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The first edition of Standpunte, mouthpiece of Afrikaans poets in the ‘30s and ‘40s, is published.
… Standpunte, mouthpiece of Afrikaans poets in the ‘30s and ‘40s, is published. …
BiographyStanley Huette Uys
… Dimitri Tsafendas , assassinated Verwoerd. In his late 40s, Uys enrolled for a degree at the University of Cape …
BiographyJoey Fourie
… a non-racial working-class movement during the 1930s and 40s. Through her work and her life, Fourie demonstrated the …
50s - JURGEN SCHADEBERG
50s - JURGEN SCHADEBERG
50s - JURGEN SCHADEBERG
50s - JURGEN SCHADEBERG
50s - JURGEN SCHADEBERG
50s - JURGEN SCHADEBERG
50s - JURGEN SCHADEBERG
50s - JURGEN SCHADEBERG
BiographyAshley La Grange
… Ashley only started paying into a pension in his 40s, so he only had about 20 years of payments to fall back …
The UN High Commissioner for Refugees estimates it will cost $40m to repatriate South Africa’s 40 000 exiles.
BiographyNorman Stewart Middleton
Norman Stewart Middleton was born in January 1921, in Sophiatown, Johannesburg, Transvaal (now Gauteng) and moved to Pietermaritzburg, Natal (now kwaZulu-Natal…
ArticleSAHO Commemorates 40 Years since Soweto Uprising: Intergenerational Dialogue
South African History Online (SAHO) is hosting an intergenerational dialogue to commemorate 40 years since the Soweto Student Uprising. The dialogue consists…
PlaceMossel Bay, (400 km From Cape Town)
It was named Aguada de Sao Bras, by Vasco de Gama in 1497, when He set off with 170 men on an expedition to find a sea Route to India. This was in order to…
Brett Eloff
Brett Eloff is an independently employed professional photographer, residing and working principally in Johannesburg, South Africa. He began his career in…
ArchiveOxford : 1960s - 80s : State repression intensifies
Brown, red and black poster. Photograph of hundreds of rope nooses. Quote from Max Coleman. Photographs of Ahmed Timol, Neil Aggett who died in detention and…
EventExpress train derails in Ethiopia, killing an estimated 400 people
An express train carrying seven cars and an estimated one thousand people destined for Addis Ababa, derailed when it reached a curve 125 miles east of the…
ArchiveWorkers donate R2 400 to victims` families
BiographyLauretta Ngcobo
Lauretta* (1) Ngcobo was born and brought up in a rural area of Kwazulu Natal called Ixopo. She is well known as a feminist writer during the early 50’s…
Archive2 400 textile members lose jobs over past year
BiographyDonald James Woods
Donald James Woods was born in Elliotdale, Transkei on 15 December 1933. He was educated at Christian Brothers College in Kimberley. After completing his…
ArchiveR40 000 largest payout ever
In the largest pay out in a labour dispute in South Africa, workers at Braitex, a Transvaal textile factory, were given R40 000.
BiographyRomeo Zamani Makhanya
Zamani Romeo Makhanya was born in Durban, 1959. He experienced the trauma of losing his brothers one after the other to genetic heart-related conditions. The…
ArchiveSpeak Number 40 June 1992
EventThe UDF launches the Million Signatures Campaign and by October collect just under 400 000 signatures.
On 22 January 1984, amidst the Apartheid government’s constitutional reform plans, the United Democratic Front (UDF) embarked on an ambitious campaign to…
ArticleExhibition: Celebrating 40 Years of Women's Day, Durban 1980
BiographyPenny Siopis
This biography was written by SAHO in collaboration with Artthrob Modus Operandi Penny Siopis is foremost a painter, although she frequently works with video…
ArchiveMayibuye Volume 2 Number 40 December 1968
Mayibuye, bulletin of the African National Congress.