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BiographyNyiko Floyd Shivambu
Nyiko Floyd Shivambu was born on 1 January 1983 in Malamulele, Northern Transvaal (now Limpopo). He studied at Mphambo High School in Malamulele. In 2001, he…
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1600s
… Landsche Ge-Oktroyeerde Oost-Indische Compagnie (VOC) trading company receives a charter from the States … Jan van Riebeeck, who is subsequently appointed by…
BiographyDiana Mary Mitchell
Diana Mitchell was born in Harare, Zimbabwe, or what was then known as Salisbury, Southern Rhodesia, on 16 November 1932[i]. She was famous for many things,…
ArchiveWorker's Voice. The Politics of Negotiation
ArchiveCommunist Voices - Chris Hani
BiographyJeevenundhan (Jeeva) Rajgopaul
Jeevenundhan (Jeeva) Rajgopaul was born in November 1952, in Dundee, Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal). He grew up in Clairwood, Durb an. In 1961 his family was…
ArchiveStaffrider Vol.4 No.4 Mar 1982 - Women in Azania
BiographyElizabeth Drake
Elizabeth Drake was born in 1866 in Rochester, Kent, England. Her naturalistic renderings of landscape and architectural subjects in watercolour were much…
BiographyFaith Nonhlanhla Mazibuko
Faith Nonhlanhla Mazibuko was born on the 2 April 1965, at Charteston Location, Nigel. She completed her junior primary education at the Jabavu East Community…
ArchiveStaffrider Vol.6 No.1 1984
Contents and Contributors STAFFRIDER, VOL. 6 NO. 1, 1984 CONTENTS, Stories: The Tenants by Mpumie Cilibe; A Dirty Story by Yashar Kemal; The Incest of…
BiographyDouglas Chadwick Thompson
Douglas Chadwick Thompson was born on 8 August 1905 to David Chadwick Thompson and Kitty Brettle in Manchester, England. In 1907 the family left Manchester and…
Slavery and Emancipation of Slaves
… a constant supply of fresh fruits, vegetables and meat for VOC ships. When the company allocated land to company … of slave labour. Van Riebeeck was…
ArticleThe Arrival of Jan Van Riebeeck in the Cape - 6 April 1652
… had signed a contract with the Dutch East India Company (VOC) to oversee the setting up of a refreshment station to … a recommendation on the suitability of…
BiographyRafique (Rafs) Mayet
Rafique (Rafs) Mayet was born in 1955 in Durban, Natal (now Kwazulu-Natal). Mayet matriculated in Durban and worked at various jobs since completing school,…
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BiographyIsmail Mahomed
Ismail Mahomed was born in Prinsloo Street Pretoria on 25 July 1931, a second generation South African of Indian descent and first born child of devoutly…
ArticleHistory of Slavery and early colonisation in SA timeline 1602-1841
… Company started a refreshment station at the Cape for its VOC shipping fleet on their way to East and/or on their … law. 1754 The governor, Tulbagh,…
ArchiveStaffrider Vol.9 No.4 1991
Contents and Contributors Contents Volume 9 Number 4 1991, Comment ,A. W. Oliphant, B. Schreiner, P. Weinberg, M. Krouse. Stories: Crossing Borders Without…
ArchiveThe Carlisle Magazine, Vol. VI No. 19
Archive25 Years of Freedom and Democracy Vol 3
Archive25 Years of Freedom and Democracy Vol 2
ArticleTreks & Land conflicts timeline 1602-1966
… 1602 20 March, The Dutch East India Company (VOC) comes into being. 1652 Jan van Riebeeck, a representative of the Dutch East India Company (VOC),…
The Cape Northern Frontier
… the service post set up by the Dutch East India Company (VOC) at the Cape of Good Hope. Expansion of the Cape Colony … 1795 the Cape was won by British…
EventSA is readmitted to the IOC
One month prior to the establishment of the democratic dispensation, South Africa was readmitted to the Olympic games on condition that it complied within…
The First Slaves at the Cape
… arrival of the Amersfoort , the Dutch East India Company (VOC) Commissioner Rijckloff van Goens visited the Cape and … Almost all of these early slaves…
EventAnnesu de Vos, SA poet, is born.
Annesu de Vos was born in Johannesburg on the 5 August 1964. She is well-known as the youngest published poet in South African literature history. When she was…
ArticleThe Freedom struggle in Cape Town
… Slaves brought in by the Dutch East India Company (VOC) to the Cape also fought directly and indirectly to …
ArticleDutch settlement, the Indian Ocean slave trade and slavery at the Cape - seventeenth and eighteenth centuries
… eventually got back to Holland they gave the DEIC or VOC (Vereenigde Oost Indische Compagnie) wonderful reports … of water, fertile land and lots of wild…
EventIOC extends South Africa's ban from Olympic games
South Africa suffered heavily in the international sports arena as result of its apartheid policy. Prior to the Tokyo Olympic games in 1964, South Africa was…
BiographyMannie Manim
Mannie Manim was born in June 1941, in Cape Town. With more than 50 years’ involvement in theatre, Manim has left indelible imprints in the arts and…