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ArticleThe Order of the Companions of O.R. Tambo
… and active expression of solidarity and support. The Order constitutes an essential pillar of international … (Silver) Class 3 = Companion of O.R. Tambo …
Maria Wilman
… Wilman studied botany at the University of Cambridge, which she completed in 1888 when … In 1888 she returned to South Africa and began work at the South…
BiographyJohn Hlatywayo
… Centre and later under George Boys who introduced him to the techniques of batik and mono printing. Around 1970 … Hlatywayo travelled to Rhodesia and was…
ArticleThe Freedom Charter by Norman Levy
… This article was taken from the book The Final Prize by Norman Levy (Chapter 10) Time for … to the assembly as “a new parliament”, adding that the Cape Town…
BiographyJames Kantor
… He excelled as a divorce lawyer. He usually represented the wife and, at a time when women were second-class citizens … not much care about was politics,…
ArticleWhat has been the impact of the democratic transformation on the position of women within South African society? by Lucy Doyle
… Abstract Through the efforts of a dominant women’s movement in apartheid, the … (Wood and Jewkes, 1997, p41). A research project in Cape Town reported that…
BiographyWilliam Wellington Gqoba
… Wellington Gqoba was born in Gaba, near Alice, Eastern Cape in August 1840. He was the son of Gqoba of the Cirha clan, who was in turn the son of Peyi, a…
BiographyNkosiyabo Xalabile
… Nkosiyabo Xalabile (30) was from Elliotdale in the Eastern Cape. He began working for Lonmin around 2004. On … at scene 2 after being shot in his thigh and…
ArchivePublic Sector Government Local Authority - Northern Cape 1994 - 1998
… Public Sector Government Local Authority - Northern Cape 1994 - 1998 … Public Sector Government Local Authority - Northern Cape 1994 - 1998 …
ArchivePublic Sector Government Local Authority - Eastern Cape 1995 - 1998
… Public Sector Government Local Authority - Eastern Cape 1995 - 1998 … Public Sector Government Local Authority - Eastern Cape 1995 - 1998 …
ArchiveEastern Cape Rugby Football Club Images from 1927 - 1991
… Eastern Cape Rugby Football Club Images from 1927 - 1991 …
ArchiveEastern Cape Rugby Football Club Images from 1942 - 1952
… Eastern Cape Rugby Football Club Images from 1942 - 1952 …
Higher Education Today with Dr. Mamphela Ramphele, University of Cape Town
… Education Today with Dr. Mamphela Ramphele, University of Cape Town …
BiographyThabani Derrick Zulu
… Art School in 1971 and continued Fine Art studies at the University of South Africa receiving a BA(FA). He has taught at a number of schools in Gauteng and…
Historical ships and shipwrecks along the South African coast
… South Africa’s Maritime History The Suez Canal allows for ships from Europe to travel to the … sailed further south, towards KwaZulu Natal and even the Cape…
BiographyLeon Levy
… Lithuania . Levy and his twin brother, Norman Levy, were the youngest of four children. Born just two months after the … of its pan-African vision. Leon Levy…
BiographyElsa Joubert
… 19 October 1922 in Paarl where she grew up, and studied at the universities of Stellenbosch (BA and SOD) and Cape Town (MA in Afrikaans-Nederlands). Within…
BiographyBrenda Nokuzola Fassie
… born on 3rd of November 1964 in Langa , a township near Cape Town . She was named after the American country singer Brenda Lee. The daughter of a … to visit…
BiographyLawrence Schlemmer
… Pretoria Boys High, he studied art under Walter Battiss at the University of Pretoria. Schlemmer then went on to study … with a Doctorate in Philosophy from…
EventThe first British Settlers arrive in Algoa Bay
… The first British Settlers, known as 1820 Settlers arrived in … and farmers. They were placed on the eastern border of the Cape Colony, later called British…
A Chronological look (1943 to 1986) at the Life and Times of Mr George Ponnen
… PONNEN - SPEAKS OF HIS LIFE AND INVOLVEMENT IN THE TRADE UNION, POLITICAL AND NATIONAL LIBERATION MOVEMENTS … and I were the first South Africans of Indian…
BiographyRichard Steele
… Pretoria, in 1956. His father emigrated to South Africa at the end of the Second World War. Steele‘s parents were very … Africa in 1976 and went to do his…
BiographyDumile Feni
… Feni was born on 21 May 1942 in Worcester, Western Cape. His mother died when he was only five or six years old and he went to live with relatives in Cape…
BiographyGladstone Xala Tshume
… Gladstone Xala Tshume was born on 1912, he joined the Communist Party of South Africa (CPSA) in the late 1930s while working for a coal dealer in … the…
January 8th Statements - Statement of the National Executive Committee on the occasion of the 101th Anniversary of the ANC by Jacob Zuma
… Statement of the National Executive Committee on the occasion of the 101th … of the United Democratic Front in Mitchell’s Plain in Cape Town, uniting the…
BiographyDerrick Vusimusi Nxumalo
… in a private hotel in Scottburgh and as a gardener on the Berea in Durban. He first went to the African Art Centre, Durban in 1985 where he received … works…
BiographyDulcie Evonne September
… Dulcie Evonne September, the second eldest daughter of Jakobus and Susan September was … with family in Gleemoor, a section of Athlone (a suburb in Cape Town…
BiographyLawrence Folley
… Webster and music theory with Gillian Davies who trained the Benoni Orpheus Choir. Lawrence was soon given the … Lawrence forged some powerful stage…
BiographyFrances Herman Gow
… Frances Herman Gow was born in 1887 in Cape Town, the son of a Coloured mother and an Afro-American father. He was educated in America and became a Bishop…
BiographyThabiso Johannes Thelejane
… Johannes Thelejane (55) was from Pabellong, Matatiele in the Eastern Cape. He began working for Lonmin in October 2011. On 16 … Mr Thelejane was killed at…