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BiographyBenny (!Khoisan X) Alexander
… the Black Health and Black Allied Workers Union of South Africa(BAWU), serving as a senior shop steward and … of African Unity (OAU). On his return to South…
BiographyJan Bouws
… two sons, Niels and Jan. Bouws contributed to the South Africa programme for the Dutch Broadcast Corporation and this … its music. In 1960, Bouws and his…
BiographyBokwe James Mafuna
… policies of the Trade Union Council of South Africa. He was also a founder member in Media Workers Association of South Africa (Mwasa), the Black…
BiographyMagdalena Gertruide Sauer
… first woman to practice as a qualified architect in South Africa. She mainly practiced in South Africa, and was also interested in restoring and preserving …
The Spirit of Bandung - Address to the International Conference in Support of the Liberation Movements of Southern Africa and in Support of the Frontline States by O. R. Tambo, Lusaka, 10 April 1979
… hands with representatives of the peoples of the rest of Africa and of Asia to bring into being what has proved itself … in the liberation of all oppressed…
BiographyBrigalia Bam
… , in the Eastern Cape . She was formally educated in South Africa and abroad specializing in teaching, social work, … of the Independent Electoral Commission…
BiographyWilton Zimasile Mkwayi
… of emergency, Mkwayi went into hiding and then left South Africa to enlist foreign support for the Congress movement. He later returned secretly to South…
Richard Victor Selope Thema
… petition for a better dispensation for the blacks in South Africa. While in England, Thema pursued his educational … at a London school of journalism. On his…
BiographyPhilemon Pearce Nokwe
… a youth congress respectively. After his return to South Africa he openly associated with the left wing of the ANC who … in the ANC, especially P K Leballo …
EventSouth African GMO Act implemented
… 1999.[i] The Act was aimed at regulating all South Africa’s genetically modified activities. More specifically, … Restrictions on Genetically Modified…
BiographyPeter Becker
… Peter Loubser Were Becker was born in Rivonia South Africa the youngest of the three sons of Harold Paley Becker … school holidays he set off to the rural…
BiographyZola Budd
… was born on 26 May 1966 in Bloemfontein, Free State, South Africa. Budd burst into national prominence in 1983. In 1984 … record. As this performance took…
Louis Charles George 'Loet' Douwes-Dekker
… concentration camp as a child before moving to South Africa.He attended Durban High School,graduated from the … in 1961,completed an honors degree at…
BiographyJeevenundhan (Jeeva) Rajgopaul
… on Chatsworth, the largest Indian township in South Africa. Rajgopaul was also a member of Afrapix. He … has given photographic workshops in many centres in…
ArticleThe banning of the South African Students Organisation (SASO) and student politics in the 1980s
… the 1980s, when popular violence had spread across South Africa. The third attempt at mobilising students in Soweto … 1981, SAYRCO president Khotso Seatlholo…
BiographyAnthony Sampson
… about Drum in 1955 entitled Drum: A Venture Into The New Africa (1956). Sampson went on to write several other books about South Africa, including The…
Statement at the meeting of the Special Committee against Apartheid in observance of the International Day of Solidarity with the Struggling People of South Africa (Soweto Day), 16 June 1989
… is working under most precarious conditions inside South Africa, I should like most sincerely to thank the Committee … work of this Committee, supplementing…
Address by the Chairperson of the Non-Aligned Movement, President Thabo Mbeki of South Africa, to the NAM Ministerial Meeting United Nations, New York, 23 September 1999
… dialogue and resolve our conflicts? Madame Chair, Africa, faced with the same problems has risen to the … is awakening and assuming its responsibilties. For…
BiographyMadhlangala Dukuza Ndabezitha
… Lord Gladstone was the British President General of South Africa at the time. On 5 July 1913, he was a delegate to an … were going to inform the British…
EventSouth West African People’s Organisation (SWAPO) is founded to oppose South African rule
… Organisation (SWAPO) was founded in Windhoek, South West Africa (presently Namibia) on 19 April 1960 by Herman Toivo … to advocated immediate Namibian…
BiographyPixley ka Isaka Seme
… at the Middle Temple in London before returning to South Africa on the eve of the creation of the Union of South Africa in 1910. His memorable speech at…
BiographyFaith Nonhlanhla Mazibuko
… this, she enrolled at the University of South Africa (UNISA) majoring in Education, English and History. …
Document 62 - Minutes of the meeting of the Workers’ Party of South Africa. Johannesburg Branch, held at 90 President Street, Johannesburg, 3 April 1936 at 8.20 p.m.
… From: South Africa's Radical Tradition, a documentary history, Volume One … 62 - Minutes of the meeting of the Workers' Party of South Africa. Johannesburg…
Statement at the meeting of the Special Committee against Apartheid in observance of the International Day of Solidarity with the Struggle of Women in South Africa and Namibia, 11 August 1981
… of the entire oppressed and struggling people of South Africa, I wish to convey our sincere appreciation and … an activity of a very unusual type. This was…
PlaceSouth African State Theatre
… ↵ [x] “The South African State Theatre, Pretoria”, South Africa, Accessed 18 April 2017, … .|“The South African State Theatre, Pretoria”, South Africa…
BiographyPhyllis Naidoo
… is when Rev Sykes made her aware of conditions in South Africa that gave rise to this disease. 1946 was also the time … National Congress (ANC) , Communist…
BiographyPatrick Baker Duncan
… of his famous father, a former governor-general of South Africa. He was born in Johannesburg,29 June in 1918 and … his wife and Jordan Ngubane represented…
ArticleThe South African Strategic Defence Procurement Package known as “The Arms Deal”
… Between 1996 and 1999 the South Africa government commissioned the purchase of R30 billion …
BiographyFrancois Pienaar
… for the upcoming Rugby World Cup to be held in South Africa in 1995. Off the field, Rugby World magazine voted … December 1994. Prior to the 1995 World Cup…