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EventUN investigative team visits SA
… South Africa from 9 to 10 June to meet representatives of the Government, political parties and organisations. The …
EventShift in US Foreign Policy toward apartheid state takes place
… US President Ronald Reagan accepts that the policy of constructive engagement has failed. He announces a change …
EventSRC president Ngwako Ramalepe dies
… Ngwako Ramalepe, president of the Student Representative Council (SRC) at Modjadji … Crime Against Humanity: analysing the repression of the apartheid state,…
EventExpelled ANC leader abandons court action
… organise a national conference to consider the formation of a new party, which he ultimately did together with Roelof …
EventFirst democratic election results for SA
… gained 62.60% while the National Party (NP) gained 20.40% of the votes. …
ArchiveClothing Workers Union: we demand jobs and a living wage for all
… words from the Bible: "Has not God chosen the poor of this world to be rich in faith and to inherit His kingdom? …
PlaceTrevean House, 258 Wakesleigh Road, Bellair, Durban
… 1898. The building is probably the best surviving example of a late Colonial Victorian building in Natal. It was …
PlaceApryntjiesberg / Prentjiesberg
… for a freed slave or a cheeky insolent person or a person of mixed blood, could also be referring to these San People! … New Dictionary of South African…
ArchiveTransport and General Workers Union
… A2 red, yellow, black, blue silkscreen; graphic of workers with flag (TGWU logo); text: We fight for Good …
ArchiveInternational Bulletin, No 20, December 1988
… a letter sent to comrade Meir Vilner, General Secretary of the Communist Party in Israel on his birthday, a letter …
EventSA Police Commissioner, Lt. Gen. H.J. du Plooy to take drastic actions against police who call Africans “Kaffir”
… du Plooy said that his policy on Africans was one of “leniency and extreme tolerance.” … should be addressed’ [Available at the National Library of South…
EventSA Prime Minister P. W. Botha warns the country that confrontation will be inevitable if his proposed President’s Council fails
… proposed President's Council fails. The Council was part of Botha's plan to effect broad ranging constitutional …
EventBeeld is published for the first time
… and KwaZulu-Natal. Peet Kruger is the current editor of Beeld and the paper is owned by Media24. …
EventMelrose House opens as a Museum
… a Pretoria businessman. It was here that the Peace Treaty of Vereeniging was signed on Saturday 31 May 1902, …
EventChris Heunis is appointed acting president
… Chris Heunis, Minister of Constitutional Development and Planning, was appointed …
EventAZAPO’s first contest in SA democratic elections
… in the 1999 elections, managing to secure only 0,2 % of the vote which gave them one seat in the National …
ArchiveLetter from T. Nkobi, African National Congress Treasurer-General, to Dear Comrades
… Project Officials, and African National Congress of South Africa Missions regarding loans to members, …
PlaceChurch Square, Dickson street, Woodstock
… rise to Apartment blocks, for much needed accomodation of Doctors and Nurses, aswell as students! Being so close to …
PlaceApiesrivier, a River Which Flows Through Pretoria
… Said to have been named after the large population of Vervet monkeys that lived in trees on its banks, between … New Dictionary of South African Place Names…
Place'Amstel River', Now Known as Liesbeek River
… small River in the Netherlands. The first 'free burghers' of the Dutch East India Company were granted permission to … New Dictionary of South African Place…
Students and action in society
… Approach to student power; Economics and race; The power of contemporary radical thought; African socialism; Black …
Students and action in society
… Approach to student power; Economics and race; The power of contemporary radical thought; African socialism; Black …
ArchiveTowards a mixed economy in South African agriculture
… and national liberation in South Africa, the perspective of the ANC, the de Janvrian Model, the agrarian question in …
PlaceLongkloof, Main Road, Hout Bay
… was subdivided in 1946 the building was used for a number of years as a farm stall. It was declared a National Monument …
PlaceGoudini Health Spa
… medicinal springs, fruit and grapes. The name is probably of Hottentot origin and means 'bitter honey valley'. Governor …
PlaceThe Pretoria Synagogue
… protected under the National Heritage Resources Act (25 of 1999). The infamous Treason Trial took place at this …
PlaceOld Crown Mines Headquarters, 5 Press Lane, Selby, Johannesburg
… was designed by Herbert Baker after the amalgamation of eight mining companies in April 1909, when Crown Mines Ltd …
EventHelen Joseph is put under house arrest
… Sabotage Act, introduced by the newly appointed Minister of Justice, B.J Voster. The conditions attached to her arrest … Joseph, H. (1986). Side by Side:…
EventSA Sculptor Thomas Lehupela is born in Thaba ‘Nchu
… Father Frans Claerhout, who introduced him to the medium of wood. He is primarily self-taught, but gives credit to the … Rankin, E. (1989). mages of wood…
EventThere is an assassination attempt on Verwoerd at the Rand Easter Show in Johannesburg
… The first assassination attempt was made on the life of Prime Minister H.F. Verwoerd at the Rand Easter Show in … Muller, C.F.J. (ed)(1981). Five Hundred…