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BiographyWalter Gilbert Wiles
… in ndustry in 1914 forced him to consider earning a living from his art. In 1915 he married Pauline Harper and they had …
BiographyZimasile Ngqawana
… His first musical instrument was a flute that he made from a reed. At the age of 21 he began playing the flute and … obituary Free-spirited South African…
BiographyPortia Modise
… in Namibia in 2014. On 19 May 2015, Portia Modise retired from international football at the age of 31 years. The …
BiographyHelen Zille
… in Johannesburg . She obtained a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of the Witwatersrand. A prominent … IOL, (2011), “ Zille appears in court ” from…
BiographyAnna Zieminski
… Gardens in Claremont , Cape Town; and 'Illegal Migrants' from neighbouring countries. In 1996, she took on the …
BiographyLillian Masediba Ngoyi
… as a machinist in a clothing factory, where she worked from 1945 to 1956. Ngoyi joined the Garment Workers Union …
The strangulation of activity
… From: A Crime Against Humanity - Analysing the Repression of … The Suppression of Communism Act of 1950 was replaced in 1976 by the Internal Security Act,…
PlaceOrlando Stadium
… As well as entertainment and political events. In June 1976, this was the planned destination of protesting students , but police prevented marchers from…
Chapter 5 - Basotho - Their Last Supper
… From the book: Le Rona Re Batho (An account of the 1982 … hosts, killed in the massacre. How do you tell a Mosotho from a South African ? The SADF knew the…
PlaceBacksberg Wine Estate & Cellars
… Cape Town as a penniless political and religious refugee from Lithuania. Graduating from working as a dockhand on the reclamation program around … entire…
Address at The Youth Day Rally, Witbank, 16th June 2003
… Day, marks the 27th Anniversary of the Soweto Uprising of 1976. Accordingly, we remember and celebrate the colossal and … this Summit with regard to the…
Lionel Davis, SA artist, is born in Cape Town. He was a political prisoner on Robben Island between 1964 and 1971, where he c
… under a banning order and kept under house arrest until 1976. In 1978 and 1979 he worked at the Community Arts …
EventThe Azanian People’s Organisation (AZAPO) is founded after the government banned a host of BCM organisations in October 1977.
… In the aftermath of the 16 June 1976 Uprising, in Soweto, Johannesburg, the apartheid … SAHO, Azanian People's Organization (AZAPO) , from South Arican…
The Polly Street Era
… with an increase in Christian influence and pressure from a white controlled economy. It was also formed as a … the decade leading up to the education crisis…
ArchiveThe Mandela I knew by Saths Cooper, 6 December 2013
… and I were moved to his B-Section single-cell block from the C-Section isolation block, which was rarely used, … to resolve. The source of tension was the…
EventArchbishop Owen Cardinal McCann becomes South Africa’s first cardinal.
… Catholic Church began campaigning against Apartheid. In 1976, in an open letter to the Government, he made a … (1994), ‘Cardinal McCann, 86; Ex-Prelate in…
ArticleThembisile Chris Hani Timeline 1942 - 2003
… of the African National Congress and SACP. Hani graduates from Rhodes University with a BA degree in Latin and English, … at Liliesleaf Farm the training of…
PlaceHeritage Route of King Shaka
… warriors were required to prove their courage by leaping from the rock into the sea. High Rock is in the Shakas Rock … Shaka used to bathe, relax and get his…
Quotes by Steve Biko
… mind and a way of life, the most positive call to emanate from the black world for a long time. Its essence is the … which the Black Consciousness approach…
EventNqwiliso cedes land to Cape Government
… not as part of the Transkeian territories. However, in 1976 the SA government handed Port St Johns to Paramount … ‘Accommodation South Africa: Port St Johns…
We Shall Win. Joint Statement by Leaders of Liberation Movements at the fifth Session of the Assembly of Heads of State and Government of the Organisation of African Unity by O. R. Tambo, Algiers, 13 – 16 September 1968
… of Portugal in the Unholy Alliance of Salazar, Smith and Vorster, the following facts need to be emphasised. Firstly, … of the OAU drove the British…
The Many Faces of Apartheid Repression
… The content of this article was taken from the book A Crime Against Humanity - Analysing the … in this document. Formal repression of gatherings Since 1976…
ANC statement on the death of Adelaide Tambo, 31 January 2007
… demanded of her and her family. A political activist from a young age, Adelaide Tambo fought to ensure that women … of the families whose children left South…
BiographyBenni Gwigwi Mrwebi
… him. Newtown - the area in which the street was renamed from Pim street to Gwigwi Mrwebi - is known for its …
BiographyJacob “Baby Jake” Matlala
… those living with HIV/Aids. He also earnt a B.com degree from Unisa. Matlala died in 2013 at the age of 51 and is …
BiographyMaria Laubser
… SASA until 1922, when she returned briefly to Cape Town from abroad. It was then that she entered her paintings; …
BiographySchalk Burger
… his forces fled Spionkop. Subsequently, Burger desisted from military engagements and focused on being in government. … of Arts in History, University of…
BiographyIsaac Lesiba ‘Bra Ike’ Maphotho
… 1962, the ANC sent him to the Beirut International School from where he returned to Dar es Salaam in 1963. In the same … Isaac Lesiba Maphotho (1931”“ ) ,…
BiographyAndrew Sibusiso Zondo
… by the eThekwini Municipality, drew similar criticism from local residents including Zondo’s father, who said it …
Chapter 10 - The Character, Role and Significance of SANSCO
… there was an initial BC phase which covered the period from SANSCO's inception in November 1979 to its first … act as a "vanguard". The essential continuity…