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Document 99 - Edwin T. Mofutsanyana, “All-African Convention: Masses Must Support It”, South African Worker, 9 January 1937
… From: South Africa's Radical Tradition, a documentary history, Volume One …
EventSouth African Journalist, Zwelakhe Sisulu is abducted.
… He also founded the Media Workers Association of South Africa (MWASA). He was the third son of African National … International Defence and Aid Fund for…
EventJohnny Clegg, South African musician is born
… the age of seven. He and his mother immigrated to South Africa following her marriage to a South African Journalist. … [Accessed on 27 May 2013]| Gateway…
The conference of African leaders, meeting in Bloemfontein, firmly rejects the Tomlinson Report on the development of the Afric
The African Element in Gandhi by Anil Nauriya
… have been written on Gandhi’s twenty-one years in South Africa, the birth of Satyagraha and the transformation of … on the lasting impact of his life and…
BiographyRobert Sobukwe
… strongly Africanist, believing that the future of South Africa should be in the hands of Black South Africans. As a … the 1949 Programme seeing that it…
BiographyMolly Fischer
… trace their ancestry back a few hundred years in South Africa and included people such as Uys Krige, a famous poet … same year her mother died. In 1936 she…
Chapter IX - Treason - South African style 2
… conditions prevailing for the black people in South Africa. He then proceeded with his exposition, putting his … paint on the devastating picture of black…
BiographyJohannes Gerhardus Strijdom
… July 1893, J G Strijdom served as Prime Minister of South Africa from 30 November 1954 to 24 August 1958. During the … had been constitutionally entrenched…
BiographyRaymond Mhlaba
… A year later he joined the Communist Party of South Africa and became Secretary for the Port Elizabeth branch … at Groote Schuur on a democratic future for…
BiographyDr Hersheela Narsee
… got involved with the National Educators’ Union of South Africa. Hersheela was the chairperson of the women’s committee of the Teachers’ Association of South…
BiographyLucy Buyaphi Mvubelo
… Executive Council of the Trade Union Council of South Africa (TUCSA). She went on to become General Secretary of … which gave Black people mid-career…
BiographyGladstone Xala Tshume
… was born on 1912, he joined the Communist Party of South Africa (CPSA) in the late 1930s while working for a coal … Member of the Communist Party of South…
BiographySydney Alex Kumalo
… Kumalo was born in the middle of the colonial conquest of Africa, the same year that Benito Mussolini’s foreign armies … to work. During this time, the Black…
BiographyVera Gow (Adams)
… became the first fully-fledged operatic company in South Africa, albeit an amateur grouping, when under the leadership … to the development of arts and…
BiographyJosie Palmer
… , a leading member of the Communist Party of South Africa (CPSA) – which later became the South African … was the most renowned Black trade union leader in…
BiographyFrederik Willem de Klerk
… bring about a new Constitutional dispensation for South Africa, based on the principle of one person, one vote. In … the Nobel Peace Prize for their efforts…
EventFormation of the South African Native National Congress
… Native National Congress (SANNC), later known as the Africa National Congress (ANC) was founded on the 8 January … exclusion and discrimination under the new…
BiographyJulius Sello Malema
… political parties, the General Council of the Bar of South Africa and other individuals. The complaints were settled by … policies beneficial to the…
BiographyKesval “Kay” Moonsamy
… to the fight for democracy and freedom in South Africa. As a trade unionist during the apartheid era, he was … weSizwe (MK),member of Parliament in…
EventThe South African Military History Society is established
… Klopper to all South Africans to take an interest in South Africa's military history. The object of the society was to … other historical aspects of the…
BiographyHenry Gordon ‘Squire’ Makgothi
… in 1990. He was the ANC’s political Commissar for East Africa. Makgothi was also elected as the Deputy … for the ANC in the early 1990s. On his return to…
BiographyStephen Tefu
… 1910, he was recruited to the Communist Party of South Africa (CPSA) in Pretoria at a time when the party was at … Member of the Communist Party of South…
BiographyCharlene Smith
… access to anti-retrovirals for rape survivors in South Africa, Namibia and the USA. Her work now is focused on …
Peter Papela Nthite
… him from attending gatherings. He later left South Africa for Botswana. …
BiographyBransby Ndobe
… in its heyday and also of the Communist Party of South Africa (CPSA) until about 1929, he supported J. T. Gumede's …
BiographyJennifer Schreiner
… Deneys were active members of the Liberal Party of South Africa (LPSA). Deneys did not join any political party after … Else was a founder member of the …
Statement of the African National Congress and the South African Tamil Federation National Working Committee, 14 November 2014
… was here to stay and to be part of the solution in South Africa to build a strong state and a South African nation …
BiographyHoratio (Bud) Isaiah Mbelle
… he was promoting the expansion and improvement of local Africa schools,sport facilities and musical groups. On … Britain in 1919 to protest against the…
EventBophuthatswana is granted independence by the South African government
… other homelands, was incorporated to form part of South Africa’s nine provinces. It is now part of the North West …