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Jacob Abraham de Mist
… to school at Kampen, after which he studied law in Leyden from 1766 to 1768. After graduation he became the junior …
BiographyRosalie van der Gucht
… such as a Performer’s Diploma and a chair for drama. Aside from teaching, Van der Gucht also began other projects, …
BiographyTikkie Sibisi
… attending several workshops on how to use the 35mm camera. From 1997-1998 he joined his father as a freelance …
BiographyBenjamin S. Rajuili
… Episcopal Church in Dube township, Johannesburg . From 1959 to 1962 he was general secretary of the …
BiographyMary Susan Malahlela-Xakana
… medicine. Medical studies had been open to Black students from 1941 at the University of the Witwatersrand (WITS), and …
BiographyPieter Dirk-Uys
… Uys was born in Cape Town in 1945. He studied drama at UCT from 1965 to 1965 before going to study at the London Film …
BiographyHein du Plessis
… Photography at the Vaal Triangle Technikon, Vanderbijlpark from 1986-1989. In 1990-1991 he was self-employed and part …
ArchiveStudent walkouts have changed history before. In South Africa, one helped end apartheid by DeNeen L. Brown (The Washington Post), 14 March 2018
… boy, was one of the first students to die. On June 16, 1976, more than 10,000 black high school students in Soweto … Hector Pieterson, a 12-year-old shot by…
ArticleBlack South African literature
… They changed the style of Black South African writing - from formal Standard English, often somewhat stilted, to … years, was immensely popular and fine…
Apartheid - A Crime Against Humanity: The Unfolding of Total Strategy 1948-1989
… The content of this article was taken from the book A Crime Against Humanity - Analysing the … of establishing a Truth Commission. We quote verbatim from a…
BiographyArchie Mafeje
… Here, Archie succeeded in obtaining a PhD. in Anthropology from Cambridge University in England in 1966. He was also an … Salaam, in Tanzania, before he…
BiographyNöel Robb
… in England and then enrolled at Bedford College, London from where she graduated with a BSc in 1935. In 1936, her … sat together to consider a Bill to remove…
ArticleManto Tshabalala-Msimang timeline 1940 - 2009
… KwaZulu Natal. 1959 Tshabalala-Msimang matriculates from Inanda Seminary. 1961 Tshabalala-Msimang receives her Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of…
ArchiveHugh Lewin obituary by Peter Hain (www.theguardian.com), 21 January 2019
… about the campaign and that “bastard traitor” Peter Hain from his furious warders. Following his release in 1971, … Olive Schreiner prize. In its foreword,…
Statement by Oliver Tambo to the Diplomatic Correspondent of Morning Star, 23 November 1967, London
… guerrillas only, not with the Rhodesian Africans. Quoting from the African National Congress-Zimbabwe African People`s … has there actually been fighting by…
ArticleApartheid crumbles, Women in the turmoil of the 1980s
… declared a series of back-to-back states of emergency from 1985 to 1987. In 1988, a number of organisations … the Coloured and Indian people and seemed…
BiographySir George Grey
… Governor of South Australia, a position he occupied from 1841 until 1845, when he was appointed Lieutenant … supernatural, believing a prophecy that if they…
EventSA artist, Lionel Davis, is born
… he completed his Senior Certificate. After his release from Robben Island he was restricted under a banning order and house arrest until 1976. In 1978 Davis…
EventResolute Treurnicht rejects waiving language policy
… rejected the applications by five Soweto schools to depart from the so-called 50-50 policy in secondary education, which … of instruction. The mass protest…
ArticleStaffrider magazine (1978-1993)
… and arts magazine published by Ravan Press in Johannesburg from 1978 to 1993. It took its name and identity from … only. This ethos was rooted in the student…
BiographyG. S. (Smart) Gumede
… College. He took up the bursary in 1977.After qualifying from Ndaleni he taught at Ntuzuma Training College before …
BiographyFrances Herman Gow
… and Miami universities in Ohio,and a Doctorate of Divinity from Morris Brown University in Atlanta,Georgia.He enlisted … Barnes, Antony Bugg-Levine, Thomas…
BiographyPhumzile John Gomomo
… Nonga Stofile (Mpondo). He received his primary education from Ntlaka lower Primary School and Marry Mount High School. … Barnes, Antony Bugg-Levine, Thomas…
BiographyEric Ngcobo
… Ndaleni Educational Training Centre, Natal, studying there from 1953 to 1954. He worked as a teacher at Glencoe and …
Maria Wilman
… It was only in 1931, once women were allowed degrees from that university, that she received her Master of Arts. …
BiographyThabiso Johannes Thelejane
… Thabiso Johannes Thelejane (55) was from Pabellong, Matatiele in the Eastern Cape. He began …
BiographyNkosiyabo Xalabile
… Nkosiyabo Xalabile (30) was from Elliotdale in the Eastern Cape. He began working for …
BiographyCharles Makhohliso
… of treason and flown in a military aircraft to Pretoria. From Pretoria they were taken into detention at the Fort in …
Statement at the 2735th meeting of the Security Council by Mfanafuthi Johnstone (Johnny) Makatini, 19 February 1987
… Permit me to tell the Council of a different voice from the privileged class in South Africa - that of the leader of a group of students from Stellenbosch…
The search for Peter Johnson’s story
… denied political prisoners stayed on Robben Island, aside from former leader of the Pan African Congress (PAC), Robert … Mafikeng GO 18/84 and GO 19/84,…