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EventMusic teacher Dorothy Boxall dies
… Boxall, music teacher and lecturer, writer and organiser of orchestral activities for the youth, died in Johannesburg. … Verwey, E.J. (ed)(1995). New…
EventFive women are stoned to death in Somalia
… Five women who were accused and convicted of adultery in Hargeisa, Somalia, were publicly stoned to …
EventJoe Slovo informal settlement outside Cape Town is devastated by a fire
… two children, were seriously injured, and thousands of houses destroyed leaving about 12 000 people homeless. For … is devastated by a fire. The Star, 17…
EventSABC personality Nic Swanepoel dies
… South African Broadcasting Cooperation (SABC) for a period of thirty-three years before he retired in 1995. During his …
ArchiveRace relations survey: 1987/88
… A survey of race relations in South Africa in 1987/88 and includes …
ArchiveThe Black Workers Project: A proposal
… were refused membership to Trade unions.The complexity of the race situation in South Africa enhanced this gap …
ArchiveThe Alexandra bus boycott
… This pamphlet discusses the bus boycott by the people of Alexandra Township against a penny increase in fares. But, …
ArchiveTen principles on which good industrial mission work must be based
… list was prepared by the Rev. Scott Paradise for guidance of the Detroit Industrial Mission in the U.S.A. It grew over … National Union of Mineworkers …
PlaceAdmiralty House, Simonstown
… in 1814. Rear-Admiral Jahleel Brenton was the first of the navy commanders to live there. The building underwent …
EventNeil Aggett dies in detention
… White person to die in detention since 1963. At the time of his untimely death, he was 28 years old. …
EventSA Athlete Hestrie Cloete is born
… hope for a gold medal in the Athens Summer Olympic Games of 2004. Source: …
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,…
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 …
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 …