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BiographyPregaluxmi (Pregs) Govender
Pregaluxmi (Pregs) Govender was born on 15 February 1960 in Durban, Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal). Her father – a writer and, mother, a teacher – valued critical…
Mafika Gwala Second Annual Lecture and Book Launch Invitation
ArchiveBook Reviews: The SA Police: Amnesty Alleges Partisan Role
Book Launch: Africa in Today’s World by Max Coleman
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ArchiveBook reviews: this isnt going to be an easy
Book launch “Race, Class and Power” by Steven Friedman
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Ex-inmate’s memoir unfolds as book by Rusana Philander
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Mary Matilda Brown
Mary Matilda Brown was born in Sea Point, Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa on 20 July 1847. She advocated for social and moral reform and was a campaigner…
The Final Prize by Norman Levy book review by Chris Saunders, 1 June 2014
Among the many personal accounts now published by those involved in the anti-apartheid struggle, Norman Levy’s substantial memoir stands out, because it is so…
ArticleCaste - meaning, profession, religion
Achari, Achary, Archary - Sometimes the last name of a person. Caste of the craftsman -architects, goldsmiths. Also associated with Brahmin class. www.boards…
Book 3: Migration, Land and Minerals in the Making of South Africa - Introduction
From the book: Book 3: Migration, Land and Minerals in the Making of South Africa commissioned by The Department of Education The nineteenth century deserves…
BiographyShapurji Jivanji Randeria
Shapurji Jivanji Randeria was born at Rander in the Surat district in India in 1880. He arrived in South Africa in 1900. He had passed the senior book-keeping…
BiographyWendy Heather Woods
… were still in the room. She had brought him several books to read, including George Orwell’s Nineteen … for Marble Arch Productions, collecting thousands of…
BiographyKing Dingane ka Senzangakhona
… Geskiedenis in Beeld (1989) by Anthony Preston. Bion Books: Printed in South Africa. In 1829, shortly after …
BiographySantu Mofokeng
… at a South African Gold Mine, 1994, Duke University Press Books, 2011 Figures and Fictions: Contemporary South African …
BiographyAnn Tobias
Ann Tobias was a member of the Liberal Party of South Africa during Apartheid. The party strongly opposed Apartheid policies and the government would go on to…
EventElsa, the lioness made famous by Joy Adamson’s book Born Free, dies in Kenya
Elsa the lioness was one of three orphaned lions whose mother was killed in self defence by George Adamson. Adamson was a wildlife conservationist based in…
ArchiveMafika Gwala Second Annual Lecture and Book Launch, 5 October 2016
The Mafika Pascal Gwala Annual lecture was initiated by South African History Online in 2015 and is run in partnership with both the University of Kwa Zulu…
Gold and Workers 1886 - 1924 book review by Ruth Edgecombe
Book shows misery of Inanda by Sunday Times, 5 August 1985
The Hidden History of South Africa’s Book and Reading Cultures
BiographyLivingstone Mqotsi
… made it his duty to encourage them to read and study the books in his well-equipped library. While Mqotsi was in exile …
BiographyWalter Kefuoe Fikeleph Chakela
… every book he could get his hands on, including banned books that his friend would get from the library at a school … philosophical and artistic outlook…
Book 1: Ancient Civilizations and Global Trade - Chapter 2 - The Beginnings of Globalisation by Jeff Guy
… time - about 200 years from 1250 to 1450. There are many books which illustrate the remarkable remains of the building …
BiographyMngqingo Pikani
At a 1953 meeting in Lusikisiki, [Eastern Province, now Eastern Cape] betterment and the Bantu Authorities (BA) were rejected in the presence of the Paramount…
EventANC leader, Walter Sisulu is arrested for not being in possession of a reference book.
African National Congress (ANC) leader, Walter Sisulu was arrested on a charge that he did not own a reference book. Subsequently Sisuslu was confined to his…
Book 6: Negotiation, Transition and Freedom - Chapter 2 - Explaining the Miracle by Max du Preez
From the book: Book 6: Negotiation, Transition and Freedom commissioned by The Department of Education We, the people of South Africa, Recognise the…
BiographySteven Eli Friedman
… economic growth and social inequality. This led to two key books Building Tomorrow Today: African Workers in Trade …
BiographyThemba Godi
Themba Godi was born on 10August 1966 in the Village of Matsavana, Bushbuckridge in the Eastern Transvaal (now Mpumalanga Province). Godi commenced his primary…
BiographyCurtis Nkondo
… in the neighbourhood, but he reached out for whatever books he could find. By the time he reached high school he …