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ArchiveStudents and action in society
… Papers presented at the 9th NUSAS National Seminar held at Howick, April 24-28 in 1971. The 8 papers presented were as follows: Approach to student power;…
ArchiveEducation, development and change in Africa
… The speech delivered by Murphree places emphasis on education and educating the people of Africa as part of the liberals function in ensuring a positive…
EventAllen Kwela was born on this day
… his musical style. When he moved to Johannesburg during the 1950’s he met musician Spokes Mashiyane. They collaborated musically and Allen composed most of…
Part 2: Ahmed Kathy Kathrada Addresses Gandhi Satyagraha Tour Delegates
… and edit by Lynnea Bylund . Recorded on 9 June 2014 at the Nelson Mandela Foundation, Johannesburg, during the inaugural Gandhi Satyagraha Tour of South…
Lionel Davis, SA artist, is born in Cape Town. He was a political prisoner on Robben Island between 1964 and 1971, where he c
… house arrest until 1976. In 1978 and 1979 he worked at the Community Arts Project (CAP), Cape Town, as assistant organiser. The following year he began…
EventHolomisa on corruption
… The ANC strongly denies Holomisa's charge of accepting … head of Sun International, had donated two million rand to the African National Congress (ANC)…
EventKenyan independence hero Bildad Kaggia dies after a long illness
… was a nationalist and a freedom fighter. Kaggia joined the Kenyan army when the Second World War broke out and was deployed in London as … African customs…
EventPeter van der Merwe, South African cricketer, dies
… He captained South Africa in eight test matches and was the first Afrikaner cricketer to do so. After retirement, van der Merwe continued working in the…
EventBarry Hough, SA literary critic and successful author of mainly teenage books is found dead
… in 1953. He obtained a BA Communications degree from the Rand Afrikaans University (now University of … obtain an MA in English. Hough held several positions…
EventSouth African player Thabo Mngomeni is born in Cape Town
… midfield player, who was awarded Kick Off's accolade for the Goal of the Decade for his goal for Bush Bucks in 1997, is born in Cape Town. Mngomeni once…
EventMaggie Laubser, SA painter and winner of several awards, dies
… April 1886 in a wheat farm called bloublommetjieskloof in the district of Malmesbury in the Cape Colony, Maria Magdalena Laubster was a painter and … for…
ArchiveANC Perspective on models for South Africa's future constitutional dispensation
… Report of a Group A, Commission 5 on the African National Congress's Perspective on models for … future Constitutional dispensation, prepared after the 1985…
PlaceConradie Care Centre, Pinelands
… story Hospital divided into probably about 40 Buildings. The place has been trashed by vagrants, even the flooring of some of the buildings has been stolen…
ArchiveNon-Central Government structures in South Africa today
… Paper presented by Penuell M. Maduna for discussion at the African National Congress in-house seminar on … services councils, Bantustans and local government…
ArchiveBiography of Moses Mabokela Chikane
… born in 1948 August 14 in area of Groblersdaal first of the family of nine, he was detained under section 28 of the internal security act from the 28 August…
EventWilliam Duncan Baxter, SA businessman, politician and financier is born in Dundee, Scotland.
… was widely respected for his financial sense and honesty. The Baxter Theatre, a performing arts complex was named in honour of him, because of the amount of…
EventSewsunkerlal Bahadur Singh dies in Durban
… Sewsunkerlal Bahadur Singh, champion for the poor and social worker, died in Durban. He was born in … an active role in SA sports as, inter alia, president…
EventSmuts refuses call to postpone Anti
… During the South African Indian Congress (SAIC) Conference held in Cape Town, a deputation of sixty Indians called on the prime minister, Field Marshal J.C…
EventSADF seals off Vaal townships
… thousand South African Defence Force (SADF) troops and the South African Police (SAP) sealed off the Vaal Triangle townships of Sebokeng, Sharpeville and ……
EventJoaquim Chissano meets with RENAMO leader
… Alberto Chissano met with Afonso Dhlakama, leader of the ResistÁƒÂƒÂªncia Nacional MoÁƒÂƒÂ§ambicana (RENAMO), to sign a peace agreement in Rome. The two…
EventTwo rival movements merge in Zimbabwe
… Two rival political organisations in Zimbabwe, the Ndebele-dominated Zimbabwe African People's Union (ZAPU), led by Joshua Nkomo, and the Shona-dominated…
EventMandela is moved to Victor Verster prison
… The government moved African National Congress (ANC) leader Nelson Mandela from the Constantiaberg private clinic in Cape Town, where he had been recovering…
EventJames Sebe Moroka is born
… and politician who was elected president-general of the African National Congress (ANC) from 1949 to 1952, was … Free State. He was a great grandson of Chief…
EventVuyani Bungu wins IBF World Boxing Title
… The South African junior featherweight, Vuyani Bungu, … highly rated American Kennedy McKinney at Carousel to lift the International Boxing Federation (IBF)…
EventZimbabwe announces it has severed diplomatic relations with South Africa, but will maintain a trade mission in Johannesburg.
… but would maintain a trade mission in Johannesburg . The ending of diplomatic relations between the two southern African countries happened just five months …
PlaceAnnlin, a Suburb of Pretoria
… Suburb of Pretoria North, of the Wonderboom Reserve. Proclaimed in July 1953, it was first … Health Board. In July 1964 it was incorporated into the…
PlaceAlice, a Town near East London
… Town in the Victoria East District, on the Tyume River, some 120 km North-West of East London. It was named in 1847, according to some authorities, by the…
ArchiveSouth Africa Advisory Committee Report, 10 February report to Secretary of State
… with United States policy toward South Africa, one of the provisions of the Executive order directed the Secretary of State to establish an advisory…
PlaceElliot, Thembuland
… The Village of Slang Rivier was founded early in 1885, and in … and Chief Magistrate of Transkie , which is just 1 of the Homelands in South Africa…
PlaceOld Anglican Church, Rustenburg
… Sadly the building burnt down some years ago and is presently in … in 1967. It was originally built in 1871 as a result of the efforts of John Pilkington…