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Mabel Palmer
Biography
Oct 16, 2020

Mabel Palmer

Feminist, lecturer, journalist, trade unionist, founded higher education for Black and Indian students in Natal, awarded...

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Wagendrift Nature Reserve and Dam, Escourt
Place
Oct 16, 2020

Wagendrift Nature Reserve and Dam, Escourt

Wagendrift Dam and Moor Park Nature Reserve is situated just off the N3 highway, near Estcourt. The Reserve is roughly 9...

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Imbali Township, Pietermaritzburg
Place
Oct 16, 2020

Imbali Township, Pietermaritzburg

The Manaye Hall in Imbali is a Monumental Landmark as a venue; for the All-In-Africa Conference that was organised in Ma...

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Article
Oct 15, 2020

A brief history on South African prisons and prisoners

Introduction In 1948 the National government was voted into power and instituted apartheid. This lead to an increase ...

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Negotiating Culture in Contemporary South Africa: Photographic self-representations from the Cape Flats by Heike Becker
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Oct 12, 2020

Negotiating Culture in Contemporary South Africa: Photographic self-representations from the Cape Flats by Heike Becker

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Frances Rix Ames
Biography
Oct 09, 2020

Frances Rix Ames

Professor, neurologist, psychiatrist, human rights activist, led the medical ethics inquiry into the death of Steve Biko...

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Biography
Oct 06, 2020

Ciliza Delase

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Oct 06, 2020

Choabi Seretse Petrus Alias Modisaotsile

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Oct 06, 2020

Chiyi Sigubudu

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Biography
Oct 06, 2020

Chiloane Abel Dipheko

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Biography
Oct 06, 2020

Henrietta Rebecca Stakesby Lewis

Olive Schreiner’s elder sister, founder of “The Highlands” home, member of Women’s Temperance Union

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Eric Magamana Lubisi
Biography
Oct 06, 2020

Eric Magamana Lubisi

South African painter,  ceramicist, art teacher and director of The Arts for All Centre.

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African History and the Struggle to Decolonise Africa, (Evening Post), 1980
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Oct 05, 2020

African History and the Struggle to Decolonise Africa, (Evening Post), 1980

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South Africa and the Boer-British War Volume I by by Halstead and Hopkins
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Oct 01, 2020

South Africa and the Boer-British War Volume I by by Halstead and Hopkins

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Eve Hall
Biography
Sep 30, 2020

Eve Hall

Anti-apartheid activist, COD and ANC member, journalist, launched the ANC women section’s first bulletin- Voice of Women...

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