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BiographyReverend Walker Stanley Gawe
… Union (ICU) ,1920s and in 1926 he became a member of the African National Congress (ANC). In the late 1930s he served … Defiance Campaign, President of the…
BiographyWilliam Stewart Ainslie
… in KwaZulu Natal. He also taught art at Cyrene Mission (African Art Centre) in Southern Rhodesia and King Edward VII …
BiographyRaymond Mhlaba
… the ANC medal Isithwalandwe and served in 1997 as South African High Commissioner to Uganda. In 1986 Mhlaba married … Committee member, Premier of the…
BiographyDr Hersheela Narsee
… South Africa and also as the gender co-ordinator of South African Congress of Trade Unions (SACTU) in Durban. Narsee …
BiographyLucy Buyaphi Mvubelo
… of the Management Committee of the United States-South African Leader Exchange Program, which gave Black people … Johannesburg: Ad Donker| Mbuvelo, L. (1980)…
BiographyHugh Lewin
… law and later sentenced, with other members of the African Resistance Movement (ARM), to seven years’ … jailed for sabotage, exiled person, member of the…
ArticlePhotography and the Liberation Struggle in South Africa
… challenged the beliefs, policies, or actions of the South African government. Such a general definition functions … support apartheid. Television networks…
BiographyErnst Heinrich Daniël Arndt
… 1951 he was appointed as the Deputy Governor of the South African Reserve Bank, a position from which he retired in … to 1954 he was a member of the…
BiographyJabulile Nyawose
… By this time, Nyawose, Ivan Pillay (presently Acting South African Revenue Services Commissioner) and his brother Dhaya … Pillay, had been drawn by Sunny…
BiographyMoses Ndlovu
… exposed to trade unionism. After he was recruited into the African National Congress (ANC) in the mid 1960s, his first … that sector-based affiliates of the…
BiographyThemba Thomas Mazibuko
… Orlando West High School and became a member of the South African Student Movement (SASM). In 1974 as a member of SASM … comrade Sol Ndlovu. It was here that…
EventThe SA government grants 'Independent' status to Venda
… Promotion Bantu Self-Government Act,46 of 1959, the South African government granted 'independence' status to Venda, … community rejected the independence of…
BiographyKing Mzilikazi
… Mzilikazi (meaning The Great Road), was a Southern African king who founded the Matabele kingdom (Mthwakazi), … whom many had considered to be the greatest…
BiographyJohn Marinus Ferus
… soldier, was born on 8 February 1940. He joined the South African Coloured Peoples Congress (SACPO) at the age of 19. … Ferus died in a car accident in 1981…
ArticleTimeline of Land Dispossession and Segregation in South Africa 1800-1899
… economic impact profoundly changed South Africa and the African continent. Colonial conquest and rapid land … this period. Conversely, fierce resistance was…
BiographyAlbert Dlomo
… Dlomo joined the African National Congress (ANC ) at Chesterville in Durban … Mxenge and others began discussion on reviving the South African Congress of…
EventVlakplaas Commander testifies before Harms Commission about secret police killings in 1981
… Harms Commission in Britain in 1990 to investigate these claims. In his testimony, Coetzee told the Harms Commission … South African Press Association (SAPA)…
BiographyAubrey Levin
… Pretoria where he was awarded a scholarship by the South African Defence Force (SADF). Levin was vocally right-wing … the state. No efforts till then had…
BiographyVicky Sampson
… South Africa. It was used as the theme song for the 1996 African Cup of Nations; a tournament in which Sampson … opening and closing ceremonies. Bafana…
BiographyDavid Dabede Mabuza
… (NECC) from 1987 to 1989 and a Chairperson of South African Democratic Teachers Union from 1988 to 1991. Mabuza … Mabuza was also serving as a regional…
BiographyIsmail Mahomed
… Street Pretoria on 25 July 1931, a second generation South African of Indian descent and first born child of devoutly … for many political activists and…
BiographyTodd Tozama Matshikiza
… for Drum readers back home and broadcasting for the African Service of the BBC. In 1961 he published an … He was relieved to be able to take his family back…
The significance of the Bulhoek massacre today by Sam Matiase, 11 May 2015, South Africa
… the Bulhoek massacre both designed to drive the indigenous African people from their land, dispossess and subjugate and … summonses in all were issued and…
Chaskalson transcended his bias and loyalties by Tony Leon, 4 December 2012
… and judicial independence. Only a statement by the South African Communist Party (SACP) drew attention to the fact … although his nomination was at the…
BiographyLex Mpati
… Union, which was affiliated with the non-racial South African Rugby Union, based in Kimberley. He played in centre … Districts Rugby Union. He has also…
BiographyJacob “Dancing Shoes” Morake
… in one round by Evans Gwiji, who later won the South African junior lightweight title. Guy Ratazayo twice beat him … he lost to Chris Whiteboy in a challenge…
BiographyMaboza Mackay
… Member of the Pan African Congress …
The historical significance of COSATU’s Workers’ Charter Campaign
… Charter became a leading item on the agenda of the South African labour movement. It developed as a response to … effectively submit themselves to the…
BiographyL.W.H Ackermann
… Justice of the South African Constitutional Court 1994 - …
BiographyZola Budd
… over 3,000m. Budd is married to Mike Pieterse, a South African businessman and has three children. She still runs 16 … /columns/article_1367004.php South…