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BiographyWangari Maathai
… the first women graduate with a PhD in East and Central Africa. [v] Maathai chaired the Department of Veterinary … played a significant role in co-chairing…
BiographyRashid Lombard
… also contributed to various group exhibitions in Southern Africa, including at the University of Zimbabwe in 1983 and … and 1985. Lombard’s images were also…
BiographyJ B Marks
… employed, J. B. Marks joined the Communist Party of South Africa (CPSA) in 1928 and devoted himself to the fight for … a co-conspirator in the Rivonia Trial …
BiographyPitso John Mosimane
… soccer team) assistant coach to Ted Dumitri at the 2006 Africa Cup of Nations. Mosimane also appeared as an assistant coach for the 2010 World Cup in South…
ArticleAbout South African History Online (SAHO)
… of historical, cultural, and political events in South Africa and the continent Biographies: Over 7,000 life stories … Covers political movements, liberation…
BiographyEschel Mostert Rhoodie
… activity was insufficient to improve apartheid South Africa's negative image abroad, Rhoodie hatched secret … finance journalists to write positive articles…
BiographyBisho Jarsa
… coast and placed in the care of missionaries in South Africa. "We were overawed in her presence and by the way she … Robben Island with Nelson Mandela , is…
BiographyMoses Kottler
… others as 1896. As a child, his parents moved to South Africa, but let him study in Jerusalem, Palestine (now … himself sculpting. In 1912 he visited his…
BiographyEdward “Eddie” Webster
… in the labour process shaped the labour movement in South Africa, remains a classic. His book with Rob Lambert and … study of the sociology of work and…
Francis Zaccharius Santiago Peregrino
… of sorts to the activities the he would undertake in South Africa. And three years later, he wrote and published the … That church also engaged in missionary…
Document 61 - Minutes of the meeting of the Workers’ Party of South Africa, Johannesburg Branch, held at 90 President Street, Johannesburg, 25 March (1936) at 8.30 p.m.
… From: South Africa's Radical Tradition, a documentary history, Volume One … 61 - Minutes of the meeting of the Workers' Party of South Africa, Johannesburg…
BiographyLouis Luyt
… and integrity of Afrikaners. The FA took part in South Africa’s first democratic election in 1999 but won no seats, … Joyce, P. (1999). A Concise Dictionary…
Ruth Alexander
… twenty-three. They corresponded after his return to South Africa, and eventually in June 1907 they married in New York, … The couple settled in Cape Town,…
BiographyDora Taylor
… envisioning of a non-racial democratic society of South Africa. Her writings were that of a radical revolutionary … breakaway group which formed the Workers'…
BiographyMargaret Mary Smith
… Teacher’s Licentiate in Music by the University of South Africa (UNISA). [iii] In 1937 she became a senior … were mainly in the western, southern and eastern…
BiographyNathaniel Impey Honono
… In 1950 he joined the Teachers' League of South Africa (TLSA),a coloured organization that also often … for convening a joint CATA and Teachers League of…
BiographySir Winston Spencer Churchill
… born in Blenheim Palace, Oxford, in 1874. He came to South Africa as a correspondent to the Morning Post during the … Horse. During his long career as…
South African History Online and Principia College Partnership Project - 2018 submissions
The biographical essays are selected from students in a South African history survey course that sought to put Africans back at the center of their history and…
PlaceSouth African National Art Gallery
… and significance of the Art that began to emerge in South Africa in the 1980s, brought about a shift in acquisition … insight into the range of aesthetic…
BiographyMaggie 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…
BiographyPhilip Ata Kgosana
… Tried for incitement with other PAC leaders, he fled South Africa while on bail in late 1960 and later resumed his … ANC government for not doing enough to…
South African Students Movement Constitutio
… Student's Movement adopted at King Williams Town, South Africa, March 1976. …
BiographyPercy John "Jack" Hodgson
… fascism and in 1941 he joined the Communist Party of South Africa. In North Africa he served as a sergeant in the “Desert Rats”, an … were carried over into…
BiographyDr. Jacob Mfaniselwa Nhlapo
… he studied privately through the University of South Africa (Unisa): in 1928 he obtained a Junior Certificate … place of learning. Nhlapo traveled widely…
BiographyMorgan Gonaseelan Naidoo
… merged to form the Amateur Swimming Association of South Africa. As President of SAASwiF, Naidoo worked tirelessly to … President of the National Olympic…
ArchiveFree South Africas political prisoners
… in handcuffs. Issued by African National Congress, South Africa, London. …
BiographyAhmed Mohamed "Kathy" Kathrada
… of 12 when he joined the Young Communist League of South Africa, distributing leaflets at street corners for the … upon him the urgent need to eradicate…
PlaceSouth African College High School
… of it to SACS. SACS is the oldest high school in South Africa, founded in September 1829. It is arguably the most … on to make huge contributions to the…
ArchiveFederation of South African Women
… African women in green black and white. Green image of Africa at bottom. …
BiographyJohn David Rheinallt Jones
… Wales, the son of a minister, and immigrated to South Africa in 1905, imbued with his family's ideals of liberal … His Work for the Betterment of Race…