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BiographyDeputy Chief Justice Dikgang Moseneke
Dikgang Moseneke was born in Pretoria on 20 December 1947. He is the eldest of the four children of Karabo Mabel and a school headmaster Samuel John Sedise…
BiographyNana Henrietta Moabi
Nana Henrietta Moabi (nee Radadi) was born in Lichtenburg, Western Transvaal (now North West Province) on 18 September 1938. She completed her lower primary…
BiographyBaden Powell
Baden Powell or BP was born Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden Powell was born on the 22 February 1857, the son of Professor Baden Powell, of Oxford University. His…
BiographyWilliam “Bloke” Modisane
William 'Bloke' Modisane was born on 28 August 1923. He grew up in Sophiatown, a multiracial suburb in Johannesburg. His father was murdered and sister died…
BiographyWopko Jensma
Wokpo was born on 26 July 1939 in Middelburg, Cape Town. He received his education at the University of Potchefstroom, but his studies were temporally…
BiographyQaqawuli Godolozi
Qaqawuli Godolozi was born in Durban 26 of July 1955 to Mbuyiselo Godolozi and Nobubele Jafta. His family relocated to Peddie in the Eastern Cape where he grew…
BiographyJuda Ngwenya
Juda Ngwenya began his career with The Star newspaper in Johannesburg, Transvaal (now Gauteng). Before he was even two years in the employ of the newspaper, he…
BiographyErnest Malgas
Ernest Singqokwana Malgas was born August 8th,1937 in Port Elizabeth. Malgas never attended school.He became politicized as a result ,he spend six weeks in…
ArticleA History of the South African Film Industry timeline 1895-2003
… war for something you do not believe in is madness itself. 1989 A new subsidy scheme was announced by the Minister of … a C-scheme for non-commercial or art…
BiographyMlungiseleli Velaphi
Mlungiseleli Velaphi (MK name Mzimkulu Goduka) was born in Mdantsane, Eastern Cape in 1967 was a United Democratic Front (UDF) member. He left South Africa in…
Inside Robben Island (Part 1) by Thami Mkhwanazi, 14 August 1987
MY YEARS ON THE ISLAND Part One: The University behind locked doors April 1980. The Susan Kruger, a tiny Prisons Service boat, ploughed the Atlantic in the…
African National Congress Press Statement by O. R. Tambo, 5 November 1979
It has come to our notice that the issue of the Johannesburg Sunday Times of November 4, 1979, carries an article that there has recently been a secret meeting…
Rivonia: Telling it as it was, 2 July 1988
It is hard these days - twenty-five years on - to recapture the feeling of the time of Rivonia - of the sudden arrest of some of the leading liberation…
Interview with Oliver Tambo by Mayibuye,1 September 1981
Question: On the night of the 12th/13th of August, a unit of the People`s Army shelled Voortrekkerhoogte, the Headquarters of the racist SADF with, according…
History of Muslims in South Africa by Ebrahim Mahomed Mahida
… 1970 - 1978 History of Muslims in South Africa: 1980 - 1989 History of Muslims in South Africa: Bibliography …
Joseph Zenzele Mavi
Trade unionist who brought the grievances of black workers int white homes through a crippling of Johannesburg municipal workers in 1980.Mr Mavi was born in…
Archive1987, the year of the Krimpvark, the cougar of the rooibok? presidential Address to the Black Sash National Conference held at Cape Town, 1987
Opening Address by National President Mary Burton at National Conference held at Cape Town on 12 March 1987, discussing: State of Emergency, detentions,…
Biography of Miriam Makeba by Narcy Negrete
… struggle for liberation in that country” [xii] (Hamm,1989). The Graceland songs were even allowed to be played on … internal domestic recording industry” …
ArchivePostage stamps 199: first quarter
White background with green border. Title in red and yellow letters. Coloured replicas of stamps issued in Southern African countries during 1991. Philatelic…
Conflict among civic organisations
… in squatter areas. WECUSA was formed and launched in 1989 as an alliance of ANC aligned squatter leaders, …
Biography of Heinz Klug by Ashley Rogers
… from University of California-Hastings School of Law in 1989. At the beginning of the fall of the apartheid regime in 1989, Heinz Klug returned to Southern…
ArticleLegacy: A Timeline of HIV/AIDS by Carlos Motta
… Activism for the influential journal October. 1989 New York arts organization Visual AIDS initiates the …
BiographyOlive Schreiner
Olive Schreiner was a writer and feminist and one of the first campaigners for women’s rights. She was also a pacifist. She did not agree with British…
BiographyRichard Owen Dudley
Richard Owen Dudley was born in Cape Town and grew up in the house bought in 1852 by his great-grandfather in Palmboom Road, Newlands. The large house was…
BiographyFrantz Fanon
Early years He was born on the 20 July 1925, in the Caribbean Island of Martinique. He was fifth of the eight children; his family belonged to the middle…
BiographyStanley Huette Uys
Stanley Huette Uys was born on 27 April 1922, in Coalbrook, Orange Free State (now Free State Province). His parents, Dirk and Francina, were members of the…
BiographyRichard Msimang
Richard Msimang was the son of Joel Msimang, founder of the Independent Methodist Church of South Africa. He was among the first pupils of the Ohlange…
ArticleThabo Mbeki (1942 - ) Timeline
… call for the banning of Apartheid in South Africa. 1989 Thabo Mbeki is appointed as head of the ANC’s Department …
ArticleDistrict Six is Declared a ‘White Area’
… the memory of District Six. This call was realised in 1989 through the creation of the District Six Museum …
BiographyEsdras Lusiba Ntloko
Early life and the 1976 uprisingEsdras Lusiba Ntloko was born on 18 July 1954 in Queenstown (now Komani) in the Eastern Cape. He became active in student…