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BiographyMweli Skota
… the late 1920s. He failed at two other attempts to launch African newspapers. South African Native National Congress until Skota initiated the … became a…
ArticleMissionary settlement in Southern Africa 1800-1925
… culture & society section of the site (Religion). South African History Online, in partnership with Franco Frescura, … of this book to discuss the merits or…
BiographyPortia Modise
… as a central striker. She started playing for the South African Women’s National team, Banyana Banyana, in 2000 at … age of 16 years old. In 2000, Modise…
ArticleHighlights for 2013
… South African History Online believes that history is made every … in its history. South Africa January 18 2013 ANC Mali army claims ‘total control’ of Konna…
BiographyZulumathabo Zulu
… of Mathematics, The Sacred Knowledge of the Desert: African Philosophical Transcendence, African Origin of Mathematics, A Woman in the Bush, The Triangle…
BiographyJo Thorpe
… School. Jo then left home to drive trucks for the South African Army during World War II . After this she worked as a … In 1959 she was appointed regional…
ArticleIndustrial and Commercial Union Timeline 1919-1989
… respond to the call and within a few days some 5 000 African workers in the railway yards, in factories and on … affiliation on the basis of 20 000…
Speech by Oliver Tambo on behalf of the Liberation Movements, at the twenty-third session of the assembly of Heads of State and Government of the Organisation of African Unity, Addis Ababa, 27 July 1987
… of Heads of State and Government of the Organisation of African Unity, Addis Ababa, 27 July 1987 …
BiographySibusiso Robert Duma
… Together they have held a number of exhibitions at the African Art Centre in Durban. Although Duma has built on his … ABSA L’Atelier Art Award 2010. SOLO…
BiographyBenni Gwigwi Mrwebi
… was a well known alto saxophonist in the 1950’s South African Jazz scene. He taught himself to play the saxophone … his peers and followers. He became the…
BiographyRoelof Frederik ‘Pik’ Botha
… of Pretoria and in February 1953, he joined the South African Department of Foreign Affairs. In June 1956 he was transferred to the South African Mission in…
BiographyNcumisa Chwayita Kondlo
… Azanian Students Organisation (AZASO) and later the South African National Students Congress (SANSCO) where she served … Students Movement in the 1980s…
BiographyPeter Hlaole Molotsi
… High School in Kroonstad. His teachers at Bantu High, all African, had a most profound influence on him. They taught … South Africa that would be free. The…
BiographyPaul Michael Sibisi
… 1976: Norman Dunn Gallery, Hilton College, Natal (Urban African Art). 1980: NSA, Durban (Members Exhibition). UZ (African Arts Festival). 1981: Gallery 21 …
BiographyLewis Nkosi
… Ilanga lase Natal in Durban. In 1956, he joined other African writers on the staff of Drum magazine , which was … (1965), Nkosi describes the Drum staff as …
BiographyNjabulo Simakahle Ndebele
… University, where he was the first recipient of the South African Bursary to study at Churchill College at Cambridge. … in 1983. He served as President of…
Francis Zaccharius Santiago Peregrino
… newspaper that he produced for Black readers, the South African Spectator. He was also instrumental in shaping … Zaqueu Francisco. Zaqueu Francisco was the…
EventVanessa Brereton, former human rights lawyer, admits that she was an Apartheid spy
… on high profile cases under the Apartheid regime. When the African National Congress (ANC) was unbanned in 1990, she was … apartheid government. In 1991, she…
BiographyNkosazana Clarice Dlamini-Zuma
… During the 1970s Dlamini-Zuma became active in underground African National Congress (ANC) activities while serving as the Deputy President of the South…
BiographyDaniel William Alexander
… in Port Elizabeth, the son of a West Indian father and an African mother. Ordained as an Anglican minister, he later became leader of the separatist African…
BiographyGana Makabeni
… the party's central committee, becoming one of its first African members; in 1932, however, he was expelled from the … P. Bunting . Makabeni was one of the…
BiographyJames Barry Munnik Hertzog
… OFS President M.T. Steyn. Later, when the South African War broke out in October 1899, Hetzog's life changed … M. T. Steyn went to London in 1909 as…
BiographyThomas Patrick Murray
… he attained journeyman status. In 1938 he joined the South African Boilermakers', Iron and Steel Workers', Shipbuilders' … the pulp and paper industry, and…
Griqua
… land they held and they rarely succeeded in winning land claims as burghers invariably had the stronger claim, and … access to the field cornets who reported…
Griqua community
… land they held and they rarely succeeded in winning land claims as burghers invariably had the stronger claim, and … access to the field cornets who reported…
”India’s Step Most Timely”: Joint Statement By Dr. Dadoo And Dr. Naicker On The Decision Of The Government Of India To Raise The South African Indian Question Again Before The United Nations General Assembly, July 1948
… The Decision Of The Government Of India To Raise The South African Indian Question Again Before The United Nations …
Mooroogiah Dhanapathy Naidoo
… Mooroogiah Dhanapathy Naidoo, a South African lawyer who was an active opponent of apartheid, died … was widely known as M. D. Naidoo, belonged to the South…
BiographyT W Thibedi
… the Cape and, according to Roux, for some years the only African Communist in South Africa. An able and dedicated … Benjamin Weinbren he worked in the mid…
BiographyPambani Jeremiah Mzimba
… from 1860 and in 1875 was ordained as the first South African-trained black Presbyterian Church minister on 2 … declined to accept union with other…
BiographyPitso John Mosimane
… area, west of Johannesburg . He is a former South African football player and currently the coach of Mamelodi … of the longest serving and highly rated…