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BiographyAndimba Herman Toivo Ya Toivo
… retrospectively to convict these political activists from Namibia. Toivo Ya Toivo made a speech at the trial which … prisoners were kept in Section D. He was…
New year message to the ANC external mission by Oliver Tambo, 01 January 1971
… a new year is the occasion for the exchange of greetings. From this southern part of the world of progressive peoples, … powerful enemy attacks on our…
New Year Message to the ANC External Mission by O. R. Tambo, 1 January 1971
… a new year is the occasion for the exchange of greetings. From this southern part of the world of progressive peoples, … powerful enemy attacks on our…
Statement by President Mandela on receiving the report of the TRC Pretoria, 29 October 1998
… Chairperson of the TRC, The Most Reverend Desmond Tutu Presiding Officers of our Houses of Parliament Ministers … who dared to open the wounds of guilt so as…
Statement by the ANC on the Invasion of Angola by South African Troops by O. R. Tambo, 31 October 1975
… advantage of the economic and military strength of the Vorster fascist regime. For their part, the South African … In their criminal invasion of Angola, they…
BiographyRichard Granville Baloyi
… the position of South African Railways and competition from the better funded white-owned operations.Baloyi was often involved in disputes concerning bus…
BiographyMaggie Resha
… while living with her aunt, which was a three mile walk from her home. The school only had two rooms, shared … ANC Youth League. Thus began her involvement…
BiographyMagdaline ‘Maggie’ Resha
… while living with her aunt, which was a three mile walk from her home. The school only had two rooms, shared … League (ANCYL) . Thus began her involvement in…
ArticleLiberal Party of South Africa (LPSA)
… divisive legislation. This was met by strong opposition from the African National Congress (ANC), South African … established Contact as its official…
EventThree British mercenaries are sentenced to death for their part in the Angolan civil war
… In January 1976, a group of 100 mercenaries crossed over from the Democratic Republic of the Congo (then Zaire) to … in Luanda, Angola, sentencing commenced…
BiographyErnest Methuen Mancoba
… Johannesburg, Transvaal (Gauteng) on 29 August 1904. From 1920 to 1924 Mancoba trained as a teacher at the … Limpopo) and received early guidance in wood…
BiographySimon Moroke Lekgetho
… matriculation certificate through correspondence. Apart from books on drawing and painting techniques which he … for private study, he also enjoyed guidance…
BiographyTheophilus Dymond Field
… Dymond Field was a casualty of the controversial sale from the SANG in 1947 when his The Bell Tower, Genadendal was lost from the collection, this…
BiographyHeinrich Egersdorfer
… Kimberley, the Witwatersrand and Rhodesia. A Dandy back from the Mines presumably dates from this period. He also began painting wildlife studies in …
BiographyIzak de Villiers
… talk about Mother Teresa of Avila or his beloved Paarl" (from Barron, C. 2009). He died ten days after being diagnosed with motor neuron disease from which,…
BiographyMandla Nkosi
… Soweto. He then studied at the Mofolo Arts Centre Soweto from 1982 to 1983 under Cyril Manganye. In 1983 Nkosi won an … His art has been shown in more than…
BiographyBonakele Milner Ntsangani
… in Port Elizabeth and in the 1952 Defiance Campaign , from which he was banned. While working as a sales agent in … He was a sickly person since childhood as…
BiographyEbrahim Rasool
… he took a teaching position at Spine Road High School. From 1991 to 1994 he was Assistant to the Rector of the … ties with the UDF. He held this position…
BiographySheila Cussons
… instead of English, advice is said to have received from fellow poet D.J. Opperman. From 1942, her poems appeared in the Afrikaans magazine Die … Author…
Sefofane Samuel "Solly Smith" Khunyeli
… ANC in late 1983,then as head of the ANC's Paris office from 1988 to 1991. In 1987 he survived a kidnapping attempt … in the mid-1980s into unwittingly…
BiographyZachius Botlhoko Molete
… a belief in Mda's ideology of nationalism. Graduating from Fort Hare in 1953, he taught briefly in the Free State, … of African Leaders but later withdrew…
BiographyZainunnisa “Cissie” Gool
… School and later earned Bachelor's and Master's degrees from the University of Cape Town, then in 1962 a law degree … and served as its first president. In…
BiographyAdams Farid Ahmed
… Trial , Regina v. F. Adams and others, which lasted from 1956 to March 1961. At the time of his arrest for … a clerk. He was banned in July 1961 for five…
BiographyJohannes Maswanganyi
… Province.Although younger than many of the sculptors from rural northern Limpopo, Johannes Maswanganyi, similarly, … late 1980s. Different, however, is that…
BiographyMohamed Hajee Joosub
… As an Indian trader Joosub had to contend with hostility from Dutch burghers, but after the founding of the Transvaal … South Africa with him as a business…
BiographyMartha Helena Cillie
… Daniel Cillié and his wife, Martha Helena Marais. She came from an illustrious family. Her father, one of the ten … Rochelle Girls' High School. In September…
BiographyHamilton Naki
… with the care of laboratory animals. He soon progressed from cleaning cages to more advanced laboratory work. Naki … Apartheid Hamilton was disadvantaged…
BiographyPauline Podbrey
… on the life of Podbrey. She used to listen to meetings from the balcony and learned about the political situation … of Youth run by Hilda Bernstein . She…
BiographyBernard Lazarus Sigamoney
… boxing promoter in Durban. Sigamoney took a break from South African politics in December 1922 and travelled … in St Anthony’s grounds for tenants who had…
BiographyMary Maria Burton
… chair of the organisation's Western Cape regional council from 1974 to 1986 but in between 1979 and 1982 she enrolled … the Black Sash would begin to…