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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…
On Post Colonial African Liberation Movements
… to speak into the conversation of liberation movements in Africa post supposed Independence, how they are complicit in … accounts as well as our current…
ArchiveUnder African Skies (Live from The African Concert, 1987) by Paul Simon
ArchiveProgramme of the South African Communist Party - 1962 - The Road to South African Freedom
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…
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…
Lennox Madikane
… the first people sentenced to death for sabotage in South Africa. They were hanged at the Pretoria Central Prison, …
Address of the President of South Africa and the current Chairperson of the G77 and China, Thabo Mbeki at the 61st Session of United Nations General Assembly 19 September 2006, New York
… servants of the United Nations, a native son of Africa, Kofi Annan, whose term of office will soon come to an end. The G77 and China as well as my own…
EventA South African spy is released from jail
… in Zimbabwe in 1987, was released and returned to South Africa. On her arrival, she was greeted by President F.W. de …
EventThe Federation of South African trade unions
… organised, democratic trade union movement in South Africa. FOSATU resisted affiliation with political parties, …
EventFormer South African Prime Minister Strijdom dies
… Former National Party leader and Prime Minister of South Africa, Advocate J. G. Strijdom dies. It was during his …
EventSouth African Defence Force (SADF) raid Maseru in an effort to kill suspected members of the African National Congress
… the members of SADF returned across the border to South Africa without incident. In a dawn announcement in Pretoria, … to Viljoen, the ANC members were…
BiographyEssop Goolam Pahad
… “The Development of Indian Political Movements in South Africa - 1924-1946” . Just like his father Essop joined the … and Military Council in London, before…
BiographyPule Pheto
… and in 2003 he collaborated with Louis Moholo, Mervyn Africa and Keith Tippett. Pheto brought his popular brand of … and uses his music to reflect on the…
BiographyGrace Naledi Mandisa Pandor
… with a MA at the University of London. Back in South Africa she was awarded a MA in Linguistics at Stellenbosch … of Cape Town in 1989 as a senior lecturer…
BiographyRobert Moffat
… as a missionary, he was sent to the Cape Colony, South Africa, where his wife to be, Mary Smith, followed him three … wrote and published Missionary Labours…
Dorothy Hazel Alexander
… and soon became involved in the Teacher’s League of South Africa (TLSA) . In January 1960, she moved to the Garden … on to join the African People’s…
BiographyHeidi Saayman
… exhibitions at the Bensusan Museum of Photograph, Museum Africa and at the Vaal Triangle Technikon art school. At … later exhibited in Johannesburg at the…
ArchiveOlie Boycott Zuid-Afrika
A2 yellow, red, black, graphic of people demonstrating, man dying; Text: Olie Boycott Zuid-Afrika
BiographyKevin Dowling
… Bishop Dowling has ministered in various parts of South Africa, in townships in Cape Town and Pretoria. In … strategically placed at a site on the border of…
BiographyFranciscus Jacobus Ludovicus De Vriendt
… at the end of 1929, after a very successful visit to South Africa. In 1936, six years later, De Vriendt and his wife returned to South Africa with the…
Book 1: Ancient Civilizations and Global Trade - Chapter 4 - Some Reflections on Early African and South African History by Sekibakiba Peter Lekgoathi
… it looks at some key principles in the interpretations of Africa and South Africa's history before European conquest. Secondly, it looks … and oral evidence…
ArchiveSouth African Students Organisations
This is a letter from Barney Pityana about the historical background of the South African Students Organisation, structure, aims, the press, protests, and…
South African Labour Bulletin
Front cover of South African Labour Bulletin. August 1990. Volume 15. Number 2. Purple cover with black lettering. List of contents. Black and white photos…
BiographyAdvocate Abram "Bram" Fischer
… LLB degree) at Grey, then part of the University of South Africa. After completing his studies in South Africa he spent 3 years (1931-1934) at Oxford as a…
ArchiveNative, Bantu and African
Discussion with African friends and a study of opinion among them long ago convinced me of the great importance attached to correct forms of politeness, the…
ArchiveSouth African Library: exhibition
Black poster with light brown lettering. Notice of an exhibition of medieval and renaissance manuscripts at the South African Library, Queen Victoria Street,…
South African Students Organisations
This is a letter from the secretary of South African Students Organisations to Dear Sir about resolutions passed by SASO at the conference held at the…
BiographyCecil John Rhodes
… father, that the business opportunities offered in South Africa would be able to provide Rhodes with a more promising … in the De Beers Mining Company and…
Growing up in the new South Africa: Childhood and Adolescence in post-apartheid Cape Town by Rachel Bray, Imke Gooskens, Lauren Kahn, Sue Moses, Jeremy Seekings
… Growing Up in the New South Africa: Childhood and Adolescence in Post-Apartheid Cape Town … Growing up in the new South Africa: Childhood and Adolescence in…