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EventKing Mswati III is born
… acted as regents until Mswati could be of age to take over the throne. He was crowned in 1986 at the age of eighteen. Mswati has gained a reputation for…
EventNkomo, leader of ZAPU forms a coalition government with Robert Mugabe
… Joshua Mqabuko Nyangolo Nkomo, leader of the Zimbabwe African People's Union (ZAPU) formed a coalition … Mugabe in Zimbabwe. Nkomo's party won twenty seats…
EventFirst president of Ghana, Kwame Nkrumah (62), dies in Bucharest.
… Kwame Nkrumah became the first prime minister and president of Ghana in 1957 until 1966.Ghana (formerly known as The Gold Coast) gained its independence and…
EventArchibald Lamont, ex-mayor of Durban, passes away.
… and in 1888 obtained an MA degree (cum laude) in Ethics at the University of Glasgow. Lamont was an ordained missionary of the Presbyterian Church of England…
Fosatu Worker News
… Fosatu Worker News was first published in 1979 with the formation of the Federation of South African Trade Unions and was distributed amongst all union…
EventPretoria High Court Judge, Nkola Motata, is arrested
… to be drunk by police and is said to have resisted arrest. The owner of the property that Motata drove into took pictures of the visibly drunken judge and…
ArchiveTen principles on which good industrial mission work must be based
… The following list was prepared by the Rev. Scott Paradise for guidance of the Detroit Industrial Mission in the U.S.A. It grew over …
PlaceWinthrop Building, 8 Durban Road, Wynberg
… The U-plan structure with a thatched hip Roof dates from 1830 and is one of the oldest Houses in the Historical Centre of Wynberg. It originally served as a …
PlaceVictorian dwelling, 7 Belvedere Avenue, Oranjezicht
… The double-storey Structure was erected soon after the turn of the 20th Century, and is endowed with a number of prominent …
EventDipuo Peters is born
… Premier of Northern Cape Province and member of the National Executive Committee of the ANC Women's League, Elizabeth Dipuo Peters, was born in the Kimberley…
EventInternational Conference on Sports Boycott against SA commences in Paris
… On 16 May 1985, The International Conference on Sports Boycott against South … three-day conference at UNESCO House in Paris, France. The conference was…
EventBafana Bafana loses to Nigeria
… The South African national soccer team Bafana Bafana, under … mentorship of Coach Trott Moloto, lost 0-2 to Nigeria in the semi-final African Cup of Nations …
ArchiveMemorandum on political prisoners
… prisoners submitted by Alfred Ngokong on behalf of the ANC to the Ad Hoc Working Group of Experts of the United Nations Commission on Human Rights Meeting in…
PlaceAmbleside, a Railway Siding in Mpumalanga
… Railway Siding 11 km North-East of Carolina on the route Machadodorp to Breyton. It was named in 1868 by Archibald Sinclair, recalling the Wreck of the…
PlaceCape Town Theatre Laboratory
… Founded in 1998 by Royston Stoffels and Warrick Grier, the Cape Town Theatre Laboratory was established in Woodstock, Cape Town. In October-November 2000,…
ArchiveEducation for liberation
… Hall, London, on Saturday 3rd April 1993. Organised by the Black Solidarity Committee of the Anti-Apartheid Movement in London. List of speakers. Conference…
ArchiveBlack women
… conference on women's struggle in South Africa from 6th to the 18th January 1990 at the bottom. Quote from Phyllis Jordan. The song Malibongwe is dedicated…
ArchiveBlack Community Programmes: Year report 1972
… The goals of the Black community programmes are to help the Black community become aware of its own identity, to help the Black community create a sense of…
ArchiveAmandla!Maatla!: en film om sydafrikansk ungdom
… and Kjell Soderlund in 1984 A colour poster, advertising the release of this Swedish documentary, which tells the story of the ANC‘s Solomon Mahlangu…
PlaceBlue Lodge Hotel, 206-208 Long Street, Cape Town
… This impressive building was erected at the turn of the 19th century and forms an important part of the architectural character of Long Street, one of the…
EventWalter Sisulu tries to recruit 5 000 volunteers during ANC meeting to protest forced removal of “Black Spots”
… On 26 June 1954 Walter Sisulu addressed a meeting of the African National Congress (ANC) at the Communal Hall in Johannesburg. At the meeting he a spurred…
EventAlexander Kerr dies
… Alexander Kerr, educationist, church leader and the first principal of the South African Native College (now the University of Fort Hare), died in Alice,…
EventAZAPO’s first contest in SA democratic elections
… The Azanian People Organisation (AZAPO) performed abysmally in the 1999 elections, managing to secure only 0,2 % of the vote which gave them one seat in the…
EventNew Afrikaner Political Party
… Delegates at the summit of the Afrikaner Unity Movement (AUM), held in Pretoria, voted to transform the AUM into a political party in order to contest the…
EventBritish secretary of war, Lord Kitchener drowns near Orkney Islands
… Lord Kitchener, British secretary of war, was drowned in the spring of 1916 near the Orkney Islands. Kitchener had been sent to Russia by Prime Minister…
EventPresident Mandela warns disgruntled former Umkhonto we Sizwe combatants
… The newly elected President of the Republic of South Africa, Nelson Mandela warned … took leave without permission while being integrated into the new South…
PlaceKaNgwane
… KaNgwane was the Homeland of the Swazi people living in South Africa. It was situated along the border with Swaziland , and its capital was at …
ArchiveTried for treason
… Black, white and red poster. Notice of an exhibition on the Treason Trial of 1956-1961 opening on 27th February 1996 at the Museum Africa, Johannesburg…
ArchiveHistory of Wages Commissions: formation, aims and structure
… Working notes from the National Union of South African Students Labour Directive, July workshop, University of the Witwatersrand, 2-4 July 1982. Discusses…
ArchiveTowards a mixed economy in South African agriculture
… a meeting in Harare, Zimbabwe in April-May 1989. Discusses the political economy and national liberation in South Africa, the perspective of the ANC, the de…