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BiographyJane Gool
… Jainub Jane Gool – Tabata was born in Cape Town on 19 March 1902 to Yusuf and Wageda Gool, the sixth of nine children. Her father, an immigrant from … a…
ArchiveReview of Kora: A lost Khoisan language of the early Cape and the Gariep (Unisa Press), by June Bam-Hutchison (Centre for African Studies, University of Cape Town)
… There have always been general assumptions that the KhoeSan people (‘Khoe’ is the correct spelling) are extinct and that their languages at the Cape died out…
BiographyJan Celliers
… Jan Celliers was born on 12 January 1865 on the farm Wagenmakersvallei near Wellington. A few years later his family moved to Cape Town where he attended an…
BiographyAugust Aime Balkema
… Several dutch publishers have featured prominently in the South African book industry. They include JJ van Schaik, … found out that hardly anything had been…
BiographyJoshua Makue
… Born in 1909 Makue was a teacher and tailor. He joined the Industrial and Commercial Workers' Union after being refused enrolment as an engineering student…
BiographyVincent Oliphant
… was born on 8 April 1954 in Alicedale, a small Eastern Cape town close to Port Elizabeth. He completed his primary education at the Alicedale Methodist…
ArticleNon-European Unity Movement (NEUM)
… and women to its ranks. Included in the movement were the Cape African Teachers Association (CATA), the Cape Coloured … 'tribes'. Ultimately, it was said,…
BiographyOscar Hollander
… George Crosland Robinson and studied for a time under the latter. It is from this phase of his work that the … here dates. Hollander later settled at…
BiographyZwelinzima Joseph Vavi
… born on 20 December 1962 on a farm in Hanover, Northern Cape. His father was a mineworker. Vavi has four brothers and seven sisters. He is the 10th child in…
BiographyNomathamsanqa Xoliswa Ngwevela
… exile, Ngwevela procured a Diploma in Political Science at the Pushkin International Institute in Moscow in October … as Project Coordinator at UMZAMO…
The armed struggle and state repression of the 1960s
… A turning point in the struggle against apartheid came about in the 1960s. This change was the result of combined elements, … campaign had little support…
EventUnrests break out in the Coloured townships
… Unrests broke out in the Coloured townships south-west of Johannesburg. This was preceded in April by the Coloured schools' boycott which began as a result…
BiographyDr. Percy Yutar
… Dr. Percy Yutar was born on 29 July 1911 in Cape Town. He was one of eight children in a family of … shop, leaving his hand badly mangled. Yutar studied at…
BiographyPeter Clarke
… Born in Cardiff Road, Simon’s Town in 1929, as the third born child in a family of six, there was much that … attended evening art classes at Saint Philips…
BiographyYazeed Kamaldien
… journalist and photographer living and working in Cape Town, South Africa. In 1998 he embarked on a four-year … Peninsula Technikon, which he completed in…
BiographyNelson “Nana” Mahomo
… Nelson "Nana” Mahomo was born in 1930 in the Orange Free State, the son of a Dutch Reformed clergyman, … venture with Joe Molefi, Mahomo went to the…
BiographyJames Smith Morland
… Born Liverpool, England 1846, died Cape Town, 1921. Morland was descended from a family of British artists that includes the famous George Morland (1763 -…
BiographyPius Nkonzo Langa
… Pius Nkonzo Langa was born in Bushbuckridge in the eastern Transvaal (now Mpumalanga), South Africa, on 25 … represented political activists mostly in Natal,…
BiographyRev. James Arthur Calata
… as a teacher at St.Mathews College and as a priest in the Anglican Church.Calata served as a minister at St. James … after become registerd voter in 1919 and…
ArticlePrehistory of the Port Elizabeth area
… The coastline of the Eastern Cape is treacherous, and several … aground or sunk offshore after Vasco de Gama rounded the Cape of Good Hope in 1498. Some of…
BiographyEthel Walt
… Ethel Walt was born on 22 November 1925 in Bothaville in the then Orange Free State (now Free State Province). Her … plans of forced removals . In 1950, Walt…
BiographyIrma Stern
… of African people gave her white counterparts insight into the African ways of life. In 1927, Irma won the Prix … embassies throughout Europe and her house…
BiographyHalton Cheadle
… David Davies, Foszia Fisher and Karel Tip established the General Factory Workers Benefit Fund (GFWBF). The … was also a Professor of Labour Law at the…
Women at the start of the 20th century
… It is only over the last three or four decades that women's role in the … by women, particularly black women. Black men in the Cape Colony still had the vote…
BiographyHonorine Margaret Withers
… born in 1870 in London, England. Mabel Withers studied at the RCA and exhibited in London before coming to South Africa … 1935 she held an exhibition at the…
A call to the people of South Africa: Oliver Tambo, 02 May 1987
… The period we are going through is characterised by a … contribution to the successes scored in the current revolt; in defiance of State terror they have…
BiographyEsme Bodenstein
… at St Mary’s Hospital in London before moving to Cape Town . There she joined the Modern Youth Society (MYS), a left-wing association which … Federation of…
ArticleThe South African general elections: Introduction
… The South Africa Act passed by the British Parliament in 1909 … combined the self-governing British colonies of the Natal, Cape, Transvaal and the Orange…
A Society for the “Advancement of Art”
… Collections of Painting and Sculpture, Iziko Museums of Cape Town Some years ago, a small body of artists clubbed … to organise a society, which aimed at…
Statement by His Excellency, Mr Thabo Mbeki, President of South Africa, at United Nations African Meeting in Support of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People, Cape Town, 29 June 2004
… Africa, at United Nations African Meeting in Support of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People, Cape Town, 29 June 2004 …