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Ruth First Untold by Jerry Saena
… a lawyer by trade but was also a successful writer like his better-half. Ruth and Joe married in 1949, later on … conference at thecentrebefore it happened…
Statement at the International Conference on the EEC and South Africa by O. R. Tambo, Dublin, 27 January 1979
… for the victory of the neo-colonial forces. Smith and his gang of traitors in Zimbabwe are camouflaging their … in the future. We have clearly demonstrated…
EventHumphrey Khoza, former chief executive officer of Uthingo Management (Pty) Ltd and director of several other companies, is born in Germiston
… High School in Dundee, Kwazulu-Natal and later earned his BSc at the university of Zululand in 1969 and his PED IMD in Switzerland in 1995. Khoza professes…
A Working Life, Cruel Beyond Belief by Alfred Temba Qabula
… was born on December 12, 1942 in Flagstaff, Transkei. His father. a migrant worker, ‘coughed out’ the harshness of his life onto his children. He died after…
Address by President Jacob Zuma on the departure of former president Nelson Mandela, 6 December 2013
… has departed. He passed on peacefully in the company of his family around 8.50pm on December 5 2013. He is now … can diminish our sense of a profound and…
EventVerwoerd’s grandson joins ANC
… Congress. Wilhelm Verwoerd risked being alienated by his family and friends for his decision. He was not even welcome at Stellenbosch, the … he was called a…
EventSudanese-born basketball player and political activist, Manute Bol is born
… October 1965. He came from a family of tall people; both his parents were over two metres tall. Bol himself was 2.31 m tall. Like most boys in his community,…
ArticleWhat was the Great Depression and why did it start in the USA?
… was a bold experimenter and a man of action. Early on in his administration he assembled the best minds in the country … ' Brain Trust .' Within one hundred…
PlaceClarkebury, Eastern Cape
… an excellent education by the standards for Xhosa boys of his time, but his conscience was prickled early by the imperial attitudes embedded in his…
Apartheid’s Twisted Dream: David Goldblatt’s South Africa by Joseph Lelyveld, 2 July 2010
… African photographer David Goldblatt might be described as his country’s Walker Evans. Though Evans was one of … at this point serves only to hint at the…
EventBotswana President, Seretse Khama dies
… Botswana. He was born on 1 July 1921 at Serowe, Botswana. His grandfather was Kgosi (King) Khama III, (also known as Khama the Good) of the Bangwato people…
EventJan Ernst Abraham Volschenk, landscape painter, is born near Riversdale, Western Cape
… excelled in the landscape genre. He found inspiration from his local surroundings of Riversdale and the Langeberg range served as the subject matter for most…
EventGerard Moerdijk, SA architect of several church buildings and the Voortrekker monument, dies
… architecture at the Architectural Association. Following his qualification as an architect in England, he went to further his studies in France and Italy. On…
A Biography of Ernest Cole by Anna Hutchinson
… a tailor, and Martha Kole, a laundress. He spent part of his childhood living with his aunt in Onverwacht, a small town approximately 40 kilometres home, in…
ANC pays tribute to the late Arthur Goldreich, 26 May 2011
… course of South African history. Not only did he sacrifice his privileges as a white South African but bore the pain of … member of the ANC and Umkhonto…
ArchiveHugh Lewin obituary by Peter Hain (www.theguardian.com), 21 January 2019
… wedding, Leftwich turned state witness to convict him at his 1964 trial, as did his close friend and co-conspirator John Lloyd. Hugh told … years in jail. …
EventMzwakhe Mbuli is sentenced to 13 years in jail
… "people's poet" as a result of the style and content of his poetry. He covered issues like drugs and Apartheid and the former government banned his work,…
Passive Resistance 1946 - A Selection of Documents compiled by E.S. Reddy & Fatima Meer - Support from persons and Organisation - 1948
… Tribute: "Prince among Men" When he received news of the death of Mr. Gandhi, the Prime Minister of South Africa, …
Statement at the meeting of the Special Committee against Apartheid in observance of the International Day of Solidarity with the Struggle of Women in South Africa and Namibia, 11 August 1981
… an African can be employed, how much he can earn, where his or her children can attend school, where he should live, die and be buried, and even who his…
Crucial Stage in the Struggle for Liberation of Southern Africa - Statement at the World Conference for Action against Apartheid by O. R. Tambo, Lagos, Nigeria, 23 August 1977
… to fight for their inalienable birthright until victory or death. The contempt of our youth for death and their heroism … our people, convenes at a crucial…
Women’s liberation by Zanele Dhlamini (Mbeki)
… of rape of White women are generally sentenced to death. No White man has ever been executed for raping a Black … nit-wit incapable of caring for herself and…
ArticleDrafting of the Final Constitution
… visits in mid-1987 during the time that he was serving his life sentence in prison, the second phase of change first … beginning of this phase started when…
Cecil John Rhodes, warts and all by Tim Crowe (Politics Web), 22 December 2015
… age of 48. Relatively late in life, after supplementing his poor school education by attending Oxford University, … a global mission to be achieved, no…
ArchiveSishaywa Zimvula Nje, Simanikiniki Nje, Umhlol’Usekhaya – Reading Mafika Gwala in Times of Thunder and the Terror of the Elements by Sanibonani Molweni
… KwaZulu-Natal, the hosts of this event, in the late 1980s. His 1982 poetry collection, No More Lullabies, was the book I … that animated my university…
South Africa: Writer Mafika Gwala Passes Away (allAfrica), 9 September 2014
… — Arts and Culture Minister Nathi Mthethwa has sent his condolences to the family and friends of legendary poet … Mafika Gwala after an illness. We offer our…
ArchiveHugh Lewin, 1939–2019, RIP by Jennifer Malec, 17 January 2019
… Lewin has died, aged seventy-nine. Lewin passed away at his home in Killarney, Johannesburg yesterday. Born in … parents, Lewin attended Rhodes University…
Letter by Oliver Tambo to the OAU Secretary-General, Mr. William Eteki Mboumoua, 01 June 1974
… of imprisonment. They know that they face sudden and swift death by shooting, as happened at Western Deep Levels Mine … continued to hurl defiance at the…
Letter to the OAU Secretary-General, Mr. William Eteki Mboumoua by O. R. Tambo, 1974
… of imprisonment. They know that they face sudden and swift death by shooting, as happened at Western Deep Levels Mine … continued to hurl defiance at the…
Chapter 4 - THE PARTY AND THE “SOLDIERS OF LUTHULI”
… chairperson at the November 1973 CC meeting following the death of Marks the previous year and two Africans co-opted … meeting itself he paid tribute to the…
Archive”I am Albertina Sisulu”, Interview from Blue Portraits
… asked me to join him, because he was already doing his own private work. And that doctor died in 1987. He was … country. So I had now two in exile. In 1981…