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ArchiveMosambiek: Die huidige stand MBT moontlike onderhandelinge tussen RENAMO en FRELIMO
… Memorandum, written in Afrikaans, outling the situation in Mozambique with regard to FRELIMO and RENAMO …
ArchiveCulture : a national memory
… White poster with red artwork corners. Title only in red letters. COSATU Logo in red. …
ArchiveExtract from Minutes of State Security Council Meeting, 9 June 1980
… Incomplete Minutes from a State Security Council Meeting in which the situation in Zimbabwe was discussed. …
ArchiveFallen Comrades
… freedom fighters who have been captured, killed or wounded in the fighting in Zimbabwe. …
ArchiveVukani zizwe
… Handwritten circular in Xhosa, with English translation, distributed in the Port Elizabeth area calling for a strike. …
PACT : elite culture
… PACT in blue letters in blue outlined oblong box. Photo of a man with glasses. …
ArchiveIzinswizwa zasishiya kulomhlaba
… A song about the attacks by vigilantes in Mphopomeni during 1986, in which SAWCO workers were killed. …
ArchiveSecunda stewards acquitted
… In February this year an armed man was discovered by workers in a general meeting at Secunda. …
ArchiveDetention Dairy by Michael Hathorn (an extract)
… prison diary and notes from his 3 month detention in Durban in 1960 …
ArchiveWithdraw executive: Obasanjo Labour Bill
… Dark blue poster with title in white letters. COSATU logo top left and bottom right in white. …
ArchiveStatement by the christian institute, May 26, 1977
… the investment of Christian Institute which took place in South Africa in October 1976. …
ArchiveWorkers unite : Join COSATU
… White background with dark blue lettering. Blue block in centre with raised fist in white. Join COSATU …
EventDesmond Dube was born on this day.
… actress Lillian Dube. [1] He is an actor who had a role in well known films including: Hotel Rwanda, Honeville and Long Run, the latter in which he starred…
PlaceEerste Rivier, Cape Town
… man of great piety and culture who was exiled to the Cape in 1693 by the Dutch administration of the East Indies . He … and his tomb is considered to be the…
ArchiveAfrica South Vol.3 No.2 Jan-Mar 1959
… Revolutions are Not Abnormal, Michael Harmel. Revolution in South Africa, Edward Roux. Satyagrapha in South Africa, Fatima Meer. The Abduction of a Community…
PlaceNew Somerset Hospital, Beach Road, Green Point
… The building was opened in 1862 and in its time was the first teaching hospital in South Africa. It was declared a National Monument under …
PlaceLeinster Hall, 7 Weltevreden Street, Gardens
… Leinster Hall was built in the 1850s by Sebastian Hofmeyr on a plot of land that … is one of the last four remaining historical manor houses in this part of…
EventIndependent African States resolve to impose sanctions against South Africa
… the Second Conference of Independent African States held in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia a resolution calling for sanctions … to December 1958 when the All African…
PlaceOld Arts Building, University of Pretoria
… milestone, as the Old Arts Building was declared a museum in June 1982. The foundation stone for this iconic landmark … the building was officially opened…
PlaceDonkin Heritage Trail, Port Elizabeth
… turn of the 20th Century. It consists of five dwellings in Donkin Street, facing on to the Donkin Reserve, one at 14 … Heritage Trail links 51 places of…
EventSouth African Journalist, Zwelakhe Sisulu is abducted.
… Zwelakhe Sisulu was a prominent journalist in the apartheid era who fought for justice and freedom. … Congress (ANC) leaders, Walter and Albertina Sisulu. In…
EventThe SABS is established
… The South African Bureau of Standard (SABS) was established in terms of Act 24 of 1945. The Act was revised on several … occasions and is currently effective…
EventWhite ministers and theologians of the DRC reject apartheid
… (Nederduitse Gereformeerde Kerk) family issued a statement in which apartheid in church and politics was categorically rejected on … reinforced the changed…
EventJimmy Kruger announces amendment to the Internal Security Act
… persons deemed to be threatening public order, would apply in the Transvaal Province with immediate effect for one year. The government amended the Internal…
EventChief Mangosuthu Buthelezi calls for National Convention
… Buthelezi, called for a National Convention of all races in South Africa to make a decision on the country's future … United Party (UP) and the Progressive…
EventSouth African invention lands on the moon
… research group (PTY) and went on to invent Pratley Putty in the early 1960's. Pratley Putty was used by NASA in 1969 on Apollo XI's Eagle landing craft and…
EventNational Party wins general election
… Party under Dr H.F. Verwoerd claimed majority of votes in a parliamentary general election, Verwoerd's last election before his assassination in office six…
EventAbolition of Internal Security Act
… decision to repeal it and the corresponding legislation in the four nominally independent Bantustans, Transkei, … and the South African Defence Force (SADF)…
EventApartheid bomb kills Zimbabwean and injures six ANC members
… Congress (ANC) members were injured when the truck in which Mwanza was a driver detonated outside an ANC transit house in Bulawayo. This was a South African…
EventMagnus Malan’s trial ends
… of all charges relating to the murder of thirteen people in KwaMakutha in 1987. The case centred on allegations that the former … the TRC was still likely to…