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BiographyRuth Elizabeth Arndt
… Arndt was born in Canada in 1890 and died in South Africa in 1982. In South Africa, Arndt set about informing the government on the … life president of the…
BiographyHenry ‘Mr Drum’ Nxumalo
… had the sense that great things were about to happen in Africa and that a responsible and independent press would … journalists like Nxumalo. Mainstream…
BiographyOmar Badsha
… Muslim community. His grandparents immigrated to South Africa from India in the first decade following the formation of the Union of South Africa in 1910 …
BiographyChief Mangosuthu Gatsha Buthelezi
… (ANC) leader, Oliver Tambo . Upon his return to South Africa, Buthelezi’s passport was confiscated for the next … and economy. With anti-apartheid leaders…
Excerpts from discussions between a South African delegation led by Minister R F Botha and a United States delegation led by Deputy Secretary of State, Frank Wisner, on questions affecting South West Africa and Angola: Cape Town, 13 March 1986
… of State, Frank Wisner, on questions affecting South West Africa and Angola: Cape Town, 13 March 1986 …
BiographyDezso Koenig
… was born in Budapest, Hungary, 1902. He emigrated to South Africa from Hungary in 1931. After his training at the … and Italy. Although he exhibited…
BiographyAdvocate Israel “Isie” Aaron Maisels
… 1905 in Johannesburg, Transvaal (now Gauteng), South Africa. His father, Henry Maisels, had come to South Africa with his siblings and parents in the 1890s…
BiographyMotsoko Pheko
… of their parents, Pheko and his brother came to South Africa to live with their aunt, E.M. Moerane. In 1960, Pheko … anti-apartheid activities, Pheko was…
BiographyElza Miles (Botha)
… research into the lives of African artists in South Africa. When the late Sipho Sepamla invited her in 1986 to … Mancoba (1904-2002) of whom art historians…
BiographyChief Hendrik ‘Hennie’ van Wyk
… period – after that, examinations and curriculums in South Africa were segregated by race. During this period in Cape … was one of over 50,000 individuals…
BiographyIan Berry
… Born in Lancashire in 1934 Ian Berry moved to South Africa in 1952. Roger Madden, a South African photographer … to make his living as a freelancer,…
BiographyNana Henrietta Moabi
… and is listed by the Office of the Special Adviser on Africa in the United Nations (UN) directory of Non … shortly after the first democratic elections in…
BiographyOscar Mpetha
… freedom in his lifetime was fulfilled. He voted in South Africa’s first democratic elections in April 1994 to win a …
BiographyJim Bailey
… the Second World War ended in 1945, Bailey moved to South Africa to take care of the business interests left by his … Drum covered sport, crime, sex and the…
BiographyPhilemon Masinga
… team, Jomo Midas Cosmos. In 1992 Masinga represented South Africa in the first international game against Cameroon in … Mkhalele and Jerry Sikosana. He had…
PlaceSouth African Library, Cape Town
… The National Library of South Africa, as we know it today, was formed on 1 November 1999 as … Workshops Recitals; Weddings and Film Shoots .' South Africa…
BiographyMalcolm Payne
… and codes that relate to the experience of living in South Africa today.” The diverse media that he uses gain meaning … Trust Award and the South African…
BiographyJonathan Clegg
… age of seven, before he and his mother emigrated to South Africa after her marriage to a South African journalist who … where Clegg spent two years before…
BiographyMax Yergan
… College. From about 1920 to 1936 he lived in South Africa as a representative of the Young Men's Christian … movement of the early 1960s. In 1952 he returned…
BiographyAlfred Mangena
… 1910 he returned home as the first Black African in South Africa to qualify as an attorney.Founding member of the … in becoming a solicitor of the Supreme…
George Montsioa
… law and was called to the Side Bar, and returned to South Africa a Barrister-at-law of the Lincoln Inn. He was admitted as a solicitor of the Supreme Court…
BiographyJoel Joffe
… privilege to defend them.” Following the trial, South Africa offered him the opportunity to leave as long as he … left Joffe with a renewed sense “of how…
BiographyJ. Congress M. Mbata
… in Pietermaritzburg. In the mid-1960s he left South Africa and has since held teaching posts at Northwestern and … States. His writings include "Race and…
BiographyProfessor Carel Boshoff
… as Secretary of the Dutch Reformed Church in Southern Africa. In 1967 he became member of the Theology Dept. at the … and ethnic communities. He was…
Address of the President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki, at the Commemoration of the 50th Anniversary of 1956 Women’s March: Union Buildings, Tshwane, 9 August 2006
… Barbara Creecy, Deputy President of the Republic of South Africa, Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, Your Excellency, … Ambassadors and High Commissioners, Women of…
BiographySelaelo Charles 'Dan' Ramusi
… He mastermind and implemented successful missions in South Africa mobilising, spreading the political message and … being part of his contributions towards…
BiographyDr Ahmed Ismail Limbada
… (NEUM), later known as the Unity Movement of South Africa (UMSA) and then the New Unity Movement of South Africa (NEUM). When Dr Limbada returned to Dundee…
I will not Compromise About my Work: David Goldblatt on Artistic Freedom, Censorship, and Moving His Archive Out of South Africa by Robin Scher ( ArtsNews.com), 2017
… a university staff member, includes art by some of South Africa’s most celebrated artists, including Breyten … Upon realizing there was no ready repository…
BiographyArnold Selby
… Arnold Selby was born on 14 November 1918 in South Africa. He joined the liberation struggle in the 1940s. His … the trade union movement and the Communist…
Memorandum submitted by the Central Committee of the Communist Party of South Africa to the Select Committee on the Unlawful Organisations Bill
… by the Central Committee of the Communist Party of South Africa to the Select Committee on the Unlawful Organisations …