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EventFrederick Courteney Selous, traveller, hunter, writer and naturalist dies in Beho-Beho, Tanganyika. He came to Southern Africa
… Frederick Courtney Selous came to South Africa at the age of nineteen in 1871. Inspired by the writings of explorers such as Dr. David Livingstone and ……
EventUnited Front launch in jeopardy
… The proposed launch of the United Front was threatened when the Azanian People's Organisation (AZAPO) denounced fourteen of the more than seventy-five…
JANAM People’s Theatre Group Tour!
… for change. Street theatre can be a dynamic example of popular pedagogy and kindle interest in and enthusiasm for popular education. The lecture will be a…
PlaceParsonage House Museum, Port Elizabeth
… This is probably the oldest surviving house in Port Elizabeth and was built by Rev Francis McClelland of the Church of England, who arrived in 1820 with the…
EventWaaihoek women embark on anti-pass passive resistance campaign
… In 1913, Black women in Bloemfontein were experiencing the culmination of heavy pass laws being implemented to control the mobility of the Black population…
Killings at Ntshanga, 29 December 1996
… The ANC in KwaZulu Natal strongly condemns the killing of our people in an ANC stronghold at Tin Town, …
EventMike Gatting’s rebel cricket tour is curtailed
… Negotiations between the National Sports Council (NSC) and the white South African Cricket Union (SACU) on the rebel … and that the event had been overrun by…
PlaceGreen Lodge, 81 St George Street, Bloemfontein
… The Orange River Convention (sometimes also called the Bloemfontein Convention) was a convention whereby the United Kingdom formally recognised the…
EventAmy Biehl is murdered in Cape Town
… years old), was dragged from her car by a 100-strong mob of youths in Gugulethu, a township just outside Cape Town, … Biehl was driving three co-workers to…
EventDate is set for constitutional talks
… after preparatory talks in Johannesburg, on a date for the start of negotiations on South Africa's future constitution. Delegates agreed that the proposed…
ArchiveInternational Bulletin, No 25, December 1989
… Bulletin, No 25, December 1989, produced by the South African Communist Party. Issue covers an SACP delegation to the 14th Congress of the Romanian Communist…
EventBantu Women’s League protests against pass laws
… The Bantu Women's League (BWL) under its first president … undertook a passive resistance on 7 January 1919 against the application of pass laws to women…
PlaceGabon
… 1960, Gabon, a country in west central Africa, astride the Equator. The Country gained independence from France. It shares common borders with Equatorial…
EventRobert McBride is arrested in Mozambique
… Robert McBride, at the time a high-ranking official in the South African Department of Foreign Affairs, was arrested by the Mozambican police in … | Daley S…
ArchiveThoughts on Winnie Mandela by Enuga Reddy
… and became close friends. Winnie wrote an introduction to the book "Fatima Meer: Memories of Struggle," edited by Fatima's daughter Shamim, published … 2017…
PlaceTown Hall, 25 Market Street, Uitenhage
… Since the 1820’s there was a strong move locally for the Capital of the Colony to be situated in Uitenhage. When the Town Hall …
EventMigrant workers ransack Phola Park
… In the middle of the night, a group of migrant workers aligned with the Inkatha Freedom Party … Koch, E. (1990) " Who are these whites behind the Rooidoeke? …
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…
ArchiveAfrica South Vol.5 No.2 Jan-Mar 1961
… Contents: The Single Standard. Cartoon, Papas. The Referendum and After. Cartoon, Gask. The Same Boat, an anon. correspondent. Diary of a Detainee, ‘Tandi’…
PlaceMaloti-Drakensburg Park
… The Maloti-Drakensberg Park is a transboundary site composed of the uKhahlamba Drakensberg National Park in South Africa and … The Maloti-Drakensberg Park is…
PlaceObservatory
… Observatory was a residential suburb of Cape Town , and derived its name from the Royal Observatory, which was established there in 1821. It's an arty…
EventEx Defence Minister P.W. Botha denies arms purchase
… The denial of South Africa's involvement in arms dealing with the former Rwandan Army came seven years into sanctions … Nations. South Africa's involvement…
EventBarend Strydom kills 8 People in Pretoria
… and stopped by Simon Mukondoleli, a taxi driver working in the legislative capital. Strydom claimed to be the head of a white supremacist group called the …
EventUmkhonto we Sizwe bombs Church Street, Pretoria
… One of South Africa’s deadliest terror attacks took place in … Street, Pretoria, in 1983, when Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK), the armed wing of the African National…
PlaceHarbour Board Building, Port Elizabeth
… Known popularly as the 'White Building'. The old Harbour Board Building was used for 70 years for … at the Cape from 1820 to 1821 during the absence of…
EventUSA drops atomic bomb on Nagasaki
… The Second World War broke out with the German invasion of Poland in 1939. By 1941, the Japanese … The bombing of Nagasaki [online] Available at: …
ArchiveStatement announcing retirement, Nelson Mandela, 1 June 2004
… Friends and colleagues and especially my good friends from the media. Thank you very much to all of you for taking time out of your very busy schedules to ……
EventNUSAS President Ian Robertson is banned
… The President of the National Union of South Africa Students (NUSAS), Ian Robertson, receives a …
EventWell-known political activist and academic, Dr. Neville Alexander is born
… complete three university degrees in History and German at the University of Cape Town. In 1962 he founded the Yu Chi Chan Club (YCCC) along with Dulcie…
EventLast remaining SA troops have been withdrawn from Namibia
… The Citizen reported that the remaining 1 500 South African troops in South West Africa … at Cuito Cuanavale in 1988, a turning point in the history of…