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A New Date For the Founding of the South African Society of Artists, and it’s Second Annual Exhibition of 1898
… Esme Berman's first edition of Art and Artists of South Africa (1969) gave 1902 as SASA's founding date on the basis … in her revised second edition of Art…
BiographyChief Rabbi Israel Abrahams
… Great Synagogue, Manchester (1933-37). He came to South Africa in 1937 and on 30 June 1945 he was appointed the Chief … and his duties covered the Cape and…
BiographyIrene Menell (nee Manderstam)
… in the United Kingdom (UK), Switzerland, and South Africa. After matriculating in 1949 at Kingsmead College in … helping to bridge the gap and create a more…
BiographyChief Albert John Mvumbi Luthuli
… Chief Albert John Mvumbi Luthuli, Africa’s first Nobel Peace Prize Laureate in 1960, was … to be one of the best schools in southern and central Africa…
BiographyJeremy Patrick Cronin
… and he was due for release in 1983. On his return to South Africa, Cronin taught at the University of Cape Town and with … he went into hiding, then in late…
EventHugh Masekela, South African musician, is born
… , South African musician, was born in Witbank, South Africa. Masekela grew up playing the piano and at a young age … Masekela mastered the trumpet and went…
BiographyElias Mathope Motsoaledi
… in Sekhukhuneland, Northern Transvaal (now Limpopo), South Africa. He was the third of eight children. At the age of 17, … leather factory. . He joined the…
Freedom In Our Life Time - African Nationalism
… nationalism and racial pride, the speaker first dealt with Africa as a continent. He mentioned that it was the mother … other races which could only live in…
BiographySteven Eli Friedman
… of apartheid and its implications for a democratic South Africa. As a result he wrote widely on the transition to … 1994 elections. As a political scientist…
BiographyOliver Tambo
… scholarship of £30 per annum. The University of South Africa (UNISA) also awarded him a two-year scholarship of … drawing up a document called the African…
Investing in African Mining Indaba
… the capitalization and development of mining interests in Africa. …
BiographyTiyo Soga
… important literary influence in nineteenth century South Africa after the Bible (which he, too, played a large part in …
BiographyWilliam George Ballinger
… September in 1894 in Britain. In 1928 he was sent to South Africa by the British Independent Labour Party as an Advisor … He was the author of Race and…
BiographyJonas Dinous Matlou
… for exiles going north to escape arrest in South Africa or to train as members of Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK), the … law until returning to Botswana in 1985, then…
EventSouth African artist, Maggie Laubser, is born
… Cape Colony. Laubser went on to become on of South Africa's most renowned South African painters. During her … in Berlin, and soon after returning to South…
BiographyAdvocate George Bizos
… being sent to India and families being sent to South Africa. They went by train to Suez and travelled on the Ile de France to Durban. Father and son arrived…
ArchiveReg September - Liberated African
Constitution: South African Students' Or
BiographyPamela dos Santos (nee Beira)
… Duma Nokwe and Helen Joseph suggested that she leave South Africa to study overseas and after a few years return to a free South Africa. At the end of…
BiographyLouis Problem Mkhize
… following the signing of the Nkomati Accord between South Africa and Mozambique. The ANC appointed him the deputy … He held this position until 1991 when he…
BiographyJoseph Alfers
… travelling around Europe in 1975 and then to South West Africa (now Namibia) as a research volunteer, he joined a … reflect a disappearing cultural heritage…
ArchiveSouthern African Cuba Solidarity Conference
… and Fidel Castro. Black border. Logo for Cuba - Southern Africa Solidarity Conference. …
ArchiveMeeting between the Honourable R F Botha, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of South Africa and Mr Silvino da Luz, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Cape Verde: Pretoria, 16 August 1984
… Government in promoting a peaceful settlement in southern Africa … Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of South Africa and Mr Silvino da Luz,…
BiographyGill Marcus
… in London when her parents decided to leave South Africa in 1969. She resumed work with the ANC in 1970 when … to stay in touch with political developments…
EventSA to host future Pan African Parliament
… (AU) meeting in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, selected South Africa as the seat of the future Pan African Parliament … Midrand. The facilities would be constructed…
BiographyPaul Ramotsoane Mosaka
… In 1945 he was involved with the communist Party of South Africa's Anti-Pass Campaign. The ADP allied with James … bannings and the formation of the Republic…
BiographyBuyisile Patient (Billy) Mandindi
… of Cape Town in 1987. He has exhibited both in South Africa and abroad, and his works can be found in many … most notably of which, in the University of…
BiographyCarl Niehaus
… Congress . He worked in the ANC underground inside South Africa until he and his fiancé (and later wife) Johanna … two degrees in theology through the…
Call for Participants: Academy for African Urban Diversity
… the political, social and economic processes surrounding Africa’s growing and diversifying cities. The Academy aims to … narrow empiricism that characterizes…
BiographyDorothy Ruth Boxall
… 19 July 1895 in King William's Town , Eastern Cape , South Africa. She dedicated herself to the promotion of music in South Africa. She studied under Prof. P…