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Statement on the Durban Riots, by the Working Committee of the ANC, signed by Dr. A. B. Xuma, January 20, 1949
”Mass Meeting, Africans Shot in Cold Blood.”flyer issued by Transvaal African Congress, for meeting on June 26, 1941
The Chief Executive Councillor of Kwazulu, Chief Buthelezi, condemns plans to consolidate Zululand in terms of the 1936 Trust a
”Trumpet Call to Youth”, Flyer issued by the Provisional Executive Committee of the Congress Youth League. 10 September 1944
Justice Petrus Cillié submits to Parliament his report on the violent racial disturbances began in Soweto in June 1976,
Elisabeth Eybers, South African poet who lives since 1966 in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, is born in Klerksdorp, western Transva
Steven Biko, former SASO leader, released on 30 November 1976 after temporary detention under security laws, is re-arrested.
Reflections on the Pan Africanist Congress ‘Underground’ in the Era of the 1976 Youth Uprisings by Ali Khangela Hlongwane
Report by A.I. Meer to the Joint Passive Resistance Council of the Natal and Transvaal Indian Congresses, 9 January 1948
Identification Amendment Act No 47, amending the 1986 Identification Act so as to repeal certain obsolete provisions, and order
Inkatha agrees to return to the Constitutional Assembly, after an eighteen-month absence, but withdraws again on 7 October 1996
William (Bloke) Modisane, journalist, writer and actor is born in Sophiatown, Johannesburg. He died in 1986 in Dortmund, West G
Eugène de Kock alleges that the Swedish premier Olaf Palme was shot in 1986 by a South African secret agent.
Letter from Paul R. Mosaka, Newly-elected Member of the Natives’ Representative Council, to Dr. A.B. Xuma, 11 November 1942
Winnie Mandela, placed under restriction in Soweto on 28 December 1976 is now banished to a Black township outside Brandfort, O
Local elections for KwaZulu-Natal are again postponed until 26 June 1996 as a result of persistent violence and administrative
Helene Pastoors, the Belgian national sentenced to ten years’ imprisonment in 1986 for treason, is released from prison followi
Trumpet Call to Youth, Flyer issued by the Provisional Executive Committee of the Congress Youth League. 10 September 1944
John Ndevasia Muafangejo, SA artist, dies in Katutura Township, Windhoek, Namibia. He moved to South West Africa in 1956.
A document released in Cape Town, discloses that SA ministers condoned the murder of Black demonstrators during the 1976 riots.
The new Constitution of the Republic of South Africa takes effect. The Constitutional Court approved it on 4 December 1996.
ArticleAfrican National Congress Youth League (ANCYL)
The African National Congress Youth League (ANCYL) was established on 2 April 1944, by Anton Lambede (who became the League’s first President), Nelson Mandela,…
BiographyDerrick Vusimusi Nxumalo
Derrick Vusimusi Nxumalo was born in 1962 in Dumisa, Natal. Nxumalo passed Standard VIII at Phindavela High School. He received no formal art training. He…
BiographyTeboho “Tsietsi” Mashinini
Tsietsi Mashinini was born on 27 January 1957 in Central Western Jabavu, Soweto. Mashinini was the second son of Ramothibi, a lay preacher in the Methodist…
BiographyAdvocate George Bizos
George Bizos was born in 1927 in Vasilitsi, near Koroni in the south of Greece. During World War II, when the Germans occupied Greece in 1941, the young Bizos…
BiographyDavid Dabede Mabuza
David Dabede Mabuza was born 25 August, 1960 in Brondal, Mpumalanga. He matriculated from Khumbula High School. He obtained a National Teacher’s Certificate…
BiographyStanley Basil Lollan
Stanley Basil Lollan was born in Johannesburg in 1925, he became one of the few significant coloured activists in the Transvaal in the 1950s. A clerk by…
Support our People until Power is Restored to Them - Statement at the Plenary Meeting of the United Nations General Assembly by O. R. Tambo, New York, 26 October 1976
For the first time in the history of the United Nations, a representative of the majority of the people of South Africa has been allowed and invited to share…
ArticleChief Albert John Mvumbi Luthuli timeline 1800 - 1967
… Committee of the Natal Provincial Division of the ANC. 1946 Becomes the Natal representative on the Native's …
BiographyDaniel Cornelis Boonzaier
Born in Patatsrivier, Carnarvon District, Cape, 1865 and died in Cape Town in 1950. D.C. Boonzaier was a SASA member, but there is no surviving record of…