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BiographyProfessor Bernard Magubane
… everything that I had learned for my PhD, I had to unlearn from the lectures he gave... That's when I became interested … movement. He worked with with his…
BiographyEnoch Mgijima
… ordered Mgijima's followers to remove their settlement from crown lands, they resisted and police opened fire, … gained an independent following he began to…
BiographyMoses Mauane Kotane
… western Transvaal on 9th of August in 1905, Kotane came from a devoutly Christian peasant family of Tswana origin. … Lazar Bach, then chairman of the CPSA,…
BiographyPius Nkonzo Langa
… a prosecutor and later a magistrate. In 1977, he resigned from the Department of Justice, and in June of that year was … on its steering committee. Langa…
BiographyEthel Walt
… her courage and conviction forced her to move away from this comfort to fight against the injustices of … (now North West Province), who had already been…
BiographyJohnson Phillip Mlambo
… struggle. Towards his release, he was transferred from Robben Island to Leeukop prison on 6 May 1983 and … of the Central Committee on 12 August 1985. He…
Samuel Chibane
… to attack government installations, stealing bombs from a government arsenal and sabotage. He was convicted …
BiographyPatrick O’Connor
… O'Connor was born in Bloemfontein. From 1960 to 1964 he studied at WITS where he obtained a …
BiographyMatsilela Ephraim “Jomo” Sono
… a midfielder for Orlando Pirates in the 1960s, died from a car crash. At the time his mother abandoned him. Sono …
BiographyPious Goodman Mei
… in 1956. He was one of the accused in the Treason trial from December 1956 until charges against him were dropped in …
Address by President Nelson Mandela to the interfaith commissioning service for the Truth and Reconciliation Commission Cape Town, 13 February 1996
… The Right Honourable Rev. Desmond Tutu, Chairperson of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission; … ensure lasting reconciliation. South Africa's transition…
EventDanie Malan, SA athlete, sets a new world record in the 1 000m event in Munich
… Boland area of the Cape, where he took part in athletics from a young age. Malan began to take athletics seriously … After school, Malan obtained a Bachelor…
PlaceStatue of President Paul Kruger, Pretoria
… Africa, there had been calls for the removal of the statue from its location due to it being viewed as an "Icon of … Commission'. The body, chaired by…
BiographyJohn Thomas Baines
… profession in favour of painting, a craft he had learnt from the painter William Carr. Baines left England for South … himself in the Eastern Cape between…
BiographyHester Elizabeth Cornelius
… This undermined wage negotiations and brought criticism from the left-wing unions such as the South African Congress of the Trade Unions (SACTU) . Hester…
BiographyLord Kitchener
… Peace Conference that ended the Second Boer War. Standing (from left to right): Col. Henderson, van Velden, Maj. Watson, H. Fraser, Maj. Maxwell, H. de Jager…
BiographyDr Nomava Eslinah Shangase
… National Congress (ANC) answered an emergency call for aid from the Government of Tanzania . The country had just … Political Committee in East Africa, until…
BiographyEdwin Thabo Mofutsanyana
… and also served on the central committee and as editor, from 1945, of Inkululeko, the Communist paper. He was one of … A member of Johannesburg's Orlando…
BiographyJean Bernadt (nee Alkin)
… in the 1960s the Bernadts were under constant surveillance from the police. After her ban was lifted she withdrew from her political activities and focused…
Eric Anthony Abraham
… Eric Anthony Abraham was from Wynberg, Cape Town, Western Province (now Western Cape). …
BiographyJoseph Morolong
… Congress of Trade Unions. A defendant in the Treason Trial from December 1956 until December 1957, he was detained in …
In the Belly of the Beast - Speech at Conference of the International Committee against Apartheid, Racism and Colonialism in Southern Africa (ICSA) by O. R. Tambo, Stockholm, April 1980
… he called "detente" the then racist Prime Minister, John Vorster, accompanied by Eschel Rhoodie and the head of BOSS, … and like earlier victories, it has…
Chapter 7 - ‘We Are Also People’
… From the book: Le Rona Re Batho (An account of the 1982 … His friend telling me this, had tears in his eyes. In 1976 he was elected Chairperson. Some Dad,…
BiographyFrancis William Reitz
… was born in Swellendam in 1844. He became an advocate and from 1874 was the President of the Orange Free State Appeal …
BiographyAnele Mdizeni
… Anele Mdizeni (29) was from Elliotdale in the Eastern Cape. He started working for …
BiographyJohn Moshoeu
… Cup Final where his team lost to Dynamos. He then moved from Blackpool and joined Kaizer Chiefs in the early 1990s. …
BiographyPitika Ntuli
… apartheid government to which resulted in him being exiled from South Africa. He arrived in the UK in 1978, after having … Newtown, Johannesburg. On display…
BiographyAlex la Guma
… South African Act Amendment Bill that removed Coloureds from the common voters role. In December 1956 la Guma, along … slapped with a five-year banning order…
EventJean-Bedel Bokassa, ruler of Central African Empire, crowns himself.
… was the head of State of the Central African Republic from 1 January 1966 to 4 December 1976. After eleven years as president he dissolved the … guilty of…
BiographyGodfrey I. M. Mzamane
… in the Transkei in 1909 and obtained B.A. and M.A. degrees from Fort Hare. He taught at St. Peter's Secondary School in …