labour history. It also marks the beginning of a…
ArchiveDecember 16 : heroes - day
… Black and white image of soldier shaking hands with two people in centre of poster. Title in red letters at bottom of poster. Wording in black letters. …
ArchiveUDF first year rally
… Yellow, black red and white poster. Notice of UDF rally on Sunday Aug 19 at City Hall, Johannesburg. List of speakers. Image of workers carrying UDF flag. …