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BiographyMembathisi Mphumzi Shepherd Mdladlana
On 12 May 1952 Shepherd Mdladlana was born in Keiskammahoek in the Eastern Cape. He has been South African Minister of Labour since 1998…
BiographyJacob Abraham de Mist
De Mist was born on 20 April 1749 in Voorburg near The Hague in the Netherlands. He went to school at Kampen, after which he studied law in…
BiographyRichard Victor Selope Thema
Richard Victor Selope Thema was born in Ga-Mamabolo, Pietersburg district, in 1886. Both his parents were Pedi speaking but not originally…
BiographyMahomed “Chota” Motala
Mahomed Motala was born in Dundee on 14 June 1921. In 1938 Motala matriculated at Sastri College and studied medicine in Bombay, India,…
BiographyRocky Malebane-Metsing
Rocky Malebane-Metsing was born in Rustenburg in 1949, attending schools in the area until he matriculated. After completing his…
ArticleThe banning of the South African Students Organisation (SASO) and student politics in the 1980s
In September and October 1977, the apartheid government stiffened its resolve to end the nationwide student unrest that broke out in Soweto…
BiographySir Rufane Shaw Donkin
British soldier, and Governor at the Cape from 1820-21. He named the burgeoning port of Algoa Bay, Port Elizabeth in memory of the death of…
The South African Teacher Who Turned Her Home into a Sanctuary of Color and Light By Alexxa Gotthardt, 13 June 2018, Artsy
BiographySir Redvers Henry Buller
For biographical and historical information on Buller browse the following links: http://48.1911encyclopedia.org/B/BU/BULLER_SIR_REDVERS…
BiographyJames E. Kwegyir Aggrey
James E. Kwegyir Aggrey was born in 1875 into a family of chiefs. A Ghanaian-born educator and clergyman, and one of the most eminent…
BiographyMillicent Fawcett
Fawcett was part of the Ladies’ Committee that was sent over from Britain during the Anglo Boer War in order to inspect the conditions in…
How do we understand Nelson Mandela@100? by Raymond Suttner, 29 May 2018
Celebrating the centenary of Nelson Mandela’s life is an opportunity to move away from the cliché-ridden assessments of his multi-faceted…
Nelson Mandela’s leadership: his ‘obstinacy and stubbornness’ (Part 2) by Raymond Suttner, 11 June 2018
An unusual, apparently contradictory set of personality traits combined to make Nelson Mandela the leader that he became. One of these was…
Nelson Mandela’s leadership: The early years (Part 1) by Raymond Suttner, 4 June 2018
Despite the vast literature on Nelson Mandela, the qualities that his leadership comprised has been surprisingly neglected. If we are to…
Vasco da Gama’s Voyage of ‘Discovery’ 1497
Vasco da Gama carried out 2 expeditions between 1497 and 1502. This feature focuses on the first, as it was during this expedition that…