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Letter to Farzanah
… to Farzanah was published in 1979 in commemoration of the United Nations declared International Year of the Child. The book, consisting of sixty-seven images…
EventWW2 veteran Job Masego dies
… by a train. Masego had been employed as a delivery man at the explosives factory at Modderfontein, Springs, before he volunteered for service with the Native…
EventConnie Mulder announces banning off WCC officials from SA
… The Minister of the Interior, Connie Mulder, announces that senior officials of the World Council of Churches (WCC) have been banned from South Africa. Entry…
EventANC stalwart and Rivonia Trialist, Govan Mbeki, is released from Robben Island Prison
… to be freed, as apartheid was dying. Upon his release the government restricted him to the magisterial district of Port Elizabeth until November 1989. In…
EventMau Mau political prisoners escape from Mageta Island, Lake Victoria
… Mageta Island, Lake Victoria in a canoe. This was after the prisoners hacked to death a fisherman, Onimbo Haulu who … use of his canoe for escape. Haulu’s…
Address at 90th brthday celebration, by Nelson Mandela, 25 June 2008, London United Kingdom
… having been able to travel here in our 90th year and be in the presence of so many good friends. Thank you for the continuing support in the fight against…
EventSA author, Nadine Gordimer, is born
… South African author and winner of the 1991 Nobel Prize for Literature, Nadine Gordimer , was … documentaries, collaborating with her son Hugo Cassirer on…
EventChief Kausobson Kausob is killed
… The chief of a group of San that inhabited the area between the Modder, Riet and Vaal Rivers early in the nineteenth …
ArchiveRegional Conference: Regional Structures Commission
… Discussion Paper by the ANC on Regional Structures prepared on the mandate of the planning committee of the Regional Conference, for …
PlaceMadikwa Game Reserve, North West
… Many of the Farms described by writer Herman Charles Bosman in his … character Oom Schalk’s day had mostly been shot out by the late 20th Century and it was…
PlaceOnderstepoort Veterinary Research Institute
… The building was designed by the Department of Public Works and was completed in 1908 as the centre for the then bacteriological laboratory on the …
Interview with Oliver Tambo to Radio Freedom, 01 April 1981
… [The following was a reply by Mr. Tambo to a question on Radio Freedom concerning the "noise Chief Gatsha Buthelezi was making about his nephew who is…
EventSouth African athlete, Sergio Motsoeneng, admits to cheating in Comrades Marathon
… In 1999, Sergio Motsoeneng ran the first 45 minutes of the 89km* Comrades Marathon before he exchanged vests and shoes with his twin brother in a mobile…
PlaceLoftus Versveld Stadium, Hatfield
… under old NMC legislation on 21 September 1979. Home to the Sundowns Football Club and the Blue Bulls rugby team, Loftus Versfeld received a welcomed revamp…
EventTseko Simon Nkoli dies
… Nkoli died of an AIDS related illness. Nkoli was one of the first Black anti-apartheid activists to publicly identify … HIV whilst in prison and went public…
7.Madras merchants protest against an order to uncover and remove their boots in court
… From the book: A Documentary History of Indian South Africans … merchants, residing and trading in Durban, submitted the following petition to the resident…
EventFirst celebration of International Women’s Day
… The first International Women's Day was launched in several … on 19 March and over a million men and women took to the streets in a series of rallies. In…
Freedom Day Call by Albert Luthuli, 3 June 1956
… calls on all lovers of freedom in our land to commemorate the past deeds for freedom and to rededicate themselves to the cause of freedom. "Let us in all…
SAHO Commemorates 40 Years Since Soweto Uprising: Intergenerational Dialogue by Thembinkosi Khumalo
… Thembinkosi Khumalo is a student activist at the University of Pretoria. He is an active PASMA member. … like to fully, with no restraint and with no fear…
PlaceInanda, Phoenix
… 24 km inland from Durban; it now forms part of eThekwini, the Greater Durban Metropolitan Municipality. Populated … by Zulu-speaking Black Africans, Inanda…
ArchiveAcknowledgements by Howard Barrell
… to Ronnie Kasrils - King Kong, friend, commander and the greatest hairy one of them all - who planted the seed for this study, cleared the way for it and has…
Nelson Mandela Correspondence around financial problems
… Introduction The people sent a hero to prison, but generally ignored the fact that he had responsibilities and dependants. Nelson, in the loneliness of his…
ArchiveReport on Black Workers Project
… The Black Workers Project emanated out of a resolution taken at the 3rd General Students Council. The purpose of the project was to serve and protect the …
EventSoweto Town council asks SADF troops to stay
… in Soweto, Johannesburg with people being brutally killed. The Soweto Civic Association demanded that the South African Defence Force troops be withdrawn…
ArchiveAfrica South Vol.5 No.2 Jan-Mar 1961
… Contents: The Single Standard. Cartoon, Papas. The Referendum and After. Cartoon, Gask. The Same Boat, an anon. correspondent. Diary of a Detainee, …
PlaceMakhonjwa Mountains, Barbeton
… Situated in North-Eastern South Africa, the site comprises 40% of the Barberton Greenstone Belt, one of the World’s oldest Geological structures. The…
EventRivonia trial sentence is delivered
… At the conclusion of the Rivonia trial eight of the accused were sentenced to life imprisonment in the Pretoria Supreme Court. The eight were Nelson Mandela …
EventANC mounts a sabotage attack on fuel depot in Ermelo
… The eighties in South Africa heralded a time of increased resistance against the Apartheid regime. The liberation movements had increased its military…
EventParliament addresses Soweto Protests
… Following the onset of the Soweto Uprising the previous day, Parliament met in an Extraordinary Session at the request of the leader of opposition, Colin…
EventDisaster strikes as Portuguese ship São João sinks
… The Portuguese ship São João went down near the mouth of the Mzimvubu River (at the present Port St. Johns) with 600 … (eds)(1970). Standard Encyclopaedia of…