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South African Labour Bulletin Volume 6 Number 6 March 1981
… Labour Bulletin is a refereed journal which supports the democratic labour movement in South Africa. It is a forum for analysing, debating and recording the…
ArchiveCome to CAPs open day
… in shades of pink, text in yellow; with artwork of the solar syatem and fireworks with the name of the various events on it. A notice of the open day taking …
Appendix I: Correspondence Between Mahatma Gandhi And Dr. Yusuf M. Dadoo
… [Note: Most of this correspondence is from the Pyarelal papers at the National Archives of India, New Delhi - a large part of which are also in the ANC…
EventNelson Mandela meets F.W. de Klerk
… Prisoner Nelson Mandela had the first of three meetings with the State President F.W. de Klerk to discuss the future of SA. The meeting took place in De…
ArchiveReservation of Separate Amenities Act, Act No 49 of 1953
… The Act was to provide for the reservation of public premises and vehicles or portions thereof for the exclusive use of persons of a particular race or class…
ArchiveCriminal Law Amendment Act, No 8 of 1953
… The Act was to provide for increased penalties for offences … committed under certain circumstances; to prohibit the offer or acceptance of financial or…
ArchiveWorker Sunday
… Yellow poster with black and white lettering. Issued by The Labour Programme, Diakonia. Small black artwork images around the poster. Red artwork of a head…
ArchiveSouth African Labour Bulletin Volume 7 Number 8 July 1982
… Labour Bulletin is a refereed journal which supports the democratic labour movement in South Africa. It is a forum for analysing, debating and recording the…
ArchiveBreaking new ground: recommendations from an
… from an African National Congress in-house workshop on the political, economic and social issues of South Africa's rural areas, held in Lusaka, Zambia, on…
ArchiveJustice for Tunay campaign
… red and white poster. Photograph of Tunay Hassan. Died in the custody of the Dalston Police, United Kingdom. Picture of the police station. Notice of a…
ArchiveUnited Womens Organisation: mass meeting
… holding weapons. Notice of a mass meeting to be held at the Nonzwakazi Methodist Church 0n 13 October 1985 at 2pm. At the bottom of the poster are the words:…
We are here because you were there ... without us there is no Britain
… Yellow, red, black and white poster. History of cotton in the Southern United States of America, the start of the Civil War, and the end of slavery. Series…
ArchiveWe are here because you were there ... without us there is no Britain.
… of ancient world. Ancient civilisations. History of how the Spanish destroyed the Aztecs, the Incas and the Mayas of South America. Series of folders …
EventDr Stanley Mogoba is born in Polokwane
… Dr. Stanley Mogoba, future president of the Pan Africanist Congress (PAC) in 1997, was born in … on this day. He was detained on Robben Island during the…
EventAmichand Rajbansi is fired from Parliament
… South African President P.W. Botha fires the government's only Indian Cabinet Minister, Amichand … with effect from 1 January 1989. He also removes him from…
EventMafika Gwala born
… poet, writer and BCM member Mafika Gwala was born today in the town of Verulam, KwaZulu-Natal. Soon after joining the University of Zululand, he chose to…
EventSA’s first official commercial airline service is launched
… Miller secured a government subsidy and introduced the first official commercial air service in South Africa under the name of Union Airways Company (Pty)…
EventElizabeth Taylor remarries Richard Burton in Botswana
… were both married to other people when they first met. The marriage proceedings were conducted by African district … Ambrose Masalila, and witnessed by two…
EventHarold Strachan is served with restriction order
… South African Air Force pilot in World War 2 and member of the Communist Party of South Africa (CPSA) and Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK), the armed wing of the…
Democracy in Action
… Democracy in action, published by the Institute for a Democratic Alternative for South Africa (IDASA), outlines the extensive efforts of the Institute to…
EventIgnatius Royston Dunnachie (Roy) Campbell, SA satirical poet, is born in Durban.
… one of South Africa’s most esteemed English poets. The son of Dr Samuel George Campbell, Campbell attended the Durban High School (now Durban Boys' High),…
Bonn - Pretoria Axis
… On December 16th, 1965 (the then Dingane's Day), Pieter Botha, as Defence Minister in the South African White minority government, announced loudly … South…
PlaceAnagob, a Mountain Peak in Northern Cape
… North-East of Riemvasmaak and 60 km North-West of Keimoes. The name is of Khoikhoi origin means 'Tree Hill' recorded as such in 1778. In the Area is the…
ArchiveWomen against apartheid in South Africa
… Report on the demonstration that took place in Pretoria, on 9 August 1956 by 20000 women against pass laws, the plight of Black women under apartheid, the…
ArchiveSPRO-CAS Occasional Publication Number 1: Anatomy of apartheid
… Report of the Study Project on Christianity in Apartheid Society analysing the political situation in South Africa under apartheid. … Contents include: What…
ArchiveConstitutional guideline for a democratic South Africa
… guideline for a democratic South Africa from the African National Congress Constitutional Committee. Lists … on which a democratic South Africa should be…
ArchiveWe come of age
… This is the sixth address of the Hoernle Memorial Lecture series delivered by Edgar Brookes who emphasises on the need for White South Africans to make…
YWCA Building, 178 Long Street, Cape Town
… The building was restructured in 1903 by J Parker, of the architectural firm Forsythe & Parker, and was dedicated to the memory of Minnie and Maria Bam, the…
PlaceKlein Zoar, Wemyss Road, Brooklyn, Cape Town
… The house probably dates from the 18th century and is alleged to have been the home of Wolraad Woltemade who, in 1773, performed the …
EventFive developed countries recall their Ambassadors from South Africa
… The United States, Netherlands, Great Britain, West Germany … criticism for its Apartheid policy which was introduced by the National Party government in…