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PlaceAmbleside, a Railway Siding in Mpumalanga
… Railway Siding 11 km North-East of Carolina on the route Machadodorp to Breyton. It was named in 1868 by Archibald Sinclair, recalling the Wreck of the…
ArchiveEducation for liberation
… Hall, London, on Saturday 3rd April 1993. Organised by the Black Solidarity Committee of the Anti-Apartheid Movement in London. List of speakers. Conference…
ArchiveBlack women
… conference on women's struggle in South Africa from 6th to the 18th January 1990 at the bottom. Quote from Phyllis Jordan. The song Malibongwe is dedicated…
ArchiveBlack Community Programmes: Year report 1972
… The goals of the Black community programmes are to help the Black community become aware of its own identity, to help the Black community create a sense of…
ArchiveAmandla!Maatla!: en film om sydafrikansk ungdom
… and Kjell Soderlund in 1984 A colour poster, advertising the release of this Swedish documentary, which tells the story of the ANC‘s Solomon Mahlangu…
EventWalter Sisulu tries to recruit 5 000 volunteers during ANC meeting to protest forced removal of “Black Spots”
… On 26 June 1954 Walter Sisulu addressed a meeting of the African National Congress (ANC) at the Communal Hall in Johannesburg. At the meeting he a spurred…
EventAZAPO’s first contest in SA democratic elections
… The Azanian People Organisation (AZAPO) performed abysmally in the 1999 elections, managing to secure only 0,2 % of the vote which gave them one seat in the…
EventNew Afrikaner Political Party
… Delegates at the summit of the Afrikaner Unity Movement (AUM), held in Pretoria, voted to transform the AUM into a political party in order to contest the…
EventBritish secretary of war, Lord Kitchener drowns near Orkney Islands
… Lord Kitchener, British secretary of war, was drowned in the spring of 1916 near the Orkney Islands. Kitchener had been sent to Russia by Prime Minister…
EventPresident Mandela warns disgruntled former Umkhonto we Sizwe combatants
… The newly elected President of the Republic of South Africa, Nelson Mandela warned … took leave without permission while being integrated into the new South…
PlaceKaNgwane
… KaNgwane was the Homeland of the Swazi people living in South Africa. It was situated along the border with Swaziland , and its capital was at …
ArchiveTried for treason
… Black, white and red poster. Notice of an exhibition on the Treason Trial of 1956-1961 opening on 27th February 1996 at the Museum Africa, Johannesburg…
ArchiveHistory of Wages Commissions: formation, aims and structure
… Working notes from the National Union of South African Students Labour Directive, July workshop, University of the Witwatersrand, 2-4 July 1982. Discusses…
ArchiveTowards a mixed economy in South African agriculture
… a meeting in Harare, Zimbabwe in April-May 1989. Discusses the political economy and national liberation in South Africa, the perspective of the ANC, the de…
EventHelen Joseph is put under house arrest
… Former political activist, Helen Joseph, fell victim to the Draconian apartheid legislations. She became the first person to be put under house arrest under…
EventWinnie Madikizela-Mandela, former wife of President Nelson Mandela, is born
… government and this earned her a title of " mother of the nation ". Madikizela-Mandela played a role in the founding of the Black Women's Federation and the…
EventGhana imposes a total ban on exports to South Africa and South West Africa
… The government of Ghana imposed a total ban on the export of all Ghanaian produce to South Africa and South … Africa, as a protest against apartheid. Ghana…
PlaceAmajuba, a Mountain in Natal
… km South-West of Volksrust and 32 km North of Newcastle. The scene of a Historic Battle in the First Anglo-Boer War. The name is derived from Zulu and means …
PlaceWelgelegen Farm, Stellenbosch
… Welgelegen is a working Farm nestled in the Valleys of the Bottelary Hills just outside of Stellenbosch. This Farm with its Vineyards , Proteas and Fynbos…
EventAnsuyah Ratipul Singh, medical doctor and community worker, poet, dramatist and novelist, is born in Durban.
… to London where she completed her degree in Medicine at the University of Edinburgh in 1944. In 1946, Dr Singh returned to South Africa and become involved…
EventSA artist Tshela Matsoso is born
… 1962 and 1970, while still at school, Matsoso studied at the Jubilee Art Centre under Cecil Skotnes, Sydney Kumalo, Bill Hart and Ezrom Legae. In 1972 he…
EventEfforts by a pro-sanctions lobbyist group against SA debt rescheduling prove unsuccessful
… lobbyist group in Southern Africa to persuade banks in the United States (US) not to allow debt rescheduling against South Africa were unsuccessful. The…
EventNelson Mandela marries Graça Machel on his 80th birthday
… after his release from prison, Mandela met Graça Machel, the widow of former Mozambican president, Samora Machel. Apart from her involvement in the…
EventCrime statistics released
… The South African Police National Crime Information … released statistics that confirm South Africa's status as the most violent country in the world…
EventGifted writer and actor William Modisane is born
… Themba's short story Requiem for Sophiatown (destroyed in the late 1950s). Blame Me on History was an examination of what apartheid did to the character and…
EventBettie Cilliers, famous SA painter, is born
… a time when only a few of our artists ventured outside the country, placed her between the top achievers. She has worked consistently all the time and was…
EventYusuf Dadoo, political activist, is born
… in Krugersdorp, Johannesburg. According to Essop Pahad, the story of Dadoo’s life was inextricably linked to the resistance of racial discrimination and…
EventGeorge Christopher Cato (79), Natal pioneer and first mayor of Durban, dies
… Cato, Natal pioneer and first mayor of Durban, dies in the city on 9 July 1893. Cato was born in London, England in … He was asked to plan Durban while it…
EventLesotho’s deputy Prime Minister shot
… Monyane Moleleki, Pakalitha Mosisili and Kelebone Maope in the mutiny over a planned government probe into the army. Parliament, whose members probably fear…
EventMK soldiers threaten armed struggle
… Having been dismissed from the South African National Defence Force (SANDF) for their … their spokesperson, Salvador Mkhari threatened to resume the armed…