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ArchiveChile: painting: no. 12
… painting of a man, with soldiers carrying a red flag in the background. No.12 Sven Linderot in bottom left hand corner. Albin Amelin in bottom right hand…
International pressure is a challenge to apartheid, says union vice-president
… The Ford closure in Port Elizabeth clearly reveals that multinationals have absolutely no interest in the welfare of workers and their communities in the…
PlaceMostert’s Mill, Rhodes Drive, Mowbray
… In 1657 the VOC granted land on the slopes of Table Mountain … It is generally assumed that his son, Dirk, built the mill in 1796. Dirk's daughter inherited…
EventAnglo-Boer War 2: The Battle of Silkaatsnek begins
… There is a pass in the Magaliesberg known as Silkaatsnek It was here that the … Horse Artillery (RHA), were placed and ultimately captured in the first…
International Council for Traditional Music
… Second Symposium on the theme, “African Music Scholarship in the Twenty-first Century: Challenges and Directions.” The … to build on the successes of the…
ArchivePostage stamps: fourth quarter 1990
… White background, red scrollwork in four corners, with grey oval centre, containing coloured replicas of postage stamps issued in Southern African countries…
PlaceWelgelegen Ilanga Colliery, Mpumalanga
… iLanga Coal Mines (Pty) Ltd. owns and operates Coal Mines in the Ermelo and Witbank Coalfields. The company was founded in 1996 and is based in Middelburg,…
ArchiveMulticoloured poster of miltary attack on people waving red flags.
… of soldiers attacking a line of people waving red flags, in the countryside. Number 5 'Arkebuseringen' in bottom left hand corner. 'Albin Amelin' in bottom…
PlaceCape Point and the Lighthouse, at the Southern Point of the Cape Peninsula
… at the extreme South Western tip of the African Continent in the Republic of South Africa . Table Mountain and the City … a range of 63 miles and an…
Appeal to the British public by Dube
… [This extract from the appeal was published by Gandhi in Indian Opinion with the following editorial note: “The … – E.S. Reddy] While you are sitting happy…
PlaceTenterden, 60 Durban Road, Wynberg
… on 8 April 1856. Its U-plan dwelling was originally built in a Cape Dutch idiom but it subsequently acquired a number … Tenterden Place of Safety, Wynberg,…
EventSADF Gaborone raid kills 4
… In what was believed to be a raid on African National Congress (ANC) members who were in hiding in Gaborone, Botswana, the South Africa Defence Force (SADF) …
ArchiveLetter from the South African Embassy, Paris, to the Secretary for Foreign Affairs, Cape Town
… Letter, written in Afrikaans, from the South African Embassy in France to the Department of Foreign Affairs, South Africa, … Samora Machel's request for…
Document 91 - John Gomas, “The Native Representation Bill is Passed: What Must be Done Now?” Umsebenzi, 25 April 1936
… and treated worse than the disease affected foreigners in our own home land. The passing of the Hertzog bill has for … - thus to further stifle progress and …
Banishment
… Barbie Schreiner Just before my five years was finished in 1969, they took me to Pretoria jail. At that time they … thought I was a trouble maker, and I…
ArchivePostage stamps: first quarter 1990
… White background with blue scrollwork in four corners and grey oval centre, containing coloured replicas of postage stamps issued in 1990, in all of Southern…
EventPetrus Jacobus (Arrie) Paulus is born
… Paulus, General Secretary of the Mineworkers' Union in 1967, is born in Pretoria. Click here for more on Arrie Paulus. Read more about Labour History in…
EventJody Scheckter
… On 29 January 1950 Jody David Scheckter was born in East London, Eastern Cape .[i] Scheckter became South … far only Formula One World Driver’s Championship…
EventOrlando Pirates captain and goalkeeper, Senzo Meyiwa dies
… was shot dead by two armed men who entered the house in Vosloorus township, near Johannesburg,where he was at the … of Orlando Pirates squad when they won a …
PlaceAlbasini Dam, Limpopo
… lived from 1813 to 1885. He was the first European Settler in the Lowveld and he subsequently became head of the … for Portugal and Superintendent of the…
Zephania Mothopeng - Searchlight South Africa, Vol 1, No. 2, February 1989
… we only regret that it is so short. However, there is much in the document with which we disagree, in its philosophy and outlook, in its political and…
ArchivePress cuttings-repression of youth
… on repression of youth regarding repression of students in 1984 as over 50 students were detained, an article on … fun run to launch the International year…
ArchiveInterview with Julius Nyerere
… as prime minister and then as president from independence in December 1961 until his retirement in 1985, except for a brief period shortly after independence…
Foreword, By Nelson Mandela
… of speeches of Dr Monty Naicker is an invaluable chapter in the history of our struggle for liberation. Monty, as we … Natal Indian Congress, founded by…
EventMogadishu seaport is handed over to the combined task force by UN
… UNO and OAU, to curb a prolonged civil war that broke out in 1991. The civil war erupted after the downfall of … Mohamed and that supporting General Mohamed…
EventJoseph Louw is sentenced to six months imprisonment for contravening the Immorality Act
… journalist Joseph Louw, 23, was sentenced to six months in the Johannesburg Regional Court for conspiring with Pamela … of a close relationship. Pamela Beira…
EventThe SACBC urges that lawful means be used to resist Apartheid
… "As Christian people we dare not remain silent and passive in the face of injustices inflicted on members of the … be permitted to offer an excuse or pretext…
EventGamal Abdel Nasser is formally nominated to become the first president of the new United Arab Republic
… the first president of the new United Arab Republic. In February 1958, Egypt joined with Syria in the United Arab Republic- a symbol of pan-Arabism (the ……
EventLucas Mangope leaves Mmabatho due to uprising
… Bophuthatswana, retreated from the capital, Mmabatho, in the face of a popular uprising after he had tried to boycott participation in South Africa's first…
EventThe Rev. Allan Hendrickse steps down as a leader of the Labour Party
… The Rev. Allan Hendrickse, former minister in President P.W. Botha's cabinet, stepped down after … Congress (ANC) and was appointed as an ANC senator in the…