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BiographySue Williamson
… Williamson studied at the Art Students' League in New York from 1963-65. In 1983 she was awarded an Advanced Diploma in Fine Art from the Michaelis School of…
ArticleTimeline of the History of Rugby in South Africa
… Committee. The group calls for the boycott of South Africa from the 1964 Olympic Games. 1967 New Zealand All-Blacks … Hendrik Verwoerd's announcement…
EventNational Day of Prayer is observed peacefully
… Cathedral in Central Johannesburg, Archbishop Desmond Tutu and other people attending a prayer meeting are forced …
ArticleThe Azania Liberation Support Committee and its publications
… Azania Worker was meant to be a forum in which socialists from all political currents within the trade unions, student … in which they could exchange…
BiographyMohamed Ismail Dinat
… Aziz Pahad served as Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs from 1999-2008, and later became an MP for Johannseburg West … while Essop Pahad was Minister in the…
BiographyKing Mpande kaSenzangakhona
… Mpande was king of the Zulu nation from 1840 to 1872, making him the longest reigning Zulu king. … Tugela River in 1857. Mpande tried to prevent Cetshwayo…
BiographyBiddy Partridge
… the South African Council for Higher Education (SACHED). From 1978-1982, she was the editor and a photographer at … researching, collecting and copying…
BiographyZola Budd
… in the 1984 Olympic games as South Africa had been banned from competing before the start of the Tokyo Olympic games in … Budd eventually finished seventh,…
BiographyEdgar Harry Brookes
… major work. The History of Native Policy in South Africa from 1830 to the Present Day (1924). While describing … the Joint Council and Oxford movements,…
BiographyNils Severin Andersen
… settled in Durban; trained as engineer; drew and painted from an early age 1924 Joined NSA (President 1937, 1946, 1949 … ill and painted very little…
BiographyNesta Mathom Nala
… the age of twelve, Nesta Nala learnt the craft of pottery from her mother Siphiwe, who had learnt the skills from the mother of her common-law husband (Nesta…
BiographyJohn Langalibalele Dube
… Inanda, in the late 1840s. She wanted a clear separation from the traditional AmaQadi way of life. The Christian way … Interpretation Centre. Dube’s mother,…
ArticleGrade 12 - Civil Resistance in South Africa 1970s to 1980
… was also strongly opposed by resistance movements like the 1976 Soweto Uprising and by underground movements which … keep black people in their Bantu…
EventControversial 'Black Jesus' painter, Ronald Harrison, dies
… Hendrick Verwoed and former Minister of Justice John Vorster, who are depicted as Roman Soldiers. The painting not …
EventThe Christian Institute protests against travel restrictions
… The Christian Institute appealed to Prime Minister John Vorster, asking him to reconsider the withdrawal or … Political History: a chronology of key…
BiographyJudith Mason
… most well known South African artists. She matriculated from the Pretoria High School for Girls in 1956 and from 1957 - 1960 she attended the University of…
BiographyKate O’Regan
… England. She grew up in Cape Town. She obtained her B.A. from the University of Cape Town in 1978 and her LL.B. (cum laude) from the same university in 1980,…
BiographyJ B Marks
… supply was very poor. This strike led to his expulsion from school. A political activist and trade unionist, he … when a fascist opened fire on the platform…
BiographyRev. Aldin Grout
… in the United States. In 1830 Grout graduated from Amherst College and continued to study in theology at … Davis in November 1834 and one month later they…
BiographyJordan Kush Ngubane
… where he became friends with Anton Lembede. On graduating from Adams in 1937, Ngubane was offered the assistant … of John L. Dube's newspaper, Ilanga lase…
ArchiveThe Little Acknowledged Legacy of Steve Biko by Prithiraj Dullay, (Daily News), 08 Sept 2008
… if I died.” This was met with peals of approving laughter from the delegates, much to the horror of the world. What was … up its hands in mock horror at the…
BiographyRoseberry Tandwefika Bokwe
… East Griqualand, and then studied at Lovedale high school from 1911 to 1917.His father was reverend and his mother a … at Ohlange Institute near Durban,…
BiographyAbednego Bhekabantu Ngcobo
… completed a BA degree in 1956 and later began law studies. From 1954 until 1957, when his arrest for treason precluded … secretary for the Youth League. He…
Colonial history of Polokwane
… Afrikaner settlement in Ohrigstad in 1845, some distance from Pietersburg, Later, in 1848, he led a group that settled … March 1852. Meanwhile, the Volksraad…
BiographyStanley Huette Uys
… were not well received and he moved to politics. He worked from Cape Town as political editor. He had a passionate … identified his informant, though an MP…
BiographyKgosi Abram Ramotshere Moiloa
… “with a view to requesting the department to remove him from the chieftainship and banish him from Linokana Reserve (Zeerust), Marico District, Transvaal ……
BiographyMadhlangala Dukuza Ndabezitha
… Ndabezitha’s political involvement is evident from 1907 when he worked closely with South African Native … which was specifically called to receive a report…
BiographySarah Carneson
… both immigrants; her father, Zelic Rubin, was originally from Lithuania while her mother, Anna, was from Russia. Zelic Rubin worked as a tailor and,…
BiographyKenneth Kaunda
… boarding master and then headmaster at Lubwa Mission from 1943 to 1945. He worked at Salisbury (which is now … up the post of Secretary General. In 1958,…
BiographyMfanasekaya Pearce Linda Gqobose
… 1941, and served in South Africa, Egypt, Libya and Italy from 1942 to 1946. He left the army with the rank of Corporal … at the Jan Hofmeyr School of Social…