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Thamsanqwa (Thami) ka Mnyele, SA artist who went into exile in Botswana in 1979 and became an active member of Umkhonto we Sezw
The UN reports that over 200,000 Hutu refugees are fleeing into the hills to escape the conflict between the Zaire military and
At the conclusion of a forty-four day inquest into the death in detention of the White trade union leader, Dr. Neil Aggett, the
Thamsanqwa (Thami) ka Mnyele, SA artist who went into exile in Botswana in 1979 and became an active member of Umkhonto we Sizw
The Venda Attorney General announces he has ordered an inquiry into the death of Mr. Muffle to be held in the Sibasa Magistrate
A large force of some 12 000 Western Xhosas, led by Makoma (Maqoma), the leader of the Gaika tribe, sweeps into the Cape Colony
The Cullinan diamond is cut into two big stones, The Star of Africa and the Cullinan 2, as well as seven fairly big stones and
Tens of thousands of Hutus flee the Tutsi-led rebel advance in Rwanda, flooding across the border into Zaire in one of the grea
Black (Native) Administration Act of 1927 comes into effect. This Act in effect gave the state the power to make laws in all Af
A volcano erupts in eastern Zaire, spewing a plume of ash and lava into the air about 40km north of the border crossing at Goma
BiographyDaniel Francois Malan
D.F. Malan was born in 1874 in Riebeeck West in the Cape. He completed his doctorate of divinity at the University of Utrecht in 1905 and was ordained as a…
BiographyLouis Luyt
Louis Luyt was born on 18 June 1932, and grew up in modest circumstances in the Karoo. In the 1940s Luyt was employed as a railway clerk. During his rugby…
BiographyMarimuthu Pragalathan “MP” Naicker
He was born in Natal in 1920, and although his family was poor he managed to complete high school. He worked as a truck driver, a union organiser for sugar…
BiographyLouis Problem Mkhize
Curnick Ndlovu, the first leader of the uMkhonto we Sizwe (MK) Regional Command in Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal), recruited Louis ‘Problem’ Mkhize first into the…
BiographyKhotso Seatlholo
Khotso Seatlholo was born on 5 November 1958. He was a student at Naledi High School in Soweto when the 1976 Student riots ensued. Seatlholo, together with…
BiographyAnna 'Sister Nannie' Tempo
Anna 'Sister Nannie' Tempo, was born of a slave mother and father who were kidnapped as children off the coast of Mozambique. She was born in the late 1870s…
BiographyEric Mtshali
Eric (Stalin) Mtshali was born in Durban, Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal). After completing high school he became active in the anti-apartheid movement in Natal…
BiographyElsa Joubert
Elsabé Antoinette Murray Joubert (married surname Steytler) was born on 19 October 1922 in Paarl where she grew up, and studied at the universities of…
BiographyAnna Tempo
Tempo started off working by looking after Henrietta Schreiner’s nephews. She soon converted to Christianity and began helping Schreiner with her welfare work…
BiographyVicky Sampson
Vicky Sampson was born in 1969, to Faye and Victor Sampson. Her father, Victor, was a member of the Golden City Dixies, a travelling vaudeville group. When…
BiographyAlfred Baphetuxolo Nzo
Alfred Nzo was born on 19 June 1925 at Benoni, Transvaal, into a family of five children. His father was a clerk at Modder B mine, which was later changed into…
BiographyConny Braam
In 1971 Conny Braam, together with some others, broke away from the Comite Zuid-Afrika (CZA) to form the more radical Anti-Apartheidsbeweging Nederland (AABN)…
BiographyWilton Zimasile Mkwayi
Wilton Zimasile Mkwayi was a trade unionist who served a life sentence for his involvement in Umkhonto We Sizwe. He was born into a peasant family near…
BiographyMary Fitzgerald
Fitzgerald was born in Ireland in 1882, and came to South Africa as a typist for the British Army. She worked in the Castle in Cape Town, and then moved to…
BiographyHaile Selassie I
Early years The 225th and last Ethiopian Emperor, Haile Selassie was born in Ethiopia in a region called Ejersa Gora on 23 July 1892. His birth name given…
Siphiwe Nyanda
Siphiwe Nyanda was the eldest of the six children of Betsy and Henry Nyanda, a traffic inspector and area supervisor of liquor outlets for the Johannesburg…
BiographySara “Saartjie” Baartman
Sara ‘Saartjie’ Baartman was born in 1789* at the Gamtoos river in what is now known as the Eastern Cape. She belonged to the cattle-herding Gonaquasub group…
BiographyRichard Barney Lekgotla Molokoane
Richard Barney Lekgotla Molokoane was born on 27 August 1957 in Tladi, Soweto. Molokoane became politically active during the student uprising of 1976, and…
BiographyMichael Hathorn
Michael Hathorn was born in Pietermaritzburg, Natal in 1922. After schooling, he went to Wits University in Johannesburg, and qualified with a BSc in Mining…
BiographyRuben Xulu
Ruben Xulu, born deaf on 10 May 1952 and attended school in Mgangatho from 1955 to 1961. He began carving with Bernard Gcwensa at Hiabisa mission station and…