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ArchiveMemorandum: a study in political heresy
… Unauthored memorandum on the history of the Peoples Struggles and strategy and the tactics of the National Liberation Movement and the South …
ArchiveStaffrider Vol.10 No.2 1992
… Contents: Comment, A. W. Oliphant. Stories: An Owl on the Rooftop, Linda Colleen Saunders; Makoti, Makhanda Senzangakhona; The Rod, Richard J. Mann; SB’s,…
ArchiveAddress at 6th Annual Nelson Mandela Lecture, by Nelson Mandela, 12 July 2008, Kliptown Soweto
… to celebrate with so many friends and well wishers. As the years progress one increasingly realises the importance of friendship and human solidarity. And if…
ArchiveDiscussions at Ruacana on 8 June 1976
… A report from a meeting between representatives of the South African Government and the Angolan Government to discuss the military situation on the border of…
Document 12 - Letter from T. W. Thibedi19 to E. R. Roux 20, 27 January 1927
… Road Cambridge England Dear Comrade Your letter of the 5th January has been received last night unexpectently. … you do not write to us we native students…
10. Seedat writes to his brother in India
… From the book: A Documentary History of Indian South Africans … from Newcastle on 12 November 1901 may be typical of the kind of correspondence exchanged…
PlaceLovedale Missionary School
… The missionary school where so many Black intellectuals of the 19th and early 20th century—from Tiyo Soga to Thabo Mbeki … was established in 1824 by John…
Remember Soweto 16 June 1976
… You are cordially invited attend the conference ’#ApartheidMustFall to #RhodesMustFall?: The Soweto Uprising of 16 June 1976’, which will be held at UCL…
EventNathaniel Nakasa, South African journalist and writer, dies in exile
… Ndazana Nathaniel Nat Nakasa was awarded the The Niemann Fellowship to study journalism at Harvard University in the US but the government rejected his…
EventUN names four experts to investigate apartheid in South Africa
… On 13 January 1964, the United Nations Secretary-General named a team of four … Myrdal from Sweden. This followed a resolution taken by the UN Security…
EventNon military national service for objectors
… who oppose military service on religious grounds. The offer is not extended to objectors motivated by political values. The number of conscientious objectors…
EventFourteen are killed in Phola Park violence
… hostel dwellers and Phola Park residents located in the Thokoza Township on the East Rand, near Johannesburg. Tension between hostel … Inkatha Freedom Party…
EventHelen Suzman is born
… Africa. During her 36 years in Parliament she defended the right to freedom of expression for all South Africans; … legislation. She entered politics when…
EventSir John Robinson forms Natal’s first ministry as Prime Minister
… journalist and political leader, and was joint founder and the first editor of The Natal Mercury, together with his father, George Robinson. He became the…
EventFormer Springboks player, Naas Botha is born
… Hendrik Egnatius Botha was born on the 27 of February 1958 in Breyten, in the Eastern Transvaal (now Mpumalanga). He schooled in … tennis, athletics and…
South Africans commemorated Nelson Mandela with a day of prayer
… where a national day of prayer took place to honour the memory of Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela and pray for the future of South Africa following the death of…
South Africans commemorated Nelson Mandela with a day of prayer
… where a national day of prayer took place to honour the memory of Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela and pray for the future of South Africa following the death of…
South Africans commemorated Nelson Mandela with a day of prayer
… where a national day of prayer took place to honour the memory of Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela and pray for the future of South Africa following the death of…
South Africans commemorated Nelson Mandela with a day of prayer
… where a national day of prayer took place to honour the memory of Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela and pray for the future of South Africa following the death of…
South Africans commemorated Nelson Mandela with a day of prayer
… where a national day of prayer took place to honour the memory of Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela and pray for the future of South Africa following the death of…
South Africans commemorated Nelson Mandela with a day of prayer
… where a national day of prayer took place to honour the memory of Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela and pray for the future of South Africa following the death of…
EventSouth Africans commemorated Nelson Mandela with a day of prayer
… where a national day of prayer took place to honour the memory of Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela and pray for the future of South Africa following the death of…
EventSoldiers die from gas leak at Naval base in Durban
… six people were killed and more than a dozen injured at the Salisbury Island Naval base in Durban. Three of the six people involved were South African…
PlaceCarnarvon District, Karoo
… The district of Carnarvon was proclaimed on 1 January 1880, incorporating within its boundaries portions of the divisions of Fraserburg and Victoria West. It…
EventDeath of Anton Muziwakhe Lembede
… in South Africa, died unexpectedly in Johannesburg at the age of 33. In 1944 Lembede became the first president of the African National Congress Youth League…
EventBotha appoints Hendrikse and Rajbansi into his Cabinet
… The leader of the Labour Party, the Reverend H. J. Allan Hendrickse and Amichand Rajbansi of the National People's Party (NPP) are appointed to the … 12…
EventDeputy Minister of Bantu Education,Treurnicht is warned about deteriorating conditions in Soweto
… Rene de Villiers, member of parliament for Parktown, drew the attention of deputy minister of Bantu education, Dr Andries P. Treurnicht, to the fact that an…
EventWaddington report on Boipatong is released
… Waddington of Reading University, who had been invited by the Goldstone Commission to make an independent inquiry into the Boipatong massacre on 17 June 1992…
EventHundreds of White-owned farms are seized by homeless people and pro-Mugabe war veterans in a violent campaign in Zimbabwe
… 2000, Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe spearheaded the Fast-Track Resettlement Program. The campaign meant that White owned farms would be acquired by the…
ArchiveGuaranteeing fundamental freedoms in a new South Africa
… The 35th lecture in the Alfred and Winifred Hoernle Memorial Lecture series … M M Corbett in Johannesburg on 7 May 1990, in celebrating the Diamond Jubilee…