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Richard Maxwell (Dick) Haldane, trade union leader, dies in Cape Town. He was honoured with the Award of Merit from TUCSA in 19
… Richard Maxwell (Dick) Haldane, trade union leader, dies in Cape Town. He was honoured with the Award of Merit from TUCSA in 19 …
BiographyHeinrich Egersdorfer
… he came to SA in 1879. Earlier, after experience of the Franco-Prussian War of 1870, he had worked at his trade … In 1884 he founded The South African…
BiographyDavid Hartman
… in 1961 in Port Elizabeth , Eastern Province (now Eastern Cape) where he grew up in an English speaking liberal home. … mother was born in England and came…
BiographyMary Elizabeth Davis
… causes. Davis was educated first locally and then at the Edinburgh, Scotland training college for teachers. She … junior, in April 1884 but retained a deep…
BiographyThembekile Enoch kaTshunungwa
… National organiser of the African National Congress (ANC) in the mid-1950s and … London and was soon an executive committee member of the Cape ANC. When…
BiographyArchibald Mncedisi Sebeko
… born on 3 March 1928 in Kwezana Village, near Alice in the Eastern Cape. Sibeko attended Lovedale in the 1940s. After obtaining a diploma in Agriculture, he…
BiographyAthol Edwin Thorne
… family was not political, they were religious and it was the Christian moral values he learnt at home and the science … to Durban and soon afterward he was…
BiographyNzimeni Elliot Mfaxa
… in Somerset West. He was orphaned at age 12,Mfaxa moved to the Eastern Cape to attend secondary school at Lovedale College,then … devoted much of his time to…
Toast Remarks of the President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki, at the Official Dinner in Honour of HE Kofi Annan, Secretary General of the United Nations, Tuynhuys, Cape Town, 14 March 2006
… Toast Remarks of the President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki, at the Official Dinner in Honour of HE Kofi Annan, Secretary General of the United Nations,…
BiographyMaggie Bopalamo
… The life of Maggie Bopalamo tracks the history of the Rustenburg area in a remarkable fashion. … In 1960 Bopalamo married, and went on to teach at various…
BiographyM. N. Bhola
… M. N. Bhola was born and educated in the Cape Province . She was an organizer of the women's … Congress (ANC) from the mid-1920s onward in the Western Cape ,…
BiographyMichael Guthrie Scott
… This article was written by Ben Forstate and forms part of the SAHO Public History Internship Michael Guthrie Scott was … Therefore, acting on the invitation…
BiographyRenfrew Leslie Christie
… At the age of 17, Renfrew Leslie Christie found himself in the … the National Union of South African Students (NUSAS) in Cape Town in 1972 and took part in…
Poonoosamy Ruthnam Pather
… in that country after emigrating from Tanjore in India in the 1840s. PR's father was born in Mauritius and his mother … their willingness to participate in…
BiographyHendrik Pieter Marthinus Steyn
… in Utrecht, Natal, 9 September, 1886. He was a Minister of the NG Kerk and secretary of the British and Foreign Bible … of secretary of the BFBS, the head…
BiographyConnie September
… Cornelia “Connie” September was born 26 June 1959 in the Western Cape and grew up on the West Coast where her mother would … became an active member of…
BiographyJoseph Nkatlo
… Joseph Nkatlo was vice-chairman of the Liberal Party in the Cape, he was a delegate to the … Party of South Africa (CPSA) before 1950 and was known in Cape…
ArticleThe Basotho
… In the early 1800’s there was a great deal of migration and upheaval in Southern Africa, mostly as a result of the Mfecane. There were a number of conflicts…
ArticleThe Azania Liberation Support Committee and its publications
… The Azania Liberation Support Committee (ALSC) was formed in … Ntsebeza, subsequently a professor at the University of Cape Town. Some copies were sent to…
Robert Elias Mokxotho Matji
… in Pretoria, Transvaal (now Gauteng). He later moved to the Eastern Cape, settling in Port Elizabeth, where he worked as a … Port Elizabeth, he became the…
The Children’s Charter
… states that children have special rights which include the right to “special care and assistance”. The United Nations drew up the Convention of the Rights of…
PlacePhilip Kgosana Drive, Devil's Peak Estate- Cape Town
… The Road was originally named after Nicolaas de Waal , the first administrator of the Cape Province. He initiated the Road's construction. De Waal … and is…
BiographyDouglas G. Wolton
… Douglas G Wolton was a leader of the Communist Party of South Africa (CPSA) from 1931 to … immigrated to South Africa, in 1921. He joined the CPSA in Cape…
ArticleResponses in South Africa to the outbreak of WWI: The Afrikaner Response and the 1914 Rebellion
… When the First World War broke out in August 1914, the British … commander of the military camp at Upington (Northern Cape) rebelled against the decision to…
ArticleWomen’s resistance in the 1960s - Sharpeville and its aftermath
… As the 1950s gave way to the 1960s the African National … and the United Women's Congress (UWCO) in the Western Cape, were formed to circumvent the…
BiographyGrace Naledi Mandisa Pandor
… in Botswana. She obtained a BA in History and English at the University of Botswana in 1977 before leaving for … University of Botswana before joining the…
PlaceThe art lover’s summer road trip through the Western Cape
… The province’s blend of ocean horizons, historic … side of culture, a summer art adventure across the Western Cape offers the perfect balance of beauty,…
Dora Nginza
… Sister Dora Nginza was affectionately known as the “Mother of New Brighton” as a result of her commitment to … services in New Brighton location, Port…
BiographyBobby Hendricks
… February 1936. He started his music career as a member of the Kay Simmers Orkes (Afrikaans for orchestra or band). … he had five gold albums. In 1999…
BiographyReverend Allan Aubrey Boesak
… Allan Aubury Boesak was born at Kakamas, Northern Cape, one of eight children. His father, a schoolteacher, … support his family. At fourteen, he became a…