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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…
EventMac Maharaj, Laloo Chiba, Raymond Nyanda and Andrew Masondo arrive on Robben Island prison
… appeal and that his sentence was shortened. He was removed from Robben Island. Maharaj and Masondo were released in 1976. Chiba was released in December 1982…
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 …
BiographyBheki Myeni
… at this time when he used to trace pictures of insects from science textbooks. In 1985 Myeni travelled to Chile for …
BiographyKhanare Elais Monesa
… Khanare Elais Monesa (36) was from Maseru in Lesotho. He started working in the mines in …
BiographyMgcineni Noki
… Mgcineni Noki (40), known as Mambush, was from Twalikhulu in the Eastern Cape. He began working for …
BiographyJackson Lehupa
… Jackson Lehupa (48) was from Mount Fletcher in the Eastern Cape. He began working for …
BiographyJohn Gomas
… Union (ICU) until December 1926 when he was expelled from the ICU in its clash with the CPSA. In 1928 he was …
History of Muslims in South Africa: Bibliography by Ebrahim Mahomed Mahida
… From the book: History of Muslims in South Africa by Ebrahim … Durban, September 14, 1979. 103. South African Statistics 1976, Pretoria, Department of…
ArchiveSouth Africa’s ‘Mother of the Nation’ who was never First Lady by Mashupye Herbert Maserumule (TheConversation.com), 3 April 2018
… her husband Nelson Mandela who had just been released from prison after 27 years. It was a power couple whose … a desperate attempt by the TRC’s chairperson…
Address by President Mandela on receiving the freedom of the city of Cape Town Cape Town, 27 November 1997
… and one of the pioneers of our New Patriotism, Archbishop Tutu. In that sense I am proud to be in the league of such a … history. It was here, three…
ArchiveNote on sources and footnoting by Howard Barrell
… and members of the ANC who were in exile in the 1976-1986 period; with leaders and members of the pro-ANC … of my research. These documents were dated,…
PlaceMarket Theatre
… The Market Theatre was founded in 1976 in Johannesburg by Mannie Manim and Barney Simon. Now … performed their first formal production on the 21st June, 1976…
EventCastro decides to send troops to Angola to fight South Africa
… African troops in Angola with additional support coming from the United States. Cuban military support for the MPLA … Africa, Cuba and Angola agreed to…
Increasing repression and the turn to the armed struggle
… of Africanists led by Robert Mangaliso Sobukwe broke away from the ANC and formed the Pan Africanist Congress (PAC). … waging the struggle against apartheid…
EventSipho Malaza allegedly dies in detention
… His death was the twenty-first in detention since March 1976. An entry in Deaths in Detention gives his details as … Political History: a chronology of key…
EventPolice increase their presence in Soweto
… Following the 16 June 1976 Soweto protest and the killing and injuring of student … the world were outraged. On the 17 th 300 White students from the…
ArticleChanges in modern forms of communication
… The Postal system The act of sending letters from one person to another developed soon after the invention … the television was only introduced to the…
Sierra Leone’s Pre-colonial and Colonial era military and security forces
… or 'war towns' seem to have been locally recruited from their own subjects, resulting in small armies that were … Diplomacy in Pre-Colonial West Africa…
Present Stage of the Struggle against Apartheid in South Africa. Paper prepared at the request of the United Nations Special Committee against Apartheid by O. R. Tambo, Stockholm, 1 June 1968
… to impose by force on mankind, seized political power from another section of the white minority and immediately … people are being hunted and hounded out of…
Paper prepared at the request of the United Nations Special Committee Against Apartheid by Oliver Tambo, 1 June 1968, Stockholm
… to impose by force on mankind, seized political power from another section of the white minority and immediately … people are being hunted and hounded out of…
Paper prepared at the request of the Special Committee against Apartheid, June 1968
… to impose by force on mankind, seized political power from another section of the white minority and immediately … people are being hunted and hounded out of…
BiographyThomas Titus Nkobi
… committee of the African National Congress (ANC) from 1958 and a leader of the 1957 bus boycott in Alexandra …
BiographyConny Braam
… In 1971 Conny Braam, together with some others, broke away from the Comite Zuid-Afrika (CZA) to form the more radical …
BiographyBrigalia Bam
… is a qualified social worker with a post-graduate degree from the University of Chicago. In the 1980s Brigalia worked …
BiographyMary Fitzgerald
… she was the only woman present among 54 delegates. From this point she got involved with fighting for the vote …
BiographyGarth Erasmus
… Eastern Cape. Erasmus was raised in Port Elizabeth and from an early age expressed an interest in art. He …