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Artist. Activist. Historian. This man is preserving the past to protect the future (beautifulnews.co.za)
… not only as an artist, but an activist for most of his life. Born in 1945, he grew up under the oppression of … facing injustice on a daily basis. He was…
Address by the President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki at the Pan African Parliament, Gallagher Estate, Midrand, 16 September 2004
… they have had to endure unnecessary wars, resulting in the death of innocent people, their displacement within their own … very well why Chinua Achebe said…
ArticleSouth Africa Cabinet Members 2009 to 2010
… was elected the President of South Africa and announced his first Cabinet on 10 May 2009. The cabinet was later …
ArticleCommunism in Russia 1900 to 1940
… in 1905. Lenin observed the events from exile and adapted his own revolutionary theory. Online Resource: Upload, Share …
Assessment task: Fascism and Nazism
… which uses the photos to mock Hitler in order to damage his image - eg. singing and dancing. A man with so much power …
ArchiveRobert Shell: A tribute By Martin Plaut, 05 February 2015
… dreading for some months: that Rob Shell had died. Sandy, his lovely wife, broke the news in an email. All day I have … Shell was the foremost scholar of…
ArticleThe National Coat of Arms
… the important events in your life – birth, marriage, death and school certificates, your passport – they are all …
ArticleA History of the Springbok Legion
… alienating to many Legion members. This period rang a death knell for the Legion as it had been.” ( Lazerson, …
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…
Remembering Sol Plaatje as South Africa’s original public educator (The Conversation), 05 October 2016
… 40 years old, he published Native Life in South Africa, his great expose of the ruinous effects of the 1913 Natives’ … was also a proud member of the…
EventGerrie Coetzee becomes the first South African boxer to win a world heavyweight title
… It was Coetzee’s third attempt at a world title after his two previous attempts ended in defeat. It was a highly … South Africa’s first world heavyweight…
The Final Prize by Norman Levy book review by Chris Saunders, 1 June 2014
… Congress of Democrats. He provides a detailed account of his role in the Congress of the People in 1955, his arrest and involvement in the notorious Treason…
This doccie about a SA photographer is worth the watch by Garreth Van Niekerk (channel24), 28 May 2017
… South African lensman David Goldblatt has turned his camera away from himself, focusing rather on the changing … But in Goldblatt – the first feature-length…
EventEugéne Nielen Marais, S.A. poet, writer, lawyer and naturalist, is born
… became famous as an Afrikaans writer, even though much of his early writings and early education were in English. He … and later as a journalist. At the age…
Book 4: Industrialisation, Rural Change and Nationalism - Chapter 2 - Industrialisation and the Revitalisation of Black Politics in the1940s by Mohamed Adhikari
… schemes for African businessmen, himself included. During his presidency the ANC's membership fell to below 1 000 … 1930s by packing poorly-attended annual…
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…
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1920s
… It was this latter chief to whom Henry Mandela entrusted his young son, Nelson Mandela . February, African mineworkers … Prophet Enoch Migijima, the leader…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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. …