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ArticlePeter Henry Abrahams timeline 1919 - 1985
… Abrahams becomes acquainted with George Pandmore and other African intellectuals such as Kwame Nkrumah. Padmore works at … Allen and Unwin. He was the first…
EventSophiatown residents are forcefully moved to Soweto
… It was in the early hours on 9 February 1955 when around 2 000 policemen, armed with guns, … notice, residents were supposed to be moved on 12 February 1955,…
BiographyStephen Mini
… He was an early leader of the African National Congress (ANC), serving at times as head of … From Protest to challenge: A documentary History of African…
BiographyMagdalena Gertruide Sauer
… the Old Supreme Court in Adderley Street into the South African Cultural History Museum in the early 1960s. … E.J. Verwey (ed), New dictionary of South…
BiographyShulamith Muller
… was admitted as an attorney in 1948. She joined the South African Communist Party (SACP) in the early 1940s and was … daily news briefing [online] 7 July…
PlaceMeadowlands or Ndofaya, in Soweto
… Townships. The forced removals began on February 10, 1955, and continued until the mid-1960's when most of the new … as: "Ndofaya". The forced removals…
BiographyWangari Maathai
… in 1986. [xiv] The Green Belt Movement launched a Pan African Green Belt Network in 1986, which introduced over 40 individuals of various African states to…
Durban Mayors and other city officials
… Osborn (1950 - 54) RA Carte (1954 - 55) G Vernon Essery (1955 - 56) Percy Osborn (1956 - 57) HW Jackson (1957 - 58) WE …
BiographyJacqueline Daane-van Rensburg
… Daane was born on 17 December 1937. A White South African, her first encounter with police came in 1956 when … and H.A.R.T (adoption schemes for the people…
BiographyHemant Kumar Waghmarae
… from urban areas because of his involvement with the South African Students Organisation (SASO) and other political … and strategically it was important for…
BiographyShanthivathie (Shanthie) Naidoo
… Indian Youth Congress and later in the Federation of South African Women (FEDSAW), established in 1954. After the death … , an organisation of progressive…
EventAndré Phillipus Brink, well-known SA author, is born
… South African novelist, Andre Phillipus Brink was born on 29 May … degree in Literature at the University of Potchefstroom in 1955. 1n 1958 he earned his…
BiographyRev. Mzwandile Maqina
… Church of Africa.In 1971 he was elected president of the African Independent Churches Association (AICA),but AICA …
BiographyArchibald Mncedisi Sebeko
… Ray Alexander Simons among others. In 1954 he joined the African Laundry Workers' Union. … 2011]| Ontario Public Service Union , ‘OPSEU honours South African…
BiographyBisho Jarsa
… story of how she had come from Ethiopia to the South African city of Port Elizabeth . Bisho was one of a group of … in 1888 off the coast of Yemen, then…
Benjamin Johnson Langa
… Cape (now Eastern Province) was elected as the South African Students Organisation (SASO) General Secretary and … car immediately after the shooting and…
BiographyReverend Beyers Naudé
… the destruction of Black family life under the South African migrant labour system. In 1961, Naudé became acting … University Christian Movement, the…
BiographyOlive Schreiner
… with British imperialism in South Africa or with the South African (Anglo-Boer) War 1899-1902 that was fought to … off depression. In 1883, she wrote The…
EventANC launches mass boycott of Bantu Education
… African National Congress (ANC) launches mass boycott of … made for black people. Bantu education came into effect in 1955 after the government had passed…
ArticleA history of Soweto
… It was also capital-intensive and because the South African Republic was cash strapped, there was room for … in Diepkloof and Meadowlands. Forced removals…
BiographyMaxwell Mduduzi Malinga
… November 1947 at Steadville, Emnambithi. A renowned South African boxer, Malinga’s career was inspired by Titus … moved up to middleweight in 1977, he won…
BiographyRomeo Zamani Makhanya
… revisiting issues dealing with the dynamics of a universal African life. Ka-Mkame applies a personal synthesis of … and night coexist. And in its entirety…
BiographyTielman Johannes de Villiers Roos
… in Cape Town on 8 May 1879. He was educated at the South African College qualified as an advocate when he was only 23 … rapidly and General J C Smuts, the…
BiographyVictor Sidney Norton
… though only 37, succeeded him. He was the first South African born editor of the Cape Times and among the first … Norton was called to the Bar of the…
BiographyAdriaan Vlok
… Mandela Campaign, the Soweto Civic Association, the South African Youth Congress and the Azania Peoples Organisation. … and had to apologise in writing to…
BiographyRobert John McBride
… Brothers - the prison letters of George Jackson, about an African-American associated with the Black Panther movement, … Here he met Vincent James, active in…
BiographyNandisile Thoko Mpumlwana
… ) and through student politics (as a member of the South African Student Organisation – SASO ) that she began to … (FHR), the Women’s Development Foundation …
BiographyHarry Themba Gwala
… among SACP members in exile. Gwala joined the South African Communist Party (SACP) in 1942 and the African National Congress Youth League (ANCYL) two years…
Address by the President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki at the XIV Summit Conference of the Non-Aligned Movement, Havana, Cuba 14 September 2006
… Africa vacates her seat on the Troika in favour of another African country, Egypt. Half-a-century ago, Indonesia hosted … end of the Second World War and the…
BiographyAnna Johanna Dorthea De Villiers
… Pretoria. De Villiers visited various countries as a South African delegate and did postdoctoral studies overseas. She …