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ArchiveStaffrider Vol.8 No.3 and No.4 1989
… 'We Organize and Educate': Cultural Intellectuals within the Labour Movement, Moses Ngoasheng; Mi Hlatshwayo: Culture and Organization in the Labour Movement…
Inner-Party Bulletin
… Bulletin produced by the Central Committee of the SACP for internal distribution only. Issue covers … discipline and standards of conduct, report on a visit…
EventSchalk Burger wins two International Awards
… The twenty-one year old South African rugby flanker, Schalk Burger, picked up two major international awards, the International Rugby Players' Association …
Death of ANC Education Secretary, Seretse Choabi, 29 August 1991
… The African National Congress regrets to announce the untimely and sudden death of Seretse Choabi in London on … in Alexandra, and completed his Junior High…
PlaceGraaff-Reinet Division
… The district of Graaff-Reinet was constituted on 26 August … boundaries were proclaimed on 17 July 1786. However, over the next century these underwent…
Inner-Party Bulletin
… Bulletin produced by the SACP Central Committee for internal distribution only. Issue covers the questions of the Party's re-emergence as a legal…
PlaceDutch Reformed Church, Zoutpansberg
… The Nederduits Gereformeerde congregation of Zoutpansberg was … initiated plans for a new church and on 18 October 1872 the structure was consecrated and…
EventHumphrey Khoza, former chief executive officer of Uthingo Management (Pty) Ltd and director of several other companies, is born in Germiston
… Humphrey Mbuyiseni Khoza is the former CEO of Uthingo Management, the first company awarded the bid to operate the South African National Lottery. Born …
EventGeneral Law Amendment Act No 37 is approved
… This Act was an amendment to Section 17, the ninety-day detention law. This meant that any … officer was empowered to detain, without warrant and for the…
EventDr. Connie Mulder is acquitted and discharged on charges of contempt
… who became a politician. In 1958, he became a member of the National Party (NP) and was the mayor of Randfontein. Ten years later he became the minister of…
EventThree people are murdered at Eikenhof
… and his friend, Claire Silberbauer, were murdered on the old Vereeniging road, near Eikenhof, south of … by Judge David Curlewis after they had been…
EventStompie Seipei’s murderer goes to jail
… The Rand Supreme Court sentences Jerry Richardson to death for the murder 14-year-old Stompie Seipei. Stompie Seipei was a child activist and member of the…
EventAlan Paton is born
… On 11 January, 1903 Alan Steward Paton, author of Cry, the Beloved Country was born in Pietermaritzburg, Natal … Maritzburg College in 1918; he went further…
Ernest Cole: Brave photographer who exposed horrors of apartheid from within by Teo Kermeliotis, (cnn.com), 5 January 2015
… up to his knees as he beats his sodden shirt against the ground to remove the dirt from it. Near him, a cluster of men cut desolate … of black life under…
Birthday message by Albert Luthuli to Dr. Yusuf M. Dadoo, 2 September 1955
… strength and longevity of life, both for your sake and for the sake of the successful prosecution of our struggle for freedom, I wish to say that we are…
PlaceHout Bay Museum
… The Hout Bay Museum is situated right next to the Hout Bay Tourist Office just off Main Road behind the Shell Garage. Just like the town, the cottage style ……
EventPolice open fire to disperse a rioting crowd in Cato Manor, Durban
… Cato Manor, a shanty town, is situated 10 kilometres from the centre of Durban; it was named after Durban’s first mayor, George Christopher Cato. The area…
PlaceGreenhill Road 14, Emmarentia, Johannesburg
… When Lourens Geldenhuys was 14, his father moved them to the gold reef, where their farm began searching for gold, this became the Geldenhys Estate! Lourens…
EventHugh Masekela, South African musician, is born
… born in Witbank, South Africa. Masekela grew up playing the piano and at a young age was introduced to the trumpet by Father Trevor Huddleston. Masekela…
EventFour South Africans and a British national charged with illegally exporting military equipment to South Africa
… sufficient in terms of its arms manufacturing capability, the Apartheid regime relied heavily on imported components for its war effort. This came to light…
EventMarien Ngouabi, President of Congo dies
… On 18 March 1977, Marien Ngouabi, the military President of the Republic of the Congo was assassinated. Ngouabi, who started his career … Aglobalworld, '…
EventCosatu and TAC table a National HIV/AIDS plan
… On 28 June 2002 the Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) and the Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) tabled a national HIV/AIDS treatment plan in the…
EventFormer NP leader Sam de Beer joins UDM
… Former leader of the National Party (NP) in Gauteng, Sam de Beer, resigned and joined the United Democratic Movement (UDM), led by former NP … Bantu Holomisa…
EventSouth African War: Thousands of Black men and women forced to walk home
… With the outbreak of the Second Anglo-Boer War (or South African War) imminent, … of Black men and women were left stranded in Johannesburg. The mines had…
PlaceShell House, Johannesburg
… The ANC’s iconic Shell House in downtown Johannesburg, where Nelson Mandela planned the Democratic takeover of the South African Government, has been sold to…
PlaceIndian Army Memorial
… This memorial was erected towards the end of 1902, on the highest point in Johannesburg ; Observatory Ridge. It … , Sikhs , Christians , Muslims and…
EventSouth Africa abolishes financial Rand
… The financial Rand, used as a parallel currency to the commercial Rand, was abolished on 10 March 1995. The currency was introduced in the 1960’s and only…
EventIndependent African States resolve to impose sanctions against South Africa
… During the Second Conference of Independent African States held in … calling for sanctions against South Africa was passed. The Conference called upon its…
EventNelson Mandela is sentenced to five years for “incitement and leaving South Africa illegally”
… Nelson Mandela was identified as the "mouthpiece and mastermind" behind a call for a national strike and the formation of Umkhonto we Sizwe (Spear of the…
PlaceDonkin Heritage Trail, Port Elizabeth
… Victorian and Georgian features was erected shortly after the turn of the 20th Century. It consists of five dwellings in Donkin Street, facing on to the…