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ArchiveSPRO-CAS Occasional Publication Number 7: Power, privilege and poverty
… Report of the Economic Commission of the Study Project on Christianity in Apartheid Society examining the realities of the South African economy under…
EventTribute to Joost van der Westhuizen
… A public memorial service was held by the state to commemorate the Rugby legend Joost van der Westhuizen, at Loftus Versfeld … rushed to hospital on Saturday…
FAVT: Future Africa Visions in Time – Group Show (until 28 April 2017)
… & Emeka Alams, Fallen, 2015, Picture by: Lara Buchmann The Bayreuth Academy of Advanced African Studies, Iwalewahaus (University of Bayreuth) and the Goethe…
PlaceAbees, Bela-Bela
… km away from Pretoria North. It was laid out in 1882 on the Farms: 'Het bad; Noodshulp; Roodepoort and Tufbult'. This Area attained Municipal status in 1932…
Nqutu, Kwa-Zulu Natal
… The name being of Zulu origin derived from 'insquthu'- … vessel, descriptive of a nearby hill from which the village takes its name. It is 53 km East of…
EventDjibouti, France’s last colony, gains independence
… Djibouti is a very small country located on the horn of Africa. It is so small that it has an estimated population of less than a million, one of the least…
EventJudgement is handed down in a landmark case
… The Appeal Court handed down a landmark decision in the case Rikhoto v. East Rand Administration Board (ERAB), granting him the right to permanent urban…
EventRhodesia withdraws from Summer Olympic Games
… The International Olympic Committee (IOC) asked Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) to withdraw from the 20th Olympic Summer Games held in Munich, Germany. The request…
EventTripartite Alliance plans mass action
… The Tripartite Alliance, consisting of the African National Congress (ANC), South African Communist … Union (COSATU), outlined a mass action plan for August…
EventBophuthatswana drops squatting charges against Bosplaas residents
… The 'homeland' government of Bophuthatswana under the presidency of Chief Lucas Mangope decides to withdraw its squatting charges against the Bosplaas…
EventPresident Thabo Mbeki sacks Deputy President Jacob Zuma.
… Thabo Mbeki sacks Deputy President Jacob Zuma. Mbeki makes the announcement during a special joint sitting of the two houses of parliament, almost two weeks…
EventPolitical parties call for Constitutional changes
… parties in parliament tabled more than 300 amendments to the constitutional legislation. The New National Party (NNP) strove for the insertion of a lockout…
EventPolitical activist and lawyer A. P. Mda is born
… Political activist, teacher and lawyer, co-founder of the African National Youth League (ANCYL) and its president … was born in Herschel, Eastern Cape. Under…
EventArchibald Campbell Mzoliza Jordan is born
… The Xhosa writer and linguist, Archibald Campbell Mzoliza … years as teacher and having obtained an M.A. Degree at the University of South Africa in 1944, he…
EventLabram, manufacturer of ‘Long Cecil’ is killed by shell from ‘Long Tom’
… of a cannon popularly known as 'Long Cecil' in the De Beers' workshop in Kimberley, was killed by a shell from a Boer 'Long Tom' cannon during the siege of…
EventPolitical activist and trade unionist James La Guma is born
… and trade unionist James Arnold (Jimmy) La Guma, member of the South African Communist Party (SACP) and president of the South African Coloured People's…
EventDe Klerk calls for stringent safety measures
… President F.W. de Klerk announces the calling up of military reservists to curb political violence will top the agenda of the forthcoming multiparty…
EventPolitical violence claims 100 lives in KZN
… About 100 people were declared dead as a result of the political violence that continued in KwaZulu-Natal. The political violence rages on in spite of the…
EventMinister of Police and Prisons announces that twenty-one trade unionists have been detained
… Louis Ie Grange, Minister of Police and Prisons, stated in the House of Assembly that twenty-one trade unionists have been detained since the beginning of…
EventHundreds die in a train fire in Egypt
… spread through seven of a train’s eleven cars in Egypt. The gas cylinder which was used for cooking is said to have exploded. The train had departed from…
EventLife magazine is banned in Egypt after publishing an unflattering article about King Farouk
… years as a general interest light entertainment magazine. The magazine featured illustrations, social commentary and jokes produced by some of the best…
EventGovernment bans 20 Black leaders
… throughout South Africa, culminating in September 1973 at the Western Deep Levels mine at Carletonville, when 12 … fired on a crowd. Shortly afterwards it…
ArchiveStaffrider Vol.10 No.3 1992
… 'n Ontploffing Laat Losbars, Stephen Samuels. Essays: The Politics of Feminism in South Africa, Desiree Lewis; Robben Island Retold, The Mayibuye Centre; …
PlaceBeach houses, Main Road, Muizenberg
… properties, located between Muizenberg and St James, are the only remaining concentration of early 20th century … Edwardian beach houses in South Africa, and…
ArchiveStaffrider Vol.10 No.4 1992
… In Sorrow, Kaizer Nyatsumba, Essays: S.A. Literature and the Construction of Nationhood, Njabulo S. Ndebele; In Search … Culture as a Site of Struggle,…
Document 30 - Letter from S. P. Bunting fo E. R. Roux, 9 January 1929
… letter [from] CG, who might be [-] for a reply instead of the procedure below, do which you like, I shall [-]. … splendid country delegates). We agreed on…
PlaceAllemanskraal or Aldam, Free State Province
… Village in the Willem Pretorius Game Reserve near the Sand River, 30 km from Winburg. The name is derived from the Allemanskraal dam, some 9 km to …
EventSierra Leone gains independence from Britain
… West African state Sierra Leone fronts onto the Atlantic Ocean, and is flanked by Liberia and Guinea. The very earliest inhabitants of Sierra Leone were…
Cape Town Launch of A to Z of Amazing South African Women
… The Book Lounge and Modjaji Books are deilghted to invite you to the launch of the "A to Z of Amazing South African Women" text by Ambre …
EventArthur Robert Ashe Jr, prominent African American tennis player and vocal protester of apartheid, dies
… in 1973. This was after a number of refusals. He became the first black player to win a title-a doubles match-in the South African Open. During his career,…