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BiographySteve Hilton-Barber
… savage noble and the noble savages. Photography and an African Initiation”, engendered much debate. He photographed … as that around the depiction of the…
BiographyVirginia Engel
… against teachers. She joined the National Union of South African Students (NUSAS) in 1971 and attended a conference … and Barney Pityana , and…
BiographyMazisi Raymond Kunene
… he taught for 19 years. He eventually became Professor of African Languages and Literature at that campus, a, post that … Tambo and Robert Resha . After…
BiographyAntjie Krog
… Heinemann and a book, Country of my Skull , on the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission published by … journalism, the Allan Paton award for…
BiographyThelma Gutsche
… 1950 Gutsche also wrote a series of articles on the South African film industry for the Cape Times. While living in … During World War II , Gutsche was hired…
BiographyJohnstone Mfanafuthi Makhathini
… his time to organizing the people as an activist of the African National Congress (ANC). He became a key youth … against apartheid in the UN and the…
George Montsioa
… of the Supreme Court of South Africa. He is third African Barrister in South Africa. Mr. Montsioa commenced his … black. In 1912 he was appointed recording…
Document 38 - Certification of the Constitution; a summary of the judgment of the Constitutional Court
… of Defiance against Unjust Laws" - launched jointly by the African National Congress of South Africa and the South … Nehru, took the initiative for a joint…
BiographyMohammed Valli Moosa
… and in 1977 was an executive member of the South African Students Organisation (SASO) when it was banned. … role in protests around the formation of the…
BiographyDr Silas Modiri Molema
… Dr. Molema was a good speaker and one of the foremost African scholars. He married the daughter of Rev. M.J. … Montshioa. Since the 1940s, Dr Molema was…
BiographyWim Botha
… Heaven, purgatory and hell revisited by contemporary African artists at the MMK (Museum für Moderne Kunst), … Donaueschingen, Germany (2014); Imaginary Fact:…
BiographyThenjiwe Mtintso
… Gana Makabeni was a trade unionist and a member of the African National Congress (ANC). Mtintso faced financial … At university she became a student…
BiographyBen Mclennan
… later worked as a parliamentary reporter for the South African Press Association (SAPA), spending his time between … Cape. Mclennan’s photographs were…
BiographyNkosinathi Christopher ‘Nko’ Mbuyabo
… organizations, Mbuyabo established a branch of the African Congress Youth League (ANCYL) in Welcomewood. He was … his involvement with progressive…
BiographyNyangana Zithulele Absolom Cindi
… Orlando West High School while his was there he joined the African Students' Movement in the 1960s. In October 1968, he … 1973 Cindi wrote a letter of…
BiographyDaniel Moabi (Dan) Mohapi
… workers under the banner of the Congress of South African Congress of Trade Unions (COSATU). In the late … the Gauteng Provincial Executive Committee of the …
BiographyYusuf Cachalia
… on 15 January 1915. A leading figure in the South African Indian Congress (SAIC) in the 1940s and 1950s, who was instrumental in bringing about African…
BiographyJoyce Sikhakhane-Rankin
… where she grew up as a child. Her father was a lecturer in African languages at the University of the Witwatersrand who … Church. In 1954 Bantu Education was…
BiographyNadine Gordimer
… sent me falling, falling through the surface of the South African way of life,’ Gordimer has said. In the 1980s … being a founder member and patron of the…
BiographyJan Hendrik Hofmeyer Hoogendyk
… to Jackie, an accountant. He enlisted with the South African Forces in 1942 to fight against Nazi Germany during … baby. He was also an active member of the…
BiographyBrigalia Bam
… Rights. She worked as the general secretary for the South African Council of Churches between 1997 and 1998. She was a … a board member of the Matla Trust as…
BiographyWilton Zimasile Mkwayi
… clerk, and a stevedore.He became a union organiser for the African Textile Workers in Port Elizabeth in the early 1950s, he later served as treasurer of the…
BiographyJonathan Ngwenya
… until 1994, after which he was integrated into the South African National Defence Force (SANDF) as a major and … and later joined the Directing Staff at…
Address by President Nelson Mandela at the Opening Session of the South Centre’s Council of Representatives New York, 21 September 1998
… to realize the principles laid down by the visionaries of Bandung. The NAM and the Group of 77 and China represent the …
ArticleHistory Grade 11 - Topic 3 Contextual Overview
… into four groups, namely European, Asiatic, American and African. He believed that there were more similarities than … into five groups namely; Negro …
150th Anniversary; Anxieties of Commemoration - Towards a National Dialogue by Omar Badsha and Jon Soske
… extent does celebrating ?Indian contributions? to South African history falsely isolate the lives and struggles of … it would do justice to the immense…
BiographyIndres Naidoo
… ("Spear of the Nation") (MK), the military wing of the African National Congress (ANC) in 1961 and joined the South African Communist Party (SACP) in 1961…
BiographyRowley Israel Arenstein
… Of Democrats in Natal,a legal advisor to the South African Congress of Trade Unions (SACTU) and ANC. He joined … following the Suppression of Communism Act …
ArticleTreason Trial 1956 - 1961
… the government had allowed the Congress of the People in 1955, to take place. In 1956, their question was answered … as 'co-conspirators'. Amongst those…
BiographyDirk Johannes Coetzee
… of Pretoria, Gauteng, as the headquarters of the South African Police counterinsurgency unit working for the … Vlakplaas police squad.Coetzee ordered the…