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The ideas that influenced the independent states?
… The ideas that influenced the independent states? …
”The African Mine Workers’ Strike-A National Struggle.”flyer issued by the ANC Youth League, August 1946
… The African Mine Workers have risen in revolt against the most brutal, callous and inhuman exploitation of man by … ”The African Mine Workers’ Strike-A…
BiographyLouis Washkansky
… came to South Africa aged 9, and became a grocer in Cape Town’s Greenpoint area. Washkansky saw active service in … Africa and Italy. His wife Ann, he met…
BiographyRosamund Everard-Steenkamp
… in avantgarde circles in Paris. Her work was shown on the First Annual Exhibition of Contemporary National Art staged by the SA Art Gallery (SANG) in co…
BiographyImam Abdullah Haron
… on 8 February 1924 in Newlands-Claremont, an area which in the late twentieth century became a very prosperous commercial centre in Cape Town’s southern…
BiographyNadine Gordimer
… descent. From her early childhood, Gordimer witnessed how the White minority increasingly weakened the few rights of … The Viking Press, 1971. Selected…
ArticleTimeline of the History of Rugby in South Africa
… first recorded rugby match in South Africa at Green Point, Cape Town, Western Cape between the Army and the Civil service. 1879 Founding of the first ……
BiographyW Mati
… Born in 1923, Mati worked as a clerk. He joined the African National Congress in 1946. He was active in the 1949 bus boycott in Port Elizabeth. Mati served…
EventThe TEC decides on Bophuthatswana’s incorporation following major unrest
… On 14 March, 1994, the Transitional Executive Council (TEC) management committee … decided on a new administration for Bophuthatswana. The decision followed…
EventInauguration ceremony of the South African College School (SACS) takes place
… The South African College School (SACS) was inaugurated at … giving impetus to the formation of the first school in Cape Town. The idea of establishing SACS…
BiographyH. A. Naidoo
… Naidoo was born in Durban in 1915 and was recruited into the Communist Party in the mid-1930s by Edward Roux. He became an active trade … Communist Party,…
ArticleSouth Africa and the Olympic Games
… Background What is today referred to as the “Ancient Olympic Games”, was a sports festival celebrated … “South Africa” was in 1896 the two British colonies,…
BiographyRobert M. Resha
… born in Bolotwe,Queenstown, Eastern Province [Now Eastern Cape] on 9 March 1920. He completed eight years of formal … school and in his late teens went to…
BiographyKgosi Abram Ramotshere Moiloa
… [Chief] Abram Ramotshere Pogiso Moiloa, a key figure in the Bahurutshe resistance of the 1950s, took office in 1932 … Native Reserve’ in the Victoria East…
BiographyJoseph Alfers
… Alfers was born in 1949 in Umbumbulu, where his father was the Assistant Native Commissioner. He attended school and … Documentary Photographers Conference…
BiographyDr Arthur Elias Letele
… inspector. His mother, Catherine, was of Xhosa decent. The Letele family immigrated to South Africa shortly after … at the Lovedale Institution in Alice in…
BiographyNicolaas Cornelius Carstens
… composer of accordion music. He got his first accordion at the age of 13 and won an adult music competition six months later. He composed his first music…
BiographyMolly Wolton
… Wolton about 1925 and together they became prime movers in the Communist Party of South Africa (CPSA) by the late 1920s. In mid-1929 she left South Africa…
BiographyMargaret Mary Smith
… on 26 September 1916 in Indwe, a small village in the former Transkei . [i] Her father, Chisholm MacDonald, who … 8 September 1987 she died in Grahamstown,…
BiographyNdazana Nathaniel Nakasa (Nat Nakasa)
… Nakasa was born on 12 May 1937 in Lusikisiki, Eastern Cape. Nakasa was the second of three children of Joseph Nakasa and his wife, … and was turned down…
BiographyEli Weinberg
… Eli Weinberg was born in 1908 in the port of Libau, in Latvia on the Baltic Sea. He … he left Latvia, and on 9 December 1929 he arrived in Cape Town…
BiographyJabulile Nyawose
… education. There was little time for their home life, so the youngest of their children, a little girl, grew up in the … Ivan Pillay that she wanted to leave…
Chapter VII - The 1980’s
… From the book: Side by Side by Helen Joseph Two of our most loved … She told me of her plans to travel, to go to Durban, to Cape Town to stay freely in…
The Role of the Missionaries in conquest - Introduction
… From the book: The Role of the Missionaries in conquest by … by the herronvolk as truth and taught to the young in schools and universities. It can be…
ArticleKing Kong the Musical 1959 -1961
… King Kong: An African Jazz , was the first all-Black South African musical which opened in 2 February 1959. The musical chronicles the rise and fall of…
BiographyPatricia Horn
… Pat Horn initially got exposed to politics in the early 1970s through her involvement with adult literacy … started a literacy project involving factory…
Archaeology: A Way of Rediscovering the Past
… How do we find out about the past? For recent events where there was personal … of that time. Books and films also inform about the past. How do the writers…
BiographyJohn Bidwell Mancoe
… John Bidwell Mancoe was born in 1895 in Reddersburg in the Orange Free State, he graduated from Healdtown and became a teacher. In 1923 he joined the …
Pledging to Debate History: Values and education
… values and dealing with the legacy of racism in our schools. It will be important to know what impact its … and brought to the newly established 'station' at…
January 8th Statements - Statement of the National Executive Committee on the occasion of the 74th Anniversary of the ANC - 8 January 1986
… organised youth and student movement reaching into all schools and all areas of our country, capable of continuing … find a way to overcome all obstacles…