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BiographySedick Isaacs
Sedick Isaacs was born in 1939 and grew up in the Bo-Kaap, Cape Town, Western Province (now Western Cape). He was the second eldest in a family of four…
BiographyStephanus Johannes Paulus Kruger
Paul Kruger is believed to have been born on 10 October 1825 on his grandfather's farm, Bulhoek, in the Cradock district, near the present day town of…
BiographyMolly Fischer
… the fifth anniversary of the Chinese Revolution on 1 October. After the banning of the Communist Party in 1950 …
Address given by Ronald First, brother of Ruth First and brother in law of Joe Slovo, on the occasion of the tribute paid to Ruth and Joe by the African National Congress, in the holding of a Torchlight ceremony on the 21st of October 2012, at the Johanne
This ceremony is of particular importance as it takes place in the 100th year since the ANC was founded AMANDLA AMANDLA The First and Slovo families greatly…
ArticleEOAN Group
The EOAN Group was founded by Helen Southern-Holt in 1933. EOAN Group was a social and educational centre and cultural association that offered music…
BiographyJomo Kenyatta
… grandfather, Kungu Mangana, who was a noted medicine man 2 in the area. Around the age of 10, suffering from an … and speeches ”” Suffering Without…
BiographyNjinga Ana de Sousa
… important inspiration for more recent African feminists [1] . Njinga was born around 1582 in the Kingdom of Ndongo in present-day-Angola [2] . The Kingdom of…
BiographyBheki Cele
… near Port Shepstone in Natal (now known as KwaZulu-Natal) [1] . When he was only nine months old his mother passed away, … until he passed away while Bheki…
BiographyLefifi Tladi
The thinker, poet, and painter, Lefifi Tladi, was born in 1949 in the culturally vibrant township of Lady Selborne in Pretoria, Transvaal Province (now Gauteng…
BiographyAugust Aime Balkema
Several dutch publishers have featured prominently in the South African book industry. They include JJ van Schaik, Gerrit Bakker, Cornells Struik and AA…
BiographyJohn Collins
… shootings, conducted by Sydney Kentridge.Collins, based at 2 Amen Court, next to St Paul’s Cathedral, began to form a … for Southern Africa, or IDAF’;…
BiographyEbrahim Ismail Ebrahim
Ebrahim Ismail Ebrahim was born in Durban on 1st July in 1937, the second of five children. When he was a few months old Ebrahim's mother became ill and he…
Article1967 Terrorism Act, No. 83 of 1967
… aids ”¦ encourages’ another person to commit such an act (2.1.a). The Terrorism Act further banned undergoing training, encouraging another to undergo…
BiographyPremanathan “Prema” Naidoo
… was brought to court after several months and sentenced on 1 April 1982 to three years` imprisonment (two years …
BiographyIsaac Williams Wauchope
… of hair which suggested he was not about to grow bold.” [2] Born at the dawn of colonialism, when Europeans were … from Imvo in 1903 by Isaac best…
ArticleThe Group Areas Act of 1950
… the African “a pariah in the land of his birth.” (1914: 1). Africans who had purchased land outside of homelands were … those who were moved by its…
BiographyCurtis Nkondo
Curtis Nkondo was born on 1st February 1928 in Louis Trichardt, Northern Transvaal (now Makhado, Limpopo). Towards the end of the 1800s, his grandmother, Ma…
BiographyBilly Nair
… were arrested, and he was found guilty and sentenced to 1 month in prison. As the secretary of the Dairy Worker's … when the emergency was lifted, but was…
BiographyDawood Seedat
… were doomed.’ He addressed a meeting in Johannesburg on 1 October 1952 to celebrate the third anniversary of the …
ANC NGC 2015 Resolutions on International Relations
… 1. Introduction The important task of our National Democratic … key successes, challenges and difficult policy issues. 2. Recommendations 2.1 The NGC noted…
BiographyLeigh Davids
Leigh Davids was born on 25 March 1979 in Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa. She was a transgender woman, and a prominent activist, who focused on the…
BiographyJackson Mphikwa Mthembu
Jackson Mphikwa Mthembu was a Minister in the Presidency of South Africa and parliamentarian for the African National Congress (ANC). Mthembu was born on 5…
BiographyAlbertina Nontsikelelo Sisulu
… last birthday. MaSisulu died suddenly in her home on 2 June 2011, aged 92. President Jacob Zuma announced that Ma …
BiographyRobert Carl-Heinz Shell
… Meet—Origins to 1620” and “Slavery and Freedom,” (volumes 1& 3 of United States History, Schlessinger Video … on Academic Freedom in South Africa” Social…
BiographyNimrod Sekeramane Nathale
Nimrod Sekeramane Sejake was born on 8 August 1920 in Evaton, south of Johannesburg, to Basotho parents. He attended a mission school in Evaton later went to…
EventHarry Frederick Oppenheimer is born in Kimberley
… under the Fourth South African Corps during World War 2 in North Africa. He then returned to South Africa and …
Education Feature from Frene Ginwala's Thesis
… and Governmental annual aid per student declined from £1 1s 6d to 17s 8d in 1886 and further to 14s 4d in 1888 12s … 1.7 - 1935 353 - 1.7 - 1936 416 29 1.9 1…
BiographyChristopher “Dali” Daluxolo Mpofu
… National Congress ( ANC) stalwart. Mpofu was born on 2 September 1962 (one of two other siblings) to Nosebenzile … Province, South Africa, where he spent his…
Biography of George Hallett by Hunter Kolon
… prepared to handle governing a nation of hurting people [1] . In 1995, Hallett’s photographs of Mandela earned a Golden Eye World Press Photo Award [2] …
BiographyStephen Joel Chifunyise
… 1980.’ Journal of Southern African Studies. vol. 16. No. 2, pp. 276-289. [iv] Isama, A. (6 August 2019). Celebrated … 1980.’ Journal of Southern African…