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Book 5: People, Places and Apartheid - Chapter 4 - The Township Uprising, September-November 1984 by Noor Nieftagodien
… main industrial centres of Johannesburg, the East Rand, Cape Town and Durban. Importantly, former SACTU activists … wanted a clear announcement removing the…
The Many Faces of Apartheid Repression
… The content of this article was taken from the book A Crime … Repression of the Apartheid State edited by Max Coleman, (Cape Town) Repressive regimes abound…
Archive2012 - President Zuma, State of the Nation Address, 09 February 2012
… For the year 2012 and beyond, we invite the nation to join government in a massive infrastructure development … development and export capacity of the…
Article1960s: The Civil Rights and Black Power movements
… and a much larger world. Therefore, what happens in the 'North' has a huge impact on what happens here. For this … rights in the South. African Americans…
BiographyJohn J. Skomolo
… John J Skomolo was an Anglican clergyman prominent in the Cape African National Congress (ANC) in the 1940s and 1950s, Skomolo was also a member of the ANC ……
Henry Reed Ngcayiya
… a Methodist boarding school near Fort Beaufort in the Eastern Cape. Ngcayiya left the teaching profession after a few … chaplain. At a mass meeting of…
ArchiveThe role of the Trade Unions in the National Liberation Struggle
… An article about the National Liberation Struggle as their decision to join the United Democratic Front was made as part of their … The role of the Trade…
BiographyArthur Nuthall Fula
… born on 16 May 1908 in East London, Transkei (now Eastern Cape Province). In 1910, his parents – Samuel and Alice (née … Transvaal Province (now Gauteng). He…
BiographySiphiwe Tshabalala
… 25 September 1984 in Soweto and went on to become one of the most well-loved and best soccer players in South Africa. … spells with Phiri Arsenal and Phiri…
BiographyDawood Parker
… Dawood Parker was the Chairman of the Wynberg Civic Association. He played a … to his home. He also bought hundreds of books dumped on Cape Town’s Grand…
BiographyDr. Zacharias “Zac” Johannes De Beer
… Zac de Beer was born on 11 October 1928. He was the second of four children of Jean Isobel and Zacharias … to 45. He completed an MB ChB degree at the…
Full speech - Mamphela Ramphele: Rekindling the South African dream
… South African citizens, I am here today to invite you to join me on a journey to build the country of our dreams. I … a rural province, and an adopted…
ArticleSignificance of the Congress of the People and the Freedom Charter
… The campaign for the Congress of the People and the Freedom Charter was the climax to a decade or so of … Significance of the Congress of the People and the…
BiographyElijah Barayi
… Elijah Barayi was born in Lingelihle, (Cradock ) Eastern Cape, on 15th of June in 1930. He was one of eight children … matriculated at Healdtown Institute…
EventThe New Zealand Mounted Rifles leave Wellington for the South African War
… The first contingent of New Zealand Mounted Rifles (NZMR) … 23 November 1899 the first contingent of troops arrived in Cape Town and deployed to the northern…
BiographyZondeni Veronica Sobukwe
… a trainee nurse at Victoria Hospital in Lovedale, Eastern Cape . The nurses at the hospital had been involved in a labour … passed away on 15 August 2018 in…
BiographyFrancis William Reitz
… in 1844. He became an advocate and from 1874 was the President of the Orange Free State Appeal Court. He became President of … State in 1889. He was a…
BiographyBulelani Thandabantu Ngcuka
… Ngcuka was born on 2 May 1954 in Middledrift, Eastern Cape. His early schooling was in the former Bantustan of Transkei. He later married Phumzile … against…
BiographyDavidson Don Tengo Jabavu
… Davidson Don Tengo Jabavu (D. D. T) Jabavu was born in the Cape Colony in 20 October in 1885. He was the eldest son … movement. He was for many years…
BiographyLindiwe Mazibuko
… Lindiwe Mazibuko was born on 9 April 1980 in Swaziland . At the age of six she moved to KwaZulu-Natal with her parents. … (French, Classics, Media & Writing)…
BiographyBen Baartman
… The son of a farm worker, Kopi Ben Baartman was born in the Eastern Province (now Eastern Cape) town of Molteno on 1 March 1924. He worked on the mines … and…
Soweto forty years on: The Black student rebellion of 1976 by Professor Noor Nieftagodien
… of history. Until the 1960s, the number of Africans in schools remained relatively low. But the urban African … At the same time, students in Alexandra, East…
ArticleDrafting of the Final Constitution
… Introduction The transition from the Apartheid era to the new democratic … of Black people. There was an appeal that all races join and in 1991 five white…
BiographyBasil Lewis (Dolly) D’Oliveira
… (Dolly) was born on 4 October 1931, in Signal Hill, Cape Town of Indian-Portuguese heritage. According to South Africa’s racial laws, he was classifiedas a …
BiographyDr. Neil Hudson Aggett
… Aggett was born in Nanyuki, Kenya on 6th October 1953, the first-born child of Aubrey and Joy Aggett. He began his … and certificates. In 1971 he enrolled at…
BiographyNtandazo Nokhamba
… Ntandazo Nokhamba (36) was from Lebode in the Eastern Cape. He began working for Lonmin around 2006. On … 2012 he was killed at scene two after being shot…
Rustenburg the Segregated city
… Rustenburg the Segregated city Towards Union The Afrikaner character of the town persisted after Union in … and tried to mobilise Boer leaders like De la Rey…
The Duration of the strike!
… The Duration of the strike! …
ArticleTimeline of the Bulhoek Massacre
… 1868 Enoch Mgijima is born at Bulhoek, Eastern Cape, the son of Jonas Mayekiso Mgijima. 1907 19 April, Enoch … asks a group of “moderate” Africans from the…
BiographySara “Saartjie” Baartman
… Sara ‘Saartjie’ Baartman was born in 1789* at the Gamtoos river in what is now known as the Eastern Cape . She belonged to the cattle-herding Gonaquasub…