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ArticleAfrapix
… – Comrades with Cameras A history of a South African anti apartheid Documentary Photography Collective Afrapix, a … repression in their communities and to…
BiographyDulcie Howes
… of the Capab Ballet Company. However, her innovative work with local musicians and artists, such as Professor … choreographers have benefited from the…
Bellington Mampe
… of death were undisclosed. Although Mr Mampe died in 1963,his death was announced by the government only in 1964.In …
James Hamakwayo
… prison and died on 10th October 1966.An inquest into his death found that he had died by 'suicide by hanging'. …
BiographyAlson Ntshangase
… He attended art classes at KwaBazini CP School; he did his secondary schooling at KwaZide High School; he had to …
EventMartin Luther King, Junior, is born
… Martin Luther King, Junior, an African-American clergyman who orchestrated social change through … led by the National Party under D.F. Malan was introducing…
Biography of Baleka Mbete-Kgositsile by Brianna T. Hogg
… have had in politics, in addition to the fight against the apartheid movement and the rights for all people in South … years, Mbete decided to leave South…
ArchiveThe New South African Revolution by Prithiraj Dullay, 03 April 2017
… and former head of the S African Revenue Service, plus his deputy were recalled from London in the midst of a … of the ANC and the people of S Africa. Bishop…
ArticleLiberal Party of South Africa (LPSA)
… The ascendancy of the apartheid government in 1948 signalled a descent into … was swept into power defeating General Jan Smuts and his United Party (UP)…
Address of the President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki, to the Special Sitting of the Senate of the Republic of Chile: Valparaiso, June 8, 2005
… were obliged to make great sacrifices to respond to the apartheid crime against humanity. As many died on our streets … bull's eye of your hearts. And you…
Esmé Berman
… art historian Giorgio Vasari’s (1511-1574) approach in his book, translated as Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, … many years. The book gives an intimate…
ArticleThe Nelson Mandela Presidency - 1994 to 1999
… the president of the African National Congress (ANC), and his friend and colleague, Oliver Tambo , was elected the … de Klerk were awarded the Nobel Peace…
BiographyDiana Ferrus
Internationally renowned South African poet, writer, and activist for marginalised groups, Diana Ferrus, was born on 29 August 1953 in Worcester, Cape Province…
PlaceAdams College, Amanzimtoti
… School originally founded by Dr Newton Adams from the American Board of Missions. It was first named; 'Amanzimtoti … humility, Faithfulness, Realness,…
BiographyDorothy Nomzansi Nyembe
… were dropped on 18 December 1957,she resumed her political work,was elected to the ANC's National ExecutiveCommittee …
EventFirst Black US ambassador is sent to South Africa
… Liberia, Edward Perkins, was appointed as the first black American ambassador to South Africa by American President Ronald Reagan. He was instrumental in…
BiographyGert Petrus Swart
… as a Health Inspector until 1982 when, influenced by his father’s interest in carving, he enrolled at the …
PlaceRegina Mundi, Catholic Church, Soweto
… Baptista Montini, the Cardinal of Milan. During the Apartheid era the Regina Mundi Church opened its doors to Anti-Apartheid groups and provided shelter to…
ArticleTimeline of South African photographic books and exhibitions 1958 - 2003
… Photo of the Year Award. Albert Newall re-establishes his photography business - Industrial Photography (Pty) Ltd - … to London. 1964 Peter Magubane held an…
Biography of Lefifi Tladi by Paul Linck
… singer that went into exile in South Africa because of apartheid. This is the biographical portion of the paper. At the end of the paper there is a short…
Gertrude Fester Biography by Nehal Patel
… born on 4 July 1952, in the fourth year of South Africa’s apartheid state. By this time, policies, such as the Group … Therefore, segregation would protect…
ArticleNelson Mandela Timeline 1970-1979
… that it would be resuming arms sales to South Africa’s apartheid government. November, Mandela was allowed his first visit from Winnie Madikizela-Mandela in…
ArticleLesotho Timeline
… Mokhachane, a minor chief of the Bakoteli lineage, forms his own clan. 1822 Basutoland founded by King Moshoeshoe I, … Zambia, Zimbabwe to lessen economic…
ArchiveHugh Lewin obituary by Peter Hain (www.theguardian.com), 21 January 2019
… wedding, Leftwich turned state witness to convict him at his 1964 trial, as did his close friend and co-conspirator … and in South Africa only when it was…
BiographyBaron Joachim van Plettenberg
… the monogram of the Dutch East India Company, as well as his name. …
BiographyJopie (Josef Johannes) Fourie
… seen as a traditional Afrikaner Boer hero, standing up for his beliefs and Louis Botha was severely criticised by many …
Joseph Zenzele Mavi
Trade unionist who brought the grievances of black workers int white homes through a crippling of Johannesburg municipal workers in 1980.Mr Mavi was born in…
BiographyBernard Mafiyeka
… of a group of four men who approached him as he walked to work. …
ArticleThe Homelands
… The Bantustans or homelands, established by the Apartheid Government, were areas to which the majority of the … as the Government aimed to move every Black…
Biography of Michael Scott from an email contribution by Lorna Richmond, 25 November 2015
… Heath Sussex, the youngest of three brothers. In 1911 his father, an Anglican priest, was transferred to a slum … his father's parishioners) he sailed for…