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PlaceClarkebury, Eastern Cape
… The Village of Clarkebury was established in 1830 as a station of the Wesleyan Methodist Missionary Society. James Backhouse …
ArchiveInterview with Lybon Tiyani Mabasa
… Interview with Lybon Tiyani Mabasa, a leader in the Azanian People's Organisation (AZAPO) at the time of this interview, was born in 1952 and graduated from …
EventNelson Rolihlahla Mandela passed away
… The 5th of December marks the anniversary of the death of revolutionary anti-Apartheid liberation …
ArchivePolitical Action Committee report
… Report of the Political Action Committee to the 62nd Annual Congress of the National Union of South African Students, University …
Giyani, Polokwane
… More or less 550 kilometres north east of Johannesburg you will find the little happening town of Giyani, a popular town in the heart of Bushveld country in…
EventA.G. Visser, SA physician and poet, dies in Heidelberg, Transvaal
… Andries Gerhardus Visser was born on 1 March 1878 on the farm Zaaifontein, in the district of Fraserburg, South Africa. Visser attended the Huguenot ……
EventUDF leaders are charged with treason
… Three leading members of the United Democratic Front (UDF), Archibald Gumede, Paul … treason. These anti-apartheid activists sought refuge in the British…
EventNatal Indian Organisation delegation meets Premier Smuts
… The Natal Indian Organisation (NIO) was founded on May 4 1947 by A. I. Kajee and others who had left the Natal Indian Congress (NIC). The NIC had grown more …
PlaceFairview Wine and Cheese Estate, near Paarl
… An immigrant from Lithuania, the young Charles Back I, landed on these shores in 1902. … his life in South Africa as a butcher boy in what is now the Cape…
EventFormer South African Prime Minister and State President John Vorster is born
… Balthazar John Vorster was born in in Uitenhage in the Eastern Cape on 13 December 1915. Vorster began his … career as a lawyer after completing his studies…
SASPU National, 1980 - 1987
… SASPU National was one of two publications produced by the South African Students Press Union (SASPU), the other being SASPU Focus. A non-profit newspaper,…
PlaceMoletzie Bird Sanctuary
… Polokwane means:'place of safety' and is quite appropriate as it protects the Cape Vulture! Endemic to Southern Africa, but a few … Cape. There are small…
How Zweli ‘misled’ Khwezi, 17 September 2017
… President Jacob Zuma’s rape accuser into dropping the charges against him. The book, called Khwezi and written by journalist and radio … to enter the police…
EventBrig. Ramushwana in NPKF admission
… In a telephonic interview Brigadier Gabriel Ramushwana of the National Peacekeeping Force (NPKF), says that the way things were going, the NPKF would…
Interview with Lulu Dube by Sbongiseni Dladla, Ohlange, JL Dube House, 21 March 2011
… Sbongiseni Dladla (SD): How did you feel in hearing the street would be named after you Gogo? Lulu Dube (LD): I … me if I wouldagree to be honoured to have…
Document 39 - Statement by S. P. Bunting, October 1931
… , October 1931 Private, for circulation among members of the Communist Party only. … October, 1931. DEAR COMRADES OF THE COMMUNIST PARTY , No doubt you have…
EventIndian Rights Campaigner Bhawani Sannyassi Dayal is born
… for Indian rights, was born in Johannesburg as son of Jariam Singh, a former president of the Transvaal Indian Association. In 1913 he was one of the…
Archive'Winnie hired me to kill Dr Asvat' (Mail & Guardian), 05 September 1997
… uncovers new evidence linking Madikizela-Mandela to the murder of Dr Abu Baker Asvat. One of the two men convicted of the killing of Dr Abu Baker Asvat at …
PlaceWynberg Park, Southern Suburbs
… In the heart of Cape Town lies the beautiful Wynberg Park! This spans over an area of 22 square kilometres and showcases some of the Western … In the 1890s,…
EventHaile Selassie, deposed Ethiopian emperor, dies
… Haile Selassie was born Lij Tafari Makonnen, in the village of Ejersa Gor, in the Harar Province of Ethiopia. Heir to a 13th century …
EventFatima Meer, South African anti-Apartheid activist is born
… and gender activist who born in Grey Street Durban on the 12th August 1928. She was the daughter of Moosa Meer who was the editor and publisher of Indian … …
Luthuli House to be auctioned over R25m debt?, 20 August 2017
… Johannesburg - The ANC headquarters in the Joburg CBD, Chief Albert Luthuli House, could be up for … say an attachment letter will be delivered by the…
Imijondolo
… Published in 1985, Imijondolo, (the isi Zulu word for a shack or informal housing), is Omar Badsha's second book of photographs. Badsha's groundbreaking book…
EventWorld Aids Day
… Following the January 1988 meeting of Health Ministers in London, a decision was taken that 1 December would annually be observed as World Aids Day. The step…
EventResolute Treurnicht rejects waiving language policy
… Despite the indications of African unrest at Soweto schools being noticed by government authorities on 4 June, who reported it to the Minister of Bantu…
PlaceGreytown, Kwa-Zulu Natal
… was, according to district records, named in honour of: Earl Grey , who was the renowned British politician. However it would seem that the Town was actually…
Azikhwelwa on Monday. Flyer by Soweto Students’ Representative Council calling for a stay-away from 13 September 1976
… Council calling for a stay-away from September 13, 1976 The people of South Africa are going into the third phase of their struggle against the oppressors, …
EventSpanish Flu strikes South Africa
… The first cases of an unusually severe and deadly strain of influenza, popularly called Spanish Flu or 'Great Flu', were diagnosed on this date in Durban…
PlaceGanesha Temple, Mt Edgecombe
… old NMC legislation on 18 February 1977. Believed to be the oldest surviving ‘solid’ temple in Africa and one of the finest examples of temple architecture…
PlaceStation Building, Point Road, Durban
… The Victorian Railway Station dates from the 1890s when the Natal Government Railways experienced a … the brick and ochre plaster mouldings on the façade are…