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EventPolice increase their presence in Soweto
… Following the 16 June 1976 Soweto protest and the killing and injuring of student protesters by the indiscriminate use of firearms … [Accessed on 18 June…
EventShaun Pollock makes history in a test match
… The South African all-rounder, Shaun Pollock, became the only player in Test cricket history to have taken 300 … 3 000 runs. This milestone was reached on…
EventMazisi Kunene, Zulu poet and ANC activist, is born
… mother and a Zulu father. He studied Zulu Literature at the University of Natal and later won a scholarship to further his studies at the School of Oriental…
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, …
PlaceAmathola/Amatole District Municipality
… The Amathola Mountain Range which is a subsidiary of the Winterberg Range, 15 km North-East of Alice, extending … New Dictionary of South African Names by…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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 ……
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…
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…
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? …
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…
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…
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’…
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: …
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…