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ArchiveStaffrider Vol.7 No.3 and No.4 1988
… Staffrider by Mike Kirkwood. STORIES: My Friend, the Outcast by Mtutuzeli Matshoba; My Other Cousin, Sitha by … Essop; Jazz by Peter Wilhelm; Jobman by…
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…
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…
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 …
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…
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…
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, …
EventSouth Africa observes Armistice Day
… Day is observed annually in South Africa to commemorate the sacrifice of veterans and civilians in World War I. The day is observed world-wide, though under…
EventLeague of Nations is formed
… The League of Nations was established after World War I, during the Treaty of Versailles. The intention of this organization was to reduce armament and …
EventBram Fischer born today
… 1908. This man, from staunch Afrikaans descent (he was the eldest son of Percy Ulrich Fischer, Judge President of the Orange Free State, and a grandson of…
EventChief Mangosuthu Buthelezi meets President Kaizer Matanzima in Tongaat
… north of Durban, where they declared they were opposed to the Tricameral Constitutional proposals which exclude blacks. In 1983, the National Party (NP)…
EventThirteen residents are gunned down in Mamelodi by South African police
… down in Mamelodi by South African police. This followed the declaration of a State of emergency on 25 July 1985 by … in 36 of South Africa’s 260 magisterial…
EventZAR’s last Cruesot ‘Long Tom’ is dynamited
… During the Second Anglo-Boer War, the fourth and last Creusot 'Long Tom' of the state artillery of the Zuid-Afrikaansche Republiek … [Accessed on 19 April…
EventZambian plane crashes at Libreville, Gabon killing 18 national soccer team players
… Air Force De Havilland Canada DHC-5D Buffalo carrying the Zambian national soccer team crashed in the Atlantic Ocean just 500 meters offshore from Libreville…
EventDr. Neville Alexander and four others are found guilty of sabotage
… of sabotage and sentenced to ten years imprisonment. The judge found that the accused participated in the activities of the National Liberation Front (NLF), …