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Statement at the Funeral of Moses Mbheki Mabhida by O. R. Tambo, Maputo, 29 March 1986
… has departed from our midst. A seeming void occupies his space, the air so still without his voice. Like the pure note of a bungle, that voice rose … -…
EventTseko Simon Nkoli dies
… diagnosed with HIV whilst in prison and went public with his status in the early 1990s - a time when HIV was … Outside is freedom”. Nkoli did not draw…
EventW. E. B. Du Bois (95), writer, scholar, intellectual, Pan
… numerous important works on race. By the time of his death in 1963 he had written 17 books and edited four … only in the United States, but also all over…
PlaceGoedverwact
… The farm was originally (1838) bequeathed to six of his freed slaves by H. S. Burger. On the death of the last of the heirs in Dec. 1888 the Moravians …
EventPatrice Emery Lumumba, first Prime Minister of an independent Congo, is born
… squad on 17 January 1961. It later emerged that Lumumba’s death had been orchestrated by Belgian and US forces who opposed his vision of a united Congo. …
EventJudge Edwin Cameron of SA reveals that he has been HIV positive since 1987
… to publicly disclose their status. Cameron has stated that his disclosure was inspired by the case of Gugu Dlamini, a woman who was stoned and stabbed to…
EventFlorence Josephine Zerffi, SA still life and landscape painter, dies
… in 1929, only five years after their marriage. After his death, she taught art in schools throughout Cape Town. She …
BiographyMolefi Paul Sefularo
… an MBA from the University of Cape Town. Dr Sefularo began his political activism in the student movement. He was a …
BiographyColin Gardner
… 1933, in London, Britain. He came to South Africa with his parents in 1947. He matriculated at Maritzburg College, …
BiographyJoe Mkhwanazi
… principal at Hlophekhulu Senior School. Mkhwanazi began his political activism in the African National Congress Youth …
Polokwane the Segregated city
… from extinction when it was taken over by Solly Marcus. His brother Louis Marcus was the mayor for 1930/31 and also … Stegmann, who had to undergo an…
EventTreasures are discovered in the tomb of Tutankhamun
… dynasty, he became pharaoh at the age of nine and his rule lasted for approximately ten years. Worshipped as a … which is reflected in the temples that were…
EventThe Paramount Chief of the Zulus, Prince Goodwill Zwelithini, is officially removed as a member of the Zulu Legislative Assembly
… Zwelithini became the eighth Zulu Monarch following the death of his father, King Cyprian in 1968 and brief regency that … of interfering in party politics…
EventThe birth of the Treatment Action Campaign
… to draw attention to the unnecessary suffering and death caused by the untreated epidemic. Passers-by were … world's HIV-positive population to a painful and…
EventAbdullah Abdurahman, medical doctor and Cape community leader, dies in Cape Town
… a member of the Cape Town City Council (from 1905-1940). His death raised concern within the Black, Coloured and Indian …
Last of The Gandhians in South Africa
… He continued non-violent defiance of apartheid until his death in 1969, long after most militants of the liberation … National Congress and the Indian…
BiographyDr. Frene Noshir Ginwala
… government “can no more change character than the leopard his spots” [28] . Her concepts are sophisticated, but her … one point she invited Pieter Dirk Uys ,…
The Trust Feed Massacre
… the anti-apartheid struggle to be tried and sentenced to death for a part in initiating and maintaining the endemic … and illogical. On 30 April 1992…
EventArchibald Campbell Mzoliza Jordan, Xhosa writer and linguist, dies
… mission station in the Tsolo district of Pondoland. He did his education at Mbokothwana mission before moving to St … he qualified as a teacher. After…
ArchiveAhmed Timol and the return of The Light by Kevin Bloom (Daily Maverick), 28 October 2016
… or African, have always been ciphers for Truth. Take the death in detention of Ahmed Timol in 1971. As the … the state, one Major-General Stoffel Buys, would…
EventBreyten Breytenbach was born on this day
… to recruit members of Okhela,Breytenbach was arrested. At his trial at the Supreme Court in Pretoria after being … taunted him by pointing out the censorship…
ArticleInsurrections I: Tracks and Lyrics
… me I do also frighten See, I pull him by the tail Hear his screams, crying like a little cry-baby) 7. Grounding … the scent of invisible footsteps into…
EventJournalist and anti-apartheid activist M.P. Naicker dies
… en route on a flight from London to Berlin. At the time of his death Naicker was also a journalist for the ANC journal …
Descom Bulletin
… under the custody of the security police. It was after his death that with the increase of political prisoners that …
EventEthnic violence in Rwandan capital Kigali is spreads throughout the country
… of the Tutsis. The genocide followed the day after the death of the Rwandan president, Juvénal Habyarimana. Habyarimana died when his plane was shot down as…
EventPhambili Ka Ntloko, national organiser of AZAPO, is born
… boycotts and burning of structures following Steve Biko’s death. Ntloko completed his Matric while in prison, and was released in 1983. He …
No.46 - Steve Biko by Hilda Bernstein, 1978, South Africa
… What exactly happened to Biko in room 619 is known only to his interrogators. But from a close reading of the inquest … The Life of Steve Biko III - Black…
14. Suicide among indentured labourers
… 2 Sept. 1884, Mr. McEwan called upon me to say a Coolie of his was dead. At 10.15 a.m, I visited Mr. McEwan's place … a beam by a rope in the centre of the…
14. Suicide among indentured
… 2 Sept. 1884, Mr. McEwan called upon me to say a Coolie of his was dead. At 10.15 a.m, I visited Mr. McEwan's place … a beam by a rope in the centre of the…
EventWalter Sisulu celebrates 90th birthday
… Walter Sisulu celebrates his 90th birthday. One of the godfathers of the fight for … in 1992 was awarded the Isitwalandwe award by the ANC for his…