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EventGeorge Pemba, artist and playwright is born in Port Elizabeth
… his work from 1928-1987. In 1937 he won the first prize in the May Esther Bedford Competition. In 1944 he was …
Statement at the 2053rd meeting of the Security Council by Mfanafuthi Johnstone (Johnny) Makatini, 9 December 1977
… was made in 1961 by Chief Luthuli, after winning the Nobel Peace Prize. Later, he was assassinated in what we maintain and …
Nadine Gordimer`s key note speech - Amnesty International Ambassador of Conscience Award
… country that Mandela made no objection to receiving the Nobel Peace Prize jointly with the last president of racist regimes in …
Address by President Nelson Mandela at the Golden Doves of Peace Awards ceremony 7 June 1994
… to this solemn occasion. I also wish to congratulate the winners of the Golden Doves of Peace Awards. You are the true …
ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 1960-1969
… Albert Luthuli, the ANC President is awarded the 1960 Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo. 16 December, Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK, ‘The spear …
Ethnicity in Post-Apartheid Discourse: Deconstructing South Africa’s Racial Narrative by Joshua Richman
… when one considers the country’s rich literary history. On Nobel Prize Winner J. M. Coetzee, Moffett recalls a visit to the …
EventSA artist, Bongiwe Dhlomo, is born
… West Germany and Sweden. In 1983 she received the first prize for graphics at the UZ African Arts Festival and in …
ArticleMiriam Makeba: Activist on Two Fronts by Connor Kirkpatrick
… United Nations. In 1986 she won the Dag Hammarskjold Peace Prize. Hammarskjold was the second secretary general of the United Nations. He won a Noble Peace…
Statement at the Freedom Rally Organised by the Irish Anti-Apartheid Movement by O. R. Tambo, Dublin, 26 January 1979
… of the esteemed presence of that great son of Ireland, Nobel Peace Prize Winner and a Lenin Prize Winner - we salute him. (1) If I am critical tonight …
PlaceTown Hall, 25 Market Street, Uitenhage
… of Architect Richard Wright whose design won the first prize of GBP 20 in public competition. The Cornerstone was …
Address of the Deputy President of the African National Congress Nelson Mandela, at the European parliament Strasbourg, 13 June 1990
… pursue any goals which would result in some emerging as winners and others as losers. We are striving to proceed in a … us. We thank you too for awarding us…
EventTurkish newspapers criticise of ANC leader Nelson Mandela for refusing to accept Turkey’s peace award
… to the position he took in declining to accept a peace prize, named after Turkey's national hero, Mustafa Kemal …
EventFirst enslaved people arrive in Cape Town
… and captured half her cargo, taking 250 slaves as a bounty prize. The journal entry from Van Riebeeck's journal for 28 … from Angola by the Amersfoort which…
January 8th Statements -Statement of the National Executive Committee on the occasion of the 99th Anniversary of the ANC - 8 January 2011
… uMkhonto we Sizwe. Fifty Years of the receiving of the Nobel Peace Prize by ANC President-General Chief Albert Luthuli. … and a better life for all. We are…
ArticleUnited Democratic Front timeline 1983-1990
… its biggest ever function to celebrate Tutu winning the Nobel peace prize, in Soweto. While there, Zindzi Mandela reads Mandela's …
ArticleMandela and the South African Communist Party
… (the organisation’s president, Albert Luthuli, had won the Nobel peace prize in 1960 for his own commitment to non-violence). This …
PlaceSlanghoek Cellar, Western Cape
… in the unique character of Slanghoek’s renowned and prize-winning red, white, sparkling, dessert wines and port. …
PlaceSprings
… people who were born or lived in Springs include Nobel laureate Nadine Gordimer , rock musician James Phillips …
Artscape: Legacy Exhibition
… mention a few. Also amongst these greats are South African Nobel Peace Laureates; Nelson Mandela, Desmond Tutu, FW De …
BiographyIsaac Williams Wauchope
… college in Lovedale. He was good at mathematics and won a prize for the best junior student in geometry. He was also an …
BiographyHerbert Isaac Ernest Dhlomo
… at best, overstated. Dhlomo himself writes that “Natives prize their Black skin”. Instead what is needed is equality, …
Statement by Oliver Tambo accepting the Simon Bolivar award on behalf of Nelson Mandela, 24 July 1983, Caracas, Venezuela
… ever two recipients of the International Simon Bolivar Prize, the International Jury has bestowed an honour of rare … Nelson Mandela would not wish to accept…
EventJean van der Poel dies in Cape Town.
… magnum cum laude and won her the Royal Empire Society prize. In 1929 Van der Poel returned to South Africa and …
Address of the TMF Patron, Thabo Mbeki, on the Occassion of his Installation as Chancellor of the University of South Africa: UNISA Campus, Tshwane, 27 February 2017
… creators of new knowledge in the 20th century and winners of the Nobel Prize in the sciences. Einstein said: “The important thing is …
ArticleA History of the South African Film Industry timeline 1895-2003
… local and international release of Emil Nofal's The Winners. It was one of the first local films to do well overseas. The Winners is a drama about a man…
Tribute to President Reginald Oliver Tambo by ANC Treasurer General Dr Mathews Phosa on the occassion of the OR Tambo Lecture, 27 October 2011, Kimberly, Northern Cape Province
… gentlemen how many of us could have been noticed by this Nobel Peace Prize winner? It is important to note that Inkosi Luthuli …
Extracts from Mandela’s speeches by Sapa, 6 December 2013
… prepared to die." --- FROM HIS SPEECH in acceptance of the Nobel Peace Prize, which he shared with FW de Klerk, Oslo, 1993. "At the …
EventSouth African photojournalist and member of the Bang-Bang, Club Kevin Carter, commits suicide
… Kevin Carter, a South African photojournalist and Pulitzer Prize winner, committed suicide just three months after …
EventSouth African Communist Party leader Abram Fischer is sentenced to life imprisonment on charges of communism
… Central Prison. In 1967, he was awarded the Lenin Peace Prize. During his incarceration, he contracted cancer. A fall …
EventSouth African artist Gerard Sekoto is born
… in art took on another dimension. In 1938, he won second prize in a national art competition organised by Ester …