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ArchiveThe South African Reality
… speech covers subjects such as foreign investments, change in South Africa, patriotism, education and the role of students in creating a just society. …
ArchiveJune 16: 10 fighting years
… (TRASCO) logo on left and image of Hector Pieterson in the arms of a fellow student on the right. Features list of demands. "Unban COSAS - Ban apartheid…
PlaceGA Riches Printer Building, 423 Smith Street, Durban
… The building, designed in a classical-revivalist style, is an important component of … Street, one of the most historically significant roads in the Durban…
A faction of the Bophuthatswana Defence Force, led by Rocky Malebana Metsing, attempts to overthrow the government of Chief Lucas Manyane Mangope.
… Mangope, who is held hostage for at least fifteen hours in Kemonosi Stadium. Five people die in the coup and counter-coup and one is injured. …
PlaceAllemanskraal or Aldam, Free State Province
… Village in the Willem Pretorius Game Reserve near the Sand River, 30 … the North-West. The Sand River Convention was signed there in 1852, which gave…
ArchiveStaffrider Vol.11 No.1, No.2, No.3 and No.4 1993
… One Suleimen Cassamo; Behind God's Back, Sandra Braude; In to the Death Zone, Lesego Rampolokeng; A Bundle of Joy, … The Scar, Taurai Hlekisane. Essays: The…
13. Wife lays bigamy charge
… 17 years ago. I lived with him for about 10 1/2 years in Bourbon. I had five children by him, four boys and one … youngest son Gurusamy and arrived here per…
The conduct of EFF at the National Assembly Today, 17 September 2014
… concern about the conduct of EFF Members of Parliament in the National Assembly today. Their refusal to abide by … constituencies bigger than their mere…
ANC hard at work despite power failure and strike threat, 27 July 2009
… Department under the Secretary General’s Office, are also in full operation, using laptops and cellphones. We note that … businesses and caused…
EventMacassar Gas Disaster (AECI stockpile catches fire)
… gas into the air. The South Eastern wind blew the gas in the direction of Macassar. [i] News reports confirmed that … and Evaluation of Exposures from a…
PlaceOur Lady of Montserrat Catholic Church, Betty's Bay
… Our Lady Of Montserrat in Betty's Bay, Western Cape is a Christian Congregation … Church has been burnt to the Ground because of the Fire in the Overstrand…
Grassroots
… Grassroots was started in 1980 as the first of a series of community newspapers … of the first (March 1980) edition were printed although in subsequent years…
EventNatal is formally separated from the Cape Colony
… a partly elected Legislative Council. Ten years later, in 1866, Natal invaded a portion of the Mpondo Paramount, … become part of the Cape Colony, known as…
PlacePearson Conservatorium and Prince Alfred’s Guard Memorial, St Georges Park, Port Elizabeth
… was designed and erected by Boyd & Son, of Paisley, in Scotland, who dismantled the original building into … by the Saracen Foundry of Walter MacFarlane, of…
PlaceSeal Point Lighthouse, Cape St. Francis
… Reserve on the seaward tip of what is known as Cape Seal in Plettenberg Bay. Cape Seal lighthouse lies 146 metres … Reserve on the seaward tip of what is…
Cable to the United Nations Opposing Incorporation of South-West Africa, by Dr. A. B. Xuma, January 1946
… League of Nations. Africans South West Africa no share in Government therefore take no part in incorporation negotiations. South Africa itself denies ……
EventTreason Trial of 16 UDF members resumes
… Thirty years after the first Treason trial in 1956, 16 members of the United Democratic Front (UDF) were accused of treason in the Pietermaritzburg Supreme…
EventBiafra, a Nigerian Province is recognised by Tanzania
… coups and two major pogroms against the Igbo (Ibo) people in Nigeria. The Igbo people constituted the majority of the population in the seceded territory…
EventJan van Riebeeck visits Robben Island for the first time
… the largest of the nearby coastal islands around the Cape. In the nearly four centuries of European settlement it has … The first political prisoner,…
EventBasutoland (now Lesotho) becomes British territory
… who had been driven apart by Zulu and Ndebele raids. In 1867 and 1868, most of Moshoeshoe's land was overrun by … time. This state of affairs led to…
Cutting Through The Mountain
… them Jewish - who fought against institutionalised racism in South Africa. Denis Goldberg, Helen Suzman, Ronnie … testimony to the personalities of some…
PlaceQuadrant House, 114-115 Victoria Embankment, Durban
… In 1929, H Live commissioned architect Ritchie McKinlay to … so-called `Berea Style' which arose from local interest in Spanish Colonial Architecture as…
PlaceEbenezer, Limpopo
… Ebenezer was established in 1831 as a station of the Rhenish Missionary Society . The … had a population of 291. It was visited by James Backhouse in March…
Apartheid and the Medical School
… and further condemns the whole system of oppression in dividing the people by colour and now in education as well. …
ArchiveThe sixteenth annual Richard Feetham Memorial Lecture by Helen Joseph
… on Thursday 12 August 1982 at 20h00. Small map of Africa in top right hand corner. Wits logo in top left hand corner. …
EventMosibudi Mangena is born
… party Azanian People's Organisation (AZAPO) was born in Tzaneen, Limpopo Province. Before he was appointed as Minister of Science and Technology in 2004…
EventAfrikaans linguist H J Terblanche is born
… of several dictionaries and grammar books, is born in Aberdeen in the Eastern Cape. Dr Terblanche was a pioneer of Afrikaans … fratse oor 1000 jaar, Kaapstad…
EventOscar Pistorius South African sprint runner is born
… known as the “Blade Runner”) was born on 22 November 1986 in Sandton, Johannesburg. He was born with fibular hemimelia, which is a congenital absence of the…
ArchiveNow Cape Town...Now Langa too is burning
… of Cape Town students of a mass meeting to be held in response to the political turmoil that had begun to affect Cape Town. The government asks for law and…
ArchiveReport on regional resettlement consultation held at St Peters, Hammanskraal on February 1-2, 1980
… forced removals and how if affected people. It is argued in this speech that enforced removals lead to great loss of property, resulted in poverty, exposed…