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EventEducationist Ernest Moloto dies
… teacher, Ernest Sedumedi Moloto, who served as chairman of both the Tswana Language Committee of South Africa and the Botswana National Language Committee, ……
EventANC recruits receive military training
… Angola, Tanzania and Libya; about seventy-five per cent of them were training with Umkhonto We Sizwe (MK), the military wing of the African National Congress…
ArchiveLetter from Lybon Mabasa to the Secretary, IDAMASA
… Letter from Lybon Mabaso, Convenor, Community Develoment of the Black Peoples Convention, Johannesburg, to the … to a meeting to discuss the education crisis…
ArchiveCAS: Conscription Advice Service
… Red, blue and white poster. Notice of Conscription Advice Service. Red and white border with … CAS and goemetric shapes. Blue and white photograph of four…
ArchiveOp die hoek: sharing
… Artwork of a cartoon in red and white which is about two children who … school. The children then get into a fight about ownership of this coin, finally…
PlaceGA Riches Printer Building, 423 Smith Street, Durban
… in a classical-revivalist style, is an important component of Smith Street, one of the most historically significant roads in the Durban CBD. …
Freedom In Our Life Time by Anton Muziwakhe Lembede
… Table of Contents List of Photographs Acknowledgements Foreword by A. P. Mda …
ArchiveConstitutional Guidelines Seminar, 17 May 1989: Report
… Report of the Congress of South African Trade Unions Constitutional Guidelines …
ArchiveExcerpts from long interview given by President O R Tambo to Associated Press correspondent, Mr Nicky Hanks on 7th June 1980 in Lusaka
… Nicky Hanks on 7th June, 1980 in Lusaka. Discusses actions of Gatsha Buthelezi and his stance on school boycotts, … and the Bantustan programme. Issued by…
EventViolent clashes about the Transkei territorial authorities continues
… in Pondoland (Transkei) between supporters and opponents of the African territorial authorities. 29 Africans were … culminated into an open revolt against…
EventRioting erupts in Soweto
… spread to other townships in South Africa. The Minister of Justice, Jimmy Kruger, again banned public meetings under the Riotous Assemblies Act, until the…
EventVasco da Gama dies
… a sea route from Europe to Asia around the southern point of Africa, died on his final voyage to India as Portuguese viceroy. He fell ill, probably of…
EventDr Wouter Basson is acquitted
… acquitted by Judge Willie Hartzenberg on forty-six charges of murdering apartheid opponents, conspiracy, drug possession … During the apartheid era Basson…
EventAfrikaans linguist H J Terblanche is born
… Dr Hendrik Josephus Terblanche, compiler of several dictionaries and grammar books, is born in … Aberdeen in the Eastern Cape. Dr Terblanche was a pioneer of…
ArchiveMessage from the Permanent Representative, New York, to D W Auret, Cape Town
… would be no interrogations and SWAPO would have freedom of passage for an extended period of time. …
ArchiveLong bitter struggle at Frame has ended
… history has come to an end. Nearly 2 000 National Union of Textile Worker members at the giant Frametex mill, the heart of the Frame complex at New Germany…
EventSmiso Zwane, South African hip hop artist is born
… stage name Okmalumkoolkat was born in the Umlazi township of Durban on 27 July 1985. [i] Along ZamaniXolo stage name … Milano” in 2016.He has also…
ArchiveStaffrider Vol.9 No.1 1990
… Padayachee. ESSAYS: Who Writes? Who Reads? The Concept of a People's Literature, Nadine Gordimer; Richard Rive: A … ]. Mutle; Strandveld Crucifixion, Brandon…
ArchiveStaffrider Vol.7 No.1 1988
… Mondlane; Our Sharpeville by Ingrid de Kok; The Blood of our Silence by Kelwyn Sole; Two Namibian Poems by … comic book by Jeff Lok. Reviews and Reports: A…
EventThe Liquor Laws Amendment Bill comes into effect
… brewery trade. On 28 January 1928, however, Section 104 of the liquor bill was withdrawn, and Indians were once again … which financed the city council. The…
EventFollowing the infamous Treason Trial, ANC leader Chief Albert Luthuli is banished by the Apartheid Government for five years
… Chief Albert John Luthuli , President of the African National Congress (ANC) from 1952 to 1967 and Nobel Peace Prize winner in 1961, was one of South Africa…
EventJapanese submarines attack naval base in Madagascar
… naval base off Madagascar. This attack was in support of the beleaguered Vichy French Forces that were attempting … in their course in the Indian Ocean, the…
EventA military coup deposes the Lesotho Government
… On 15 January 1986, General Justin Lekhanya, the Head of the Lesotho Army, ousted Lesotho prime minister Chief … Lesotho in early January 1986. Furthermore,…
Claremont Histories Photographic Exhibition
… Histories will host a photo exhibit showcasing some of the stories and photographs of people forcibly removed from Claremont and Harfield under …
ArchiveSpeech at the African National Congress welcome rally
… the changing situation within South Africa, the release of the leaders, the unbanning of the African National Congress and other organisations. …
ArchiveUnban the ANC Mass Meeting
… Notice of Mass Meeting on Tuesday 10th June at Khotso House at … June 1986, from the Star newspaper, regarding the lifting of the ban on UDF meetings, to…
PlaceDevonshire Villa, 33 Carstens Street, Tamboerskloof, Cape Town
… The dwelling is an excellent example of late Victorian architecture and was erected in 1893-94 by WN Cook, an affluent draper and silk merchant of Cape Town,…
EventSouth African cricket player Jonathan ‘Jonty’ Rhodes is born
… 27 July 1969. Better known as “Jonty”, his diving run-out of Pakistani’s Inzamam-ul-Haq during the 1992 World Cup earn him a glorious place in the world of…
PlaceResidence, 21 Cuyler Street, Uitenhage
… The construction of the original structure with its Cape Dutch and Georgian … features, dates from approximately 1840. It is thus one of the oldest dwellings…
EventNegotiations between Nelson Mandela and Mangosutho Buthelezi
… and Mangosutho Buthelezi 30 March 1990 Nelson Mandela of the African National Congress (ANC) and Mangosutho Buthelezi of Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) met to…