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BiographyNomkhitha Virginia Mashinini (née Boto)
… of Lady Frere in the former Transkei . After the death of his first wife, her father, Daniel married his second wife, Notuthuzelo to whom Nomkhitha was the…
BiographyHyacinth Joseph Bill Bhengu
… mission and then he went to study private to finish his matriculation exams.He was a farm worker,domestic … Witwatersrand,he institute a law practice in 1961…
BiographyPhumzile John Gomomo
… Ndabeni (Mnzotho) and Nonga Stofile (Mpondo). He received his primary education from Ntlaka lower Primary School and … 8), because of family poverty, and…
BiographyGreenwood Dumisa Ngotyana
… a congress of the World Federation of Trade Unions. After his return to South Africa he was elected to the Cape … Banned from 1955, he was endorsed out of…
BiographySelby Bangani Ngcobo
… withdrew from political activity to concentrate on his academic career. He taught economics at Fort Hare and … adviser to the KwaZulu Government of…
Vuyi Lesley Mbalo
… just before the matric exams. After finally completing his matric he became more active in Catholic youth … Khotso House. Mbalo became a member of Afrapix…
BiographySam Kahn
… Africans, he defended many as clients in the course of his legal career. A member of the Cape Town City Council from … gatherings, he was subsequently…
BiographyPhila Portia Ndwandwe
… an opportunity for her nine-year-old son, Thabang, to meet his grandparents for the first time. He was only two months old at the time of her abduction and…
BiographyCassim Amra
… South Africa’s best known poets of this period, dedicated his first collection of poems Tell Freedom to his "close friend" Cassim Amra. Amra was a key member…
EventSolomon Popoli Linda, singer and composer, dies
… Lion Sleeps Tonight', died without receiving royalties for his work. Linda was born in Pomeroy in rural KwaZulu Natal in … the possibility of pursuing a…
ArchiveMemorandum delivered to De Klerk
… De Klerk by Rev Chikane, Rev Boesak and Archbishop Tutu outlining six points that they felt the South African … should take to promote negotiation and to…
ArticleLegacy: A Timeline of HIV/AIDS by Carlos Motta
… from St. Louis, Missouri, dies of an illness that baffles his doctors. 18 years later, molecular biologists at Tulane … Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV). 1985…
ArticleCongress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU)
… on 1 December 1985, at the height of the struggle against apartheid. As a federation, it brought together many of the … Neil Agget in February 1982 saw 100…
ArticleQuotations by Oliver Tambo
… of South Africa in which black and white shall live and work together as equals in conditions of peace and … Africans, free and united in diversity." "It may…
Toast Remarks by the President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki, in honour of His Excellency, the President of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Joseph Kabila and Madame Kabila, on the occasion of the State Banquet, Tuynhuys, 14 June 2007
… the President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki, in honour of His Excellency, the President of the Democratic Republic of …
Reply by the President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki, to the Toast Remarks by his Excellency the President of Chile, President Ricardo Lagos Escobar, on the occasion of the State Banquet, at the Palacio de la Moneda, Santiago, Chile: 7 June 2005
… of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki, to the Toast Remarks by his Excellency the President of Chile, President Ricardo …
ArchiveNelson Mandela freedom at 70
… Sunday 17th July 1988. Speakers to include Bishop Desmond Tutu. Finsbury Park Rally at Hyde Park. Organised by Anti-Apartheid Movement, London. …
ArchiveAppendix 1: Time Line of South African history by Denis Goldberg
… protests by Indians against racial discrimination. His philosophy of non-violence strongly influenced the ANC in … State of Emergency regulations. December…
BiographyBartolomeu Dias
… Dias's voyage is limited because all the actual records of his voyage perished when the castle of São Jorge, in which … wrote the Esmeraldo de Sito Orbis, in…
BiographyGeorge Msimang
… in the years 1973 to 1975 and 1985 to 1986. Msimang makes his livelihood from the sale of his artwork. He has exhibited a number of times at the UZ …
BiographyHermanus Lethebe
… The evidence led showed that Weeks had discharged his firearm and no one else had done so. A Detective Claasens had arrested him whilst he was reloading his…
BiographyBen M. Skosana
… in rural development and rural social problems. To follow his interests he joined Zululand Churches and Welfare … to alleviate poverty in South Africa. In…
Henry Eric Isaacs
… up in Raisethorpe,a peri-urban area of Pietermaritzburg.His family was of diverse racial composition:one grandfather … a passport.A scholarship offer …
BiographyJaydew Nasib Singh
… during the 1952 Defiance Campaign . Highly successful in his law practice, popular with Africans as well as Indians, and noted for his matinee-idol good…
BiographyWalter Sidney Felgate
… (north-eastern Zululand). When the government withdrew his permit for the area, he was seconded to Lisbon University … when Inkatha-ANC relations broke down…
BiographyWilliam H. "Bill" Andrews
… This put him into conflict with Sidney Bunting and led to his partial withdrawal from party politics about 1925.During … remained on the Central Committee…
The South African History Online (SAHO) Graduate Internship Programme
… This programme is designed for students to gain work experience in research and for graduates to become … at the University of the Western Cape. He completed…
ArticleHistory Grade 10 - Topic 3 Source-based Questions
… The idea of natural rights was promoted by John Locke. In his writing, Two Treatises of Government, he explored … the source’s online origin, see footnote [6…
ArticleNegotiations and the transition
… on the international political scene forced the apartheid government to enter into negotiations with the ANC. … he renounced the armed struggle and agreed to…
ArticleTreks & Land conflicts timeline 1602-1966
… Convention takes place in America and the different American states? representatives draw up a federal … conflict develops between Spain and Britain over the…