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EventWorld No Tobacco Day is observed
… World Tobacco day was declared by the World Health Organization in 1987. The day is observed by abstaining from tobacco for a period of 24 hours around the…
ArchiveGroup conflicts and race prejudice
… This lecture is the third in the series Hoernle Memorial Lecture in which there is discussion on the topic of race prejudices in South Africa and the impact …
EventSA signs Nuclear Non
… South Africa was one of the countries that signed the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty to curb the spread of nuclear weapons. Other countries that signed …
EventMafeking is established
… The Barolong settlement Mahikeng was renamed Mafeking by Sir … Charles Warren , leader of a military expedition, after the annexation of Bechuanaland by the…
EventErmelo is founded
… Ermelo, the educational, industrial and commercial centre of a … in Mpumalanga Province of South Africa was founded by the Reverend Frans Lion Cachet of the…
ArchiveMajority rule: some notes
… a collection of articles which formed part of a series in The Educational Journal. The series of articles has dissected the concept Majority Rule and…
Nelson Mandela Correspondence around birthdays and anniversaries
… Introduction: The Mandela family commemorated birthdays whenever possible, … without exception, in prison during official visits. The occasions were, in…
EventJudge Essa Moosa passes away
… Six, Cape Town on 8 February 1936.[i] He was a judge in the Supreme Court of South Africa. Moosa was a former human … rights lawyer who defended political…
ArchivePromotion of Bantu Self-governing Act, Act No 46 of 1959
… The Act was to provide for the gradual development of self-governing Bantu national units and for direct consultation between the Government of the Union and…
EventEarthquake shakes up Tulbagh
… At about 10:04pm on 29 September 1969, the Boland farming towns of Tulbagh, Wolseley and Ceres experienced the most destructive earthquake in South African…
EventFirst celebration of National Heritage Day
… Heritage Day is one of the newly created South African public holidays. It is a day … are encouraged to celebrate their cultural traditions in the wider…
SACTU press release in ‘New Age’, 22 November 1962
… in Luckhardt, K. & Wall, B. (1980). Organize or Starve! The History of the South African Congress of Trade Unions , New York: … will make Apartheid workable…
EventIt is announced that a child prostitution and trafficking task team rescues 14 underage prostitutes in downtown Johannesburg
… trafficking and prostitution has become rife in the syndicates of Cape Town, Johannesburg and Durban. … parents, family friends, taxi drivers and brothel…
EventAnti-Pass petition sent to President Steyn
… The pass measures were aimed at controlling the mobility of the Black population in White urban areas. Bloemfontein was … Town: HSRC Press, 2007). |South…
PlaceConcordia
… The village of Concordia was established in 1863 as a station of the Rhenish Missionary Society. It seems probable that its founding coincided with the…
EventA group of White men attack and assault Indian Passive Resisters
… Indian Passive Resisters. This followed a call to the South African government by Mahatma Gandhi made at a prayer meeting in New Delhi, India, the previous…
EventRSA introduces more press restriction
… resistance and an increasingly ungovernable country, the government introduced wider press restrictions under the 1986 state of emergency. The state of…
EventQueen Mother Elizabeth turns 100
… her 100th birthday with thousands of people lining up in the streets of London to cheer her. The Queen Mother is the first member of the Royal Family to…
EventSecurity officials report that levels of political violence have dropped significantly in SA
… Two days after the Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) agreed to participate in … violence had dropped significantly in South Africa. The most remarkable incident of…
PlaceCato Manor Heritage Centre, Durban
… This interactive Museum is a tribute to the spirit of defiance against the Durban System, which led to evictions, riots and dissent in the Cato Manor area…
ArchiveSpeech delivered by Joe Slovo
… Joe Slovo's speech to mark the celebration of the 60th anniversary of the SACP on the 30th July 1981 in Maputo. Reflects on the …
ArchiveStaffrider Vol.8 No.3 and No.4 1989
… 'We Organize and Educate': Cultural Intellectuals within the Labour Movement, Moses Ngoasheng; Mi Hlatshwayo: Culture and Organization in the Labour Movement…
PlaceDan Pienaar, suburb of Bloemfontein
… upmarket suburb in Bloemfontein - regarded as one of the safest suburbs in the country! It is an excellent place to raise one’s family. It is one of the…
PlaceOost-Eind Primary School, 70 Meintjes Street, Trevenna, Pretoria
… The school was founded in 1897 and is the oldest surviving school in Pretoria. The original portion of the building was probably designed by …
PlaceCaledon Museum, Eastern Cape
… The Caledon Museum is split into two Buildings depicting very different parts of local History. The Victorian House, houses an abundance of artifacts that…
PlacePolokwane Museum
… Housed in the famous, Historical "Irish House", the Museum portrays much of the past History of the region. The Polokwane Museum is a …
EventMemorandum on housing conditions in Fietas, Johannesburg
… The Tamil Benefit Society presents a memorandum on poor housing conditions in Pageview, Johannesburg, and the need for housing schemes for poorer Indians to…
EventSADF’s 31 Battallion is disbanded
… The South African Defence Force's (SADF) 31st Battalion was disbanded at a public ceremony in the Cape Province. This Battalion was composed primarily of the…
EventFamine anniversary in Ethiopia
… Following major American television's first airing of the famine crisis in Ethiopia, the world celebrated the day as famine anniversary. The day was used to…
EventTony Johnstone wins Alfred Dunhill PGA golf tournament.
… The Zimbabwean golfer Tony Johnstone ended a six-year drought on the European Tour when he won the £400,000 Alfred Dunhill PGA golf tournament in Houghton, …