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BiographyFranco Frescura
… architectural office, entered Witwatersrand University in 1966. For the next eleven years, he read towards his first …
ArticleApartheid Legislation 1850's-1970's
… 1922: The Rural Dealers’ Licensing Ordinance - limited the right of appeal. The Townships Franchise Ordinance - Indians … wages of Black mine workers…
BiographyMohandas Karamchand Gandhi
… in the South African Republic, or the Transvaal. The right to self-government had been granted to Natal in 1893 … when they came to know the truth they would…
BiographyHelen Newton Thompson
Helen Newton Thompson, an anti-apartheid political activist and founding member of the Black Sash, has for the most part of history, been a fleeting footnote…
BiographyDavid Bruce
… and that racism was wrong. In order to be able to condemn what had happened in Germany I felt that I had to be able to …
BiographyArthur Nuthall Fula
… exists or is accessible. Fula was a pioneer in his own right, becoming the first Black African author to write in … literary scholars. Fula died on his 58th…
BiographyBaldwin ‘Ben’ Sipho Ngubane
Dr Baldwin ‘Ben’ Sipho Ngubane was born on 22 October 1941 at the Inchanga Roman Catholic Mission in Camperdown, Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal - KZN). He…
BiographyGovindasamy Krishnasamy Thambi Naidoo
… If they neglected to do so, they would forfeit their right to stay in the Transvaal and could face fines, … of the unhappy event. He has an incomparable…
Vella Pillay
… gold mining industry and further refined by the Boers in what came to be known as ëapartheidí. Our family steadily … At the time the Indian community was…
BiographySolomon Kalushi Mahlangu
… said ‘laat ek sien wat het julle daar!’ (Let me see what you have there). The policeman grabbed a bag and a hand … Repository Solomon’s mother and brother –…
ArticleSouth Africa’s Foreign Relations during Apartheid, 1948
… was criticized for his speech in the General Assembly. In 1966, the first of many UN seminars on apartheid was held in … five permanent members of the…
BiographyDJ Ready D (Deon Daniels)
… between South Africa and the UK. They were also part of Right to Hope from 1996 to 1999, dealing with issues relating …
BiographyTaubie Kushlick
… and Dr Philip Kushlick, an eminent medical man in his own right, would leap to her little-finger command. The Kushlick … London, and Taubie was born the…
BiographySir George Grey
… an epic journey over the High Drakensberg, they settled in what is now known as East Griqualand. These measures were in … to bring under white rule the whole…
BiographyJanet Mary Cherry
… and harassment from the security police and from right wing elements. In 1981 she was detained for a day …
ArticleLiberal Party of South Africa (LPSA)
… Association convened a meeting in Cape Town to discuss what their next move would be in the light of the NP’s … in violence in the Transkei. Between March…
Biography of Abdullah Ibrahim by Chance Overby
… European audiences and musicians were very receptive to what I was playing. Some were hostile, especially when I … go.galegroup.com . Accessed 13 Nov. 2016…
ArticleCape Town the Segregated city
… settlers was a trench between Salt and Liesbeeck rivers right up to False Bay. Jan van Riebeeck argued against the … the Khoikhoi laid down the foundation…
Chapter 4 - THE PARTY AND THE “SOLDIERS OF LUTHULI”
… in Moscow, along the lines the CEC had suggested in 1966. The meeting, attended by 19 persons, was the first … view has become entrenched that we have only a…
EventMafika Gwala born
… the South African Students Organisation. Sometime during 1966 and 1967 Gwala began to write his first poetry and “The … first piece. A poet and writer, Gwala…
EventGifted writer and actor William Modisane is born
… the late 1950s). Blame Me on History was an examination of what apartheid did to the character and self-esteem of the … educated Black man. The book was…
Extract from a speech made at Bethlehem on 2 September
… and poor for its federal Parliament, the question would be what assurance there was that this principle would not also … Sir De Villiers himself said Marais…
BiographyDr Alfred Bitini Xuma
… later, Xuma recalled that he played a leading role in what came next. Almost all of the Clarkebury boarders staged … of Minnesota (1919). Alfred B. Xuma…
ArticleThe History of LGBT legislation
… missionaries were able to dictate to their followers what should be considered moral. There is evidence that … or non-reproductive intercourse (Weeks, 1981)…
BiographyKasturba Gandhi
… his ambition was to make her an ideal wife who learned what he learned, and who identified her life and thought to … the Natal legislative assembly to…
BiographyJohn Jacques William Aitchison
John Jacques William Aitchison was born to Harold Aitchison and Phyllis Jacques, in Durban, Natal (now kwaZulu-Natal) on 2 June 1944. He was brought up by his…
BiographyRuth Naomi Leon
… getting her Dutch citizenship in 1984, Leon obtained the right to vote for the first time in her life. However, she …
BiographySibongile Susan Mkhabela
… sedition under the Terrorism Act in September 1978, in what became known as the Soweto 11 trial. I knew …
BiographyRobert Anthony Basil Waterwitch
… deaths of Waterwitch and Williams could not be determined, what is certain is that Waterwitch and Williams’ mission was …
ArticleSouth Africa and the United Nations, 1946-1990
… was criticized for his speech in the General Assembly. In 1966, the first of many UN seminars on apartheid was held in … five permanent members of the…