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BiographyNeville Allan Lewis
… he set up a studio in London after the First World War. His career in England was punctuated by return visits to … equivalents, in a sense, of the gypsies of…
BiographyRobert Gabriel Mugabe
… who had been trained as a carpenter by the Jesuits. His mother, Bona, belonged to the Shona ethnic group and … greatly affected the family and Mugabe in…
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1980s
… Erikssen, resigns with effect from July 1980, his health having deteriorated after the exposure of Craig … wing he re-affirms that the party will continue to…
ArticleBoipatong massacre - 17 June 1992
… Then on the 19 June, religious figures Bishop Desmond Tutu and afterwards Ray Macauley visited the grieving … chanting “To hell with de Klerk -- go away, go…
Mahomed “Chota” Motala
… After qualifying as a medical doctor in 1947 and doing his internship, he returned to South Africa to set up a … He was the second Black doctor to do so…
BiographyRussel Botman
… Bloemfontein, Orange Free State (now Free State Province). His mother had supported his family by working as a typist for the “coloured” … Orange Free State …
BiographyProfessor Carel Boshoff
… November 1927, a second child from the second marriage of his father. He spent his early life on a cattle farm in the Waterberg. During this … J G Strijdom …
BiographyMichiel Hendrik Nesser
… Lusaskop, Philipstown. He received informal teaching from his father. Nesser was a great reader and his favourite authors were Sir Walter Scott and Jacob van…
BiographyMgcineni Noki
… 1 after being shot 14 times by the police, including in his head, neck, legs, buttock, elbow, calf and thighs. He left behind his wife and five young…
BiographyA. B. Nogoya
… Defiance Campaign led a batch of 40 volunteers to defy apartheid regulations, for which he served two months … the Defiance Campaignled a batch of 40…
BiographyOscar Dumisani Dhlomo
… went to the University College of Zululand, completing his BA in History and Anthropology in 1965. In 1967 he obtained his University Education Diploma…
BiographyCijimpi Mnyandu
… the banishment order. The official reasons provided for his banishment were that, fromSeptember 1957, Mnyaunduwas the … [Bantu Affairs Department] officials…
BiographyMakhwenkwe Harrison Butshingi
… better wages and working conditions. From June 1948, until his retirement from the union, he was involved in … African Cricket Board from 1956-1970 when he…
BiographyRissik Haribhai "Barney" Desai
… up as an Indian but was "reclassified" Coloured in 1957. His father was an accountant born in India and his mother was classified as Malay.As a teenager he…
BiographyKippie Jeremiah Moeketsi
… 27 July 1925. As a young boy, he watched and listened to his older brothers playing jazz instruments, thus, influencing his musical taste later in life…
BiographyJames “Sofasonke” Mpanza
… who often rode horseback in Orlando and who built his following into a cultlike organization for the contesting … experienced a Christian conversion, became…
BiographyTikkie Sibisi
… 1975 and grew up in Duduza Township with a single parent, his father, and three sisters. (At the age of four his mother died during the ritual of Sangoma…
BiographyGaus Shikomba
… to Pretoria. He was later brought back to Namibia for his trial. He was found guilty and sentenced to life imprisonment on Robben Island where he remained…
BiographyMatsilela Ephraim “Jomo” Sono
… in Soweto, Johannesburg on 17 July 1955. At the age of 8, his father Eric “Scara” Bamuza Sono, a midfielder for … Pirates in the 1960s, died from a car…
BiographyTheophilus Doctorson Khumalo
… Valve” was born in Soweto, Johannesburg on 26 June 1967. His father Eliakim “Pro” Khumalo, was a renowned footballer in the 1970s and 1980s. When Khumalo…
ArchiveThe Life of Trevor Huddleston, Makhalipile (the Dauntless One) by Victoria Vandiver, 3 May 2018
… a white man, others were more readily willing to listen to his message than if he had been black. He created … maintained a presence in Sophiatown for forty…
Toast Remarks of the President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki, at the State Banquet in honour of the President of the Republic of Botswana, His Excellency, Festus Mogae, Cape Town, 25 October 2005
… in honour of the President of the Republic of Botswana, His Excellency, Festus Mogae, Cape Town, 25 October 2005 …
Statement of the President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki, at the Joint Sitting of Parliament on the Release of Hon Jacob Zuma from his Responsibilities as Deputy President: National Assembly, 14 June 2005.
… of Parliament on the Release of Hon Jacob Zuma from his Responsibilities as Deputy President: National Assembly, …
Reply by the President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki, to the Toast Remarks by his Excellency, the President of the Hellenic Republic, Constantinos Stephanopoulos at the Presidential Palace, Athens, Greece, 24 February 2005.
… of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki, to the Toast Remarks by his Excellency, the President of the Hellenic Republic, …
BiographyKenneth Hlaku Rachidi
… Maria and Manabane Rachidi and had three other siblings. His parents were both school teachers in the area. He spent most of his early years staying with…
Alfred ‘Tough’ Hutchinson
… the 1950s. He taught briefly in Pimville High School until his dismissal for participation in the 1952 Defiance … the University of the Witwatersrand but did…
BiographyHonorine Margaret Withers
… England and SA. Art critic Melvin Simmers referred to her work as "dull", dismissing it as mere "topographical …
BiographyVuyani “The Beast” Bungu
… high school before dropping out at grade nine to follow his passionate sport, boxing. During his amateur career Bungu won 108 fights and suffered 20 ……
BiographyBarend Jacobus Du Plessis
… High School. After matriculating in 1956 he obtained his B.Sc. degree in 1960 at Potchefstroom University of Higher Christian Education and in 1961 also…
BiographyBonakele Milner Ntsangani
… He attended school at Welsh High in East London, where his father worked. After school Ntsangani worked in P.E. and … During the 1970s and 1980s Ntsangani’s…