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BiographyNkosazana Clarice Dlamini-Zuma
Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma was born on 27 January 1949. She received her secondary education at Amanzimtoti Training College until 1967 and began her tertiary…
BiographyNatvarlal Dayalji “Natoo” Babenia
Natvarlal Dayalji “Natoo” Babenia was born on 28 March 1924 at Coedmore Road, Bellair, Durban, Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal). Natoo Babenia’s political activism…
BiographyHarry Garuba
Harry Garuba was born in Akure, southwestern Nigeria, in 1958. [1] At the young age of seventeen he was accepted to study English at the University of Ibadan…
EventLabram, manufacturer of 'Long Cecil' is killed by shell from 'Long Tom'
George Frederick Labram, manufacturer of a cannon popularly known as 'Long Cecil' in the De Beers' workshop in Kimberley, was killed by a shell from a Boer …
BiographyWalter Battiss
Walter Battiss was born in Somerset East to an English Methodist family in 1906, and became one of South Africa’s first and most important abstract painters…
BiographyMampe Mosia Makhaya
Mosia Makhaya was born on 6 December 1943 in Johannesburg, South Africa. Makhaya obtained a BA Honours degree specialising in Russian, French and Portuguese…
BiographyFikile Magadledla
Fikile Magadledla, South African artist and co-founder of the Soweto Art Association, was born in Newclare, Johannesburg, on 13 December 1952. As a young boy…
BiographyBafana Cyril Dlamini
Bafana Cyril Dlamini whose nom de guerrre in exile was Edwin Ndlovu was born in 1936 to the family of a prominent political and trade union activist. His…
BiographyBokwe James Mafuna
Bokwe James Mafuna was born in January 14,1937 in Mafikeng.He dropped out of school at 15,was a manual laborer,then spent four years studying for the Catholic…
ArchiveUnion co-operative case: The law is on the bo
Renewed questions have been raised about the role of the courts in relation to worker issues by a judgement affecting workers at the Union Co-operative sugar…
ArchiveZambia, Mining and Neoliberalism - Boom and Bust on the Globalized CopperBelt edited by Alastair Fraser and Miles Larmer
Ernest Cole: Brave photographer who exposed horrors of apartheid from within by Teo Kermeliotis, (cnn.com), 5 January 2015
Inside a dilapidated warehouse, underneath scattered clothes hanging from rusty pipes, a young black man is down on his knees. His feet are naked, his trousers…
ArchiveAn interview with Mr Flip Jooste (known as Oom Flip) illustrates some points made about the tot system
The ticking time bomb of Swaziland by Terry Bell, (Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal), 19 April 2015
Thirteen people are injured, some seriously, when a bomb explodes in a building housing a fast food outlet in Pretoria. Police
South Africa and Lesotho exchange prisoners across the Caledon River, heralding a new rapprochement and a lifting of strict bor
After months of speculation, Jamaican police finally confirms that former Pakistani cricket coach Bob Woolmer was not murdered
Fikile Charles Bam, advocate, president of Land Claims Court since 1996 and director of several companies, including Volkswagen
Patrick Makau, ANC/MK, and his child (9) are killed in a bomb attack on two houses in Manzini, Swaziland.
A bomb explosion in an administrative building in the Batho township of Bloemfontein injures seventy-six Blacks seeking registr
A motor bomb explodes outside the magistrate’s court in Krugersdorp, killing two army members and a civilian, and injuring twen
A controversy erupts at a Johannesburg rugby match when thousands of White South Africans sing the national anthem during a mom
A controversy erupts at a Johannesburg rugby match when thousands of White South Africans sing the national anthem during a mom
Anglo-Boer War 2: Two burghers and a young boy are allegedly murdered after surrendering to the notorious Bushveld Carbineers
R.H. Strachan is found guilty of conspiring to cause bomb explosions and is sentenced to three years’ imprisonment.
Peter Allan, physician, health administrator and founder of the Nelspoort Sanatorium, first tuberculosis hospital in SA, is bor
Bob Forster successfully defends his world lightweight title against SA challenger Pierre Fourie during the first-ever boxing c
Marthinus Cornelius (oom Tienie) van Schoor, electrical engineer, inventor of the single-line train control system and cultural
Onkgopotse Abram Tiro, a leader of the South African Students’ Organisation, is killed by a parcel bomb near Gaborone, Botswana
BiographyBartolomeu Dias
Bartolomeu Dias, also spelt: Bartholomew Diaz. He was a Portuguese navigator whose discovery in 1488 of the Cape of Good Hope showed Europeans there was a…