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ArchiveAfricans in Cape Town: State Policy and Popular Resistance, 1936-73 by B Kinkead-Weekes
… Department of History, University of Cape Town … Africans in Cape Town: State Policy and Popular Resistance, 1936-73 by B …
ArchiveThe student movement in the struggle for democracy
… Speech by the guest speaker, Joe Phaahla, President of the Azanian … National Union of South African Students, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, 28…
January 8th Statements - Statement of the National Executive Committee on the occasion of the 69th Anniversary of the ANC - 8 January 1981
… Statement. Compatriots and Comrades, Fellow-fighters for the liberation of the motherland, Once more a New Year is … of education. The apartheid regime tried…
ArchiveYou cant shut out the human voice
… Notice of play by Anti-Censorshop Action Group, at the Downstairs Theater, Wits University on the 16th July. Words - 'Join the call to end censorship'. List…
BiographyMatsiketsane Mashile
… after his birth, in 1927 at Maripeskop near Klaserie in the eastern Transvaal [Mpumalanga], Matsiketsane “Lanios” Mashile’s family was relocated to a farm at…
Address by President Nelson Mandela at the Golden Doves of Peace Awards ceremony 7 June 1994
… (Madame/Master) of Ceremonies Members of the National Peace Secretariat Members of the Diplomatic … families. This is the message issuing not only from the…
Capture the Citadel. Broadcast to South Africa on the eighth Anniversary of the Formation of Umkhonto we Sizwe by O. R. Tambo, 16 December 1969
… Comrades-in-arms and fellow fighters in the struggle for freedom: On December 16, 1961, a national … fighters will flee the ranks of revolutionary forces and…
BiographyKing Faku ka Ngqungqushe
… King Faku ka Ngqungqushe was born around 1780 at the Qawukeni Great Palace near a small town called Lusikisiki … Transkei homeland situated in the present…
EventSoweto students begin protest against the compulsory use of Afrikaans
… out a police car and damaging three other vehicles. The first indication of African unrest at Soweto schools was noticed by government authorities on 4 June,…
ArticleA History of Lückhoff High School, 1932-1969
… Lückhoff High School was established in 1935, as the first secondary school for the town’s ‘Coloured’ … Consequently, qualified teachers had to be recruited…
BiographyGabriel Dichaba
… until he was 15. He left school to become a labourer in the railway workshops. He led the first Free State volunteers in the Defiance Campaign and was a…
BiographyPravin Jamnadas Gordhan
… The contribution of Pravin Gordhan may never be truly … in the launch of the United Democratic Front (UDF) in Cape Town in 1983 of which the NIC was an…
BiographyNadirshah Ardeshir Cama
… Ardeshir Cama was born in Bombay in 1870. After passing the Intermediate Examination at the University of Bombay, he worked in the Bombay Port Trust from…
Message by Oliver Tambo on South Africa`s year of the women, a call to the peoples of the world, 01 November 1983
… The African National Congress, the broad democratic movement and the people of South Africa … movement and to the freedom-loving peoples of the world to join…
BiographyFort Calata
… Calata was born on 5 November 1956. Fort’s grandfather, the Reverend Canon James Arthur Calata , was the Secretary … government declared a State of Emergency…
Chief Dingiswayo
… Paramount Chief of the Mthethwa and leader of various northern Nguni groups who … possibly Dr Cowan, a Scottish explorer, who travelled from Cape Town in a…
BiographyBisho Jarsa
… Article by Sandra Rowoldt Shell, University of Cape Town. When Neville Alexander used to visit his maternal … grandmother Bisho Jarsa as a boy, he never…
Mkhuseli Khusta Jack
… Mkhuseli Jack was born on the farm Mosskraal in Humansdorp on 31 May 1958. Jack was the second youngest of eight children of Fikile and Alice … has been…
BiographyJack Mkhuseli
… Mkhuseli Jack was born on the farm Mosskraal in Humansdorp on 31 May 1958. Jack was the second youngest of eight children of Fikile and Alice … Jack has…
BiographySheila Weinberg
… Weinberg was born in Johannesburg on 1 October 1945, the daughter of Eli and Violet Weinberg who were both members … 1933 to 1953 he was active in the trade…
EventEpainette Mbeki receives the Order of the Baobab
… businesswomen and community worker in Idutywa, Eastern Cape, received the Order of the Baobab in Gold for her "exceptional … of the underprivileged…
BiographyErnst Heinrich Daniël Arndt
… Arndt, the youngest son of Reverend Johannes Arndt and Luise Pauline … Bloemfontein on 27 May 1899. He started his education at the Infants’ School and the…
BiographyWessel Johannes “Hansie” Cronje
… a prestigious private boy’s school. Hansie graduated as the head of his class after completing his matriculation in … State (then Orange Free State) at…
BiographyMoses Ndlovu
… Moses Ndlovu was born in KwaSemane which is in the Otto Bluff area near Pietermaritzburg, Natal. His parents … school in Crammond, Natal. His first…
ArticleResponses in South Africa to the outbreak of WWI: Impact on the Indian Working class: the Growth of Indian trade unions
… Those who formed part of the poorest section of the Indian community, such a labourers, artisans, market-gardeners bore the brunt of the effect of the…
BiographyNeville Wilson Curtis
… father, John (Jack) Curtis left Australia in 1930, at the height of the depression when he could not find … . After becoming NUSAS President in 1969 Curtis…
BiographyNils Severin Andersen
… an art career until he enrolled for art studies at the Durban Technical College.He also joined the NSA, becoming a Council member in 1929 and its President ……
E. R. Roux, The New Slogan and the Revolutionary Movement among White Workers in South Africa, presented at the Sixth
… E. R. Roux, The New Slogan and the Revolutionary Movement among White Workers in South Africa, presented at the Sixth …
Statement of the Deputy President of the ANC, Nelson Mandela, to the party parliament group on South Africa
… Statement of the Deputy President of the ANC, Nelson Mandela, to the party parliament group on South Africa …
Statement of the Deputy President of the African National Congress, Nelson Mandela, to the Confederation of British industry
… Statement of the Deputy President of the African National Congress, Nelson Mandela, to the Confederation of British industry …