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"We are of the World and the World is with Us": Address on Receiving the Degree of Doctor of Laws Honoris Causa from the Jawaharlal Nehru University by O. R. Tambo , New Delhi, 9 May 1986
Today, I stand before this august and eminent assembly to receive an honorary degree of Doctor of Laws. The question I have pondered without results from…
Excerpts from discussions between a South African delegation led by Minister R F Botha and a United States delegation led by Deputy Secretary of State Frank Wisner on questions affecting southern Africa: Cape Town: 13 March 1986
Minutes of discussions held between the South African Government and the United States Government to discuss military and political solutions to achieve a…
ArchiveMinutes of a Meeting between the Minister of Bantu Administration and Development, Mr. M. C. Botha, officials of the Department of Bantu Administration and Development .... held in the Bantu Administration Building, Pretoria on 19 June 1976
Minutes of the meeting between officials of the Department of Bantu Education, West Rand Bantu Affairs Administration Board and Representatives of the Urban…
ArticleIndentured Indian labourers and their struggle for citizenship in South Africa by Dr Brij Maharaj
Indentured Indian labourers and their struggle for citizenship in South Africa By Brij Maharaj 15 Nov 2023 Dr Brij Maharaj is an academic…
BiographyLouis Luyt
Louis Luyt was born on 18 June 1932, and grew up in modest circumstances in the Karoo. In the 1940s Luyt was employed as a railway clerk. During his rugby…
BiographyDavid Nthubu Koloane
The use of artworks for public education by the National Roads Safety Organisation convinced Koloane of the role of art in communication. Together with Louis…
BiographyDuke Ketye
Duke Ketye was born was born on 6 June 1943 in Orlando east, Soweto. Ketye attended Ematsheni Primary School in Orlando East, Soweto. He completed Standard VII…
BiographyClements Kadalie
Clements Kadalie was born in April 1896 in Nkhata Bay District at Chifira village near the Bandawe Mission Station in Nyasaland, presently Malawi. He was the…
BiographyPaul Shipokosa Mashatile
Paul Mashatile was born on 21 October 1961 in Geraldsville, Pretoria (Tshwane). Mashatile was an active participant in the liberation struggle from his student…
BiographyRashid Lombard
Rashid Lombard was born in Port Elizabeth (now Gqeberha), Eastern Province (now Eastern Cape) on 10 April 1951. In 1962, his family relocated to Cape Town,…
BiographyLennox Sebe
Lennox Sebe was born on 26 June 1926. He completed his matric at the Lovedale College. Upon his completion he went to attend a teachers college. Sebe had a…
BiographyBhekumuzi Hyacinth Mseleku
Bhekumuzi Hyacinth Mseleku was born in Durban in 1955. A self-taught pianist, saxophonist, guitarist, composer and arranger, he was born to a musician father…
BiographySifiso Nkabinde
Sifiso Nkabinde was born in 1960 in Richmond, KwaZulu-Natal. His father was a policeman and a local chairman of Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP). Nkabinde attend…
BiographyWalter Sidney Felgate
Walter Sidney Felgate was born on 19 November 1930 in Pretoria, Transvaal (now Gauteng). Felgate graduated from Pretoria Boys High School in 1949. He studied…
BiographyEsther Mahlangu
Esther Mahlangu was born in 1935 on a farm outside Middleburg, in what is now the Mpumalanga province. She was the first of nine children: six boys and three…
Evelyn Ntoko Mase
Little is available in the public to construct a thorough biography of Evelyn Ntoko Mase before and after her relationship with Nelson Mandela. She may have…
Mashwabada Victor ''Castro'' Mayatula
Mayatula was born in 1921 in Willowvale in the Transkei,attended Lovedale and was a member of the African National Congress Youth League (ANCYL) in the late…
BiographyKlaas Matlala
Klaas Matlala was arrested in the fields where he resided at Matlala's Location, Pietersburg District, [Northern] Transvaal [now Polokwane, Limpopo Province]…
Robert Mokxotho Matji
Robert Mokxotho Matji was born on 22 August 1922 in Pretoria, Transvaal (now Gauteng). He later moved to the Eastern Cape, settling in Port Elizabeth, where he…
BiographyBoy Seopa
Boy Seopa was 18 years old when he was banished on 21 July 1953 from his original residence at Matlala's Location, Pietersburg District, Northern Transvaal …
PlaceTulbagh, Western Cape
… Land van Waveren', where wines have been cultivated since 1906. Proteas and herbs grow wild here and peaches, pears … Land van Waveren', where wines have…
BiographyAmbrose Mzimkhulu Makiwane
Ambrose Makiwane was born in 29th of November in1921 near Cala in the Transkei. He attended Clarkebury School and was expelled after participating in a student…
ArticleHistory Grade 10 - Topic 6 Contextual Overview
A. The Mineral Revolution ↵ In this section we will briefly discuss the discovery of gold in the Witwatersrand and the Gold Rush. We will also discuss how…
ArticlePort Elizabeth the Segregated city
Contents 1910-1950 Apartheid ideology and implementation from 1950 Conclusion 1910-1950 By 1950, the population of New Brighton had grown from 3,650 in…
EventMembers of Bambathas homestead are pursued by policemen for refusing to pay the ‘hut tax’
… to colonial rule to be pursued by minor chiefs. By 1906, one of the most formidable of these chiefs, Bambatha, … government that lasted until April. And in…
BiographyKgalema Petrus Motlanthe
Kgalema Petrus Motlanthe was born on 19 July 1949 at the Boksburg-Benoni Hospital. He grew up in Alexandra, Johannesburg, Transvaal (now Gauteng). His parents,…
ArticleNational Union of South African Students (NUSAS)
In 1924 the National Union of South African Students (NUSAS) was founded aimed at representing and promoting the interests of university and college students…
EventArrival of Chinese labourers in South Africa
A labour shortage at the gold mines on the Rand resulted in the importation of Chinese labour in 1904. This situation, in part, was the result of the Anglo…
’We are of the world and the world is with us’, Address by Oliver Tambo on receiving the Degree of Doctor of Laws Honoris Causa from the Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, 9 May 1986
EventAfrikaans author Mikro is born
Christoffel Hermanus Kahn (Mikro), Afrikaans author, was born at Van Reenensplaas in Williston district, Cape Colony. KÁƒÂƒÂ¼hn attended school at Robertson…