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ArchiveComrade Mbekis coming to Cape Town
… Notice of arrival of Mbeki to Cape Town. Black Green and yellow poster with …
ArchiveEducation liberates!
… Black and white poster with image of person behind bars with books in form of bars …
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
ArchiveKairos II Rally
… Multicoloured poster. Notice of a rally at Regina Mundi Church. List of speakers and cultural entertainment. International …
Archive1989 : Namibian workers unite for a living wage!
… Cream poster with black lettering. Photo of people marching. Issued by the National Union of Namibian Workers. …
Archive1987 Calendar
… Natal Organisation of Women (NOW) Calendar. Black and white photographs of everyday scenes in apartheid South Africa. … N.O.W (Natal Organisation of Women) …
ArchiveFingo tribe who lived on land allocated to the tribe by Queen Victoria
… Forced removals of the Mfengu people from Humansdorp-Tsitsikamma area. Text of document is not clearly legible. …
ArchiveS.A.A.V. Lab Animal Liberation Concert
… Notice of fundraising concert on Thursday, 24th April. List of performers. Navy blue and white poster. …
March 8: International Womens Day
… Blue, pink, black and white poster. Photograph of a woman with a fist raised. Notice of International Women's Day. …
ArchiveThe spear fights on: Isandlwana
… Black, red and white poster. Artwork of black spears, holding a black rifle, on top of a colonial soldier. …
ArchiveNamibie vrij steun de opbouw
… White, blue, green black and white poster. Green artwork of a map of Africa. Namibia outlined in blue. …
ArchiveOur plan: poster number 2: putting a stop to crime and violence
… White, grey and black ANC poster. Artwork of barbed wire with leaves on the end of it. …
ArchiveWhere are their graves in Soweto
… White poster with charcoal title and drawings of two people. Very small touches of red on heads. …