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BiographyMabel Palmer
… member of numerous organisations. These included the South African Institute of Race Relations (SAIRR) , the National … the advisor on Indian affairs for…
BiographyLeo Linda Sihlali
… the programs and activities of the NEUM. Through the Cape African Teachers Association (CATA), he fought to integrate … Apartheid. Thus, Sihlali played a…
BiographyTeboho MacDonald “Tsietsi” Mashinini
… among his peers.He joined a local branch of the South African Students' Movement (SASM) in 1975. Mashinini’s … very confident.”As a teenager of his time, he…
BiographyJotello Festiri Soga
… Dr Jotello Festiri Soga, the first South African of any race to obtain a degree in veterinary … who was one of the people who inspired the founding of the…
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…
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…
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…
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)…
BiographyBertha Solomon
… in 1911 with a BA degree in Classics, and then the South African College where she received a MA degree. Thereafter … to Johannesburg and had two children…
BiographyJulius Louis Saks
… 1960 to 1963, and from 1969 until his death. The South African Optometric Association conferred Honorary Life … father”²s footsteps, made their mark on South…
BiographyHassim Mohamed Seedat
… Organisation of People of Indian Origin (GOPIO) South African Chapter based in Durban. The organisation is one of … living outside India. Seedat contributed…
BiographyElliot Mngadi
… in Natal, Mngadi who was also a landowner mobilized other African landowners to form an organization of their own. … areas such as the Dannhauser…
BiographyZindziswa “Zindzi” Nobutho Mandela
… Mandela was born on 23 December 1960 in Soweto to South African struggle icons Nelson Mandela and Winnie … (1992). In 2013 she remarried, this time to former…
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…
BiographySamuel Makama Martin Masabalala
… He worked for some years in Rhodesia and served in an African unit in the Boer War. Thereafter he worked at various … Union (ICU). In 1919 he became an…
BiographySammy Marks
… Samuel Marks was born in Lithuania in 1843. He arrived on African shores in 1868 where he began his career by hawking … trading in the boomtown of Barberton…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
BiographyChief Rabbi Israel Abrahams
… Christians and Jews, a member of the council of the South African Institute of Race Relations, and served on the board … Christians and Jews, a member of the…
BiographyMizream Maseko
… of the kitsch ‘ethnic portraits’ of the popular South African painter Vladimir Tretchikoff (born 1913) whose work …