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EventCiskei National Security Decree No 19 promulgated
… The government of Ciskei introduced the National Security Decree No 19 as an attempt to curb the pressure of the increasing calls for the end of the … oor…
EventDemonstrators strip to deter bulldozers
… Shanty town women stripped to the waist and confronted bulldozers sent by authorities to demolish their homes at Dobsonville in Soweto. The women's protests…
EventCelebrated nurse, Constance Nothard, is born
… Constance Annie Nothard, nursing sister and recipient of the Florence Nightingale Medal, the highest award of the International Red Cross Society, was born…
EventUranium enrichment programme gets a boost from B.J. Vorster
… Balthazar Johannes Vorster disclosed in July 1970 in the House of Assembly that the government has decided to make funds available for a uranium enrichment…
EventLaurie Bloomfield takes picture of rioting in Cato Manor, Durban
… On 24 January 1960, Laurie Bloomfield, a photographer for the Daily News took a picture of rioting in Cato Manor, Durban which was immediately published…
EventMining Magnate Oppenheimer dies
… industrial magnate, Sir Ernest Oppenheimer, who founded the Anglo American Corporation, died in Johannesburg at the age of 77. Oppenheimer was credited with…
EventZulus attack Indians in Durban
… The attack on Indians by Zulus in January 1949 has generated a great deal of debate about the relationship between the two communities. Most observers…
EventNkuma and Mahlalela sentenced to death
… The Star reported that two men, Elliot Nkuma and Joseph Mahlalela were sentenced to death for the necklace murder of M. Mpapne that took place in 1986. The…
EventRiots erupt in Soweto
… after an eleven week rent boycott. According to reports at the time, the South African Police threw teargas at the crowd. Police claimed that youths had set…
EventSA sugar magnate Sir Hulett is born
… was born in England and came to South Africa in 1857 at the age of 19. Hulett pioneered the country's sugar industry when he founded the Hulett Company in…
EventViolence erupts in Richmond
… Underlying political tensions between supporters of the African National Congress (ANC) and Inkatha Freedom Party resurfaced in KwaZulu Natal in the late 90…
EventFirst mines are proclaimed in Johannesburg
… activities started successively in various places on the Witwatersrand (meaning Ridge of White Waters), the first gold from the Main Reef on the…
PlaceRhodes
… The village of Rhodes lies on the banks of the Bell River at the foot of the Witteberge. It was laid out on the farm …
Passive Resistance 1946 - A Selection of Documents compiled by E.S. Reddy & Fatima Meer - Support from persons and Organisation - 1948
… From the book: Passive Resistance 1946 - A Selection of Documents … It is a very large country. Indians wishing to go to the Transvaal from Natal can do so…
EventTranskei announces plans to unban ANC and PAC
… During the celebration day of independence not recognised by the international community, the President of the Transkei homeland, Tutor Ndamase, …
Mandela and his three wives - Evelyn, Winnie and Graca by Sapa-AFP, 6 December 2013
… well away from politics. Like him, Evelyn Wase hailed from the rural Transkei and had come to Johannesburg in the early 1940s to carve out a living in the…
ArchivePolitical Report
… Precis of a political report by Jacob Zuma on the socio-economic and political situation in South Africa. Covers the crisis of international capitalism, the…
6. Tonight, have your door open
… From the book: A Documentary History of Indian South Africans … Goolam Khader states that on or about 9 months ago the young master ... came to the estate…
ArchiveColour and Christian community
… The tenth address in the Hoernle Memorial Lecture series delivered by Emory Ross, in which he discusses the conflict of race and colour from a Christian…
EventSouth African black activist and poet Benjamin Moloise is hanged for allegedly killing a police officer
… Moloise was accused of murdering a black police officer. The African National Congress claimed responsibility for the murder and repudiated the claim that…
EventEuropean Community lifts sanctions against SA
… Following the institution of the Transitional Executive Council and Nelson Mandela's call to the UN General Assembly to lift all sanctions with the … 25…
EventPioneer tomato farmer Bertie van Zyl is buried in Mooketsi
… Bertie van Zyl (72), founder and owner of ZZ2, the biggest tomato growing operation in the country and one of the biggest in the world, was buried in…
EventNew SA Constitution takes effect
… On 4 February 1997, the new Constitution of the Republic of South Africa came into force. The country’s Constitution has been hailed as one of the most … www…
EventIFP commemorates Shell House shootings.
… of Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) supporters marched through the streets of Johannesburg to mark the anniversary of the 1994 Shell House shootings during which…
EventGeneral Lord Roberts marches on Pretoria
… In the middle of the South African War II (Anglo-Boer War II), General Lord Roberts left Bloemfontein and began the 'March to Pretoria' with nearly 44,000…
EventWorld TB Day, observed to create public awareness that tuberculosis remains a global epidemic
… World Tuberculosis day commemorates the day that Dr Robert Koch astonished the world by announcing that he had discovered the cause of Tuberculosis. Around…
PlaceVictorian Manor-house, 59 Musgrave Road, Durban
… The House was designed and built by the Architect William Street-Wilson who was responsible for many notable Buildings in Natal. The House was completed in…
PlaceRailway Station, Sannaspos, Bloemfontein
… The Station Building, situate on a protion of the Farm Klipkraal 117 in the District of Bloemfontein. Situated on the Druenberg – …
Devout domesticity?
… Introduction 1. Class, Consciousness and Organization in the Political Transition in South Africa: A Conceptual … Overview 2. Class, Consciousness and…
Museum Night Cape Town 2016
… We're excited to announce the full Museum Night Cape Town 2016 programme, including 15 museums sites from the District Six Museum to the Cape Town Holocaust…