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EventPresident Nelson Mandela announces his intentions to promote national unity
… bring into government political parties that were not part of the Government of National Unity (GNU). This was his part of nation building and reconciliation…
ArchiveDead in one's own lifetime
… This book contains a collection of papers presented at the NUSAS Art and Liberation Week, … "IIdeology, the State and South African film", "The right of the…
Place'Angra das Vaccas', Mossel Bay
… Inlet on the Coast of the Indian Ocean, South-West of Mossel Bay. Old name for Vleesbaai. It was given its name … 'Vleeschbaai', by Paulus van Caerden. …
My Spirit Is Not Banned - PART 2 by Frances Baard and Barbie Schreiner
… to make orange juice and so forth. There were quite a lot of jobs in these factories around that time because they were … gloves, our fingers and clothes…
EventSouth African man walks from England to France through Channel Tunnel
… in France in his flip flops. Trains travelling at speed of 100 mph pass through the tunnel regularly. The speed at … or how he managed to evade surveillance…
EventJournalists’ first visit to Robben Island
… time allowed 20 local journalists, five correspondents of international news agencies and two official photographers … legislation, were held. On the island,…
EventNP presents its revised constitutional proposals
… The proposals were based on a NP two-phase plan of transition. It suggested the appointment of multiparty transitional councils by CODESA during the … to be…
EventSoweto agrees to pay rent
… to an end a five-year rent boycott by the residents of Soweto. The SPD was engaged in the negotiations to create … agreed to: To end the five year rent…
EventPiet Retief, Voortrekker leader, is born
… what became the Cape Colony under British rule. At the age of 27 he left for Stellenbosch, but eventually settled in … a manifesto in 1837 in which he listed…
EventThe Sunday Times political journalist is suspended
… The senior political writer of the Sunday Times, Ranjeni Munusamy, was suspended by the … a story on spy allegations involving the National Director of…
EventAfrica Women’s Peace Train leaves Kampala for Johannesburg
… 2002. The train, leaving Kampala on 16 August, was made up of women from across Africa who wanted to raise awareness around the impact of civil wars,…
PlaceMjanyana Hospital
… The village of Emjanyana was probably established in the mid-1970s, in … Eastern Cape. In 1894 the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel on Foreign…
EventZulu King Cetshwayo Dies
… to undermine his father’s authority and assumed control of the kingdom. By the time Mpande died, he was only King by … the ultimatum, war broke out. The…
EventBrenda Fassie, South African singer and diva, dies in her sleep at Sunninghill Hospital
… after the American country singer Brenda Lee. The daughter of a pianist, Brenda began singing to her mother's accompaniment at a very young age. At the age…
PlaceState President Swart Park, Bloemfontein
… The largest of Bloemfontein's many Recreational spots, the Park has many … Free State, South Africa. There are two Parks on the West of the City Centre,…
ArchiveStatement
… Statement by Alfred Nzo, Secretary General of the ANC National Executive Committee, on the current … and attempting to reduce the international isolation of…
ArchiveCollaborators and falsifiers exposed
… With the official opening of the Sultan Technical College, the members of the College Council had taken a decision to prohibit the … to be in their good…
ArchiveAPDUSA Bulletin 1: Dont vote!
… vote or to boycott for their new candidates in the House of Representatives and in the House of Delegates. It goes further to describe and outline the…
ArchiveAfrica beyond the Union
… This address is the fifth of the Heornle Memorial Lecture series delivered by W.M. … the political, economic and social conditions of countries outside of…
PlaceUWC - Robben Island Mayibuye Archives
… Archive, situated in the Main Library at the University of the Western Cape (UWC) campus. The Mayibuye Archive is one of the largest archives of liberation…
EventColoured Labour Party strengthened its stance against apartheid
… its position by forging an alliance with six members of the Coloured Persons Representative Council (CPRC). Unity … the government that the present political…
PlaceOld Anglican Church, Rustenburg
… site in 1967. It was originally built in 1871 as a result of the efforts of John Pilkington Richardson and is one of the oldest Anglican Churches in the…
EventPoqo members kill a White family
… an uprising against the Apartheid government, members of Poqo, the Pan Africanist Congress of Azania's military wing kill a White family in their … while…
EventConstruction on the Aswan Dam starts in Egypt
… The building of the world famous High Aswan Dam, which was also known as … contained 18 times the material used in the Great Pyramid of Cheops. The Dam is 11…
EventMohammed Valli Moosa is born in Johannesburg
… 1957, was a political activist and served as Minister of Environmental and Tourism Affairs in South Africa. He … involved in politics while studying at the…
EventMalan introduces Asiatic Bill
… Daniel F. Malan, the then minister of the Interior, announced the introduction of the Areas Reservation and Immigration and Registration … Indian people as…
EventMoses Mabhida receives awards
… Umkhonto we Sizwe commander, was awarded the Soviet Order of the People and the Order of the People's Republic of Bulgaria First Class on his sixtieth…
EventJustice Coetzee refuses to lift banishment on four Black newspapers
… security police served the president and vice-president of the Black journalists' trade union Media Workers of South Africa with three-year banning orders. A…
EventANC attack on Booysens Police Station
… Pamphlets were scattered demanding the release of Walter Sisulu from Robben Island. In 2000, the Amnesty Committee of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission…
EventSASOL plant explodes again
… after a giant gas explosion, this time not as result of a political attack or sabotage but rather from a gas leak which ignited. The explosion claimed the…