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ArchiveOn trial: Archbishop Denis Hurley
… Notice of a Mass and day of fasting on Sunday 17th February at Regina Mundi. In solidarity with the trial of Archbishop Denis Hurley on February 18th at the…
ArchiveThe United Democratic Front and the crisis in South Africa in the 1980s
… Summary of research proposal by Ineke van Kessel of the Department of Political and Historical Studies, African Studies Centre …
ArchiveBreak dance competition at Nobuhle Hall
… Notice of a dance competition on Sunday, 2nd December 1984 at … White poster with grey, brown and gold lettering. Artwork of people dancing and list of…
EventSydney Bunting, labour union leader dies
… African communist and labour union leader, died at the age of 53 in Johannesburg, from stroke related disease. Bunting played an instrumental role in the…
EventMpush Makambi wins IBO champion title
… Boxing Champion, Mpush Makambi defeated Adrian Dodson of Britain to take the Middleweight Title Fight. He was later voted boxer of the year because of his…
ArchiveLetter from Duncan Innes, President, to SRC Presidents and others
… General circular letter from Duncan Innes, President of the National Union of South African Students, with a report giving information … its aims and…
ArchiveHealth for the wealthy : or health for all
… a National Health Service. Black and green and cream image of a man in bed with a pay box for treatment, surrounded by people. Notice of a NAMDA conference…
EventZelda la Grange was born on this day
… National Diploma and started her career at the Department of State Expenditure in 1992. In 1994, she applied for a job in the office of the first Democratic…
PlaceAndalusia, Cape and Transvaal Border
… Former name of Jan Kempdorp. Named after the region in southern Spain, which was the ancient maritime kingdom of Tarshish. Jan Kempdorp was laid out on the…
PlaceMbombela Orion Hotel, 'Promenade', Nelspruit
… as the Orion Hotel Promenade, used to be the town hall of Nelspruit. The town started out as a prime grazing area, … Once the original town hall. This…
PlaceClocktower, Table Bay Harbour, Cape Town
… The Victorian Gothic-style Clock Tower is an icon of the old Cape Town Harbour. It was the original Port … in the 1800's, having been carefully matched to…
EventJan Ernst Abraham Volschenk, landscape painter, is born near Riversdale, Western Cape
… genre. He found inspiration from his local surroundings of Riversdale and the Langeberg range served as the subject matter for most of his work. He held very…
EventNational Party unveils its policy plan focusing on anti-poverty strategies
… federal congress since its withdrawal from the Government of National Unity (GNU), its policy plan was unveiled … strategies. During the federal congress the…
EventMargaret Rheeder is hung in Pretoria
… Margaret Rheeder, found guilty of poisoning her husband, Benjamin Fredenman, was hung in Pretoria. On the morning of 27 April 1957 Rheeder went to a pharmacy…
EventNovelist and historian Bessie Head is born
… Head was born in Pietermaritzburg. Being the daughter of a White mother (who was disowned by her parents when she … started writing extensively in her…
EventPhotographer, Abdul Shariff, is murdered in Katlehong
… delegation visit to Katlehong near Johannesburg. A member of the Impact Visuals co-operative said Shariff was hit by … intended for Cyril Ramaphosa and Joe…
EventNamibians vote for a Constituent Assembly
… for the territory as a sovereign state. More than 97% of the registered voters voted. The South West Africa … agreement which involved the phased withdrawal…
EventHolomisa on corruption
… The ANC strongly denies Holomisa's charge of accepting payments from Sol Kerzner. In May 1996, Bantu Holomisa, former ruler of Transkei and Deputy Minister…
EventSA jazz singer, Letta Mbulu is born in Soweto
… 23 August 1942. As a teenager she joined the cast of the play King Kong and toured the US with other artists like Miriam Makeba and Hugh Masekela. At the end…
EventSouth African player Thabo Mngomeni is born in Cape Town
… player, who was awarded Kick Off's accolade for the Goal of the Decade for his goal for Bush Bucks in 1997, is born in … with Bafana Bafana in Zimbabwe, that…
EventStruggle icon Nxele Makana drowns while escaping from Robben Island
… a verbal treaty with Gaika, the supposed paramount chief of the Western Xhosas. Unfortunately this agreement between … led by the 'prophet' Makana, which led…
![Freddie Mercury [Bulsara], singer and songwriter, is born in Zanzibar, Africa.](/sites/default/files/styles/saho_medium/public/event_pics/Freddie%20Mercury.jpg?itok=Vuq6ADKe)
EventFreddie Mercury [Bulsara], singer and songwriter, is born in Zanzibar, Africa.
… to boarding school in India and grew up there. At the age of seventeen he and his family left Zanzibar and settled in … Brian May and drummer Roger Taylor…
PlaceBloemfontein City Hall
… Clarendon Hall has two large granite bowls either side of it which is the same as the Viceroy's House in New Delhi, … that Sir Gordon Leith knew Edwin…
ArchiveBoycott Cape and Outspan: every bite buys a bullet!
… Yellow, black and red poster. Call for boycott of Cape and Outspan products. Artwork of a hand holding half an orange, with photograph of two soldiers in a…
ArchiveA broken landscape
… Black and white poster. Notice of an exhibition of photographs, covering South Africa from 1984 to 1986, by … Gallery. From the 16th March to April 5th 1986…
ArchiveTowards a peoples culture
… White poster with black lettering. Notice of an Arts Festival at Glenmore Hall, Athlone, on Friday … Black block in centre with black, white and orange image…
NUSAS July Festival
… Black and white poster. Notice of a festival from 5th to 9th July at Wits. Details at SRC. Artwork of a man, covered in letters of the alphabet, carrying a…
May Day
… Notice of a march on Sunday May 4th, at Trades Hall. Title in black. Red, black and white poster. Black and white images of people all over poster carrying…
ArchiveWomen speak
… Black and white poster. Black and white artwork of women. Notice of Congress of South African Writers (Transvaal Rresents a Conference on …
EventOuneas Pakes Dikgetsi is born
… Member of the Executive Council (MEC) for Housing and Local government of the Northern Cape Provincial Government and founder member of the United Democratic…