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BiographyBrigalia Bam
… Brigalia Bam was born in the former Transkei , in the Eastern Cape . She was formally educated in South Africa and abroad …
BiographyMary Fitzgerald
… Ireland in 1882, and came to South Africa as a typist for the British Army. She worked in the Castle in Cape Town , and then moved to Johannesburg as a…
BiographyNosipho Dorothy Ntwanambi
… was born on 25 September 1959 in Gugulethu ( Western Cape ). She was the Deputy President of the African National Congress Women’s League (ANCWL), was an … …
ArticleThe turbulent 1950s - Women as defiant activists
… In the 1950s the government's increasingly repressive policies … number of centres including Langa, Uitenhage, East London, Cape Town and Pietermaritzburg…
ArchiveSpeech made by Mrs Winnie Mandela to mark the
… Immediately following the "childrens revolt" in Soweto in June 1976 and the massacre and repression with which the apartheid regime … Speech made by Mrs…
South African Youth Revolutionary Council (SAYRCO)
… Other members included representatives from the five high schools in Soweto. They included Majakathata Mokwena from … the PAC dead. He urged students leaving…
EventHendrik Witbooi, Chief of the Nama, dies
… Nama. Witbooi's grandfather and father were both chiefs of the Nama group, which was a title that Hendrik inherited upon the death of this father. After a…
Jacob Abraham de Mist
… De Mist was born on 20 April 1749 in Voorburg near The Hague in the Netherlands. He went to school at Kampen, after which he … provincial autonomy. It was…
BiographyJackson Lehupa
… Jackson Lehupa (48) was from Mount Fletcher in the Eastern Cape. He began working for Lonmin around 2007. On … shoulder, buttock, groin, thighs, calves and…
ArticleTimeline of the 1973 Durban Strikes
… 1972 October and December - Strikes at the Durban docks October 1972 - when new wages for dockworkers were not implemented, stevedores in Cape Town and…
BiographyGünther Komnick
… Günther Komnick was born in Insterburg in the former German province of East Prussia in 1929 into a … in Johannesburg set up his own graphic design business…
The Mass Democratic Movement, February 1988 - January 1990
… Johannesburg, Poert Mzwakhe Mbuli, UDF concert 1989 The State of Emergency's continued bannings and repression only led to reveal the fact that the apartheid…
The Khoikhoi carry out a series of raids on the free burghers’ herds
… With the coming of the Dutch settlers, the Khoikhoi faced a … Doman was able to persuade some of the younger leaders to join him in what he regarded as a …
EventANC denies responsibilities for the unrest in homelands
… On this day in 1990, the African National Congress (ANC) veteran leader, Walter Sisulu, denied allegations levelled at his party by the South African…
BiographyMgcineni Noki
… Noki (40), known as Mambush, was from Twalikhulu in the Eastern Cape. He began working for Lonmin in 2009 and was a leader of the strike. On 16 August 2012…
BiographyProfessor Brij Maharaj
… at Merebank High School and then went on to study at the University of Durban Westville (UDW) and Natal University, now known as the University of KwaZulu…
BiographyReginald Dudley Forde
… School in Nottingham Road and obtained three degrees at the then University of Natal (now University of … as a Masters in Philosophy of Leadership. In 1964,…
BiographyGeneral Jan Christiaan Smuts
… General Jan Christiaan Smuts was born near Riebeeck West in the Cape Colony on 24 May 1870. His mother taught him the … and science degree examination of the…
BiographyDJ Ready D (Deon Daniels)
… Deon T Daniels aka DJ Ready D, was born in District Six, Cape Town on 11 December 1968, before the residents there were forcibly removed. Ready D and his ……
BiographyNkosiyakhe Amos Masondo
… parents were tenants on a white farm near Louwsburg in the Northern Natal.The family migrated to Johannesburg in stages,Masondo began school at the age of…
BiographyA. B. Nogoya
… Joined African National Congress in 1949 and during the Defiance Campaign led a batch of 40 volunteers to defy … Member of the African National Congress…
BiographyCharles Kwelemthini Sakwe
… Charles Kwelemthini Sakwe was born about 1886 in Idutywa in the Transkei and educated at Clarkebury Institution. After a period of apprenticeship at the…
The Convention for a Democratic South Africa (CODESA): CODESA 2
… their opposition to apartheid gathered in Durban to form the Patriotic Front. The Front deliberated over the … taken to KwaMadala, where they were tortured…
The impact of the collapse of the USSR on re-imagining African nations in the 1990s
… The impact of the collapse of the USSR on re-imagining African nations in the 1990s …
ArticleCongress of the People and the Freedom Charter
… As the struggle for freedom reached a new intensity in the early fifties, the ANC saw the need for a clear statement on the future of … Congress of the…
ArticleThe Padavatan Six and the 1917 Natal Floods
… On 28 October 1917 more than 400 market gardeners from the Springfield Flats (Tintown) area in Durban, Natal (now Kwazulu-Natal) drowned when the banks of…
BiographyEmil Sachs
… was born on 11 November 1900, in Kamaai, Lithuania. He was the fourth of the five children of Abraham Saks, later changed to 'Sachs', … South Africa (CPSA),…
Dealing with the past and facing the future
… The text that follows is a brief summary of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. You can read far … TRC feature In an interview, Nelson Mandela said: …
BiographyAndries (General China) Chamile
… Chamile worked as a labourer. He was a member of the Newclare branch of African National Congress which he joined during the Defiance Campaign. The…
BiographyBilly Nair
… vessel which transported sugar (SS Frontier). He attended the Essendene Road Primary school in Sydenham, Durban and … a result of his trade union activities…