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UDF Poster ‘May Day: Public holiday: Long live the workers’ struggle.’ by United Democratic Front (UDF), May 1986, South Africa
UDF Poster ‘Unban ANC! Freedom day June 26: The Freedom charter for the People’s power’ by UDF, 1986, South Africa
A rusty 1.4kg shell, dating back to 1901, explodes in the playground of a Johannesburg school, injuring more than thirty childr
The Bishop of Johannesburg, Ambrose Reeves, resigns after having been deported from South Africa in September 1960 for his stro
The new revised results of the 1996 census survey is announced, according to which SA has 40 583 574 inhabitants.
Dmitri Tsafendas (81), murderer of SA Prime Minister H.F. Verwoerd in 1966, dies in the Sterkfontein psychiatric hospital on th
Dmitri Tsafendas (81), murderer of SA Prime Minister H.F. Verwoerd in 1966, dies in the Sterkfontein psychiatric hospital on th
Sir de Villiers Graaff announces his retirement from politics, having been leader of the opposition from 1956 until the dissolu
The Labour Relations Amendment Act, amending the Labour Relations Act of 1956, comes into force. The Black trade union movement
The UN Security Council ends sanctions against Sudan. The sanctions had been imposed in 1996 after Sudan refused to extradite s
The UN Security Council ends sanctions against Sudan. The sanctions had been imposed in 1996 after Sudan refused to extradite s
The Commission of Inquiry into the 1986 Unrest and Alleged Mismanagement in KwaNdebele, originally to be headed by Mr Justice W
Dr Bertha Stoneman, SA botanist and educationist and appointed principal of the Huguenot University College in 1916, is born in
President Mandela warns that local government elections in Kwazulu-Natal, scheduled for 29 May 1996, may have to be postponed a
Dr Mohammed Moosa Motala, medical practitioner, political activist and SA ambassador in Morocco from 1996 to 1999, dies in Piet
The Fort Klapperkop military museum, Pretoria, mainly illustrating the period from the Great Trek to 1902, is opened by Preside
The Security Council, in its first action on South Africa, adopts resolution 134 (1960) deploring the policies and actions of t
Statement of dissolution of the South African Coloured People’s Congress, by Barney Desai and Cardiff Marney, London, March 1966 (abridged)
The Bondelswarts, a small tribe of Nama origin who settled at Warmbad, South West Africa about 1905, capitulates to the German
BiographyEric Mbatha
Eric Mbatha was born in Soweto, 1948. He obtained training in art in 1971 at Evangelical Lutheran Art and Craft Centre at Rorke`s Drift. He had a longer…
Fenuel Mogatusi
Mr Fenuel Mogatusi, aged 22, a Soweto school student,was detained in July 1976 and died in detention on 28 September 1976.The Act under which he was held was…
BiographyHector Pieterson
Hector Pieterson* was born in 1963. He became the iconic image of the 1976 Soweto uprising in apartheid South Africa when a newspaper photograph by Sam Nzima -…
BiographyJoseph Sallie Molefi
Joseph Sallie Poonyane Molefi ‘was born in 1930 at Winburg in the Orange Free State and attended St. Peter’s School in Johannesburg, matriculating in 1948.’ He…
Minutes of the 54th Congress of the National Union of South African Students, held at the University of the Witwatersrand, 29th November - 2nd December, 1976
Minutes of the 54th Congress of the National Union of South African Students, held at the University of the Witwatersrand, 29th November - 2nd December, 1976.
Minutes of the 53rd Congress of the National Union of South African Students, held at the University of Cape Town, 30th January - 4th February 1976
Minutes of the 53rd Congress of the National Union of South African Students, held at the University of Cape Town, 30th January - 4th February 1976.
ArticleJohn Maxwell Coetzee timeline 1940-2003
1940 Born in Cape Town. 1960s Graduates from the University of Cape Town with Mathematics and English. 1972 Earns a PhD in literature from the…
PlaceDie Nederduitsch Hervormde Kerkgebou in Du Toit Street, Pretoria
The ‘Nederduitsch Hervormde' congregation was founded on 8 and 9 September 1855 in Pretoria. It was one of the independent churches started by the …
The small matter of a horse: The life of 'Nongoloza' Mathebula, 1867-1948 by Charles van Onselen, 04 January 2012 (libcom.org)
… Rebellion which swept through parts of rural Natal between 1906 and 1908 brought thousands of Zulu migrants to the Reef … and largest labour force.63 Such…
BiographyHerbert Isaac Ernest Dhlomo
Herbert Isaac Ernest Dhlomo was born in Edendale, Natal on February 26th, 1903. He was the second son to Ezra and Sardinia Dhlomo. Ezra came from a line of…
BiographyJoseph (Anti-Pass) M. Kumalo
During the 1955-1956 Evaton bus boycott Kumalo was banished in terms of the 1927 Native Administration Act to Duiwelskloof. From there he was brought to stand…