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BiographyDikobe Ben Martins
… the chief coordinator of the visual art committee in South Africa for assisting artists to attend the Culture and … since the First Democratic Elections held…
BiographyElizabeth Maria Molteno
… accompanied her father on diplomatic trips in Europe and Africa, and developed an avid interest in current affairs. … of the marginalised and disadvantaged…
BiographyHemant Kumar Waghmarae
… Mumbai, India, for five years. The family arrived in South Africa from India in 1958. He completed his primary education … Tim Jenkins who had made their way…
BiographyOlive Peace Landman
… there in 1964. Olive joined the Teachers League of South Africa as soon as she qualified as a teacher. While attending … were revoked and they immediately…
EventThe South African Football Association (SAFA) is founded
… Football, like other sporting disciplines in South Africa, was racially segregated. In 1902 the South African … the White body of the Football Association of…
Document 134 - The Impending Strike of African Miners: A statement by the African Mineworkers’ Union, 7 August 1946
… From: South Africa's Radical Tradition, a documentary history, Volume One … upon whose broad shoulders so much of the wealth of South Africa has been built,…
BiographyShaun Maclean Pollock
… his father Peter and Uncle Graeme represented South Africa. By the age of 11 he was excelling at various sports. …
BiographyPansy Tlakula
… the patriarchal system that still persists in South Africa, where a large number of women still live under … Council and Advocate of the supreme court of…
BiographyRev. Mzwandile Maqina
… church in Port Elizabeth,the Spiritualist Church of Africa.In 1971 he was elected president of the African …
Lionel Morrison
… of the accused in the Treason Trial. After leaving South Africa, he joined the Pan Africanist Congress in exile and …
‘African Gandhi’: The South African War and the Limits of Imperial Identity by Goolam Vahed
… Yet the twenty-one years that Gandhi spent in South Africa were critical in the ‘Making of the Mahatma’. The … Colonial Natal in the 1890s Indians arrived in…
BiographyReverend Beyers Naudé
… for ‘steadfast and self-sacrificing services in South Africa for justice and peace'. His passport, which had been … admitted to the Nederduitse Gereformeerde…
BiographyOlive Schreiner
… She did not agree with British imperialism in South Africa or with the South African (Anglo-Boer) War 1899-1902 … which attacked British imperialism and…
BiographyStanley Mabizela
… Mxenge.” Mabizela then enrolled at University of South Africa (UNISA), in Pretoria in 1961 to continue with his … Union before returning to work for the ANC…
ArchiveInternational Press Conference by the Honourable P W Botha, Prime Minister of the RSA on the talks between the Five Western Powers and the RSA Government regarding South West Africa
… Western Powers and the RSA Government regarding South West Africa …
BiographyJacob Gedleyihlekisa Zuma
… MK cadres at the time, he also planned to leave South Africa for military training abroad. During this period, he … for recruits into Mozambique and their re…
ArchiveBuilders of the nation: 5: South Africas fir
… in Cape Town. Photographs and history of artisans in South Africa. Artwork of the new South African flag. …
EventRudolph Lewis, South African road racing cyclist is born
… was born on 12 July 1887 in Pretoria.[i] Rudolph was South Africa’s second world class athlete after Laurens S Meintjes.[ii] He represented South Africa at…
ArticleWhat has been the impact of the democratic transformation on the position of women within South African society? by Lucy Doyle
… movement in apartheid, the democratic transition in South Africa has enshrined gender equality within the constitution … women I will briefly outline the…
Lennox Madikane
… the first people sentenced to death for sabotage in South Africa. They were hanged at the Pretoria Central Prison, …
Move from Condemnation to Confrontation of Apartheid and Colonialism - Statement in Committee II of the International Conference of Experts for the Support of Victims of Colonialism and Apartheid in Southern Africa, Oslo by O. R. Tambo, 11 April 1973
… Against Ian Smith, the evidence is mounting. Inside South Africa, too, there is confrontation. It is important that … missing in those areas of the struggle,…
ArchiveThe African Peoples Democratic Union of Sout
… of the African People's Democratic Union of Southern Africa (APDUSA), held in Cape Town in April 1962. Items in …
BiographyRobert Gabriel Mugabe
… got a scholarship to the University of Fort Hare in South Africa. While there, he joined the African National Congress … degree through correspondence with…
EventSouth African Aerial Transports services are inaugurated
… Air services were inaugurated in South Africa with the amalgamation of a London-based company, the … et al. (eds)(1970). Standard Encyclopaedia of Southern…
BiographyManilal Gandhi
… . He had three brothers, with whom he first came to South Africa in early 1897, when Gandhi's family joined him in … a year-long contract with an indian…
EventAcclaimed South African poet Sheila Cussons dies
… After a divorce from CJM Niebaber, she returned to South Africa for two years and married Spanish businessman Juan de … in Die swart kombuis. In 1983 Cussons…
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