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BiographyHendrik Jacobus (Kobie) Coetsee
… his grandfathers had also fought in the Second Anglo-Boer War , making Afrikaner liberty an important factor in … a very important part in the Convention…
BiographyProfessor Kader Abdul Asmal
… stems from Asmal’s childhood. Like the vast majority of South Africans then, his first brush with racism was as a … Asmal obtained a BA degree through the…
Ruth First Untold by Jerry Saena
… own campaigns in exposing the apartheid government to the world. Ruth was detrimental towards the apartheid government … of the apartheid government. Ruth…
BiographyDJ Ready D (Deon Daniels)
… These friends worked on the boats and travelled around the world, bringing home music on vinyl. Ready D cites Rapper’s … McLaren. McLaren was making music by…
10 YEARS PROJECT
… close Document 6 Africans' claims in South Africa 16 December 1943 (Including 'The Atlantic … wanted the Atlantic Charter to apply to the whole world while…
The significance of the Bulhoek massacre today by Sam Matiase, 11 May 2015, South Africa
… struggle, a reality, that occurs daily to this very day in South Africa, is epitomized by the 1921 Bulhoek Massacre. … to have had visions about the…
Rejuvenation of the ANC and intensification of the struggle 1940s
… was also a result of the mass urbanisation during the war, bad living conditions and inflation - all linked to … Claims, which chartered the path to racial…
ArticleAfrican Nationalism
… nationalist leaders wanted Africans to view themselves as South Africans. After World War I nationalists fostered moves for self-determination. As …
BiographyAnton Theodor August Wilfried Lubowski
… August Wilfried Lubowski was born on 3 February 1953, in South West Africa (now known as Namibia), the second child of Wilfried … to his father, “he took his…
PHOTOGRAPHY REVIEW; Documenting Ordinary Scenes Of South Africa Then and Now by Michael Kimmelman (The New York Times), 24 August 2001
… borne witness since the late 1940's to life in his native South Africa. More than 150 of his pictures are in a … or protest. Like many photographers who came…
BiographyVusamazulu Credo Mutwa
… to take him away. He was taken to his father’s home in the south of Natal on the bank of the Umkumazi River. While … of times. Gradually he came under the…
Document 51 - W. P. van Schoor, “The Origin and Development of Segregation in South Africa A. J. Abrahamse Memorial Lecture, Cathedral Hall, Cape Town, 5 October 1950
… From: South Africa's Radical Tradition, a documentary history, … little different.... South Africa did not exist for the world, and hardly for itself until…
BiographyJodi Bieber
… leading up to and during the first democratic elections in South Africa winning numerous South African Press Awards. After attending the World Press…
Devout domesticity? A century of African women's Christianity in South Africa by Deborah Gaitskell
… churchwomen across the denominations and throughout South Africa were becoming active in distinctive, often … a constant refrain from many rural churches. By…
BiographyPlaatjies Joseph Paul
… Congress in the early 1950s and a delegate to the 1953 World Festival of Youth in Bucharest. He was banned in 1954 … late 1958, was a defendant in the…
EventThe South African Air Force is established
… On 1 February 1920, the South African Air Force was established. This made it the … further training. Five of them eventually qualified. When World War I…
Address by President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki, at the 62nd session of the United Nations’ General Assembly, New York
… tenure, trusting that through your work the poor of the world would have good reason to increase their confidence in … display many features of a global…
Challenge to the church: A Theological Comment on the Political Crisis in South Africa | The Kairos Document, 1985
… and theological comment on the political crisis in South Africa today. It is an attempt by concerned Christians … Christians in South Africa (not to mention…
BiographyHenry Gordon ‘Squire’ Makgothi
… Auditing company. In 1953, Makgothi attended the Bucharest World Youth Festival,Romania and probably joined the undergroung South African Communist Party …
BiographyGraeme Pollock
… played six matches for Sussex Second XI. He entered the world of Test Cricket at the age of 19 when he was selected … beautifully displayed during the 1964…
Address of the President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki, to the 118th Inter-Parliamentary Union Assembly: Cape Town, 13 April 2008
… of the IPU, Anders B. Johnsson; Speaker of the South African National Assembly, Baleka Mbete; Deputy … was formed in 1889, the majority of the people of the…
BiographyEsther Barsel
… on 17 October 1924, Esther Barsel (nee Levin) came to South Africa in 1927 when she was three years old. She and her mother followed her father to South…
BiographyEnoch Mankayi Sontonga
… Sontonga composed the first two stanzas of democratic South Africa’s anthem in 1897. Although initially intended for his … a rendition of the song after a…
PlaceSouth Sudan
… Peace Agreement , which ended a 22-year civil war that killed 2.5 million people and displaced 4 Million. … region had made it clear that their loyalty lies…
Broadcast to South Africa by OR Tambo on the 8th Anniversary of Umkhonto we Sizwe, 16 December 1969
… which meant the birth of a new united African nation in South Africa. The third is the emergence of Umkhonto we Sizwe … people of Mozambique, Angola,…
EventPresident Jacob Zuma arrives in Moscow to attend the commemoration of the 70th Anniversary of Victory in the Great Patriotic War.
… On 8 May 2015, South African President, Jacob Zuma, visited Russia. On 9 May 2015, he joined a number of world leaders at the Russian capital, Moscow, for…
EventTatamkhulu Afrika South African poet, writer and struggle activist dies
… mother on 7 December 1920. His parents relocated to South Africa in 1923 where they died from the Asia flu … entire print was destroyed by a bomb in London…
Address during a joint sitting of Parliament to mark 10 years of Democracy In South Africa Monday 10 May 2004, Cape Town
… Speaker, that on this exact day ten years ago democratic South Africa celebrated its ceremonial birth with the … one of the most intractable situations o f…
BiographyMimi Coertse
… Mimi Coertse was South Africa's first operatic prima donna."Prima donna", in its … the reputation of the State Opera as one of the world's major opera houses…
BiographyBishop Mmutlanyane Stanley Mogoba
… Flag Boshielo who was a member of the Communist Party of South Africa (CPSA). Boshielo gave him literature such as … of Southern Africa in 1991and in 1996…