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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…
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…
Article#Am I Next? A Global Question
… Khayelitsha in the Western Cape. [2] As a result of her death and the rise in femicide in South Africa, hundreds of …
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…
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…
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,…
Armed struggle & the advancement of the student and labour movements, 1967-1976
… Committee (NEC), who became the Acting President after the death of Chief Albert Luthuli, assumed the leadership of the … him an international icon of the…
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…
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…
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…
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…
ArticleTimeline of South African Football Coaches from 1992 – 2022
… as Bafana Bafana's first coach, but a discrepancy with his coaching qualifications led him being turfed. Stanley … AFCON. Ephraim "Shakes" Mashaba (2002-2003…
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. …
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, …
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…
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,…
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…
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…
South African Prime Ministers from the National Party
… below). P. W. Botha became the new State President, until his resignation in 1989, when he was replaced by F. W. de …