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BiographyMadie Hall-Xuma
… the African National Congress Women's League (ANCWL) from 1943 until 1948. She was born Madie B. Hall in … Gerhart G.M and Karis T. (ed)(1977). From Protest…
BiographyJames Kantor
… Barbara, a part-time model and actor, who had two sons from a previous marriage. Kantor did not much care about was … sister AnnMarie Kantor , to join him as…
EventThe Soweto Uprising leaves 174 blacks and two whites dead following 10 days of rioting
… The student-led protests in Soweto in 1976 known as the Soweto Uprising claimed many lives and left … and six Whites. 1,298 were arrested for offences…
BiographyEnver Hassim
… and swimmer, such challenging beginnings did not stop him from excelling in a range of disciplines and interests. … At this time Hassim received a…
BiographyRandolph Hartzenberg
… trained as an art teacher, with a Certificate Art Teaching from Hewat Training College in 1966 and a Higher Diploma Drama in Education from the University of…
BiographyTodd Tozama Matshikiza
… the children of the Matshikiza household were taught music from an early age. Grace had great (but unrealised) potential … musical play about the forced…
Nelson Mandela Sending Photographs
… Introduction To someone cut off from friends and relatives, restricted to seeing only a … sixteen unless she comes to fetch me before then. 15 April 1976 TO…
BiographySamson Ratshilumela Mudzunga
… At the time, when he was around age 18, he took a break from carving that would last several decades as he worked … (NSA) Gallery, where he helped run a…
BiographyAlan Stewart Paton
… After completing Cry, the Beloved Country Paton resigned from his post in Diepkloof and moved to the KwaZulu Natal … Paton continued to write and in 1960,…
BiographyProfessor Carel Boshoff
… Carel Boshoff was born on 9 November 1927, a second child from the second marriage of his father. He spent his early … that hoped to rescue Afrikaner…
BiographyJustice Sfiso Mkame
… in my womb are the result. The latter title is derived from a poem that Bandile Gumbi, a Durban-based poet and a … Africans were chained by the neck and…
BiographyDr. Hans Merensky
… Prussia. In 1904 Dr Merensky came to South Africa on leave from his employers. He wanted to conduct some geological … of gold, which he proved to be fake. He…
BiographyArchibald Campbell Jordan
… Xhosa was translated into English under the title, Tales from Southern Africa . His great novel Ingqumbo Yeminyana was … following his death: Kwezo Mpindo…
BiographyAnthony Sampson
… and Christ Church in Oxford, and served on the Royal Navy from 1944-7. In 1951, due in part to his connection with then … the editorial staff of The Observer…
BiographyWilliam Frederick Nkomo
… Native College (Fort Hare). He also obtained his BA degree from the University of South Africa (UNISA) while furthering … to become Hofmeyr High School. On…
Vusi Mahlasela
… born in Mamelodi in 1965. His grandmother ran a shebeen from behind their home. He grew up listening to people … his love for music. Mahlasela made himself a…
Henry Mutile Fazzie
… history lessons in prison. In 1983 Fazzie was released from Robben Island and returned to Port Elizabeth where he … ,he was appointed to fill a vacant seat…
BiographyViola Hashe
… barely seven hours before the order was to take effect. From 1956 on, she began working with South African Clothing … SACTU, Hashe became a member of the…
BiographyVictoria Nonyamezelo Mxenge
… murdered her husband. The ANC issued a public statement from Lusaka decrying his murder and paying tribute to his … a formal inquest hearing but argued that…
BiographyBertha Gxowa (Mashaba)
… Clothing Workers’ Union, where she collected subscriptions from factories and participated in wage negotiations. As a … they had five children. She passed…
BiographyMalcolm Payne
… (UCT). Payne works with a broad array of media, ranging from plastics, metals, or trinkets of everyday life. These … Biennale. He explains this period in his…
BiographySteve Hilton-Barber
… received a Bachelor of Journalism and Media Studies degree from Rhodes University. In 1986 he joined Afrapix and worked … subject. Amid the controversy, the…
Address by President Thabo Mbeki at the 40th anniversary of Inkosi Albert Luthuli`s passing away, 4 November 2007, Thembeni, Ilembe District Municipality, Kwazulu-Natal
… Peace Prize, the then apartheid Minister of Justice, John Vorster, grudgingly allowed him to travel to Norway, saying … He was soon followed by James Mata…
EventSolomon Kalushi Mahlangu is born
… to join the ANC's military wing in exile in October 1976 after the student demonstrations of 1976. He received his military training in Angola and … in 1977…
ArticleRobert Mcbride timeline
… obvious her dislike of him because of his darkness, and from the age of 8 he alone was made to do all the domestic … was no maid. His bitterness toward his…
V - The Funeral
… From the book: No.46 - Steve Biko by Hilda Bernstein, 1978, … September. Police actions prevented thousands of mourners from reaching the funeral from…
What the lives of two South African music giants tell us about culture under apartheid by Gwen Ansell (The Conversation), 13 July 2017
… Mekoa’s brother Fred was already a trumpeter, and from him, in gigs, and at the central Johannesburg rehearsal … to play Newport: something they finally…
BiographyDaniel Cornelis Boonzaier
… Die Burger in Cape Town, where he remained as cartoonist from 1915 to 1940. Boonzaier played a key role in the careers …
BiographyJohn Hlatywayo
… National Gallery, Salisbury, Rhodesia; London, UK (New Art from Rhodesia). Adier Fielding Galleries Johannesburg (solo). …
BiographyMichiel Hendrik Nesser
… in Lusaskop, Philipstown. He received informal teaching from his father. Nesser was a great reader and his favourite …