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EventANC activists bribe warder and escape from prison
… joined them. Moolla was later based in New Delhi as the Asian representative of the ANC. Sources: Kalley, J.A.; Schoeman, E. & Andor, L.E. (eds)(1999)…
BiographyZachariah Keodirelang Matthews
… entered Fort Hare University and in 1923 became the first African to obtain a B A at a South African institution. In 1925 he was appointed first African head…
BiographyPortia Modise
… as a central striker. She started playing for the South African Women’s National team, Banyana Banyana, in 2000 at … age of 16 years old. In 2000, Modise…
EventAdelaide Tambo returns to South Africa after 30 years
… high school, she started to work as a courier for the African National Congress (ANC). At the age of 18, she joined … for her husband, Adelaide became a…
BiographyZulumathabo Zulu
… of Mathematics, The Sacred Knowledge of the Desert: African Philosophical Transcendence, African Origin of Mathematics, A Woman in the Bush, The Triangle…
BiographyJo Thorpe
… School. Jo then left home to drive trucks for the South African Army during World War II . After this she worked as a … In 1959 she was appointed regional…
BiographySibusiso Robert Duma
… Together they have held a number of exhibitions at the African Art Centre in Durban. Although Duma has built on his … ABSA L’Atelier Art Award 2010. SOLO…
BiographyBenni Gwigwi Mrwebi
… was a well known alto saxophonist in the 1950’s South African Jazz scene. He taught himself to play the saxophone … his peers and followers. He became the…
BiographyRoelof Frederik ‘Pik’ Botha
… of Pretoria and in February 1953, he joined the South African Department of Foreign Affairs. In June 1956 he was transferred to the South African Mission in…
BiographyNcumisa Chwayita Kondlo
… Azanian Students Organisation (AZASO) and later the South African National Students Congress (SANSCO) where she served … Students Movement in the 1980s…
ArticleBantu education and the racist compartmentalizing of education
… the Eiselen Commission with the task of considering African education provision. The Commission recommended … government’s Bantu Education Act, 90% of black…
Chapter 6 - The Birth of SACTU
… The formation of a trade union federation based on the African workers and upholding clear principles of non-racial … South African Congress of Trade Unions,…
BiographyPaul Michael Sibisi
… 1976: Norman Dunn Gallery, Hilton College, Natal (Urban African Art). 1980: NSA, Durban (Members Exhibition). UZ (African Arts Festival). 1981: Gallery 21 …
BiographyLewis Nkosi
… Ilanga lase Natal in Durban. In 1956, he joined other African writers on the staff of Drum magazine , which was … (1965), Nkosi describes the Drum staff as …
BiographyNjabulo Simakahle Ndebele
… University, where he was the first recipient of the South African Bursary to study at Churchill College at Cambridge. … in 1983. He served as President of…
EventFour political detainees escape from Pretoria Central prison in one of the most dramatic escapes in SA history
… in Pretoria. Probably the most dramatic escape in South African history, the detainees' exit from the country, … joined them. Moolla was later based in New…
ArticleThe Anti-Pass Campaigns 1960
… and Banning For many years there was tension inside the African National Congress (ANC) between those with more … the Freedom Charter , which was accepted…
ArticlePolokwane/Pietersburg Timeline 1835-1995
… agree to be incorporated into a United South African Republic 1867 Schoemansdal evacuated by the Dutch and … 1901 British capture of Pietersburg during the…
Francis Zaccharius Santiago Peregrino
… newspaper that he produced for Black readers, the South African Spectator. He was also instrumental in shaping … Zaqueu Francisco. Zaqueu Francisco was the…
ArticleBiko’s imprisonment, death and the aftermath
… to Pretoria without any medical attention. Three South African newspapers carried reports that Biko did not die as a … took one of these papers, the Rand…
BiographyNkosazana Clarice Dlamini-Zuma
… During the 1970s Dlamini-Zuma became active in underground African National Congress (ANC) activities while serving as the Deputy President of the South…
BiographyDaniel William Alexander
… in Port Elizabeth, the son of a West Indian father and an African mother. Ordained as an Anglican minister, he later became leader of the separatist African…
BiographyJames Barry Munnik Hertzog
… OFS President M.T. Steyn. Later, when the South African War broke out in October 1899, Hetzog's life changed … M. T. Steyn went to London in 1909 as…
Speech by Oliver Tambo on behalf of the Liberation Movements, at the twenty-third session of the assembly of Heads of State and Government of the Organisation of African Unity, Addis Ababa, 27 July 1987
… of Heads of State and Government of the Organisation of African Unity, Addis Ababa, 27 July 1987 …
BiographyThomas Patrick Murray
… he attained journeyman status. In 1938 he joined the South African Boilermakers', Iron and Steel Workers', Shipbuilders' … the pulp and paper industry, and…
Mooroogiah Dhanapathy Naidoo
… Mooroogiah Dhanapathy Naidoo, a South African lawyer who was an active opponent of apartheid, died … was widely known as M. D. Naidoo, belonged to the South…
ArticleA history of Apartheid in South Africa
… that much from the policy of segregation of the South African governments existing before the Afrikaner Nationalist … to whether they were white, coloured,…
BiographyT W Thibedi
… the Cape and, according to Roux, for some years the only African Communist in South Africa. An able and dedicated … Benjamin Weinbren he worked in the mid…
BiographyPitso John Mosimane
… area, west of Johannesburg . He is a former South African football player and currently the coach of Mamelodi … of the longest serving and highly rated…
BiographyPambani Jeremiah Mzimba
… from 1860 and in 1875 was ordained as the first South African-trained black Presbyterian Church minister on 2 … declined to accept union with other…