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BiographyJohn Kgwana Nkadimeng
… executive committee in December 1955 at its congress in Bloemfontein, and in 1956 he was one of 156 Congress …
BiographyColin Wells Eglin
… of dissent in August 1959, following the UP congress in Bloemfontein. In November the same year he was one of the 11 …
BiographyJohannes (Joe) Modise
… executive committee at its December 1994 conference in Bloemfontein. Later Modise contracted cancer. After an …
BiographyDr James Sebe Moroka
… by James Reid, also an Edinburgh graduate, who lived in Bloemfontein. Reid gave Moroka £300 worth of medicines and … using the only available facilities in…
BiographyAubrey Levin
… Upon leaving the military in 1975, Levin worked in both Bloemfontein and Grahamstown, eventually being posted as the …
BiographyMary Sibande
… South Africa from Grahamstown , though Port Elizabeth to Bloemfontein , Kimberley and Potchefstroom, ending in …
BiographyAlan Robert Lipman
… (now University of kwaZulu-Natal), and he also lectured in Bloemfontein and Wits University. Due to Lipman’s close …
BiographyTrevor Andrew Manuel
… the month. This time he was held at Grootvlei Prison near Bloemfontein in the Free State. He was released on 26 …
BiographyJacobus Herculaas de la Rey
… Rey and De Wet were ordered to thwart Roberts's advance on Bloemfontein, but, despite actions at Abrahamskraal and Driefontein, the British marched into…
BiographyMolly Fischer
… Fischer met her future husband, Bram Fischer , in 1927 in Bloemfontein while she was on women’s hockey tour playing for …
BiographyDr Alfred Bitini Xuma
… on ‘Native Taxation’ at the SAIRR’s national conference in Bloemfontein. In the early 1930s, Xuma undertook to establish … All African Convention (AAC) held…
BiographyMalcomess Johnson Mgabela Kondoti
… 52) Kondoti participated in the ANC’s annual conference in Bloemfontein in 1949 when Dr J.S. Moroka was elected …
Address by ANC President Jacob Zuma at the 47th Anniversary of the formation of Umkhonto We Sizwe, Honouring of Luthuli Detachment and Conferment of Isithwalandwe/Seaparankoe Award on Chris Hani, 16 December 2008, Mangaung, Bloemfontein
… Award on Chris Hani, 16 December 2008, Mangaung, Bloemfontein …
BiographyJacob Hendrik Pierneef
… History and Open-Air Museum, Pretoria, National Museum, Bloemfontein, Pierneef Museum, Pretoria, Pietersburg …
BiographyJames Edward April
… Military Veterans hosted its first medals parade for MK in Bloemfontein. James April received a gold medal for bravery …
Afrikaans community 1820-1899
… in the vicinity of the current Old Presidency in Bloemfontein. He named his farm 'Bloemfontein' after the flowers (wild clover) that grew … pioneer house and…
BiographySolomon Kalushi Mahlangu
… Court, and on 24 July 1978 he was refused again in the Bloemfontein Appeal Court. Although various governments, the … leave to appeal his sentence, and on 24…
BiographyLetlapa Mphahlele
… on a hunger strike for ten days. Mphahlele appeared in a Bloemfontein court on 3 January 1996. A large crowd of …
BiographyJohn Langalibalele Dube
… members of South Africa's educated African elite met at Bloemfontein on January 8, 1912, to establish the South … the support of African leaders in…
Archive“‘Hundreds of Native Workers are Joining the Communist Party in Bloemfontein; … which organisation … ever faced calamities, persecutions and prosecutions as the CP did?’: The Communists in the Free State, 1921-1940” by Peter Limb
… of Native Workers are Joining the Communist Party in Bloemfontein; … which organisation … ever faced calamities, …
BiographyJames Steven Mzilikazi Khumalo
… Association of South Africa (ATASA), which took place in Bloemfontein, Orange Free State (now Free State) in 1961. …
BiographyJames la Guma
… James Arnold la Guma (Jimmy) was born on 23 August 1894 in Bloemfontein, Orange Free State (now Free State Province). A …
BiographyPixley ka Isaka Seme
… but he also facilitated the founding of the SANNC in Bloemfontein in 1912. At the founding Congress Seme delivered …
BiographyDenis Theodore Goldberg
… to see out his final days at his brother’s house in Bloemfontein, where he died in 1975. From the time of his …
David Pratt
… the court found David Pratt insane and committed him to a Bloemfontein Mental Hospital. David Pratt committed suicide …
George Hugo
… and photography at Planet Pixl Brand Communication School, Bloemfontein in 2005. From 2006 he worked as Exhibition Officer at Oliewenhuis Art Museum,…
BiographyPieter Willem Botha
… before entering the University of the Orange Free State in Bloemfontein to study law. It was here that his political …
BiographyDulcie Evonne September
… appeal for release, in March 1965 the Appeal Court in Bloemfontein dismissed an application by the NLF members …
BiographyWalter Ulyate Sisulu
… 1944 Sisulu attended the ANC annual national conference in Bloemfontein as a delegate of the ANC Orlando branch. It was …
ArticleAll African Convention, 1958
… Convention: The Awakening of a people ' - By I.B. Tabata Bloemfontein also played host to yet another important … groups; the convention was opened by the…