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BiographyThembile Benson Ndimba
… politics in 1937 during the mass removal of the people from the African township of Korsten and one of Korsten's … in politics in 1937 during the mass…
Artscape: Legacy Exhibition
… African Nobel Peace Laureates; Nelson Mandela, Desmond Tutu, FW De Klerk and Albert Luthuli. He feels that these … oppressed. Alexander has integrated…
BiographyPatricia Jobodwana
… was the first and youngest Black woman to graduate from a South African university. She enrolled at Fort Hare … Youngest Black women to graduate from a South…
BiographyMogamat Taufie Bardien
… in 1923, Bardien had little formal schooling. He ran away from home at 16 to join the Cape Coloured Corps and was … Times, July 7. [Accessed 26 February 2009…
Mobilise Our Black Power - Statement to the People of South Africa on the Tenth Anniversary of Umkhonto we Sizwe by O. R. Tambo, 16 December 1971
… to redeem their human dignity and fundamental liberties from the shackles of bondage. They are revolting against … barrels of guns and homemade bombs let us…
ArticleVlakplaas and the History of Apartheid's Death Squad
… squads were in operation inside and outside the country from 1969 to 1994 [3] . Vlakplaas was one of these squads and … along the banks of the Hennops river …
BiographyMagdelene Malotane Adams
… her primary school education. She married Simon Adams from Rustenburg and the family had three children. …
Abraham Pule
… Abraham Pule was released from Robben Island prison on the 21st of March 1991. His …
PlaceThe Owl House
… created the Owl House between the years of 1945 and 1976 with the attempt to bring light, colour and life into … partnership. The owl sculptures and…
ArticleBlack Consciousness: Cultural Expression and Representation
… brought about the emergence of protest literature, a shift from the more entertaining stories published in Drum Magazine … any group who yielded power. This…
ArchiveAzikhwelwa: Parents co-operate with us!
… calling for a boycott and stayaway by parents and workers from the 13-15 September 1976 in sympathy with those killed or detained by the police. …
BiographyAubrey Levin
… the National Party’s anti-Semitic exclusion of Jews from its ranks, Levin’s family were ardent supporters of the … objectors, drug users, homosexual or in…
Francis Zaccharius Santiago Peregrino
… the couple had two children. In 1887, Peregrino moved from England to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in America. (He may … that Blacks should uplift themselves…
BiographyIsmail Mahomed
… In order to practise as an advocate he was forced to move from his hometown of Pretoria, where racist barriers at the … 1974 the Mahomed family were…
BiographyPaul Grendon
… to study Fine Art. He received a Diploma in Fine Art from the Michaelis School of Fine Art at the University of … the national anthem Die Stem, and mimics…
Subbiah Moodley
… His grandparents on both sides of the family came from India as indentured workers. His paternal grandfather, … in poverty was an abiding memory of Moodley’s…
BiographyAlan Robert Lipman
… because “it was then the only organisation where people from all races came together.”At the time, the CPSA was under … known to leave the country in time…
PlacePaternoster, West Coast
… originals by Artists such as: Hennie Meyer ; Theo Paul Vorster and Judy Woodbourne- ( who is an artist/printmaker … threaded with Shells and it's only a 90…
ArchiveThe sad secret kept by the trailblazing South African Steve Mokone
… in Holland’s third division. But in 1993 no one had heard from him since. “My father always used to tell me about this … in the middle of the night in 1959…
BiographyR. Daniel
… Associated with the trade union movement from the early 1930s, he was known as a Trotskyist in his …
BiographyHailu Mergia
… music privately, was rediscovered by the Awesome Tapes from Africa label, whose re-releases in the 2010s assisted … om/2016/06/12/hailu-mergia-interview…
BiographyNokugcina Elsie Mhlophe
… South African rural schools. Her work has received awards from BBC Africa Service for Radio Drama, The Fringe First … New York. Gcina Mhlophe has received…
BiographyMarlene van Niekerk
… and prodigious literary giant, van Niekerk matriculated from Hoërskool Bloemhof and proceeded to study Language and … in Stuttgart and Mainz as an apprentice…
BiographyGertrud Theiler
… a year at Rhodes University College in Grahamstown and from there went to the South African College in Cape Town, from where she graduated with a BSc degree…
BiographyClive Edward Butler Rice
… His education started at St. Johns College and from there to Damelin College in Johannesburg and later the … Nottinghamshire County Club in England attracted…
BiographyAri Sitas
… and transformation processes which have shifted society from an authoritarian colonial enclave into a democratic and … the work he and others put in place to…
BiographyWim Botha
… town on the eastern side of Pretoria. In 1996 he graduated from the University of Pretoria with a BA (Visual Art) in … Art Museum, Helsinki (2010); Olvida…
BiographyDr Mathume Joseph “Joe” Phaahla
… became a member of the Students Representative Council from 1979 to 1981. The following year in 1980, he served as … and Sport in the Northern Cape…
BiographyPhilip Ata Kgosana
… day Limpopo), the son of a minister. He graduated from the Lady Selborne High School in Pretoria in 1958 and … the historic march he led in 1960. H walked…
BiographyNcumisa Chwayita Kondlo
… Peddie in the Eastern Cape . Kondlo was politically active from an early age. In her student days at Fort Hare, Alice, … to the South African women’s…