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BiographyPumzile Sokanyile
… Pumzile Sokanyile (48) was from Mdumazulu Location, Ngqeleni in the Eastern Cape. He …
BiographyMphangeli Tukuza
… Mphangeli Tukuza (41) was from Ngqeleni in the Eastern Cape. He began working for …
BiographyBongani Nqongophele
… Bongani Nqongophele (31) was from Elliotdale in the Eastern Cape. He had been working for …
EventAfrikaans is used for the first time in an international document with the signing of the Convention of Mozambique in Pretoria
… Modern Afrikaans contains mainly Dutch with influences from Cape Malay, Portuguese, English and indigenous … people rejected the language as a medium of…
ArticleThe Tricameral Parliament, 1983-1984
… political representation excluded Black Africans – far from being a movement towards a more just political order, … manner, and was meant to dislodge the two…
BiographyIan Mkhize
… where his political education began with readings from Karl Marx. He attended Adams College in Amanzimtoti … Acting on ANC instruction to members to fight…
BiographyCleopas Madoda Nsibande
… sustained a cut in the forehead during the beatings. From then on, Cleopas Nsibande became a prominent trade … was a tireless fighter for a democratic…
BiographyElsie Nair
… and Elsie supported herself in various ways. Aside from dressmaking, she got an evening job as a cashier at a … married.’ Family and friends became scared…
Cleopas Madoda Nsibande
… sustained a cut in the forehead during the beatings. From then on, Cleopas Nsibande became a prominent trade … was a tireless fighter for a democratic…
BiographyFlorence Mophosho
… worker and later in a factory. Mophosho drew inspiration from the 1952 Defiance Campaign and joined the African … of mourners converged and numerous…
BiographyJohann Christiaan Kriegler
… with the Centre for Human Rights where he lectures from time to time to students in the Masters course in Human … training with the Black Lawyers’…
BiographyJessie Yasmin Duarte
… 1994. During South Africa’s negotiations for democracy, from 1991-1994, Duarte was a member of the Regional Executive … Paul Mashatile, said: The ANC had…
BiographyLillian Masediba Ngoyi
… work as a machinist in a clothing factory where she worked from 1945 to 1956. She joined the Garment Workers Union … She became a member of the Transvaal…
BiographyMafolisi Mabiya
… Mafolisi Mabiya (28) was from Dutywa in the Eastern Cape. He started working for …
BiographyMolefi Osiel Ntsoele
… Molefi Osiel Ntsoele (40) was from Ha Tebese, Semonkong, Maseru Lesotho. He began working …
BiographyMongezeleli Ntenetya
… Mongezeleli Ntenetya (34) was from Dutywa in the Eastern Cape. He began working for Lonmin …
Bonginkosi Yona
… Bonginkosi Yona (32) was from MaQhashu, Ladyfere in the Eastern Cape. He began working …
BiographyFezile David Saphendu
… Fezile David Saphendu (24) was from Mqanduli in the Eastern Cape. He began working for …
Address of the President of the Republic Of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki, at the Youth Day celebrations: Absa Stadium, Buffalo City Municipality
… our national calendar the National Youth Day. On June 16, 1976, multitudes of South African youth emerged from township school classrooms to confront a…
EventSA artist Anthony Nkotsi is born
… Dumile Feni. His involvement in the student uprisings of 1976 saw him being detained. On his release he attended art … and Gordon Gabashane who had then…
ArchiveStaffrider Vol.8 No.3 and No.4 1989
… John; Ubani Omemezayo, Dumisani Zungu; Marching to John Vorster Square, Lindy 'Day by Day'; Day of Reckoning, Frank …
BiographyPixley ka Isaka Seme
… in reaction to developments designed to exclude them from participating in mainstream political institutions and … Pixley ka Isaka Seme on the occasion of…
EventSouth African Students Movement leaders meet to plan protest action against the implementation of Afrikaans
… (SSRC), an action committee made up of two representatives from each school to plan and coordinate the protest march. During the early hours, on 16 June 1976…
Fifty Fighting Years by A. Lerumo. The Communist Party of South Africa, 1921 - 1971 - Foreword to Book, by Dr Yusuf M. Dadoo,1972
… early thirties which threatened the isolation of the Party from the masses of the people; and, it also deals with the … of abhorrence for apartheid and every…
The Freedom struggle in Rustenburg
… menace", they panicked. The police and army were mobilised from 17 March 1963 to 15 April 1963, and the government … Association (Soya). When the Soweto…
EventGovernment admits responsibility for Mdluli’s death
… Congress (ANC) member, Joseph Mdluli (50), on 19 March 1976 and agreed to pay damages to his family. A claim for … just a day after his arrest in connection…
BiographyBaron Joachim van Plettenberg
… Tulbach as the Governor of the colony in 1774. He resigned from this position in 1785 and returned to the Netherlands, …
BiographyHenry Daniel Tyamzashe
… but he was later discharged. Following Kadalie, he moved from Johannesburg in the early 1930s to East London, where he …
BiographyThembinkosi Gwelani
… Thembinkosi Gwelani (27) was from Makhwaleni, Lusikisiki in the Eastern Cape. On 16 August …
BiographyThobile Mpumza
… Thobile Mpumza (26) was from Mount Ayliff in the Eastern Cape. He began working for …