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BiographyJillian Edelstein
… traditional healers, the Sangoma, who train on the South African/ Lesotho border. The work was published in 2007. She …
BiographyEbrahim Ismail Asvat
… Zainab Asvat and Amina Cachalia were active in the South African liberation movement. Ebrahim Ismail Asvat died on 3 …
BiographyZola Budd
… over 3,000m. Budd is married to Mike Pieterse, a South African businessman and has three children. She still runs 16 … /columns/article_1367004.php South…
BiographyChief Rabbi Israel Abrahams
… Christians and Jews, a member of the council of the South African Institute of Race Relations, and served on the board … Christians and Jews, a member of the…
BiographyMizream Maseko
… of the kitsch ‘ethnic portraits’ of the popular South African painter Vladimir Tretchikoff (born 1913) whose work …
BiographyGoolam H. Gool
… founder and member of the executive committee of the All African Convention (AAC). He experienced defeat when most … Physician, member of the All African…
BiographyPierre Jacy Fourie
… Toweel, one of the most successful in the history of South African boxing, continued throughout the eleven years of …
BiographyGordon Mulholland
… named Percy Fitzpatrick. He also gained fame through South African soap opera The Villagers. He acted in many of the …
BiographyMarlene van Niekerk
… directed by Michael Raeburn, won the Best South African Film Award at the Durban International Festival in …
BiographyFihla Christmas Tinto
… in Cape Town, where he joined the Langa branch of the African National Congress (ANC) in 1951. He was elected its …
BiographyJoseph 'Headman' Shabalala
… region was a member of the internationally renowned South African vocal group, Ladysmith Black Mambazo. His parents, …
BiographyEschel Mostert Rhoodie
… Rhoodie was employed as the press officer of the South African embassy in The Hague in 1971 and he made a …
BiographyStanley Bongani Nkosi
… London, UK (solo). National Arts Society Johannesburg (African Art). Gallery International, Cape Town (group). …
BiographyGeorge Matthias Winkles
… Weekly Argus Edition of 2 January 1902 as a "Famous South African Artist". However, life for him in Cape Town was hard, …
Louis Charles George 'Loet' Douwes-Dekker
… for the TUCSA in the late 1960s,but left after it expelled African unions.He was co-founder of the Independent Mediation … Ensor L. The Silenced - Bannings…
BiographyJannie “Jan Bek” Momberg
… accomplishments included, being President of the South African Athletics Association and President of the Boland … Party, Former ANC Member of Parliament and…
BiographyJeevenundhan (Jeeva) Rajgopaul
… Will Separate Us) in 1983. He was the first South African to receive the Eli Weinberg Scholarship for …
Biographyde Villiers Graaff
… received his baronetcy in 1912, served briefly as South African High Commissioner in London in 1914 and in Botha's … he was admitted as an advocate in 1937…
BiographyIrene Menell (nee Manderstam)
… In honour of Suzman’s immense contribution to South African politics, Menell initiated the publication of a … trustees, the treasurer of the Medical…
BiographyPremanathan “Prema” Naidoo
… he was fifteen, while distributing leaflets of the South African Congress of Trade Unions (SACTU), on the charge of … in 1981, led a very successful boycott…
BiographyL.W.H Ackermann
… Justice of the South African Constitutional Court 1994 - …
BiographyMono Badela
… Studies at Rhodes University (2002). "Mono Badela - South African journalistic legend" "How does a young white South African become a journalism professor,…
ArchiveSurvey shows ignorance about big moments in South Africa’s history – like the Sharpeville massacre (TheConversation.com)
… questions for inclusion in its annual round of the South African Social Attitudes Survey. The survey, conducted … of the Sharpeville massacre to knowledge of…
BiographyTheophilus Shepstone
… of a frontiersman, he had valuable qualities for a job as African intermediary; as an Englishman with an imperialist … to take shape, and his intimate…
BiographySir. Theophilus Shepstone
… of a frontiersman, he had valuable qualities for a job as African intermediary; as an Englishman with an imperialist … to take shape, and his intimate…
South Africa’s Radical Tradition, a documentary history, VolumeTwo 1943 - 1964, by Allison Drew - Bibliographical note and further reading
… by Allison Drew Bibliographical note and further reading African National Congress (1977), ANC Speaks: Documents and statements of the African National…
Address by President Jacob Zuma at the celebration of 60th Anniversary of the Freedom Charter, Kliptown, Johannesburg, 26 June 2015
… of democratically elected delegates held on 25-26 June 1955, thousands of delegates then gathered here in Kliptown, … representing all racial and class…
BiographyRick Turner
… in his second year. He joined the National Union of South African Students (NUSAS) , and taught adult literacy classes … he was friendly with Alan Brooks and…
ArticlePass laws in South Africa 1800-1994
… Afrikaansce Republiek Pass laws in the Transvaal, or South African Republic, were intended to force Black people to … Oudtshoorn, Stellenbosch, Ixopo and…
BiographyFiroz Cachalia
… leadership positions in the United Democratic Front (UDF), African National Congress (ANC) and the South African Communist Party (SACP). The Gauteng branch…