30 April International Jazz Day and the South African Revolution International Jazz Day is an International Day, which is celebrated annually on April 30, was declared by the United Nations…
Initiating the Human Rights Month As South Africans we commemorate March as Human Rights Month in order to remind ourselves about the sacrifices that accompanied the struggle for the attainment…
Robert Mangaliso Sobukwe: The Suppressed African Revolutionary On 27 February 1978, Robert Mangaliso Sobukwe passed on in the Kimberley General Hospital because of lung complications after having been hospitalised in…
Oliver Tambo: Victory or Death (“Umkhonto we Sizwe – Born of the People”: Statement of the National Executive Committee of the African National Congress Delivered by Commander-in-Chief OR Tambo on…
Reports on the Brutal Murder of Ruth First On 18 August 1982, South African newspapers reported that Heloise Ruth First, the wife of Joe Slovo, the Chief of Staff of…
Organise or Starve! The Inaugural Conference of SACTU On 4 – 5 March 1955, the Inaugural Conference of the South African Congress of Trade Unions (SACTU) was held at the…
Robert Mangaliso Sobukwe: “The Suppressed African Revolutionary” Passes On On 27 February 1978, Robert Mangaliso Sobukwe (54) passed on in the Kimberley General Hospital. Sobukwe died of lung complications after…
On 26 January 1963, Joe Gqabi was arrested with nine fellow members who had undergone military training in Ethiopia and were deported back to South Africa after being captured in…
On this day, 23 January 2018, a South African jazz and Afro-fusion music icon, Hugh Masekela, passed away peacefully at his home in Johannesburg, South Africa, surrounded by his family.…