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ArchiveSelf-help: new developments
… Some pages of this article may be illegible due to the quality of the original. …
ArchiveBosses take fright
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EventSibongile Khumalo was born on this day
… Sibongile Khumalo was born in Orlando, Soweto. She is one of the most recognized jazz musicians in South Africa. She … She has also treated South Africans to…
ArchiveAfrica South Vol.3 No.2 Jan-Mar 1959
… Contents: Dr. Hedrick Frensch Verwoerd, Prime Minister of South Africa, Stanley Uys with illustrations by David … Satyagrapha in South Africa, Fatima Meer…
PlaceDoringbaai, Cape West Coast
… Coast near Strandfontein and Langebaan, about 300 km West of Cape Town. You can get to Doringbaai next to the N7, after … Fishermen. The Local, Lobster…
PlacePublic Library, Port Elizabeth
… built in the late Victorian style incorporating a mixture of idiosyncratic Gothic and classical features. It was … tourist or a library card holder. The…
PlaceKitson the Steam Train, Krugersdorp
… donation, to SANRASM, towards the cosmetic restoration of the Kitson and Hunslet, ex-ESKOM National Heritage … engine was manufactured in England in 1879 by…
EventSA cartoonist, Daniel Cornelis Boonzaaier is born
… where he started drawing portraits from photographs of world celebrities.In 1903 he became the first cartoonist appointed to the permanent staff of the South…
EventSAAN announces its decision to close the Rand Daily Mail
… and The Daily Express newspapers, allocated costs to each of its newspapers accordingly. However, it discovered that it … Mail was a liberal newspaper that…
EventVuyisile Mini, Trade unionist and uMkhonto we Sizwe (MK) activist is hanged
… role in the MK and anti-apartheid resistance. As a member of the South African Congress of Trade Unions (SACTU), he was responsible for the organisation of…
EventDanie Malan, SA athlete, sets a new world record in the 1 000m event in Munich
… 1000m event in Munich. Malan was raised in the Boland area of the Cape, where he took part in athletics from a young … to take athletics seriously during his…
EventApartheid bomb kills Zimbabwean and injures six ANC members
… agents located in Zimbabwe . Philip Masiza Conjwayo, one of the agents was a former member of Zimbabwe’s Special Branch. Conjwayo confirmed to the ANC that…
EventSA President Nelson Mandela to step down
… the president can only serve for two terms as the head of state. Mandela felt one term was enough as he had already … scenes endorsement by Nelson Mandela…
EventSA author Hymne Weiss is born
… South African author and translator of books into Afrikaans from six European languages, Hymne … Orange Free State (now Free State). She was a daughter of…
EventHalley’s Comet reaches the closest point to earth
… astronomer Edmund Halley, who in 1705 calculated the orbit of the comet around the sun. Halley was also the first … Comet has been known since 240 and the…
EventGerman action in Herero Revolt is condemned in the Reichstag
… in German South West Africa. He demanded the termination of the war and refused to budget for its continuation. Bebel called the resistance of the Ovaherero…
EventEmily Hobhouse receives a reply to her request to be included in the Ladies Commission
… letter saying; "The only consideration in the selection of ladies to visit the Concentration Camps, beyond their … be, so far as is possible, removed from…
EventOn 14 November 2006, parliament approved the controversial Civil Unions Bill, which provided for same-sex marriage
… South Africa the first African country to do so and one of only a few in the world at the time. MPs from the African … its members a free vote on the issue…
EventForced removals at the Crossroads informal settlement
… The removals occurred on 25 May 1986 and June of the same year. Allegedly a notorious group of men known as ‘witdoeke’ executed the evictions by setting ……
EventThe South African government is to grant self-government to KaNgwane
… it had finally abandoned its land deal with Swaziland, of which KaNgwane was to have been part. South Africa and … in question was formally designated in…
EventNelson Mandela and Walter Sisulu on Robben Island 5 August 1982
… The twentieth anniversary of the arrest of Nelson Mandela, African National Congress (ANC) leader and first commander-in-chief of uMkhonto we Sizwe (MK), was…
EventTodd Tozama Matshikiza, musician, composer and writer, is born in Queenstown, Eastern Cape
… he established a music school, the Todd Matshikiza School of Music. He was also one of the first black journalists to work for Drum Magazine. … South Africa…
EventANC leader Walter Sisulu is convicted and sentenced to six years in prison for contravening the unlawful Organisations Act
… sentenced to six years in prison for furthering the aims of the banned ANC and for organising the May 1961 … broadcast from a secret ANC radio station. On 11…
ArchiveStatement by Seth Sandila Mazibuku
… This is a press release about the death of Steve Biko and the detention of black leaders. …
ArchiveQuote from Zambian President Levy Mwanawasa 2007
… Multicoloured poster. Artwork of the sinking of the Titanic. Zimbabwe flag. Call for a new democratic …
ArchiveGran fiesta nacional por el triunfo popular
… Multicoloured poster. Artwork of people unfolding a map of El Salvador. Holiday on the 16 January 1992. …
ArchiveNew Nation: Writers Conference 1991
… Multicoloured poster. Artwork of a head on a book with pencils and feathers coming out of the head. …
ArchiveReports presented at 3rd General Students Co
… Reports of activities of SASO for the past year and plans proposed for the …
ArchiveEducation for servitude
… Address delivered to the Joint Council of Europeans and Africans on the topic of Native Education. …
Disco Club 700
… Red and white poster. Notice of intended music event. Reverse side of folder 2802.p001 …