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BiographyWilfrid Edward Cooper
Wilfrid Edward Cooper was born on 22 May 1926 in Observatory, a suburb of Cape Town, Cape Province (now Western Cape Province) and lived in Mowbray until he…
BiographyJohn Xavier Merriman
John Xavier Merriman was a politician, businessman, and the last Prime Minister of the Cape Colony before the four provinces became the Union of South Africa…
BiographyEs’kia Mphahlele
Extract from media statement on the passing of Dr. Es’kia Mphahlele (1919 - 2008): By Minister of culture & society, Dr Z. Pallo JordanEs'kia [Ezekiel]…
BiographyPatrick Chamusso
Patrick Chamusso will be remembered for his role in the bombing of Sasol’s Secunda power plant in the 1980s as a protest against the apartheid regime. But his…
BiographyFanele Mbali
Fanele Mbali was born on 1 December 1937 in a village called Eqolweni. Mbali’s father, Charlton Babana Mkhonto and his brother William Ntozakhe decided on the…
BiographyMary Butcher Turok
Mary Butcher Turok is the wife of the anti-apartheid activist, parliamentarian and Professor Ben Turok, who played a prominent role in the writing of the…
PlaceDriekopseiland: Rock engravings
… rainy season. Driekopseiland has inspired a range of writings and artworks, and a number of prominent visual …
EventAfrican National Congress Youth League is founded
… in SAHO library) Freedom in our lifetime, the collected writings of Anton Lembede (online book in SAHO library) …
EventMahatma Gandhi leaves the Tolstoy Farm 1913
… of eucalyptus trees. Gandhi was inspired by Tolstoy's writings who advocated non-violence as an appropriate …
BiographyNontsikelelo June-Rose Cothoza
Nontsikelelo June-Rose Cothoza was born at King Edward Hospital, Umbilo, Durban, in June 1967. The second child of Zizile Cothoza, Nontsikelelo Cothoza, or…
EventAZAPO is re-launched in Roodepoort
… Nefolovhodwe. AZAPO's ideology was influenced by the writings of Lenin and Marx. The organization saw the …
EventJack Penn, sculptor and one of the world’s best plastic surgeon is born
… called O.R Tambo. A collection of Penn's books and other writings can also be found as part of the Jack Penn …
ArticleThe Society of Young Africa (SOYA)
… was suspended for allegedly using Marxist terms in his writings – a practice which could have led to the …
Freedom In Our Life Time - Bibliography
… Andre Odendaal. A Trumpet Prom the Housetops: The Selected Writings of Lionel Forman. Cape Town: David Philip, I992. … Press, 1991. Gangulee, N., ed…
BiographyPregaluxmi (Pregs) Govender
Pregaluxmi (Pregs) Govender was born on 15 February 1960 in Durban, Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal). Her father – a writer and, mother, a teacher – valued critical…
Pan-Africanism was Peter Abrahams’ Country by Tyler Flemming (Africa is a Country), 13 February 2017
… negroes in the world came back to Africa… I admired [his writings] because here was a boy writing something like the …
BiographyJohn Langalibalele Dube
John Langalibalele Dube was born at Inanda Mission station of the American Zulu Mission (AZM) in Natal on 22 February 1871 to James and Elizabeth Dube. …
ArchiveHugh Lewin, 1939–2019, RIP by Jennifer Malec, 17 January 2019
… in the pages of his Bible, and on his release these writings were published in London in 1974 as Bandiet: Seven …
Freedom In Our Life Time - Foreword by A. P. Mda
… down information on Lembede's life and collecting his writings. This volume will go far in educating people about … will be challenged to follow its example…
Christianity
… but Christians have a different understanding of these writings. There is an audio bible online, listen to some of …
Address given by Ronald First, brother of Ruth First and brother in law of Joe Slovo, on the occasion of the tribute paid to Ruth and Joe by the African National Congress, in the holding of a Torchlight ceremony on the 21st of October 2012, at the Johanne
… Although Ruth,s talents were clearly displayed in her writings, which I will deal with later, and Joe,s in the … governance, Joe also contributed pertinent…
BiographyRaymond Hoffenberg
Professor Sir Raymond (Bill) Hoffenberg was born in Port Elizabeth, Eastern Province (now Eastern Cape) on 16 March 1923. He went to school in Port Elizabeth…
Freedom In Our Life Time - Introduction
… to the freedom struggle by assembling this collection of writings by and about him. Writing about Lembede is a … believe this collection, which brings…
BiographyShanthivathie (Shanthie) Naidoo
Shanthivathie (Shanthie), the eldest of five children of Ama and Naransamy "Naran" Naidoo (Roy), was born in Pretoria, Transvaal (now Gauteng) on 6 March 1935…
Breyten Breytenbach writes to the editor of the Daily Maverick on vanishing UCT artworks and blank minds, South Africa, 11 April 2016
… when they banned Decadent Art and torched anti-hegemonic writings were not properly understood for its politically …
BiographyJotello Festiri Soga
Dr Jotello Festiri Soga, the first South African of any race to obtain a degree in veterinary medicine, was born in 1865 at the Mgwali Mission in the then…
BiographyWalter Kefuoe Fikeleph Chakela
Walter Kefuoe Fikelephi Chakela was a revered playwright and poet born on 13 April 1953 in Vryburg, a small, conservative Afrikaner town in Transvaal (now…
BiographyTimothy Peter Jenkin
Timothy Peter Jenkin was born in 1948, in Cape Town and educated at Rondebosch Boys' Prep and Boys' High School,[1][2] matriculating at the age of 17.[3] …
ArchiveThe Little Acknowledged Legacy of Steve Biko by Prithiraj Dullay, (Daily News), 08 Sept 2008
… strongly advise many of our current leadership to read the writings of Biko, simply as a means of staying on the track … where we came from and where we are…
South Africa's freedom struggle by E.S. Reddy
… I have prepared this compilation of his speeches and writings, from 1940 to the day he passed away in London, in … most appropriate that this compilation of…