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EventBram Fischer is released from prison on health grounds
… Abram “Bram” Fischer was a lawyer, chairman of the South African Communist Party and an anti-Apartheid activist. He joined the SACP, a close ally of the…
ArchivePriests, protests and politics
… This article discusses the role of clergy in the church in South Africa and the application of Christian principles to the political and …
ArchiveApartheid runs on Fluor power
… Only three-days after the 6 500 Sasol workers were sacked for the their role in the November stay-away, scabs were being bused in from the …
Looking After Freedom - ending 16 June
… artists and reflects on their influence internationally. The exhibition, which takes place from 23 May 2017 - 16 June 2017 at the Michaelis Galleries, aims…
PlaceAmanzamnyama, a small size Town in Kwa-Zulu Natal
… An old Mission Station that takes its name from the nearby stream. The name means 'black water', from Zulu. Zimeme High School … KwaZulu Natal. In 2014…
ArchiveStaffrider Vol.5 No.3 1983
… Contents and Contributors VOLUMES NUMBER 3,1983, Stories: The Night of the Long Knives by Bheki Maseko; Jericho Again by Ahmed … Running Away by Steve Jacobs…
EventSA artist Mizream Maseko is born
… was born on this date. He completed his schooling in the Transvaal. He began his career as a house painter and was inspired to paint by the works he saw in…
EventPope John Paul II visits Africa
… of Africa, including visits to Zaire (presently known as the Democratic Republic of Congo), Congo, Kenya, Ghana, Upper Volta (now Burkina Faso ) and the…
EventSA is suspended from World Meteorological Organization
… The World Meteorological Organization (WMO), which was created to facilitate international cooperation in the establishment of meteorological and related…
EventBus drivers strike because of lack of protection
… Bus drivers, who were members of the Transport and General Workers' Union (TGWU), a COSATU … May 1987 and February 1988 about eight TGWU bus drivers of the…
EventKing Mswati III buys another luxury car
… worth $500,000 despite his country's economic problems, the dire poverty of the population and the HIV pandemic affecting 38.8 percent of his subjects. This …
EventCardoso’s murderers convicted in Mozambique
… convicted and sentenced to lengthy prison terms. One of the suspects, Anibal dos Santos Junior, popularly known as … Africa and extradited to Mozambique…
EventBritish Airways prohibits smoking on all flights
… prohibited smoking on all flights. Other countries across the world had begun to impose the first restrictions on smoking in public in the 1970s, but…
EventMary Elizabeth Barber, pioneer naturalist, dies
… Charles Darwin with valuable information for his work On the Origin of Species (1859). She was elected to the Hungarian ornithological society and several of…
EventHestrie Cloete, world champion high jumper, is born
… age. Her long-time coach, Martin Marx, discovered her at the age of 13. Hestrie proved to be a top athlete when she won a gold medal at the world…
EventNelson Mandela announces his separation from his wife, Winnie Mandela.
… and Madikizela-Mandela were married in 1958, having met the previous year. The couple had two daughters, Zenani born in 1959 and Zindzi … and sentenced to…
ArchiveNUSAS 61st Congress, 28 November - 1 December, Wits, 1983
… Programme for the 61st Annual Congress of the National Union of South African Students, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, 28 November to 1…
ArchiveLetter to Comrade Y Zungu
… Petersen to Comrade Y Zungu, Chief Representative of the ANC, for the attention of the Regional Political Committee, regarding their suspension …
ArchiveA blueprint for education
… The Black People's Convention (BPC) has drawn up a blueprint … and intends to submit it to its national congress at the end of the year for approval before…
Samesprekings: Staatspresident met die Kabinet van die Oorgangsregering van Nasionale Eenheid (Orne) van SWA, 21 Mei 1986, Kabinetskamer, Tuynhuys, Kaapstad
… Report from a meeting held between representatives of the South African Government, including the State President, and representatives from South West Africa…
Palestine: a homeland denied
… of David artwork containing a person with a scarf around the head. Issued by the Iraqi Cultural Centre, London on the occasion of The Baghdad International…
EventCOSAS President is detained
… The Security Police detained the president and six executive members of the recently formed Congress of South African Students (COSAS …
ArchiveDraft reply to commission of enquiry request for oral evidence
… Explanation of the Constitutional nature of the National Union of South African Students, National Student Assembly, the financing and administration of…
ArchiveStatement of General Secretary of South African Council of Churches, Bishop Desmond Tutu, October 11, 1979
… The statement of the General Secretary of the South African Council Of Churches made on October 11, 1979 regarding the serious allegations against SACC made…
Call for peace
… Statement calling for peace as the past years was characterised by the most brutal violence unleashed agaisnt people as all … peace-loving South Africans are…
ArchiveIn combat
… Collection of press articles compiled by the African National Congress, Department of Information and Publicity to reflect reporting by the official press of…
COSATU calendar
… Multicoloured artwork - detail from a NUMSA painting about the first shop stewards council on the East Rand in 1981, showing the struggle against the…
ArchiveLetter from N Z Cindi to Clemens Kapuo
… Letter from N Z Cindi, on behalf of the President, Black Peoples Convention, to Clemens Kapuo inviting him to be the guest speaker at the Annual National…
ArchiveMemorandum from Popo Molefe to United Democra
… Popo Molefe to United Democratic Front's regions regarding the meeting of the National Executive Committee of the United Democratic Front which would take…
ArchiveHeroes day concert
… Yellow, black and white, with artwork of a man playing the guitar. Notice of concert to be held at Tzers on Dec, 15. At the bottom of the poster appears,…