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EventHaile Selassi I, Emperor of Ethiopia, is born
Haile Selassi was born as Lij Tafari Makonnen in the village of Ejersa Gor, in the Harar province of Ethiopia. Heir to a 13th century dynasty, he ascended to…
EventPrime Minister B.J. Vorster predicts South Africa will become leading state in the Southern Africa
The South African Prime Minister B.J. Vorster declared that if the positive signs of cooperation with the rest of Africa are interpreted accurately, South…
Freedom In Our Life Time - List of Photographs
From the book: Freedom In Our Life Time by Anton Muziwakhe Lembede Anton Lembede's primary school class, Umbumbulu, 192.7 (Bemadette Sibeko) Inset of…
ArticleAzanian Students Organisation (AZASO)
Filling the void left by SASO? The Azanian Students Organisation (AZASO): A summary Following the banning of the South African Student Organisation (SASO) a…
ArticleFederation of South African Women (FEDSAW)
The Federation of South African Women (FEDSAW or FSAW) was launched on 17 April 1954 in Johannesburg as the first attempt to establish a broad-based women’s…
Exploring Student-Worker Alliance: the role of COSAS in trade unions, 1979-1985 by Noor Nieftagodien
This paper was submitted to the 1973 Durban Strikes Celebrating 50 Years Conference Abstract Exploring Student-Worker Alliance: the role of COSAS…
EventInternational Labour Organisation excludes South Africa from its two-day meeting
In a two-day meeting to discuss emergency measures against South Africa and the problems its membership poses, the governing body of the International Labour…
EventPatrice Emery Lumumba, first Prime Minister of an independent Congo, is born
A member of the Tetela ethnic group, Patrice Emery Lumumba was born in the Katakokombe region of the Kasai Province of Belgian Congo. Lumuba became involved in…
EventAlbert Luthuli delivers his Nobel Peace Prize Lecture
Albert Luthuli delivers his Nobel Lecture after receiving the Peace Prize the previous day. Luthuli was the first South African to receive the Nobel Prize for…
EventFidel Castro becomes Premier of Cuba
Before Fidel Castro took over the island state's government; Cuba was under the military rule of President Fulgeneio Batista. Castro was the leader of the 26…
EventThe TRC is set up by parliament
The South African parliament approved legislation to set up the Truth and Reconciliation Commission in 1995. The Commission, based on the Promotion of National…
EventWalter Sisulu secretly attends a meeting at the house of George Xorile with F. Van Rensburg
On 11 January 1963, African National Congress (ANC) member, Walter Sisulu attended a secret meeting at the house of George Xarile together with F. Van Rensburg…
ArchiveBiography of Dorothy Nyembe by Thomas Boatman
… freed before the new year. The decade of the 1960s tested the resiliency of Dorothy due to both the …
EventMiriam Makeba returns to South Africa
This Day in History: 10 June 1990Miriam Makeba returned to South Africa on 10 June 1990 after 31 years in exile. Known as Mama Africa, she had left in 1959 as…
ArchiveThe Pan African Congress venture in retrospect: a Non-European Unity Movement pamphlet
This pamphlets tries to highlight a series of events that the Pan African Congress (PAC)has been involved with in relation to the freedom struggle of the…
EventThe UN Security Council to lay down rules which would allow UN forces to enter Congo
On 6 August 1960, the United Nations (UN) Secretary General, Mr. Dag Hammarskjöld, asked the UN Security Council to lay down rules which would allow UN forces…
EventAhmadou Kourouma, Ivorian novelist dies in France
Ahmadou Kourouma was born in 1927 in CÁ´te d'Ivoire. He went to live and attend school in Mali before leaving for France. When CÁ´te d'Ivoire gained…
National OR Tambo Memorial Lecture series inaugural address by his excellency Dr Jacob G Zuma, President of the Republic of South Africa, OR Tambo International Airport, 24 October 2011
Mr Dali Tambo and the entire Tambo family, Esteemed Trustees and Founding Members of the Oliver and Adelaide Tambo Foundation, Ministers and Deputy Ministers…
Address at the National Summit of Unity and Reconciliation Kigali, Rwanda, 18 October 2000
Your Excellency President Paul Kagame, Your Excellency Prime Minister Bernard Makuza, Honourable Ministers, Distinguished Guests, Brothers and Sisters of…
PlaceBeach houses, Main Road, Muizenberg
These properties, located between Muizenberg and St James, are the only remaining concentration of early 20th century Edwardian beach houses in South Africa,…
Notes on the Life of Ernest Cole 1940–1990 by Gunilla Knape
This book and exhibition are an attempt to construct a clear picture of Ernest Cole, a complex man whose work is little known, especially in his own country,…
EventThe apartheid government establishes a Department for Coloured Affairs’ (CAD)
Long before the inception of apartheid "Coloured" people in South Africa occupied this precarious position between White and Black South Africans. This…
EventThe “Ossewabrandwag” is founded
The Ossewabrandwag (OB as it came to be known, meaning Oxwagon Sentinal) was founded as an Afrikaans nationalist organisation in Bloemfontein, under leadership…
EventDiplomatic office of the ANC in Stockholm is bombed
A bomb exploded in the office of the African National Congress (ANC) on the third floor of a block of offices in Stockholm Sweden. The office was severely…
EventSmuts becomes Prime Minister
General Jan Christian Smuts started his first term as prime minister of the Union of South Africa after the death of General Louis Botha on 27 August 1919…
EventLadysmith Black Mambazo, male choral group, win a Grammy Award
Ladysmith black Mambazo won their second Grammy Award on 13 February 2005 for their album Wenyukela. A hybrid of the album was released in the United States…
EventAlbert Luthuli accepts the Nobel Peace Prize
Albert John Mvumbi Luthuli, president of the then banned African National Congress (ANC), was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1960 for advocating non-violent…
Event13 year-old South African Native mineworker is published in a newspaper
On 7 March 1960, a photograph of a 13 year-old Native boy in a torn vest was published in the front page of the London Labour paper, the Daily Herald, with the…
EventPalaeontologist Mary Leakey discovers one of the oldest hominid skulls in Tanzania
On 17 July 1959, Palaeontologist Mary Leaky discovered on of the oldest hominid skulls in the Olduvai Gorge, in Northern Tanzania. At first she found several…
EventMilton Obote (81), Uganda’s former dictator, dies in a South African hospital
Obote, a member of the legislative council of Uganda from 1957, founded the Uganda People's Congress in 1960. Obote became Uganda's Prime Minister after…