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BiographyMtetunzima Ganyile
Mtetunzima Ganyile, from Amanikwe Location, Bizana District, [Eastern Province, now Eastern Cape] was described in the motivation for his banishment as one of…
BiographySydney Sipho Sepamla
Sydney Sipho Sepamla spent most of his life in Soweto, the enormous township southwest of Johannesburg. Sepamla has been grouped with poets like Oswald Mtshali…
BiographyOhm Collins Chabane
Ohm Collins Chabane was born on 15 April 1960 in Xikundu Village, in Limpopo (then Northern Transvaal). He attended Shingwedzi High School, and at the age of…
Jeannette Ndhlovu
Jeannette Ndhlovu was born on 2nd October 1953 in Johannesburg, Transvaal (now Gauteng Province). Ndhlovu obtained her primary and secondary education in South…
BiographyGerrit Viljoen
Gerrit Viljoen was born in Cape Town on 11 September 1926 to Helena and Hendrik Geldenhuys Viljoen. At the time of his birth his father was the editor of…
BiographyNimrod Boyce Tantsi
Nimrod Boyce Tantsi was born in Johannesburg in 1895, the grandson of one of the founders of the AME in South Africa. His family moved a number of times during…
Wellington Mlungisi Tshazibane
Mr Wellington Tshazibane,aged 30,an employee of the De Beers-Lesotho Mining Company,was detained on 9th December 1976 at Rand Airport,Johannesburg.He was held…
BiographyGerrit Van Niekerk Viljoen
Gerrit Viljoen was born in Cape Town on 11 September 1926 to Helena and Hendrik Geldenhuys Viljoen. At the time of his birth his father was the editor of…
BiographyThozamile Richard (Thozi) Gqweta
Thozamile Richard (Thozi) Gqweta was born in Peelton near King Williamstown 1952.The son of a railway worker.He obtained his matric at Mzomhle High School in…
BiographyHudson William Edison Ntsanwisi
Ntsanwisi was born on 11 July 1920 at the Shiluvane Mission Station in the Letaba District of Limpopo. He was the eldest child in a family of three. With only…
BiographyMavuso Walter Msimang
Mavuso (Walter) Msimang was stationed and trained primarily in central Tanzania, at Kongwa, an ANC military base in the 1960s. He became a leading member of…
BiographyPeter Mokaba
Peter Mokaba was born on 7 January 1959 in Polokwane, where he did both his primary and high school education. During the 1976 uprisings, Mokaba became a…
BiographyWilliam Stewart Ainslie
William Stewart (Bill) Ainslie was born on 10 April 1934 in Bedford (Eastern Cape). Studied at the university of Natal, Pietermartizburg (BA) 1952-1955 and (BA…
BiographyDr Hersheela Narsee
Hersheela Narsee was born in Durban on the 23 of March 1956. Narsee grew up in a family of eight children. She attended the Gandhi Desai High School from 1967…
BiographyLucy Buyaphi Mvubelo
Lucy Buyaphi Mvubelo (née Twala) was born in 1920 in Johannesburg, Transvaal (now Gauteng). She started her education at the Doornfontein School of the…
BiographyOswald Mbuyiseni Mtshali
Oswald Mbuyiseni Mtshali was born on 17 January 1940 in Vryheid, Natal, where he attended Inkmana High School. His parents were schoolteachers. He moved to…
BiographyFlorence Mkhize
Florence Grace Mkhize, widely known as 'Mam Flo', was born in 1932 in Natal. At a young age she decided she wanted to fight against apartheid and the…
BiographyJimi Matthews
Jimi Matthews was born in 1955 in Cape Town, Western Province (now Western Cape) and raised here. After school he enrolled at a university that was…
BiographyAziz Goolam Hoosein Pahad
Aziz Goolam Hoosein Pahad was born on 25 December 1940, Schweizer Reneke, North West Province, (formerly a part of the old Transvaal Province). In 1959, he…
EventMohandas K. Gandhi is arrested as he leads a march of Indian miners in South Africa
… to register for their passes. This became known as the 1906 Satyagraha Campaign. By 1913, a tax had been imposed on …
BiographyMabaso Siqila
Mabaso Siqila and Nikisi Feni were said to be the leaders of ‘recalcitrant Natives’ in Xengxe Location, near King William’s Town, Eastern Province [now Eastern…
BiographyVicky Sampson
Vicky Sampson was born in 1969, to Faye and Victor Sampson. Her father, Victor, was a member of the Golden City Dixies, a travelling vaudeville group. When…
BiographyAbdul ‘Apamai’ Rahman Dawood
Abdul Rahman Dawood or 'Apmai' as he was affectionately known was born in India to a family of progressive community activists in October 1935. He was brought…
BiographyArnold Selby
Arnold Selby was born on 14 November 1918 in South Africa. He joined the liberation struggle in the 1940s. His experience as a miner brought to light the…
ArticleAfrikaans: the Language of Black and Coloured Dissent
IntroductionAfrikaans, one of the official languages, together with English, during South Africa’s Apartheid era, often occupies a politicised space as the …
PlacePort Alfred
… two halves of the Town were linked by a pontoon. Then, in 1906, the foundation stone for the Putt Bridge , linking East …
BiographyMhlupeki Hlongwane
Mhlupeki Hlongwane and Mxoshwa Mdhluli were banished from Ngoba Location, Bergville District, Natal [now KwaZulu-Natal]on 11 April 1957. Their banishment…
BiographyMaphuti Moraka
Maphuti Moraka was banished from Matlala's Location, Pietersburg District, Northern Transvaal [now Polokwane, Limpopo Province] toMatatiele, Eastern Province, …
‘Between Two Fires’: Racial Populism, Indian Resistance and the Beginnings of Satyagraha in the Transvaal, 1902–06 by Jeremy Martens (The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History, 2016, Vol. 44, No. 4)
ArchiveSummary notes of a meeting between Minister Silvino da Luz, Foreign Minister of Cape Verde and Messrs D W Auret and J Marx of the Department of Foreign Affairs: Praia, Cape Verde, 24 February 1986
Notes from a diplomatic meeting between the Foreign Minister of Cape Verde and representatives from the Department of Foreign Affairs. The release of Captain…