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ArchiveWomens Directive report
… Report by the NUSAS Women's Directive, presented at the 59th Annual Congress of the National Union of South African Students, University of …
ArchiveCommittee Reports
… Appendix B of the Minutes of the National Union of South African Students 53rd Congress, held at the University of Cape Town, 30th January - 4th February …
ArchiveCommissions presented at 3rd General Students
… A report of the Commission analysing the many organisations, multi-racial and Black, that existed in South Africa. It investigated the extent to which SASO…
ArchiveNotes of meeting of ANC Constitutional group
… Handwritten notes taken by Jack Simons at a meeting of the African National Congress Constitutional Group to discuss the current situation and the ANC's…
ArchiveContemporary South African Music
… Black and white poster. Notice of a music concert by the College of Music, at the Baxter Concert Hall by the Contemporary Music Ensemble. on Saturday 13th…
From this to this?
… Brochure campaigning against the proposed forced removal of the Fingoes from Grahamstown's Fingo Village to Committee's … after Fingo Village was proclaimed…
ArchiveOpen letter to all detainees
… An open letter, issued by the Southern African Catholic Bishops' Conference and published in the New Nation 2-8 April 1987, to all detainees accusing the…
ArchiveDont Support Apartheid
… Red and white; artwork of a hand, with the words Peoples Power on it; smashing a building with … Parliament written on it. Tvl Anti-PC, appears on the bottom…
Human rights now!
… White poster with artwork of jail cells one intact and the other one with bars broken and red flowers on the ends of the bars. Artwork by Sue Williamson…
ArchiveMinutes of a meeting between President Kenneth Kaunda and South African Representatives: Lusaka, 25 June 1984
… further peace initiatives in southern Africa, following the Lusaka Declaration. The future of the Joint Monitoring Commission was discussed. …
ArchiveOver 1 500 detained since July 20
… One of the major reasons for the State President, PW Botha, declaring a State of Emergency in 36 magisterial districts was to justify the mass detentions of…
ArchiveCongress warns Rembrandt
… FOSATU has condemned the Henkel company's anti-union policies and actions and has given its full support to the consumer boycott of Henkel products called by…
ArchiveStaffrider Vol.6 No.2 1985
… Contents and Contributors Those were the days by Bheki Maseko Runaway recollections by Michael Goldberg The life and adventure of Matthew Pavilichenko by…
ArchiveStaffrider Vol.4 No.3 Nov 1981
… by Mongane Serote; Mineworking by Gregg Latter; During the Trial by Steve Jacobs; Go Home Simpasa by Sy Moya; Have … A Gift For Rajendra by Jayapraga Reddy. …
EventTwo former Soweto student leaders, Khotso Seathlolo and Mary Loate are given long term sentences
… and Mary Loate, 23 were given long term imprisonment under the Terrorism Act. Seathlolo was given 15 years and his companion, Mary was given 10 years. The…
EventUgandan President Idi Amin releases political prisoners
… threat to his administration. In 1972 he savagely attacked the Israelis and the British who previously had been his close foreign allies. The reason for…
EventAhmadou Kourouma, Ivorian novelist dies in France
… writing. His first novel, Les soleils des indépendances (The Suns of Independence, 1970) was a stern criticism of the government of an independent CÁ´te d…
ArchiveMandela 'Only hope to control youths' from Saldru Archive
… Nelson Mandela is probably the only recognised leader of SA's black community capable of instilling some discipline into the kids in the townships, Helen…
PlaceAlbert Falls, near Pietermaritzburg
… Waterfall in the Umgeni River, 22 km North-East of Pietermaritzburg. Probably named after the consort of Queen Victoria, Prince Albert. It is also the name…
PlaceAbbey Mountain, Lesotho Border
… Mountain on the Lesotho Border, 40 km South-West of Bergville. The name is in keeping other Mountains in the Area; such as Monk's Cowl. (An Abbey is occupied…
PlaceAbbaheigaskop, Northern Cape
… The name in Khoi means 'red hill tree'. This refers to the Pepper Trees, the berries of which give a reddish apperance. Native to dry …
PlaceAbachoreb, Northern Cape
… Watering place South of the Koa River Valley, South of Steinkopf . The name is derived from Khoikhoi and means 'water hole dug by hand'. The Afrikaans name…
ArchiveAfrican National Congress Conference Rally Kings Park 7 July 1991
… A rally held by the ANC following one of the greatest political conferences held in South Africa. It was attended by representatives from 50 countries. The…
ArchiveDraft transcripts of United Democratic Front
… The launch of the UDF on 20 Auqust 1983 marked a dramatic leap forward in the struqqle for freedom in South Africa . It brouoht over …
ArchivePress statement: Death of Japhta Masemola
… Press statement by Popo Molefe of the United Democratic Front regarding the death of Japhta Masemola who sacrificed twenty-six years of his life to rid our…
ArchiveNatives Resettlement Board: Annual Report 1958/59
… Report of the Natives Resettlement Board for the year ended 31st March 1979, reporting on the forced removals of black people from Sophiatown, …
ArchiveSharpeville 21 March 1960
… Article regarding the Sharpeville 21 March 1960. 5 000 people gathered at the Sharpeville police station near Johannesburg to start the Pan Africanist…
ArchiveLetter from Moses Mabhida, General Secretary (SACP) to Jack Simons
… from Moses Mabhida to Jack Simons asking him to study the South African Communist Party Programme and suggest changes if necessary. Also suggestion for the…
ArchiveGerman unionist visits Transvaal Alloys
… A worker representative on the board of directors of Nord-Deutsche Affinerie, a … recently came out to South Africa to investigate the anti-union activities…
ArchiveDurbans bread strike
… Huddled in cardboard boxes to keep out the cold, some 800 workers at the B B Bread Bakery in Durban's Sydney Road kept up their night-long vigil to prevent…