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BiographyJoseph Nkatlo
… he was briefly a member of the Communist Party of South Africa (CPSA) before 1950 and was known in Cape Town as an … in 1954 and again in 1961, and around…
Hlonipha Mokoena, author of THE NIGHTWATCHMAN: Representing Black Men in Colonial South Africa, a book on Zulu men in colonial dress will be discussion with Kwezi Gule
… NIGHTWATCHMAN: Representing Black Men in Colonial South Africa, a book on Zulu men in colonial dress will be … NIGHTWATCHMAN: Representing Black Men in…
BiographyPhaswane Mpe
… . Mpe’s move to Johannesburg was at a time when South Africa was in transition from an Apartheid state to a … The place increasingly became home to people…
Ruth Gosschalk
… she became involved with the Communist Party of South Africa (CPSA - later renamed the South African Communist … she worked as a teacher and for the…
BiographyBrett Murray
… He has also curated various exhibitions around South Africa such as, "40 Sculptures of the Western Cape". In 1998 … "rich and unique irony, particular and…
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…
ArchiveSouth Africa and the Communist International : A Documentary History, Volume 1 : Socialist Pilgrims to Bolshevik Footsoldiers 1919-1930 edited by A. Davidson, I. Filatova, V. Gorodnov and S. Johns
… Introduction Socialist Ideals and Bolshevik Realities South Africa and the Archives of the Communist International … Daily Mail about the Role of Comintern…
Maria Wilman
… received her Master of Arts. In 1888 she returned to South Africa and began work at the South African Museum in Cape … Philosophical Society and the Royal…
ArchiveAfrican market
Black and white poster. Detailed artwork of an African market. Small branch of yellow branch and purple flowers. Poster by Armstrong Artworks - Swaziland.
BiographyRay Berman
… Born and bred in Johannesburg, Ray Berman left South Africa in 1966 to go into voluntary exile in Swaziland and … household name in places such as Australia,…
ArchiveAddress by State President F W de Klerk, DMS, at the opening of the second session of the ninth Parliament of the Republic of South Africa, Friday 2 February 1990
… session of the ninth Parliament of the Republic of South Africa, Friday, 2 February 1990. Deals with foreign … session of the ninth Parliament of the…
BiographyArthur William Blaxall
… Congress (PAC) in the early 1960s. He came to South Africa in 1923 to work with the deaf and in the 1930s headed … he opened the first workshop for blind…
African shield
White poster with red border. Artwork of a red and black African shield with a black spear and a yellow and black circle. Black, green and yellow shield…
EventSouth African refugees leave Lesotho
… liberation movements banned from operating in South Africa by the Apartheid government. Others were in Lesotho … safe as the country was threatened with…
BiographyJacob Hendrik Pierneef
… He was a changed man when he returned to South Africa at the age of 18. Back in Pretoria the young artist … returned on a ship which sailed along the east…
BiographyIsmail Ahmed Cachalia
… born in the then Transvaal Province (now Gauteng) of South Africa on 5 December 1908. At the time Cachalia’s father, who … the outlawed South African…
BiographyJuda Ngwenya
… two and half decades, Ngwenya has covered some of South Africa’s hotspots and also travelled extensively doing … Mozambique, as well as other major news…
BiographyDr. Oshadi Maphefo Jane Mangena
… for the Education and Cultural Advancement of South Africa. She was concurrently elected as president of the … 1977, she was the national president of the…
BiographyStephen J.C. Dlamini
… leaders. In 1961, he was an organiser for the All in Africa Conference held in Pietermaritzburg and the May … the safety of his comrades. In 1976, Dlamini…
BiographySidney Percival Bunting
… which later became part of the Communist Party of South Africa (CPSA). Like his father he became an editor and worked … concerned with the fate of black…
BiographyMagdaline ‘Maggie’ Resha
… broadcasting the cause of the oppressed people of South Africa. She attended numerous Organisation of African Unity … and in 1973 she was elected General…
BiographyLefifi Tladi
… legally in what the government considered as White South Africa. People who lived in Black spots were told to leave … well as sustaining working relations…
BiographyMarutle Flag Boshielo
… National Congress (ANC) and Communist Party of South Africa (CPSA) in the 1940s and served in the ANC Transvaal … of Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK). In late…
BiographyPieter Willem Botha
… Botha's relationship with the Coloured people of South Africa was ambivalent. As Assistant and Acting Secretary of … Internal Affairs, an office he held for…
BiographyJulian Raymond Cobbing
… In 1977, at the age of 33, Cobbing came to South Africa and became an active photographer in the Eastern Cape … book Beyond the Barricades: Popular…
BiographyDaniel Kunene
… years old. [i] Daniel Kunene was born in Edenvale, South Africa on 13 April 1923 to Ephraim and Martha Kunene. [ii] … legacy will live on both in his birth…
BiographyMalusi Nkanyezi Gigaba
… When the ANC, Pan Africanist Congress (PAC) , South Africa Communist Party (SACP) and other liberation movements … Minister of Public Enterprises of the…
Appeal for Action to stop Repression and Trial in South Africa: Statement at the Meeting of the Special Political Committee of the United Nations General Assembly by O. R. Tambo, New York, 8 October, 1963
… appeal to the nations of the world to call South Africa to sanity, nor do we feel we can be too emphatic in … a great deal of the damage which the Government…
BiographyBaruch Hirson
… and Lily Hirson, were Jews who had immigrated to South Africa to evade the pogroms, persecution and discrimination … a member of Fourth International…
BiographyDr Kwame Nkrumah
… young people from numerous then colonies across Africa . The publishing arm of the student movement, “The … the path forward the the national liberation…