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When Mandela's Predecessor toured the US to Expose Segregation back home by Matthew Blackman (www.ozy.com), 29 May 2018
… man of the southern African Barolong tribe stood at the American border near Niagara Falls holding Canadian passport … to issue him a phony passport is lost…
ArticleMangosuthu Buthelezi was a man of immense political talent and contradictions
… most influential black leaders for the majority of his long and remarkable life. Yet he occupied an anomalous position within the politics of the anti…
BiographyJohn Smith Moffat
… in 1858 and also married Emily Unwin the same year. His father settled him at Inyati in 1859, where he lived for … Matabeleland in 1859. In 1865 he took over…
The Final Prize by Norman Levy book review by Chris Saunders, 1 June 2014
… accounts now published by those involved in the anti-apartheid struggle, Norman Levy’s substantial memoir stands … Congress of Democrats. He provides a…
ArticleThe 1913 Mineworkers’ Strike
… in January 1911. But they were brutally forced back to work by police and white miners. Many were jailed under the … to die. Miners soon distributed a…
Aaron Khoza
… himself. According to medical evidence at the inquest into his death the cause of death was asphyxia as a result of … was no glass in the window .Major…
BiographyMeshach Pelem
… the interests of African voters in the eastern Cape. Until his death in 1936 Pelem remained a representative of …
BiographyCyprian Mpho Shilakoe
… 1946 in Barberton, Eastern Transvaal. Shilakoe spent his childhood on an isolated mission station at Buchbeesreich …
BiographyEsme Bodenstein
… in Pretoria Central Prison twice in 20 years before his release in 1985, following which he joined her in the …
BiographyJames “Jobe” Hadebe
… personal and political reasons”, but that he would retain his ordinary membership of the Congress. He returned to South … to serve as an ANC representative…
BiographyVictor Nkosi
… Nkosi, Victor Nkosi’s father, was accused of encouraging his followers to “squat” on South African Development Trust land adjoining his area in Matsulu,…
BiographyVusumuzi Vitus Mvelase
… weekends. In April ’73 he was convicted of contravening his banning order and sentenced to 30 days imprisonment, … defulted by taking up a job in Pinetown,…
BiographyJohanna (Joey) Hendrina Scheepers
… of the four daughters of Sarel Gerhardus Breitenbach and his wife, Johanna Hendrina Strydom. Johanna Scheepers was … 1949. Scheepers also was stepmother to…
ArticlePopular resistance and police brutality in democratic South Africa
… The apartheid era was characterised by different resistances such … They were paid R4000 a month. They also do indispensable work, driving the heavy…
ArticleFootball in South Africa
… in the number of Africans migrating to cities to find work in the war-driven manufacturing expansion. Football … (1950s) After the Second World War and the…
BiographyJackson (Balisile)) Nkosiyane
… Paramount Chief (PC) Dalindyebo’s ‘misconception of his position and powers.’ It was alleged that he was … chief.’ However, the PC was being misled by …
ArticleWomen’s Revolts in Natal: 1959
… Most people credit the abolition of apartheid to many organisations and leaders, such as the … migrant labourers, who were forced to travel elsewhere to work…
Dumisani Mbatha
… prison. After he was reported missing for several days his parents made inquiries at John Vorster Square ,at which stage they learnt of his death. A prison…
ArticleThe Pietermaritzburg Treason Trial, 1984
… as he had said similar statements. Mohamed continued to work to get bail for the accused, and was repeatedly refused. … deny making speeches where they…
EventAndre Botha, South Africa’s bodyboarding champion saves a life
… world champion.[ii] On 8 December 2015, Andre rescued an American surfer by the name of Evan Geiselmann from drowning … Evan Geiselmann was rendered…
Statement by Mfanafuthi Makatini in the Plenary Meeting of the General Assembly, 27 November 1981
… unavoidable obligations from being with us today. It was his intention, on the eve of the seventieth anniversary of … hope that under his able leadership…
EventFirst celebration of National Heritage Day
… most notable being that of Arch Bishop emeritus Desmond Tutu, who in 2007 was made the National Spokesperson for … are so many things that are pulling us…
ArticleThe Cape Malay
… to import political exiles from the East Indies to work as slaves in the Cape Colony. The Malays waiting for the … doctrine of "Khalwatiyyah", which he had…
BiographyNathaniel James Merriman
… of Street (Somersetshire) in 1840. In 3847 he offered his services to Bishop Gray and was appointed the first … Cape Colony. Arriving at the Cape in November…
ArticleNon-European Unity Movement (NEUM)
… left them with a false ideology that dominated the work they undertook, undermined their original vision and led … Smuts made it possible for General Hertzog…
EventControversial ‘Black Jesus’ painter, Ronald Harrison, dies
… Christ, depicts Luthuli crucified on the cross next to apartheid mastermind Hendrick Verwoed and former Minister of … of cancer on 28 June 2011, just before…
BiographyPaulus Howell Mopeli
… district of the [Eastern] Transvaal [now Mpumalanga]. His banishment order described him as ‘one of the … Chief of Witzieshoek Reserve, Charles Mopeli feared…
ArticleBlack Consciousness and student revolt in the Cape
… The Black Consciousness Movement (BCM) defiantly rejected apartheid and found resonance among black workers and the … he was denied letters of recommendation…
BiographyCharles Du Val
… Manchester, England in 1810 of Irish parents. Du Val and his business manager and long-time associate, Arthur Fry, …
BiographySokhaya Charles Nkosi
… at Rorke's Drift. From 1977 to 1980 he worked full-time at his art at Mariannhill. From 1980 to 1981, he taught art at …