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EventZola Budd returns to SA
… Budd, who had emigrated to Britain in 1984 to take part in the Los Angeles Olympic Games, announced that she has decided … to SA permanently. In April 1988,…
EventDr Cedric Phatudi, Lebowa Chief Minister, dies
… as an educator and educational administrator. He served as the president of the Inspectors’ Association of Bantu Education in South … granted self-government…
EventGert Maritz (41), Voortrekker leader, dies.
… in Natal (now kwaZulu Natal), he was 41 years old. The Great Trek in South Africa started in 1835 when over a three year period more then 12,000 Boers …
EventMining agreement on wages and working conditions is signed
… The Chamber of Mines and the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) signed an agreement on wages and working conditions, averting the likelihood of damaging…
EventExplorer Karl Gottlieb Mauch dies
… German explorer Karl Gottlieb Mauch, allegedly the first person to discover gold in South Africa, died in … and archaeological discoveries in southern Africa…
EventLindiwe Sisulu is detained
… detained for her involvement in political activities. The police suspected her of being in possessions of the then banned African National Congress (ANC)…
EventWorld Cancer Day is instituted as an annual world-wide cancer awareness campaign
… World Cancer Day was founded by the Union for International Cancer Control (UICC) to raise … and to encourage its prevention, detection and treatment. The…
EventVigilante mob beats man to death in Diepsloot
… his car too close to where they were standing. When the confrontation got out of hand, Ramoloyi, who was … brother, produced a gun and fired two warning…
EventSouth Africa and Lesotho establish a consultative committee to resolve border disputes
… committee to resolve misunderstandings arising from the movement of people across their common border. The relationship between the two countries in 1970s…
Ikwezi
… African revolutionaries with long histories of devotion to the struggle for freedom in Southern Africa". Ikwezi claimed to work within the mainstream…
A Place of Freedom
… in a society that moved from informal segregation in the early years of the twentieth century to full-blown apartheid in the 1950s. In 1920 Manilal confessed…
ArchiveNUSAS Press Release No. 4, 1967
… NUSAS press bulletin on the 1967 National Day of Affirmation of Academic and Human … announcement that Professor Erwin N Griswold had accepted the invitation…
ArchiveSPRO-CAS Occasional Publication Number 2: Sou
… Report of the Social Commission of the Study Project on Christianity in Apartheid Society … includes: What is Spro-CAS; Introduction; Notes on the papers;…
EventSir de Villiers Graaff agrees with SA veto of UN visit
… Sir de Villiers Graaff, leader of the United Party, the official opposition, agreed with the apartheid government that the composition of the proposed …
EventMembers of SASO and BPC held under Terrorism Act
… Fourteen people, including leading members of the South African Students Organisation (SASO) and the Black People's Convention (BPC) are arrested and held…
EventHeart specialist Dr. Chris Barnard dies
… Christiaan Neethling Barnard, the world-famous medical pioneer who performed the world’s first heart transplant operation on Louis Washkansky, died at the…
EventAlexander Kerr is born
… Alexander Kerr, educationist, church leader and the first principal of the South African Native College (later the University of Fort Hare), was born in…
A Working Life, Cruel Beyond Belief by Alfred Temba Qabula
… His father. a migrant worker, ‘coughed out’ the harshness of his life onto his children. He died after … his brothers. Barely 18 years old, Qabula was caught…
EventSir Abe Bailey, Rand mine magnate, dies.
… school in Yorkshire, England and after leaving school at the age of 15, Bailey worked in London for a cotton and wool … and financial agent in Barberton. By…
ArchiveStudent political action
… Report by the Student Political Action Committee to the 62nd Annual Congress of the National Union of South African Students, University of …
ArchiveAPDUSA Bulletin 5: War on sellouts!
… In this pamphlet APDUSA expresses their concerns over the results of the elections on August 22 and 28 1984 ; as well as what the consequences will be of…
ArchiveCan Africa come of age?
… The sixteenth Hoernle Memorial Lecture delivered by Professor … discusses Africa and it's political situation as seen from the rest of the world. The…
EventFormer Colonial Prime Minister John Merriman dies
… South African statesman and the last prime minister of the Cape Colony before the formation of the Union of South Africa in 1910, John …
EventSADC treaty is signed in Namibia
… A treaty, which effected the establishment of the Southern African Development Community (SADC), was signed in the Namibian capital, Windhoek, to replace its…
EventWorld Conference on Racism starts in Durban
… hundred and sixty countries descended on Durban to attend the weeklong third United Nations-sponsored World Conference on Racism, staged in South Africa. The…
Isizwe
… Isizwe = The Nation, the journal published by the United Democratic Front to stimulate discussion, debate … their ranks, consisted of articles on topics…
EventLouis Raymond, an Olympic tennis singles gold medalist is born
… Pretoria on 1 January 1895.[i] Raymond won a gold medal in the men’s singles at the Olympic Games in 1920, hosted in Antwerp, Belgium.[ii] Raymond…
EventSouth African artist, Gerard Sekoto, dies
… musician Gerard Sekoto (80) died in Paris. Often cited as the pioneer of urban black art and social realism, Sekoto … matter, and he painted urban images of…
EventNamibian artist, John Ndevasia Muafangejo, dies
… 1943 in Etunda lo Nghadi, Ovamboland, Angola. He came from the Kwanyama people and spent his childhood tending cattle in … After his father's death in 1955,…
EventBanyana Banyana player, Eudy Simelane, is found raped and murdered
… Banyana midfielder Eudy Simelane was found in a ditch in the outskirts of her home township KwaThema, Gauteng. She had … This made Simelane’s abduction, rape…