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BiographyJustice John Mowbray Didcott
… and gained a reputation as a powerful public speaker. In his first year he was elected to the Students' Representative … Judge Didcott served on the…
ArticleSharpeville Timeline
… the Pass Laws starting on 21 March. According to “his testimony about the launch of the Campaign,” Sobukwe … written that on the 21st March 1960 we should…
ArticleA history of the South African Constitution 1910-1996
… make the Natives a more contented and devoted people under His Majesty's gracious rule. . . . Any scheme for the Closer … the Chamber of Mines decided to…
BiographyDorothy Ruth Boxall
… Orchestra gave its first concert. Her love of choral work and her ambition to include less privileged children …
BiographyDorothy Moss Kay
… a portrait of her daughter. In 1922, Kay sent a further work to Cape Town for the SASA list Annual Exhibition. This …
BiographyMarion Gill
… of 1933, she held a very successful exhibition of her work in Cape Town. Printmaking was some times set aside for …
BiographyThenjiwe Mtintso
… Consequently, she was forced to leave school and work full-time in various factories to finance her part-time …
Jeannette Ndhlovu
… the United States of America (USA) to strengthen the anti-apartheid student movement and also to pursue her academic …
Timol Inquest: He was murdered but culprits are dead, court rules
… in John Vorster’s 10th floor or off its roof, leading to his death. He said there was a prima facie case of murder … in this country but across the diaspora…
ArticleBlack Women’s Federation
… women after Fatima Meer returned from the USA, where Black American women were moved by the problems faced by Black … that was to be held by the federation…
BiographyMosiuoa Gerard Patrick "Terror" Lekota
… KwaZulu-Natal – KZN), where Steve Biko had completed his schooling just a few years earlier. Lekota got the … Island. While on Robben Island, he wrote…
ArticleManto Tshabalala-Msimang timeline 1940 - 2009
… convenes the first International Conference on Health and Apartheid held by the World Health Organisation. 1981 … L. Terry Award is given to Tshabalala…
EventAppearance of former ministers before the TRC
… Four former cabinet ministers from the apartheid era appeared before the Truth and Reconciliation … Former Prime Minister P.W.Botha was also subpoenaed, but…
BiographyPhilemon Masinga
… clinics by legendary player Jomo Sono and was recruited to his team, Jomo Midas Cosmos. In 1992 Masinga represented … the leadership skills of team captain …
Sabata Manaka
… Soweto, Johannesburg. Manaka left the country in 1978. His brother, Ezekiel Mosioa Manaka tracked him to the Dukwe … he was living under the name of…
BiographyAnna Johanna Dorothea De Villiers
… six daughters and two sons of George Jacob de Villiers and his wife Anna Johanna Jacoba Bester. De Villiers received her … and later from a man employed by…
BiographyIzak de Villiers
… settling on Afrikaans literature, in which he completed his BA, BA honours and master's degrees, all cum laude. He … Calvin's virtues, talk about Mother…
Sefofane Samuel "Solly Smith" Khunyeli
… in Steynsrus,near Kroonstad in the Orange Free State,where his father had a brick making business.He attended high … Madolwana) in the same web of blackmail…
BiographyZachius Botlhoko Molete
… the Orange Free State of mixed Tswana-Ndebele parentage. His father was a teacher. He spent 1949 and 1950 at Kroonstad … National Congress (ANC), and…
BiographyIsaac Bokala
… were arrested at dawn for treason. He was reunited with his family on 21 December 1956 after he was released on bail … 1958, charges were withdrawn against…
Article2014 South African platinum strike: longest wage strike in South Africa
… major platinum producers such as Impala Platinum, Anglo American Platinum and Lonmin Platinum Mines based in the … was officially signed and workers started…
Pan-Africanism was Peter Abrahams’ Country by Tyler Flemming (Africa is a Country), 13 February 2017
… and often forgotten, especially in the country of his birth. The son of a miner (who died when Abrahams was a … inferiority, and promoted racial uplift…
ArchiveA story of a memorable photograph, and why it matters by J Brooks Spector, (Daily Maverick), 18 May 2018
… photograph that came to symbolise all that was wrong with apartheid and how it would be opposed, offers a moment to … carried – too late, of course – to…
BiographyEugene Marais
… on a Waterberg farm, north of Pretoria and created some of his best poetry. It was also around this time that he … which was posthumously published after he…
BiographyAlfred Khumalo
… at the WiIberforce Institute in Evaton. Khumalo began his working career as a journalist in 1951, freelancing for Bantu World , where he took photographs to…
ArticleGrade 9 - Term 3: Turning points in South African History, 1960, 1976 and 1990
… white population of the country. A manifesto outlined how Apartheid would be implemented in practice which was enforced … Africans. These laws determined…
ArchivePhotography and the Liberation Struggle in South Africa
… want to be with their families, husbands who just want to work to be able to feed their children. 1 –Archbishop Desmund Tutu The following paper seeks to…
BiographyLucky Philip Dube
… near Ermelo in the eastern Transvaal (now Mpumalanga). His mother, Sarah, considered his birth after a few unsuccessful pregnancy attempts so …
BiographyJohn J. Skomolo
… Africans entered the militant decade of the 1950s, he lent his support to the Defiance Campaign of 1952, and helped to organise volunteers in his hometown of…
BiographyYvonne Mokgoro
… was awarded a second LLM degree in 1990 She started her work-experience as a nursing assistant and later as a retail … of the Chief Justice (OCJ) from 2011…