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BiographyWilliam Philip Schreiner
… integration of all ‘civilised men' including ‘civilised Africans'. William Philip Schreiner was born in 30 October …
BiographyProfessor Kader Abdul Asmal
… from Asmal’s childhood. Like the vast majority of South Africans then, his first brush with racism was as a teenager … of Information Bill, Asmal had…
BiographyDr. Walter Benson Rubusana
… of the leading black politicians in South Africa. Amongst Africans, his status was second only to that of John Tengo … being the first occasion during this…
EventFather Frans Claerhout, acclaimed South African painter of Belgian descent, dies in his sleep
Father Frans Claerhout, acclaimed South African painter of Belgian descent, dies in his sleep at a Bloemfontein hospital after being admitted with pneumonia…
BiographyLuli Callinicos
… forward the often neglected history of 'ordinary' South Africans. Callinicos has also written The World that made …
BiographyMweli Skota
… never came to fruition, Skota's aim of linking South Africans with blacks elsewhere in Africa was realised at …
ArchiveSettlers and Laborers: The Afterlife of Indenture in Early South African Indian Writing by Nienke Boer
ArchiveAchmat Davids places the Cape Muslims on the South African linguistic map by Muhammed Haron
ArchiveThe South African Council on Sport at 50: the fight for sports development is still relevant today
ArchiveThe South African Council on Sport at 50: the fight for sports development is still relevant today
Archive"The Struggle to be South African": Cultural Politics in Durban, Contesting Indian Identity in the Public Sphere
ArchiveThe ‘Indian Chap’: Recollections of a South African Underground Trainee in Mao's China by Nandha Naidoo
Myburgh Streicher, Cape leader of the UP and five followers form the South African Party
EventDr Piet Koornhof, one of the most controversial figures in South African history, dies
Dr Piet Koornhof, one of the most controversial figures from South Africa's apartheid era, died in a Stellenbosch frail care centre at the age of 82, following…
National Consultative Conference on the African National Congress 17 – 19th November 2017
ArchiveAfricans in Cape Town: State Policy and Popular Resistance, 1936-73 by B Kinkead-Weekes
… Africans in Cape Town: State Policy and Popular Resistance, …
EventBrenda Fassie, South African singer and diva, dies in her sleep at Sunninghill Hospital
Brenda Nokuzola Fassie was born in 1964 in Langa, a township near Cape Town. She was named after the American country singer Brenda Lee. The daughter of a…
PlaceSouth African Naval Museum, formerly the Navy Mast House and Dutch Store House
The origins of the Naval Museum date back to 1966, when a naval Historical collection was displayed at the Castle Military and Maritime Museum in Cape Town. In…
BiographySydney Kumalo
… a powerful, positive black role model for young South Africans when such leadership was sorely needed. The history … of his prowess that was still infrequent…
BiographyRobert Sobukwe
… to enrol at Fort Hare University for tertiary education in 1947. Sobukwe registered for a BA majoring in English, Xhosa … the institution in which…
BiographyCharlotte Maxeke
… USA and became increasingly concerned about the welfare of Africans. She set up an employment agency for Africans in Johannesburg and was the first Black…
BiographyNorman Stewart Middleton
… a non-racial and democratic South Africa for all South Africans. He took a firm stance against the passport … at this time to deny full citizenship rights…
BiographyPhilemon Pearce Nokwe
… teaching in Krugersdorp at the secondary school for Africans. Nokwe became acquainted with politics early in his … especially P K Leballo , who believed in …
BiographyRoger Meintjes
… in terms of the overwhelming majority of White South Africans who had never entered a township and were oblivious … to the way in which the majority of their…
BiographyMarutle Flag Boshielo
… Boshielo remains an inspiration to freedom-loving South Africans. Boshielo was awarded the Order of Luthuli in Gold …
BiographyJohn David Rheinallt Jones
… 1922 he founded the Pathfinders,Boy Scout troops for Africans ;Edith,his wife,created the Wayfarers,a parallel …
BiographyJohannes Gerhardus Strijdom
… for the removal of the franchise for Coloured South Africans. This had been constitutionally entrenched in terms …
BiographyLucy Buyaphi Mvubelo
… 1980s. Her political stance put her in conflict with South Africans opposing Apartheid, among whom she was regarded as a …
ArchiveWho was Albert Luthuli? The murdered South African leader who put his people above himself
South African liberation leader Albert Luthuli died on 21 July 1967 near his home in Groutville, in the South African province of KwaZulu-Natal. A government…
BiographyDenis Theodore Goldberg
… serving four months imprisonment. The shooting of unarmed Africans saw the ANC move from non-violent to violent … to help to improve the living standards of…