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BiographyDolly Rathebe
… toured the country and the region extensively with South Africa’s top bands, including the Manhattan Stars and the …
BiographyDavid Hartman
… home. His mother was born in England and came to South Africa after the Second World War and married and settled … degree Hartman spent a year travelling…
BiographyJosiah Tshangana Gumede
… leaders in the ANC and in the politics that shaped South Africa.He was the fouth president of the ANC in the late … Cetshwayo in 1883, the British High…
BiographyTracy Payne
… a flower. She was born in 1965 in Cape Town , South Africa. In 1987, she graduated from the Michaelis School of … Town, 1992 'Volkskas Atelier', Association…
BiographyStephen William Black
… When the commercial entertainment circuits of South Africa were suffering a depression in 1908, and many overseas … Town to determine the unification of the…
BiographyIndres Naidoo
… affront to dignity, and was fired. He escaped from South Africa in January 1977 to work for the African National … products to the military and repressive…
BiographyAlex la Guma
… Alex la Guma is known as one of South Africa’s foremost activist writers, both for his reportage … . la Guma was born in 1925 in District Six , South Africa…
ArchiveUnomsa for African Renaissance by Thobeka Sinxo
… included in the government programme to ‘Reprint South Africa’s Classics’. As usufructuary of the book, I assigned … The play gained popularity on TV…
BiographyBenni Gwigwi Mrwebi
… due to his numerous appearances for the BBC World Service Africa. Mrwebi’s genre of music was often referred to as … popular among the youth in the township…
EventSouth African History Online goes live
… later. Since then SAHO has popularised history in South Africa and become the largest independent history education … societal understanding and social…
BiographyZondeni Veronica Sobukwe
… July 1927 in Hlobane, Natal (now Kwazulu-Natal ), South Africa. Mrs Sobukwe (then Miss Mathe) was a trainee nurse at … grant her husband and her family…
BiographyJessie Yasmin Duarte
… Nelson Mandela and Walter Sisulu until 1994. During South Africa’s negotiations for democracy, from 1991-1994, Duarte …
BiographyBrigitte Sylvia Mabandla
… the Institute of Race Relations in Durban but left South Africa for Zambia where she obtained her LLB degree. Between … and other political organisations,…
BiographyFrances Herman Gow
… Bishop of the African Methodist Episcopal Church in South Africa in 1956. For six years in the 1920s and 1930s he was … at Tuskegee Institute until 1925. On…
BiographyBen Khoapa
… conditions of African Americans. On his return to South Africa, Khoapa became involved with Steve Biko and other … where he taught for eight years. He…
BiographyJan Smiesing
… from Madagascar, South East Asia, South Asia and East Africa as well as mixed race people born at the Cape, the … ↵ [iv] Archie L. Dick, The hidden history…
BiographyVera Ponnen
… Alberts) was born in 1915 in England. She came to South Africa in 1938 as a governess. The next year, she went to … 1967, Vera went with her husband to…
EventSouth African Press Association is established
… as a non-governmental institution in 1938 by South Africa's major newspapers to facilitate the sharing of news, … It is a primary institution of breaking…
BiographyPaul Michael Sibisi
… guidance). In 1984 Sibisi received an Operation Crossroads Africa grant which enabled him to visit the USA. In 1987 He … Art Competition (fourth prize). 1984…
BiographyLionel Forman
… as well as a member of the Communist Party of South Africa . He was an accused in the 1956 Treason Trial. His …
BiographyJames Steven Mzilikazi Khumalo
… to earn the money he needed to go to college. Due to South Africa’s racial policies under apartheid, he was unable to … English and isiZulu in 1956 from the…
BiographyEduardo Mondlane
… Tanzania. He attended Witwatersrand University in South Africa until forced to withdraw by the new apartheid-oriented … of the United Nations, a position…
BiographyPlaatjies Joseph Paul
… 1958, was a defendant in the Treason Trial. He left South Africa in the 1960s and now lives in Britain. In the early … of the International Defence and Aid…
BiographyPius Nkonzo Langa
… in the eastern Transvaal (now Mpumalanga), South Africa, on 25 March 1939, the second of seven children. In … six children. Langa enrolled at the University…
BiographyRichard Feetham
… War ) with the Inns of Court Rifles, he came to South Africa in 1902, when on the recommendation of Lionel G. … legal adviser to the British High…
BiographyJosephine Ethel (Josie) Wood
… of 1918 when she met Eleanor Comber. Comber came to South Africa to work among the blind. To combat the high level of … small if books in braille. When she…
BiographyJames Madhlope Phillips
… year Phillips also joined the Communist Party of South Africa (CPSA) . He became actively involved in the formation … unit read, sang and did short sketches…
ArchiveSouth Africa and the Communist International : A Documentary History, Volume 2 : Bolshevik Footsoldiers to Victims of Bolshevisation 1931-1939 edited by A. Davidson, I. Filatova, V. Gorodnov and S. Johns
… South Africa and the Communist International : A Documentary … South Africa and the Communist International : A Documentary …
BiographyJohn Langalibalele Dube
… (the first-born, a daughter), Victoria, Esther, Hleziphi, Africa (the first-born son), William and Thupana. Rev James … role in shaping the social and…
ArchiveSA Air Force operation, 20 May 1983, Car bomb in South Africa kills 16, Macau Daily Times, undated
… SA Air Force operation, 20 May 1983, Car bomb in South Africa kills 16, Macau Daily Times, undated …