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ArchiveInterview with Robert Mangaliso Sobukwe
… Sobukwe (1924 to 1978), who was elected Founding President of the Pan Afticanist Congress in April 1959, jailed for several years as a result of the PAC anti…
EventPolitical Activist, Barbara Hogan, is sentenced for High Treason
… ten years in prison for high treason and membership of the banned African National Congress (ANC). Hogan admitted … after those in the 1956-61 Treason Trial,…
EventMoses Kotane receives Isitwalandwe/Seaparankoe
… Three years before his death Moses Kotane, member of the South African Communist Party (SACP) and the African … Congress (ANC), was awarded the ANC's highest…
EventEuropean Community observers arrive in SA
… The first group of European Community (EC) observers, including some police … tension, and promoting peace between fighting supporters of two political…
EventSADC treaty is signed in Namibia
… A treaty, which effected the establishment of the Southern African Development Community (SADC), was … South African Development Co-ordination Community …
EventPolitical activist Mziwonke ‘Pro’ Jack is assassinated.
… he was murdered. The escalating violence after the death of Jack developed a suspicion of police involvement and allegations that a third force was ……
EventSA architect Gerard Moerdijk is born
… Gerard Leendert Pieter Moerdijk, of Dutch descent, was born in the Waterberg district, Transvaal (now Limpopo Province). He was one of the first Afrikaans…
ArchiveCorrespondence between Jack Simons and Cape Town Chief Magistrate
… Letter from Jack Simons to the Chief Magistrate of Cape Town requesting relaxing of banning orders. Includes request to visit his son and …
ArchiveOpen hearts : Open minds : Open city
… circle in centre with slice cut out showing coloured photo of children, words - Open City Initiative. Green border. … Logos at very bottom on white border…
The Freedom Charter
… Black poster with copy of Freedom charter in white block with black lettering, in English with small parts in African languages. Copies of the Freedom…
Isizwe
… debate and training within their ranks, consisted of articles on topics relevant to the national democratic … and the democratic processes involved in the…
ArchiveStaffrider Vol.9 No.2 1990
… Every Birth Its Blood within Southern Africa's, Literature of Liberation, Martin Trump. POETRY: The Pied Piper, Tania … Steven Brimelow; Drakensberg, George…
PlaceMLR-cannon, Middle North Battery, Simonstown
… for ironclad ships and harbour seafront defence. A total of 190 were made. The gun was last fired in 1903.. This gun … with 6 grooves, the only gun…
Event60,000 delegates attend the World Summit on Sustainable Development
… search archive  An estimated 60,000 delegates and heads of government from over 170 countries gathered for the World … in the summit in Rio de Janeiro in…
16. Advice to a son about coming to Natal
… From the book: A Documentary History of Indian South Africans edited by Surendra Bhana and … passage and boarding fees and the remainder make the best of to…
PlaceBeestekraal, North West
… Settlement with a Railway Station and Post Office, North of Brits. It was given the name in 1837 by the Voortrekkers … Andries Potgieter because here they…
ArchiveConsultation in preparation for the meeting with law professors from white South Africa
… Africa. Includes letter from Johann van der Westhuizen of the University of Pretoria to Jack Simons, 12 December 1986. …
PlaceSpringbok Park, Hatfield, Pretoria
… Grosvenor Square and was conceived in 1905 when the Suburb of Hatfield was laid out. Development only commenced in the … has since been planted with…
Culture and Resistance - Cynthia Kross
… artists and writers. The article offers a good overview of some of the major debates that took place at the conference. …
EventA full scale police search, headed by a specially trained anti-terrorist unit is launched
… and suspected nationalist guerrillas some forty miles west of Louis Trichardt, Northern Transvaal (now Limpopo). The shoot-out happened at the height of the…
EventKamalesh Sharma delivers a speech at the 2010 Nelson Mandela Africa Lecture
… and Africa as a vital component, interlocking the goal of democracy and development. Moreover he highlighted that democracy and development are the main…
EventThe Group Areas Act comes into effect
… Nationalist Party won the general election on a platform of separate development. In 1950 the government passed the Group Areas Act, a cornerstone of…
EventNew Group Areas Amendment Bill excludes sports
… April, maintained the existing commitment to the principle of separate residential areas, schools and amenities for … taken in an effort to ease restrictions…
EventJustice Minister, Jimmy Kruger, announces mass arrest
… The Minister of Justice, Jimmy Kruger, made an announcement to the effect … being held for various security reasons. The breakdown of the total figure stood…
EventMaritime headquarters at Silvermine is opened
… the base, from where the operational command and control of maritime forces was exercised, was constructed by the South African Defence Force with the help…
EventSiamese twins are separated in Cape Town
… which was conducted by surgeon Syd Cywes, was the first of its kind in the medical history of South Africa. Since that first operation more Siamese …
EventJoaquim Chissano meets with RENAMO leader
… Joaquim Alberto Chissano met with Afonso Dhlakama, leader of the ResistÁƒÂƒÂªncia Nacional MoÁƒÂƒÂ§ambicana (RENAMO), … a joint declaration committing…
EventANC leader Nelson Mandela meets Boutros Boutros
… Dakar. The two leaders discussed the possible involvement of the international community in investigating violence in South Africa and, in particular, the…
EventMandela is moved to Victor Verster prison
… recovering from tuberculosis, to a house on the grounds of the Victor Verster Prison, near Paarl, east of Cape Town, where he was given a large warder's…
EventPresident Thabo Mbeki congratulates his US counterpart
… W. Bush on his election for a second term as president of the United States, and called for greater world peace. "The government and people of South Africa,…