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ArticleThe Order of the Baobab
… to South African citizens for distinguished service. The service awarded is well above and beyond the ordinary call of duty. It is an award for exceptional…
ArticleTimeline on the defacing of statues
… 1997 September, The statue of Steve Biko is defaced twice within a space of … on fire. 3 April, The statue of Jan Hendrik Hofmeyer in Cape Town has its…
ArticleThe Roots of Segregation: 1860-1910
… By the 1860s, subjugation of African people in the immediate vicinity of the Cape had been achieved. Other than a small, enfranchised … The Rise and Fall of…
BiographyBessie Amelia Head
… Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal ), South Africa, the asylum her mother was committed to at the time. Her … Durban. After 18 months teaching she resigned and moved…
ArticleTimeline of the Marikana Massacre 2012 - 2013
… The events at Lonmin Mine in Marikana in the North West Province were a tragic stain on the history of … should die for their cause, urging other mineworkers…
BiographyJohn Maxwell Coetzee
… J. M. Coetzee was born to German and English parents in Cape Town on 9 February 1940. Coetzee spent his childhood in there, as well as in Worcester, a…
BiographySolomzi Ashby Peter Mda
… 1916, in Herschel district, bordering Lesotho. He was the first son of Mildred Mei, a school teacher and … Mda struggled to secure a teaching job in the…
ArticleTimeline of the Group Areas Act and Selected Related Pieces Legislation
… 24). 1894 The Glen Gray Act, passed by Cecil Rhodes in the Cape, restricted the ability of African men to own and (Root … Affairs would be necessary to…
ArticleThe co-optation of the African National Congress: South Africa’s original ‘State Capture’, Sampie Terreblanche
… After the ascendancy of Cyril Ramaphosa to the presidency of the African National Congress (ANC) last … would be created for the emerging ANC elite to join…
ArticleThe Natives Land Act of 1913
… Introduction The history of White colonial land dispossession did not … back to the expansion of Dutch colonial settlements in the Cape . Land and livestock…
ArticleThe 1913 Women’s anti-pass campaign in the Orange Free State
… When the Union of South Africa was established in 1910, there was … the SANNC telling him not to send a delegation of women to Cape Town to meet with him…
BiographyVejaynand ‘Vejay’ Indurjith Ramlakan
… in 1974 and then obtained his basic medical degree from the University of Natal (now known as the University of KwaZulu-Natal - Nelson R. Mandela School of ……
BiographyAshley La Grange
… diploma and a BFA and MFA in South Africa. Through the summer he'd work seven days a week to pay off the previous year’s fees. Ashley la Grange juggled two…
ArticleThe South African Strategic Defence Procurement Package known as “The Arms Deal”
… Between 1996 and 1999 the South Africa government commissioned the purchase of R30 billion worth of armaments specifically … de Lille who is currently the…
Address by the President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki, at the Celebrations of the Bicentenary of the Independence of Haiti: Port-AU-Prince, 01 January 2004 Your Excellency, President Jean-Bertrand Aristide,
… Your Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen, The people of Haiti: Thank you very much for allowing us this … would have it, the San Domingo masses began their…
BiographyWilliam Stewart Ainslie
… Ainslie was born on 10 April 1934 in Bedford (Eastern Cape). Studied at the university of Natal, Pietermartizburg (BA) 1952-1955 and … York, USA; DAM; JAG;…
BiographyThomas Mtobi Mapikela
… Thomas Mtobi Mapikela born in 12th of November 1869,in the Eastern Cape, he trained as a carpenter in Grahamstown and later … to Xhosa and English which he…
BiographyGordon Mulholland
… Gordon Mulholland was born in Cape Town on 30 April 1921. His mother, Nell, a Cockney from the east end of London, was the breadwinner at home. She worked as…
The National Arts Festival
… In 1974, an inaugural festival titled the 1820 Settlers National Monument was opened as a memorial to the British immigrants in South Africa. They…
Dr D.F. Malan is the first cabinet minister in SA to travel by air. He leaves Cape Town in a Moth aeroplane at 6.30 a.m. and ar
… (eds) (1970). Standard Encyclopaedia of Southern Africa, Cape Town: NASOU, v. 7, p. 131 … Dr D.F. Malan is the first cabinet minister in SA to travel by air…
ArticleMandela and the South African Communist Party
… Mandela and MK The late 1950s saw the first hints of an armed struggle … SACP members confirm that Mandela did in effect join the SACP, thereby cementing the…
BiographyAnderson Khumani Ganyile
… was born in 1935 in Bizana District, Transkei (now Eastern Cape). He attended St John’s School in Umtata and then … in 1959. Ganyile’s interest in politics…
ArticleThe National Council of Trade Unions (NACTU)
… Introduction The National Council of Trade Unions (NACTU) is South … with more than 400 000 members. Its largest affiliate is the Association of Mineworkers…
BiographyJabulani “Mzala” Nxumalo
… KwaDlangezwa in Empangeni. At both primary and secondary schools, Mzala`s academic record was outstanding. He acquired the name, Comrade Mzala, as he was…
Insurrections I,II and III: Music as Ancient as the Future by Samuel Hove
… Rumours had it that the Insurrections Ensemble was working on a piece loosely … ambitious work and I hardly recall a music performance in Cape Town that got…
BiographyLefifi Tladi
… The thinker, poet, and painter, Lefifi Tladi, was born in 1949 in the culturally vibrant township of Lady Selborne in Pretoria, … and workshops at some of…
BiographyCharles W H Kohler
… As the driving force behind the creation of the Ko-operatieve … Kohler can be regarded as the most important figure in the Cape wine industry in the…
BiographySaul Msane
… little is known about his early life. He was educated at the Edendale Mission in Pietermaritzburg, and at the Healdtown Institution in the Eastern Cape. In…
ArticleWomen in the Cities and the Resistance Movement
… Abrahams, L., (2005). Married to the Struggle. Worchester: Diana Ferrus Publishers.|African … [Accessed 29 October 2014]|‘Africa Day Protest in Cape Town’…
BiographyMfanasekaya Pearce Linda Gqobose
… College in 1935. As a student, he was influenced by the writings of Samuel Krune Mqhayi. With no other prospects … he made it possible for Black people in…