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African Socialism An Anarchist Critique by Sam Mbah and I. E. Igariwey
ArchiveChief Buthelezi is an intelligent man says Dr Alan Paton
Dulcie van den Bergh (69), SA actress, dies in Johannesburg.
Regardt van den Bergh, SA actor and director, is born.
Jochem van Bruggen, SA writer, is born in Groede, Zealand.
BiographyAnna Johanna Dorothea De Villiers
Anna Johanna Dorothea de Villiers was a linguist, writer, and educator. She born on 24 December 1900 on the farm Saxenburg, Kuilsrivier. She was the eldest of…
BiographyMimi Coertse
Mimi Coertse was South Africa's first operatic prima donna."Prima donna", in its true sense, properly indicates the chief female vocalist in an opera company…
BiographyEmily Isabel Fern
Born Ballarat, Australia, 1881; died Johannesburg, 1953. Fern arrived in Johannesburg as a child in 1890, and was taught oil painting by a nun at End Street…
BiographyJennifer Davis
Jennifer was born in Johannesburg, South Africa in 1933. She grew up in what she described as a Jewish middle-class household where her pediatrician father was…
BiographyMpush Makambi
Mpush Makambi was born in 1967 in Mdantsane, Eastern Cape. At school, Makambi was sporty but boxing was his first love. He turned professional in 1983 with a…
ArticleWhen, why and where the first African farmers settled in Southern Africa
… African farmers lived in larger communities than the San or Khoikhoi because more people were needed to look after … hides. Some of the farmers even married…
Birth of Jan Anthoniszoon van Riebeeck in Culemborg, the Netherlands. Van Riebeeck landed at the southern tip of Africa on 6 Ap
Hunter-gatherers and herders in Southern Africa Activity
… was the way the Khoikhoi lived different from the way the San lived? 8. What animals did the Khoikhoi keep? 9. … the Khoikhoi move often? 15. Why…
BiographyMweli Skota
Mweli Skota was born in Kimberley in the 1880s and attended school there. He worked at various times as a clerk, journalist, court interpreter, and independent…
ArchiveViolence: An Integral Part of S.A. Culture
Land dispossession still an issue in SA
Disruptive Role of the Pan Africanist Congress
ArticlePan Africanist Youth Congress of Azania (PAYCO)
ArticleGrade 5 term 1 timeline: Hunter-gatherers and herders in Southern Africa
… 8985 BCE The San are believed to have first populated Southern Africa 15 … Khoikhoi herders migrated southward and converted…
BiographySydney Kumalo
It is appropriate that the final large scale work completed by Sydney Kumalo before his death is a three-metre high bronze figure of a Zulu "imbongi" or praise…
ArchiveBesoek van Mnr Clark aan Suid-Afrika en Suidwes-Afrika: 10-13 Junie 1981
Report, signed by Minister R F Botha and written mostly in Afrikaans, of the visit of Mr W P Clark of the United States of America, to South Africa and South…
Jan van Riebeeck’s statue, presented by Cecil John Rhodes, is unveiled in Cape Town.
Jan van Riebeeck’s statue, presented by Cecil John Rhodes, is unveiled in Cape Town.
ArchiveMemorandum aan alle lede van die Staatsveiligheidsraad: Onlussituasie - voorgestelde terminologiese riglyne vir amptelike segsmanne
Memorandum to all members of the State Security Council, from Louis Nel, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, regarding guidelines for the use of terminology…
BiographyMakhanda Nxele
… Hence, the advent of Europeans resulted in: “Gonaqua Khoi, San, amaXhosa, Dutch farming settlers, missionaries of …
BiographyDorothy Adams
Dorothy Adams was born in 1928 in Wellington, 72 kilometres north-east of Cape Town. Wellington had been declared on the farm of Champagne in 1840, and it grew…
ArticleBecoming human in southern Africa
… know as South Africa from further north in Africa were the San and Khoikhoi. The San are also known as Bushmen and the Khoikhoi as Hottentots, … is an…
BiographyTeboho MacDonald “Tsietsi” Mashinini
Teboho MacDonald "Tsietsi" Mashinini was born on 27 January 1957 in Central Western Jabavu, Soweto. Mashinini was the second son of Ramothibi, a lay preacher…
BiographyVuminkosi Zulu
Vuminkosi Zulu was born on 24 November 1948 in Mapumulo, KwaZulu-Natal. From the age of thirteen Zulu attended school in Kranskop for six years and completed…
PlaceSão Tomé and Príncipe
São Tomé and Príncipe were uninhabited before these islands were discovered in about 1470, by Portuguese navigators. In the late 15th Century the Portuguese…