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BiographyJoseph Nong Thloloe
… by teachers who were politically inclined and abhorred the system of Apartheid, like Ellen Kuzwayo and Thamsanqa … Member of the PAC, political detainee,…
Book 5: People, Places and Apartheid - Chapter 2 - The Soweto Uprising of June 1976: A Turning Points Event by Phil Bonner
… language as the medium of instruction in Soweto's schools. More were on their way. The local police were … were affected - 22 townships in the Transvaal, 16…
BiographyRussel Botman
… mother had supported his family by working as a typist for the “coloured” Nederduitse Gereformeerde Sending-Kerk … while his father completed his studies in…
Abdullah Ibrahim and the Politics of Jazz in South Africa
… Jazz has had an especial role in the social and cultural politics of South Africa. This paper … were moving between Durban, Johannesburg, Margate and Cape…
Lionel Morrison
… and a journalist. In 1955 he was elected secretary of the Cape Town branch of the South African Coloured People's Organisation and in 1956 … Journalist,…
BiographyViolet Margaret Livingstone Ballinger
… South Africa with her family in 1904. She was a member of the white Native Representatives Council (NRC) in the 1930s, … on St. Helena Island. Ballinger…
BiographyLucy Mary (nee Mullins) Wiles
… Walter Gilbert Wiles and studied on part-time basis art at the Johannesburg School of Art and Barnato Park School. Her … and long domiciled in the Knysna…
Archive2012 - President Zuma, State of the Nation, 9 February 2012
… Africa on the occasion of the Joint Sitting of Parliament, Cape Town 09 Feb 2012 Honourable Speaker of the National … For the year 2012 and beyond, we invite…
ArticleOrganisations involved in Youth and the National Liberation Struggle
… Consciousness Movement South African Students Movement The South African Student Organisation (SASO) The Black … Union of South Africa (ASUSA) Durban…
The appointment of Judges
… In June 1994, Arthur Chaskalson, senior counsel and the national director of the Legal Resources Centre, was appointed as President of the … on possession of…
South Africa in the 1900s (1900-1917)
… Introduction More than two and a half centuries prior to the birth of Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela , Jan Van Riebeeck and … his expedition of Dutch Calvinist…
ArchiveA call to all: now is the time to take an active role in the struggle for human dignity
… The call is made by students of the Cape Peninsular to join … A call to all: now is the time to take an active role in the struggle for human dignity …
The South African History Online (SAHO) Graduate Internship Programme
… that was made possible through a partnership with the Culture, Arts, Tourism, Hospitality and Sports Sector … through this, graduates from universities in…
ArticlePretoria: The Founding of the City
… Pretoria’s founder – a man by the name of Marthinus Wessels Pretorius - arrived in Pretoria in 1848 [i] . At the time of his arrival , King Mzilikazi and the…
ArticleThe legacy of the French Revolution
… A legacy is the long-term effect of something. A person or an event or a piece of writing from the past may still shape what people believe and how they live…
The adoption of the Freedom Charter
… The Freedom Charter was not adopted immediately by the ANC. The executives of the four organisations of the Congress … The adoption of the Freedom Charter …
BiographyChristina Jasson
… Born in 1928 Jasson worked as a clerk. She was active in the Port Elizabeth trade union movement, organising food and … leading several strikes. Her daughter…
BiographyLogan K. Ntlabati
… Logan K. Ntlabati was a prominent member of the African National Congress (ANC) national executive committee in the 1940s, he was born in the Transkei and…
BiographyDavid Nthubu Koloane
… The use of artworks for public education by the National … of London and in 1988 he was one of the judges on the Cape Town Triennial panel. He exhibited in…
BiographyDr Irvin Khoza
… Dr Irvin Khoza, known as the “Iron Duke”, was born on 27 January 1948 in Alexandra Township. He began his education at the Roma Mission School in Alexandra…
The Order of the Southern Cross
… awarded this medal include Chris Barnard who performed the first heart transplant in South Africa. Recent recipients include the gold medal posthumously to…
BiographyStella Madge Damos
… Born in 1930, Damos was a trade unionist. During the government's race classification of Coloured people, she … a protest meeting and was charged with…
ArticleWomen in the schizophrenic 1940s - World War II and its aftermath
… The 1940s opened with the devastating Second World War in … league within the ANC structures so that they, too, could join the struggle against oppression…
The State of Art in South Africa Conference
… Held at the University of Cape Town from 16-20 July 1979, The State … The State of Art in South Africa. Conference Proceedings. Cape Town: University of Cape…
ArticleThe Mau Mau Uprising
… The Mau Mau uprising began in 1952 as a reaction to … inequalities and injustices in British-controlled Kenya. The response of the colonial administration…
Qonda Hoho
… Hoho was born 1956 in Bowden village Lady Frere(Eastern Cape).An MK operative who who was shot dead during a shoot-out with members of the SAP on 4 March…
BiographyJacobus Herculaas de la Rey
… Jacobus Hercules de la Rey was the sixth child of Adrianus Johannes and Adriana (van … the initiative and sent De la Rey as a combat general to join the…
BiographyChristopher “Dali” Daluxolo Mpofu
… Doris Mpofu in Duncan Village, East London, Eastern Cape Province, South Africa, where he spent his childhood. … However, she made sure that she sent them to…
A New Date For the Founding of the South African Society of Artists, and it’s Second Annual Exhibition of 1898
… WHILE THIS EXHIBITION AND CATALOGUE purport to mark the centenary of the founding of the South African Society of … as SASA's founding date on the basis of…
ArticleAftermath of the Bhambatha Rebellion 1906
… The Bambatha Rebellion claimed the lives of 4000 Zulu and 30 white people and cost the … by William Philip Schreiner, a top lawyer from the Cape Colony,…