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Kora: A Lost Khoisan Language of the early Cape and the Gariep by Menán du Plessis - The linguistic classification of Kora
… accompanied by small communities of !Ui-speaking San people. (Satellite image from Google Earth.) The term … and linguists began working with the surviving …
Kora: A Lost Khoisan Language of the early Cape and the Gariep by Menán du Plessis - 1. The linguistic classification of Kora
… accompanied by small communities of !Ui-speaking San people. (Satellite image from Google Earth.) The term … and linguists began working with the surviving…
BiographyLucas Manyane Mangope
Lucas Manyane Mangope was born west of Zeerust near Bechuanaland border on December 27,1923,the son of a local chief,Mangope graduated from St Peter's School…
BiographyRebecca Bunting
Rebecca Bunting (nee Notlowitz) was one of the founders of the Communist Party of South Africa (CPSA) in the 1920s. She was a Jewish immigrant from the Baltic…
ArticleShipwrecks in South Africa
Historic shipwrecks are time capsules of their time, they are often untouched for decades, sometimes centuries, until they are discovered. Everything onboard…
BiographyDavid Bruce
David Bruce received a call-up notice from the South African Defence Force (SADF) in July 1987. His choices were two years in the army, exile, or six years in…
BiographyRebecca Malope
Rebecca Malope was born in 1968 in Lekazi near Nelspruit in Mpumalanga. Beyond the fact that she did not progress that far in her education, little is known…
Rocky Malebane-Metsing
Rocky Malebane-Metsing was born in Rustenburg in 1949, attending schools in the area until he matriculated. After completing his schooling, Malebane…
BiographyHassan Howa
Hassan Howa was born in 1922 in Cape Town, Cape Province (now Western Cape Province) into a large working-class family, one of 12 children of a Christian,…
BiographyAbdool Kader Hassim
Abdool Kader Hassim was born in Dundee, Northern Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal) on 10th of November in 1934. Both his parents were born in India. He began schooling…
BiographySir Sydney Kentridge
Sydney Kentridge was born in Johannesburg in 1922. He matriculated in 1938 at the King Edward VII High School. In 1941, he obtained a BA degree at the…
BiographyCassim Saloojee
Saloojee was born in Krugersdorp, in 1935. Here his grandfather ran a shop next to Dr. Yusuf Dadoo’s father’s store. After he was married, Saloojee’s father…
BiographyJoe “Sdumo” Mafela
Joe Mafela, actor, songwriter and film producer was born on 25 June in 1942 in Sibasa, Limpopo Province. His father worked as a shop assistant in a Chinese…
BiographyJohn O’ Malley
John O'Malley was born on 6 October 1922 in what was then called Robert Heights, later Voortrekkerhoogte, in Pretoria. His father was a colonel in the army and…
BiographySaul Msane
Msane was born in Natal, but very little is known about his early life. He was educated at the Edendale Mission in Pietermaritzburg, and at the Healdtown…
BiographyJoseph Alfers
Joseph Alfers was born in 1949 in Umbumbulu, where his father was the Assistant Native Commissioner. He attended school and university in Pietermaritzburg,…
BiographyAbdulla Ismail Kajee
Abdulla Ismail Kajee was born about 1896; Kajee was a politically moderate Moslem businessman and the dominant figure in the Natal Indian Congress (NIC) from…
BiographyKenneth Kaunda
Kenneth Kaunda was the first president of Zambia. He was born on 28 April 1924 at Lubwa Mission in Chinsali. (In what was then Northern Rhodesia.) He was the…
Jafta Kgalabi Masemola
Jafta Kgalabi Masemola, “The Tiger of Azania”, also popularly known as “Bra Jeff” by many others, was born at Bon Accord near Pretoria on 12 December 1931. He…
BiographyVusumzi (Vusi) Linda Make
Vusimuzi Linda Make was born in Boksburg in 1934, the son of a priest, and later moved to Evaton.the son of an African Methodist Episcopal minister,Make grew…
PlaceBotswana
… 14th Century. These early inhabitants of Botswana were the San and Kho Societies . These societies were later joined by …
ArticleA Luta Continua Dialogues, Episode 2: Policing and Resistance
Guest Contributors: Anietie Ewang - Human Rights Watch Researcher, Nigeria afọpẹ́fólúwa òjó - Artist & Berlin based #EndSARS Organiser Miski Noir -…
PlaceNamaqua National Park
… by humans Homo erectus, have been found in the park. The San (a hunter-gatherer people) inhabited the region for …
PlaceTouwsrivier
… reserve to the north of Touws River, where ancient San painting sites are said to be 6000 years old. 'Touws' is …
PlaceMahaking, formerly known as Mafikeng
… earliest people to settle in Mafikeng were the Khoi and San societies. They lived in the area for thousands of Years …
Slaves to Racism An Unbroken Chain from America to Liberia by Benjamin G. Dennis and Anita K. Dennis
An African Athens: Rhetoric and the Shaping of Democracy in South Africa by Philippe-Joseph Salazar
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ArchiveFeudalism in the age of computers: an analysis of recruitment strategies to reserve and allocate labour
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