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EventJudgement is handed down in a landmark case
… The Appeal Court handed down a landmark decision in the case Rikhoto v. East Rand Administration Board (ERAB), … sought improvements in "influx control" or…
EventPresident Thabo Mbeki sacks Deputy President Jacob Zuma.
… Thabo Mbeki sacks Deputy President Jacob Zuma. Mbeki makes the announcement during a special joint sitting of the two houses of parliament, almost two weeks…
EventPolitical activist and trade unionist James La Guma is born
… and trade unionist James Arnold (Jimmy) La Guma, member of the South African Communist Party (SACP) and president of the South African Coloured People's…
PlaceOld General Post Office, Grand Central, Cape Town
… Overlooking the Western side of the Parade is the lofty General Post Office building. It was completed in 1940 on the site of the old Opera House. The…
Mandela and Fidel A film by Estela Bravo
… have spotlighted events throghout Latin America, Africa, the Caribbean and the U.S Retrospectives of her films have been mounted in Madrid, London,New York…
EventEugéne Nielen Marais, S.A. poet, writer, lawyer and naturalist, is born
… Eugene Nielen Marais began writing at a very young age. By the age of 12, he was a published writer. Marais became famous as an … and early education were in…
Conference: African Indigenous Knowledge Systems
… The conference will cover the following topics: v Towards the Commercialization of Traditional Knowledge and Bio-Diversity based products and …
EventCommission on Native Education is appointed
… The government appointed the Eiselen Commission whose terms of reference were to inquire into and to report on all aspects of native education. The…
ArchiveCircular from Neville Curtis, President, NUSAS, to SRC Presidents and others
… General circular from the President of the National Union of South African Students containing the …
EventANC makes first submission to TRC
… The African National Congress (ANC), like the other major political parties, made a submission to the … Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC). The…
ArchivePolitical Report
… Precis of a political report by Jacob Zuma on the socio-economic and political situation in South Africa. Covers the crisis of international capitalism, the…
Cape Town Book Sale 2017
… We are sure you’ve heard the hype around the very first Cape Town Book Sale, and we are here to tell … 18 June 2017 the V&A Waterfront will become the centre…
EventUS invades Afghanistan
… The United States invasion of Afghanistan, codenamed Operation Enduring Freedom, took place after the destruction of the Twin Towers on 11 September 2001 in…
Izwi lase Township, 1982 - 1984
… Though mainly concerned with Alexandra, since that was the home location of Ditshwantsho, it held that Alexandra was but a part of South Africa and shared in…
PlaceCaledon Museum, Eastern Cape
… The Caledon Museum is split into two Buildings depicting very different parts of local History. The Victorian House, houses an abundance of artifacts that …
EventSWAPO attacks SAP
… The South African Police Force (SAP) stationed in the Caprivi Strip, bordering Zambia, suffered casualties in … the SAP and SADF in 1966, hardly a month…
ArchiveAcknowledgements by Howard Barrell
… to Ronnie Kasrils - King Kong, friend, commander and the greatest hairy one of them all - who planted the seed for this study, cleared the way for it and has…
EventIndia complains in 1946 against racism in South Africa
… For an excellent background history of this complaint by E. S. Reddy, and how it was taken to the United Nations, read article. For chronological details of…
EventPupils refuse to return to school before Soweto Uprisings
… Soweto pupils rejected the Orlando Diepkloof School board's demand that they return to class following a walkout to protest the use of Afrikaans as a medium…
Letter from Neville Curtis, NUSAS, to Dear Sir
… Letter from Neville Curtis, President of NUSAS, reporting on the reason for opposition to the sale of "instruments of violence" to the Nationalist …
Document 9 - Letter from W. H. Andrews to Tom Mann,” 26 December 1922
… WE, THE 4 600 delegates to this historic Conference for a Democratic Future of the broad anti-apartheid liberation forces: 1. Salute the …
PlaceNelson Mandela Metropolitan Art Museum, Port Elizabeth
… The Nelson Mandela Metropolitan Art Museum, formerly the King George VI Art Gallery. It was opened on 22 June 1956 … framing the entrance to St George's Park…
10th Annual Oral History Conference
… The Department of Arts and Culture in partnership with the Oral History Association of South Africa (OHASA) hosts the 10th Oral Annual History …
EventFormer NP leader Sam de Beer joins UDM
… Former leader of the National Party (NP) in Gauteng, Sam de Beer, resigned and joined the United Democratic Movement (UDM), led by former NP …
EventJohn Langalibalele Dube is born
… Langalibalele Dube (22.02.1871- 11.02.1946) was born at the Inanda Mission station of the American Zulu Mission (AZM) in Natal to James and … J.A Millard,…
EventFirst Indian workers arrive in South Africa
… Sugar farming grew rapidly in the late 1800s in Natal as a result of very cheap “indentured labour” sourced from India. The first group of Indian workers…
EventMartin Luther King, Junior, is born
… in Atlanta, Georgia. Martin Luther shaped and articulated the message of the American civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s. … Anon, (2010) ' Birthday…
EventPolice detain Valli Moosa and Murphy Morobe in Port Elizabeth
… publicity secretary Murphy Morobe in a pre-dawn raid on the home of Judge Dayalin Chetty in Port Elizabeth. The two men had been on the run from the police…
EventFormer Colonial Prime Minister John Merriman dies
… South African statesman and the last prime minister of the Cape Colony before the formation of the Union of South … D.J. et al. (eds)(1970). Standard…
EventLucas Mangope leaves Mmabatho due to uprising
… President Lucas Mangope, the leader of the apartheid homeland Bophuthatswana, retreated from the …