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ArchiveAddress to NUSAS Congress 1968
… President's address to the 44th Annual Congress of the National Union of South African Students, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, 30th Jun - 9…
PlaceStump Memorial, near Doornkop
… This is the spot where the cottage stood where Jameson surrendered to the Boer forces after the Jameson Raid (previously marked by … This is the spot where…
Culture and Resistance - Cynthia Kross
… This article by Cynthia Kross was published in 1982 in the South African magazine Staffrider. (Vol. 5.2) The articles describes the recent 'Culture and…
EventDesmond Tutu is appointed first Black Anglican Bishop of Johannesburg
… Desmond Mpilo Tutu was appointed and ordained as the first Black Anglican Bishop of Johannesburg a month after winning the Nobel Peace Prize. The following…
EventPolice pounce on AWB members
… Security Police arrested the leader, Eugene Terreblanche (Terre'Blanche), and eight other members of the right-wing group the Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging …
EventPFP stays its ground concerning president Vorster
… John Vorster on his appointment as State President on the grounds that not all the evidence of the Erasmus Commission had been made public. The party also …
EventANC leader Nelson Mandela meets Boutros Boutros
… National Congress (ANC) President Nelson Mandela met with the United Nations (UN) Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali at Dakar. The two leaders discussed…
PlaceRiebeek Kasteel
… The village of Riebeek Kasteel was established in about 1861, and was located at the foot of the Mountain of the same name. The Area was first visited in ……
ArchiveLetter from Neville Curtis, NUSAS, to Dear Sir
… Letter from Neville Curtis, President of NUSAS, stating the attitude of the National Union of South African Students towards planned Republic Day…
PlaceOnverwacht
… Onverwacht was established as an enclave of the Qwaqwa Bantustan on the border of the Thaba Nchu section of Bophuthatswana, about 50km from … Struan…
Not in My Neighbourhood Documentary
… As cities around the world catapult themselves into ‘World Class’, Global City … what cost”? " Not in My Neighbourhood Documentary " gives the account of…
PlaceAddo Heights, Uitenhage
… Cacadu District Municipality, Eastern Cape, South Africa. The estimate terrain elevation Above Sea Level is 263 Metres. Elavation above Uitenhage. The name…
EventSouth Sudan votes in Referendum on Independence
… as early as 1954 were brought to a regional referendum. The referendum, constitutionally supported by the 2009 Southern Sudan Referendum Act, had a 60% turn…
EventBafana Bafana legend Philimon Raul Masinga dies
… North West Province. He is well known for scoring the goal in 1997 match against Congo which secured the South Africa’s World Cup appearance in 1998. The…
ArchiveAfrica South Vol.3 No.4 Jul-Sept 1959
… Contents: Dear Sir Roy. Emigrant Ship by Reginald Reynolds. The Senate Farce, Stanley Uys with a cartoon, David Marais. Revolution: Further Reflections, Joe…
EventWinnie Mandela at Johannesburg Magistrate’s court
… On this day Nelson Mandela was charged for leaving the country illegally and inciting a strike. This was after … a future in which her husband’s arrest was…
EventDisbanding of Communist Party is announced
… Sam Kahn, leader of the Communist Party of South African (CPSA) and natives' … representative in parliament, announced in parliament that the party has…
EventNeil Aggett is buried in Johannesburg
… Neil Aggett, former organiser of the Food and Canning Workers Union and African Food and … issued a call that on 11 February 1982, that on the day of his…
EventBanning orders served on NUSAS leaders
… The National Union of South African Students (NUSAS) a White, … and voicing student protests against laws decreed to limit the freedoms of Black South…
EventJohn Koenakeefe Mohl, SA artist is born
… South African artist and founding member of Artists Under The Sun, was born at Dinokana village in Lehurutshe, Western … Mafikeng, where his talent was…
EventJameson Raid starts
… Starr Jameson led a group of about six hundred men of the Mashonaland Mounted Police from Bechuanaland (now Botswana) over the border of the Zuid…
EventPrime Minister Verwoerd’s assassin transferred from prison to a mental asylum
… On 30 June 1994, the Minister of Correctional Services in South Africa, Dr Sipho Mzimela, announced that Dimitri Tsafendas, the parliamentary messenger who…
EventGeorge Pemba, artist and playwright is born in Port Elizabeth
… training from his brother. In later years he was the recipient of several bursaries. He exhibited his work from 1928-1987. In 1937 he won the first prize in…
EventRuth Perry is elected to lead Liberia, thus becoming Africa's first female head of state
… History was made in Western Africa when, for the first time, a woman, Ms Ruth Sando Perry, was unanimously … at a meeting of West African heads of state to…
EventHerman Charles Bosman guilty of murder
… Charles Bosman visited his parents in Johannesburg during the June school holidays, his visit ended in tragedy in the house of his mother and stepfather…
EventDr. Margaret Roach ‘Killie’ Campbell, collector of Africana, dies in Durban
… Africana, which is made up of items specific to Natal and the Zulu people. She collected manuscripts, books, … their family stories, in order to preserve…
ArchiveGovernment Commissions of Enquiry
… Digest. Compilation of press comments and editorials on 1) the van Wyk de Vries Commission of Enquiry into Universities and student affairs and 2) The…
President Jacob Zuma arrived in Tanzania
… Zuma arrived in Tanzania to attend an emergency summit on the political crisis in Burundi. The President has been invited to the emergency summit of the East…
ArchiveAPDUSA Bulletin 1: Dont vote!
… This pamphlet aims to plead to those involved in the liberatory movement to consider carefully before taking the decision to vote or to boycott for their new…
EventPoqo members kill a White family
… In an attempt to destabilise the country and cause an uprising against the Apartheid government, members of Poqo, the Pan Africanist Congress of Azania's…