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Circular from Barney Pityana to SRC Presidents and other organisations
… The circular outlines the historical background of the formation of the South African Students Organisation (SASO) as well as the aims and structure of the…
ArchiveWinterveld Community Project
… This memorandum contains an outline of the community upliftment project planned by SASO in the area of Winterveld, north of Pretoria in the Transvaal, South…
ArchiveLetter from Smangaliso Mkhatshwa to Thomas Karis
… A letter written by Smangaliso Mkhatswa to Thomas G Karis of the Institute of Contextual Theology on 28 September 1990, enclosing a copy of a memorandum…
ArchiveLetter from Neville Curtis, NUSAS, to Dear Sir
… Letter stating the opposition of the National Union of South African Students to the supply of arms to South Africa and giving reasons for this stance. …
ArchiveWhere I stand
… Reprint in a journal of an Address given to the Pretoria Press Club given by Bishop Desmond Tutu, General Secretary of the South African Council of Churches…
ArchiveThese are the Last Days
… from an address delivered in Pietermaritzburg at a meeting of the South African Institute of Race Relations. Note that sections of the document are barely…
ArchiveHomeless
… Coloured photograph of family sitting under a tree. Title in black letters. Quote … from the Bible 1 Corinthians 4 : 11. South African Council of Churches…
ArchiveChief Albert Luthuli : 1898 - 1967
… Black and white image of Albert Luthuli. Words "the length of the term of slavery depends largely on the oppressed themselves and …
EventANC founder John Dube’s daughter passed away
… The youngest daughter of the former African National Congress leader John Langalibalele Dube died in Durban at the age of 84 years. Lulu Joan Dube passed…
EventDusi Canoe Marathon commences
… had to make their way through the Umsindusi, the Valley of a Thousand Hills and the Umgeni. Ian Player was the only one out of the eight people, who reached…
Accredited Events
… is to consider all submissions for the accreditation of events, shows, proposal of sponsorship, promotional items. In essence proposals that … and which the…
PlaceZonderwater
… Situated in the Highveld of Gauteng, just outside Cullinan near Pretoria. The … one another! The Prison was once the largest prisoner of war camps by the…
PlaceDutch Reformed Mission Institute, Cape Town
… they were succeeded by the Dutch Reformed congregation of Paarl and a small rectangular, thatched-roof church was … the oldest in the district, is a landmark…
EventTwo top SA scientists are refused entry into Russia.
… in Leningrad. The scientists were Prof. L.H. Wells, Head of the Department of Anatomy at the University of Cape Town and Prof. Phillip Tobias, a…
PlaceWeskoppies Psychiatric Hospital, Main building, Ketjen Street, Pretoria
… in 1907. It is an imposing and well-ordered group of Edwardian structures located in a Sylvan setting. The … its first patient in 1892 and is today the…
PlaceDie Kraal, Brummeria, Pretoria
… Jacob Hendrik Pierneef is one of South Africa’s most well known artists. He was born in Pretoria in 1886 and moved to Holland at the time of the Boer War…
EventAnsuyah Ratipul Singh, medical doctor and community worker, poet, dramatist and novelist, is born in Durban.
… she completed her degree in Medicine at the University of Edinburgh in 1944. In 1946, Dr Singh returned to South … work, she was also known as a novelist and…
EventAhmad Mahir Pasha, the Egyptian Prime Minister, is assassinated
… 1944. Ahmad Mahir, the son to Muhammad Mahir, was one of the most important figures in the early history of the Wafd party in Egypt. The Wafd party came to…
EventSolly Sachs addresses Garment Worker’s protestors
… (Solly) Sachs addressed 15 000 workers on the steps of the Johannesburg City Hall during a protest meeting organised by the Garment Workers' Union of South…
EventSA’s first official commercial airline service is launched
… commercial air service in South Africa under the name of Union Airways Company (Pty). On this date the first flight … between Maitland and Port Elizabeth…
EventThe Bantu Labour Regulations Amendment Bill becomes operative
… this the Bantu Labour Relations Regulation Act in the wake of wide-spread labour unrest to set up a limited system of collective bargaining rights for Blacks…
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…