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… Minutes of the Black Sash Annual National Conference held at Port Elizabeth … Minutes of the Black Sash Annual National Conference held at Port Elizabeth …

… An Invaluable Historical Source The literature on "life in Sophiatown" by a generation of prose writers, novelists, … accounts of the township's and South Africa's history in the last sixty years. Many of them were linked to Drum … that has captured the texture of Sophiatown and life in early Apartheid South Africa in ways that no other form of …

… Rand Daily Mail explains that Black and White South Africans might compete against each other in an “open international” meetin …

… Black Men in a White Man’s War: The Impact of the First World War on …

… Anglo-Boer War 2:  Mafeking siege: Two Black cattle-herds are captured and summarily executed at Mafeking by burghers, in acco …

… Justice Coetzee in the Rand Supreme Court refuses to lift an order barring resumption of publication of four Black newspapers. …

… In a joint statement the leaders of seven Black ‘homelands’ …

… are considered to be the most respected organisations in the Black …

… Prime Minister P.W. Botha decides to invite leaders of the Black ‘homelands’ to join in a discussion on a ‘statement of intent’ …

… Nelson Mandela is elected unopposed as first Black President of South Africa in the first session of the National Assembly. …

… Fedics (Pty) Ltd, the largest Black-owned company in South Africa’s corporate catering market, takes over the …

… Fedics (Pty) Ltd, the largest Black-owned company in South Africa’s corporate catering market, takes over the …

… Janet Soga (neé Burnside) is born in Hutchesontown, Glasgow, Scotland. She married Tito Yoga, the first Black man to be …

… Mayibuye Uprising-black South Africans, slaves in the land of their birth, rose up to peacefully throw off …

… periods or events that bring about dramatic change in politics, economics or society. A political revolution … are however political revolutions that are bloodless, in other words, where the existing government is replaced … resumed some of the despotism the people fought against in the first place. It took more revolutions in France to set …

… Black athlete Matthews Motshwarateu, recently allowed into the racially exclusive SA Amatuer Athletics Union, breaks the national 5 000m record in Stellenbosch, so entering the annals of South African … After being allowed into the racially exclusive SA Amateur Athletics Union, Matthews Motshwarateu, breaks the …

… Yellow poster with black lettering. Poster for New Nation publication. New nation on red block with black and yellow lettering. …

… radiation which could cause mutations and damage in human, animal and plant cells. In 1974 scientists published their first scientific … gases (CFC), which were widely used, could remain trapped in the stratosphere for decades or even centuries, release … of the Ozone Layer, to which SA is a signatory, is signed in Vienna …

… List of Black People's Convention members in Durban and Lenasia … Black Peoples Convention: Lenasia Branch and Durban Central …

… War (or South African War) imminent, thousands of Black men and women were left stranded in Johannesburg. The mines had been closed by their owners … readily available to transport refugees to Natal and many Black mineworkers could afford to pay the required train …

… The SA rugby team loses the three-nations rugby series in …

… politician, farmer and first state president of SA, dies in Bloemfontein. …

… Dr George Lindsay Johnson, SA ophthalmologist and authority on the eyes of animals, is born in England. …

… SA exchanges notes with Sudan regarding the establishment of a trade representative office of the Sudan in Pretoria. …

… Cecil John Rhodes, SA statesman after whom Rhodesia was named, is born in Bishop’s Stortford, Hertfordshire, England. …

… General Meeting of the United Nations, attended also by SA delegates, starts in New York. …

… André Huguenet, stage-name of Gerhardus Petrus Borstlap, SA actor, producer and author, is born in Bloemfontein. …

… Morné du Plessis, SA rugby captain and son of Springbok Felix du Plessis, is born in Vereeniging. …

… The SA Davis Cup tennis team, Bob Hewitt, Frew McMillan and Ray Mordt, beats Italy 4-1 in Ellispark. …

… The SA Davis Cup tennis team, Bob Hewitt, Frew McMillan and Ray Mordt, beats Italy 4-1 in Ellispark. …