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ArchiveNUMSA says no to Iscors 33 c
… Cream background with black lettering image of man with right fist raised. Rejection of ISCOR wage offer. …
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…
EventFourth Nuclear bomb test by France in the Sahara
… bomb test in the Sahara Desert. Adding to the tension of the time, was an underlyingFrench ambition to lead Europe … its own right. This ambition was…
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…
EventNatal Law society apologises to Gandhi
… lawyer to apply to practise in the then British colony of Natal. The Natal Law Society opposed his application because he was Indian. The president of the…
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…
EventBob Woolmer, former South African coach, is found unconscious in his hotel room during the Cricket World Cup in the West Indies
… in the West Indies. He died later in hospital. After weeks of investigation his body was returned to his family in South Africa. Bob Woolmer was one of the…
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…
EventPrime Minister Verwoerd’s assassin transferred from prison to a mental asylum
… On 30 June 1994, the Minister of Correctional Services in South Africa, Dr Sipho Mzimela, … in other Germany, England and the United States of America and…
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 ……
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…
ArchiveNUMSA cares for its kids!
… Multicoloured poster. Photograph of children. A red aids ribbon. Notice of International Childrens Day, on June 1st 2002. …
ArchiveNUMSA 2001 demands in unity and solidarity
… Multicoloured poster. List of sectoral demands. Photograph of a man holding a board with core demands on it. NUMSA logo. …
ArchiveThe people decide
… Blue, purple and pink poster. Notice of the first National Housing Summit, at Botshabelo. Artwork of three houses. …
ArchiveNUMSA shopstewards elections - 1993
… White, black, red and yellow NUMSA poster. List of rules for elections and list of duties for shopstewards. …
ArchiveThe Open School Childrens Art Calendar 1991
… Multicoloured artwork of various children. The open School on the Move Logo. Front page of calendar for 1991. …
ArchiveChurches in solidarity with women 1989
… White dove in top left corner. 1988 ecumenical decade of women. Lists of dates to remember. …
ArchiveDr Ivan Toms: David Bruce
… Part of folder 2858. End Conscription Campaign poster. Biographies of Dr Ivan Toms and David Bruce, conscienscious objectors. …