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ArchiveWomen and the Satyagraha Campaign
… Indian women join Gandhi's passive resistance campaign Before union, at the turn of the century, conditions for Indian families were … in 1913 a judgment was…
The Clanwilliam Arts Project / Lantern Festival 2017
… Back for the 17th year in a row! Magnet Theatre in patnership with The … will be working with some 700 learners in the Western Cape town of Clanwilliam to…
The African Resistance Movement (ARM): An Organisational History
… Origins One of the defining moments in the struggle against apartheid in … the structure of the organisation at a meeting convened in Cape Town. The meeting…
BiographyWilliam Cock
… In 1849, Cape Town lived up to its reputation for giving visiting … a reception with a difference; it was in fact a boycott. The colonists were not going to…
BiographyDilizantaba Mji
… Born at Buntingville, Umtata, in the Transkei, he completed B.S. and M.S. degrees, then studied medicine at the University of the Witwatersrand, where he…
BiographyHoward S. Ngcobo
… was born in 1923 in Natal, he studied law for one year at the University of Natal and by correspondence with the University of London. He worked for a time…
Statement of the National Executive Committee on the occasion of the 101st Anniversary of the ANC, 8 January 2013
… Comrades, Compatriots and friends, We meet 100 years since the promulgation of the 1913 Land Act, which dramatically … of the United Democratic Front in…
BiographyAndrew Meintjes
… Andrew Meintjes was born in Cape Town on 31 January 1955. In the 1970s, while he was working as a post office technician, … photography and invention. Among…
BiographyVictor V. T. Mbobo
… Victor V. T. Mbobo was born in the Cape, he graduated from Fort Hare in 1935. While teaching at a Pretoria high school, he participated in the founding of…
BiographyThobisile Zibambele
… Thobisile Zibambele (39) was from Lusikisiki in the Eastern Cape. He started working for Lonmin in 2009. On … Thobisile was killed at scene 1 after being…
BiographyHerbert Henry Curson
… Herbert Henry Curson, the eldest son of Henry Charles Curson, was born on 22 … in the Veterinary Service Department of the Western Cape, followed by a period…
BiographyAyesha Bibi “Asa” Dawood
… Ayesha Bibi "Asa" Dawood was born in Worcester , Cape Province on the 31 January, 1927 to an Indian Merchant and a Malay woman. … By July 1952, Worcester had…
ArchiveThe Church of the Province of South Africa
… Essay discusses the issues such as the training of Black and White priests, multiracial church services, church schools. … The Church of the Province of…
ArticleHistory of the ‘Indian Opinion’ newspaper
… The Significance of Indian Opinion by Uma Dhupelia-Mesthrie … Department of History, University of the Western Cape Address to Conference on the Alternate…
BiographyJulius Tokoti Mangcotywa
… Julius Tokoti Mangcotywa (61) was from Sterkspruit in the Eastern Cape. He began working for Lonmin around 2008. On 16 August … 2012 he was killed at scene 2…
BiographyKing Sarhili kaHintsa
… King Sarhili was the last King to rule over Xhosaland before it was fragmented … ↵ [4] Jeff Peires, The House of Phalo (Johannesburg and Cape Town: Jonathan…
BiographyCebisile Yawa
… Cebisile Yawa (24) was from Cala in the Eastern Cape. He began working for Lonmin in 2007. On 16 … Cebisile was killed at scene 1 after being shot twice by…
BiographyNoni Jabavu
… Helen Nontando (Noni) Jabavu was born in 1919 in the Eastern Cape into a literary family. From the age of thirteen, she … Jabavu , of Fort Hare, as well as…
The Convention for a Democratic South Africa (CODESA): CODESA 1
… their opposition to apartheid gathered in Durban to form the Patriotic Front. The Front deliberated over the … and the Azanian People’s Organization (AZAPO)…
BiographyNongqawuse
… to Nongqawuse. What we know of her is mainly related to the Cattle-Killing/Millenarian Movement of 1856-7 and her … Sarhili. After Mhlakaza’s mother died, he…
BiographySemi Jokanisi
… Semi Jokanisi (29) was from Lusikisiki in the Eastern Cape. On 13 August 2012 Semi was killed after being shot twice by the police, once in the abdomen and…
BiographyPatrick Akhona Jijase
… Patrick Akhona Jijase (26) was from Ntabankulu in the Eastern Cape. He began working for Lonmin in July 2012, one month before the massacre. On 16 August…
BiographyMmusi Aloysias Maimane
… grew up in Dobsonville, Soweto, Transvaal (now Gauteng). The eldest of four children, Maimane attended Allen Glen High … to be sworn in as a member of the…
BiographyMyron Peter
… Durban , Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal - KZN). He studied at the University of Durban-Westville (UDW) [now University of … and was strongly linked with activists…
BiographyS .G. Sekano Ntoane
… was born on 14 April 1904 in Hebron, Pretoria . He was the second of the six children of Levy Ntoane, a minister of the Berlin … Free State. For a number of…
ArticleThe African Students Association (ASA)
… The African Students Association (ASA) was established on 17 December 1961 in Durban under the auspices of the banned African National Congress (ANC). … its…
ArticleA history of the South African Constitution 1910-1996
… The New Constitution was negotiated between May 1994 and … a prominent historian at the University of the Western Cape, 'in stating the reasons for their…
BiographyHenry Mvuyisi Pato
… Henry Mvuyisi Pato (35) was from Mbizana in the Eastern Cape. He began working for Lonmin in 2011. On 16 … 2012 Mvuyisi was killed at scene 2 after being…
Reverend Makhenkesi Arnold Stofile
… Makhenkesi Arnold Stofile, the son of Simon Stofile and Miriam Ngcongcobela, was born on … 1944, in the Winterberg District of Adelaide, Eastern Cape. He was…
ArticleThe influence of apartheid
… The Ndebele and the apartheid state When the Nationalist Party was elected to power in 1948 by a … Mangope reinforced this by closing down Ndebele-medium…