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EventMining agreement on wages and working conditions is signed
… The Chamber of Mines and the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) signed an agreement on wages and working conditions, averting the likelihood of damaging…
EventExplorer Karl Gottlieb Mauch dies
… German explorer Karl Gottlieb Mauch, allegedly the first person to discover gold in South Africa, died in … and archaeological discoveries in southern Africa…
EventLindiwe Sisulu is detained
… detained for her involvement in political activities. The police suspected her of being in possessions of the then banned African National Congress (ANC)…
EventWorld Cancer Day is instituted as an annual world-wide cancer awareness campaign
… World Cancer Day was founded by the Union for International Cancer Control (UICC) to raise … and to encourage its prevention, detection and treatment. The…
EventVigilante mob beats man to death in Diepsloot
… his car too close to where they were standing. When the confrontation got out of hand, Ramoloyi, who was … brother, produced a gun and fired two warning…
EventSouth Africa and Lesotho establish a consultative committee to resolve border disputes
… committee to resolve misunderstandings arising from the movement of people across their common border. The relationship between the two countries in 1970s…
Ikwezi
… African revolutionaries with long histories of devotion to the struggle for freedom in Southern Africa". Ikwezi claimed to work within the mainstream…
A Place of Freedom
… in a society that moved from informal segregation in the early years of the twentieth century to full-blown apartheid in the 1950s. In 1920 Manilal confessed…
ArchiveNUSAS Press Release No. 4, 1967
… NUSAS press bulletin on the 1967 National Day of Affirmation of Academic and Human … announcement that Professor Erwin N Griswold had accepted the invitation…
ArchiveSPRO-CAS Occasional Publication Number 2: Sou
… Report of the Social Commission of the Study Project on Christianity in Apartheid Society … includes: What is Spro-CAS; Introduction; Notes on the papers;…
EventSir de Villiers Graaff agrees with SA veto of UN visit
… Sir de Villiers Graaff, leader of the United Party, the official opposition, agreed with the apartheid government that the composition of the proposed …
EventMembers of SASO and BPC held under Terrorism Act
… Fourteen people, including leading members of the South African Students Organisation (SASO) and the Black People's Convention (BPC) are arrested and held…
EventHeart specialist Dr. Chris Barnard dies
… Christiaan Neethling Barnard, the world-famous medical pioneer who performed the world’s first heart transplant operation on Louis Washkansky, died at the…
EventAlexander Kerr is born
… Alexander Kerr, educationist, church leader and the first principal of the South African Native College (later the University of Fort Hare), was born in…
A Working Life, Cruel Beyond Belief by Alfred Temba Qabula
… His father. a migrant worker, ‘coughed out’ the harshness of his life onto his children. He died after … his brothers. Barely 18 years old, Qabula was caught…
ArchiveStudent political action
… Report by the Student Political Action Committee to the 62nd Annual Congress of the National Union of South African Students, University of …
ArchiveAPDUSA Bulletin 5: War on sellouts!
… In this pamphlet APDUSA expresses their concerns over the results of the elections on August 22 and 28 1984 ; as well as what the consequences will be of…
ArchiveCan Africa come of age?
… The sixteenth Hoernle Memorial Lecture delivered by Professor … discusses Africa and it's political situation as seen from the rest of the world. The…
EventSADC treaty is signed in Namibia
… A treaty, which effected the establishment of the Southern African Development Community (SADC), was signed in the Namibian capital, Windhoek, to replace its…
EventWorld Conference on Racism starts in Durban
… hundred and sixty countries descended on Durban to attend the weeklong third United Nations-sponsored World Conference on Racism, staged in South Africa. The…
Isizwe
… Isizwe = The Nation, the journal published by the United Democratic Front to stimulate discussion, debate … their ranks, consisted of articles on topics…
EventNamibian artist, John Ndevasia Muafangejo, dies
… 1943 in Etunda lo Nghadi, Ovamboland, Angola. He came from the Kwanyama people and spent his childhood tending cattle in … After his father's death in 1955,…
EventBanyana Banyana player, Eudy Simelane, is found raped and murdered
… Banyana midfielder Eudy Simelane was found in a ditch in the outskirts of her home township KwaThema, Gauteng. She had … This made Simelane’s abduction, rape…
PlaceMLR-cannon, Middle North Battery, Simonstown
… The gun was designed in 1865 as a broadside gun for ironclad … and harbour seafront defence. A total of 190 were made. The gun was last fired in 1903.. This…
EventWorld Health Day
… On 7 April each year, the World Health Organisation (WHO) celebrates World Health Day. This date commemorates the formation of the WHO in 1945. The WHO's…
Conference: African Indigenous Knowledge Systems
… The conference will cover the following topics: v Towards the Commercialization of Traditional Knowledge and … Indigenous Systems of Governance and Post…
EventA Pilot Cellular phone project is launched
… The basic concept of cellular phones began in 1947, when … of service area) with frequency reuse they could increase the traffic capacity of mobile phones…
EventAnton Hammerl, South African photographer, is killed in Libya
… Anton Hammerl was killed, allegedly by Libyan forces on the Brega frontline. According to eyewitnesses, Hammerl’s … without medical attention. Consequently,…
ANC media statement on comrade Carl Niehaus, 10 July 2009
… The African National Congress (ANC) has noted a public … for forgiveness. Comrade Carl is highly regarded for the role that he has played in the struggle for…
Comrade Keith Khoza`s father being buried on Saturday, 3 February 2011
… The African National Congress (ANC) sends its condolences to … its communications manager Keith Khoza and his family for the loss of his father – Mr Wakheni…