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EventPolitical violence claims 100 lives in KZN
… About 100 people were declared dead as a result of the political violence that continued in KwaZulu-Natal. The political violence rages on in spite of the…
EventMinister of Police and Prisons announces that twenty-one trade unionists have been detained
… Louis Ie Grange, Minister of Police and Prisons, stated in the House of Assembly that twenty-one trade unionists have been detained since the beginning of…
EventHundreds die in a train fire in Egypt
… spread through seven of a train’s eleven cars in Egypt. The gas cylinder which was used for cooking is said to have exploded. The train had departed from…
EventLife magazine is banned in Egypt after publishing an unflattering article about King Farouk
… years as a general interest light entertainment magazine. The magazine featured illustrations, social commentary and jokes produced by some of the best…
EventGovernment bans 20 Black leaders
… throughout South Africa, culminating in September 1973 at the Western Deep Levels mine at Carletonville, when 12 … fired on a crowd. Shortly afterwards it…
ArchiveStaffrider Vol.10 No.3 1992
… 'n Ontploffing Laat Losbars, Stephen Samuels. Essays: The Politics of Feminism in South Africa, Desiree Lewis; Robben Island Retold, The Mayibuye Centre; …
PlaceBeach houses, Main Road, Muizenberg
… properties, located between Muizenberg and St James, are the only remaining concentration of early 20th century … Edwardian beach houses in South Africa, and…
ArchiveStaffrider Vol.10 No.4 1992
… In Sorrow, Kaizer Nyatsumba, Essays: S.A. Literature and the Construction of Nationhood, Njabulo S. Ndebele; In Search … Culture as a Site of Struggle,…
PlaceAllemanskraal or Aldam, Free State Province
… Village in the Willem Pretorius Game Reserve near the Sand River, 30 km from Winburg. The name is derived from the Allemanskraal dam, some 9 km to …
EventSierra Leone gains independence from Britain
… West African state Sierra Leone fronts onto the Atlantic Ocean, and is flanked by Liberia and Guinea. The very earliest inhabitants of Sierra Leone were…
EventArthur Robert Ashe Jr, prominent African American tennis player and vocal protester of apartheid, dies
… in 1973. This was after a number of refusals. He became the first black player to win a title-a doubles match-in the South African Open. During his career,…
EventNelson Mandela announces he will not stand for re-election in 1999
… who was released from prison in February 1990, became the first democratic president of the Republic of South Africa in April 1994. His announcement would…
EventSASO leader, Abram Tiro is assassinated
… Onkgopotse Abram Tiro, a leader of the South African Students' Organisation (SASO), was killed … an application form to continue his studies through the…
EventClarence Mlokoti is shot dead by hijackers
… while trying to take his car in Pimville, Soweto. The highjacking took place on Tuesday night while Mlokoti was … come back from their friend's house. While…
EventSpringboks wallop their Australian counterparts
… The Springbok rugby team, nicknamed Amabokoboko, national … of Nick Mallett, registered an important victory over the Australian team. The Amabokoboko beat…
EventLady Diana Spencer is killed in a car accident in Paris
… known as Princess Diana was born in 1961. She married the Prince of Wales and heir to the throne of England, Charles, and became the royal Princess of Wales…
ArchiveBrothers and sisters of Chatsworth
… The flyer is aimed at the residents of Chatsworth, an Indian residential suburb in Durban and discusses the bus boycott by the Chatsworth community and the…
ArchiveGrahamstown and group areas: some facts
… Map showing the plan of the city of Grahamstown under the Group Areas. Also includes Map showing the proposed …
ArchiveStaffrider Vol.10 No.1 1992
… Oliphant, Fragments of a dream by Zachoriah Rapola, The House of Raydon by Patrick Sekhula, Independence by EM … Gavin du Plessis, Diary From a Sanitorium by…
ArchiveAre there South Africans? by Sir Keith Hancock
… The twentieth Alfred and Hoernle Memorial Lecture delivered by Sir Keith Hancock in which the title of his talk questions the integrative or disintegrative…
Letter from Jack Simons to Oliver Tambo
… Letter from Jack Simons of the Constitutional Committee and Zola Skweyiya of the Department of Legal and Constitutional Affairs to Oliver Tambo regarding the…
Liberal Opinion/Reality
… Liberal Opinion (1961-1968) was published by the Liberal Party of South Africa which was established in 1953 by Alan Paton, after the National Government had…
PlaceCora Terrace Houses (1,3,5,7,9,11), Port Elizabeth
… This beautiful Georgian home was built in the 1850’s to house soldiers guarding the port of Port Elizabeth. Situated in picturesque surroundings, you can…
PlaceOld Municipal Offices, Berlandina Street, Roodepoort
… The building was designed by Charles Hosking and was completed in 1906 as the first permanent offices for the new Roodepoort-Maraisburg municipality. It was…
EventApartheid leader P. W. Botha Resigns
… and, on this day he announces his intention to resign the National Party presidency while remaining State … colleagues and leads to an internal succession…
EventNigeria cuts its diplomatic missions
… Faced with growing international debt, the Nigerian government announced that it would cut its … this measure would save it from further economic decline…
EventLibrary and clinic names are changed in Pretoria
… The name of the Mid-City Library (Sammy Marks), city library of Pretoria, … was changed to Es'kia Mphahlele Community Library and the Sammy Marks Clinic to…
EventAmina Lawal is freed
… The Nigerian Islamic Appeals Court freed Amina Lawal, a young woman sentenced to death by stoning by the Bakori Sharia court in the Katsina Islamic state of…
EventAfrikaans author, Lulu Latsky is born
… books, mostly for children, was born in Carnarvon, in the Karoo region of South Africa. Latsky was known for her … writing paper. From 1943 until 1950 or…
EventPrince Eugene Napoleon is killed during Anglo-Zulu War
… The 22-year-old Prince Imperial of France, Eugene Louis Jean Joseph Napoleon, who studied in England at the Royal Military Academy and joined the British…