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EventBritish explorers, John Speke and J.A. Grant announce that Lake Victoria is the source of the Nile
… Speke and James Grant, on their return from an expedition in Africa announced that Lake Victoria is the source of the … earlier findings. Speke’s first…
EventForced removals at the Crossroads informal settlement
… local government to clear informal dwellings at Crossroads in close proximity to the Cape Town International airport. … It emerged the bloody fights that…
EventMoroccan explorer, Ibn Battuta is born
… Lawati Al Tanji Ibn Battuta was born into a Muslim family in Tangier, Morocco. At the age of 21 Battuta set out on a … other explorers’ accounts. He was…
Message from Dr. AB Xuma, President-General of ANC, to the United Nations, 22 January 1946
… League Of Nations. Africans South West Africa no share in government therefore take no part in incorporation Negotiations. South Africa itself denies ……
EventThe Congo Free State is established by King Leopold of Belgium
… by King Leopold II of Belgium. Congo was a large region in central Africa that had been able to resist European … the rule of Leopold range from 5 million to…
EventTwo psychiatrists give evidence on the proceedings of David Beresford Pratt’s case
… mental condition. The case was heard at the Supreme Court in Pretoria before Justice Rumpff, Judge-President of the … Dr. H. F. Verwoerd at the Milner Park…
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 …
Durban Mayors and other city officials
… This list is listed in chronological order, listing mayors of Durban, starting …
ArchiveNamibian independence talks: Meeting at the Mulungushi Conference Hall, Lusaka, 11-13 May 1984
… talks, and implementation of UN Security Council 435, held in Lusaka in May 1984. …
ArchiveThe Nederduitse Gereformeerde Sendingkerk
… Article discussing the role of the Dutch Reformed Church in effecting social change and justice in South Africa. …
Editorial
… Draft editorial by I B Tabata, possibly for publication in Ikhwezi Lomso, on the current political situation in South Africa. …
ArchiveInterview with Winnie Mandela on the Soweto riots
… In a interview Winnie Mandela puts forth reasons for the eruption of violence in Soweto on June 16th. …
ArchiveNEUSA
… background with artwork of an outline of South Africa in white and title lettering in white …
ArchiveDiscussion between Minister Phiri of Zambia, and South African Representatives: Lusaka, Roan House, 25 June 1984
… Minister Phiri of Zambia and South African Representatives in Zambia regarding the situation in southern Africa …
ArchiveExtract from Minutes of State Security Council Meeting, 14 April 1980
… Incomplete Minutes from a State Security Council Meeting in which the situation in Namibia, and other issues were discussed. …
ArchiveExtract from Minutes of State Security Council Meeting, 18 February 1980
… Incomplete Minutes from a State Security Council Meeting in which the situation in Zimbabwe, and other issues were discussed. …
ArchiveFifty seventh NUSAS Congress, Durban, November 1979
… Union of South African Students 57th Congress held in November in Durban, 1979. …
Document 33 - Accord on Afrikaner self-determination
… of South African resistance culture which took place in Amsterdam in 1987 …
ArchiveCreating a culture of debate
… intolerance that has gripped many townships, published in Work in Progress, volume 73, March/April, 1991. …
ArchiveGift Tandare: our hero
… Coloured photograph of Gift Tandare. Call for elections in 2008 in Zimbabwe, for a new democratic constitution. Flag of …
ArchiveThe Rustenburg Declaration
… of the National Conference of Church Leaders held in South Africa in November 1990. …
ArchiveCombatting the double oppression of Namibian
… Orange poster with red lettering and artwork of women in army uniform protesting. SWAPO poster. Issued in London, UK. …