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Freedom In Our Life Time - Debates and Relations with Other Organizations
… he appears to have found a new recruit in the ranks of the African National Congress. A correspondent who was present at … alarming physical and moral…
BiographyRafique (Rafs) Mayet
… at the Daily Dispatch in East London and later at the New African in Durban and as a member of the Afrapix collective. … meetings and conferences. In 1998 he…
Interview with Albert Luthuli by Studs Terkel, 6 May 1963, Chicago
… Zulu? LUTULI: Since I became the President-General of the African National Congress in 1952, I have had three of these … economy exists because there is only…
BiographySolomon Tshekisho Plaatje
… German and Dutch, as well as English and all the major African vernaculars. Advancement in the civil service being … to the Kimberley Diamond Fields…
PlaceDoornfontein, Johannesburg
… bought up by Property Speculators and turned into slum Housing or Yards. These Areas were cleared in the mid 1930s and became Light Industrial Manufacturing…
BiographyS. S. Tema
… later president of the quasipolitical Interdenominational African Ministers' Federation. On the periphery of organised … of a committee in the Transvaal…
Minutes of the National Executive Committee of the ANC, February 1-2, 1947
… that a considered statement on Recognition of African Trade Unions be issued, be adopted, giving expression … of condolence were moved to the following: A…
PlaceBlaauwberg Nature Reserve, Melkbosstrand
… Reserve protects and conserves, one of the City’s- natural Areas with biodiversity and Heritage. The Blaauwberg Nature … placed under extreme pressure from…
BiographyDr. Jacob Mfaniselwa Nhlapo
… B.A. degree in journalism, he was the first black South African to be awarded a B.A. through private study at Unisa and the first black South African in the…
BiographySolomzi Ashby Peter Mda
… Mda cut his teeth in politics when he attended the All-African Convention meeting in Bloemfontein in mid-1936. He … end of the latter part of the 1930s, Mda…
Dr William Fehr (1892-1968), collector of art as history
… This panorama of commerce, social endeavour and the family quickly became a popular and comprehensible … to have a critical grasp of Fehr’s epic vision of…
Esmé Berman
… Esmé Berman, a Jewish South African art historian, author and researcher, was born in … to write a comprehensive and well-researched book on South African…
BiographyDaniel William
… Port Elizabeth , the son of a West Indian father and an African mother. Ordained as an Anglican minister, he later became leader of the separatist African…
BiographyPious Goodman Mei
… Born in 1912, he joined the African National Congress in 1936. As an organiser for the Congress of the People and organising secretary of the African Textile…
BiographyKausobson Kausob
… claim, he awarded him a piece of land between the two areas mentioned above. At this stage Kausob had a following … Verwey, E.J. (ed)(1995). New Dictionary…
BiographyMartin Plaut
… of trade unions and ultimately Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU). In 1978, Plaut worked for a … an easy task, as the Anti-Apartheid Movement…
BiographyGeorge Msimang
… in 1968 after completing Standard VIII. He came to the African Art Centre in Durban and was encouraged by Jo Thorpe … He has exhibited a number of times at…
Article1970s: Black Consciousness Movement in South Africa
… and demanded rights for 'coloured' people. The ANC or African National Congress was formed in 1912. The South … the human person The equal rights all members…
PlacePotchefstroom
… President Pretorius was the first president of the South African Republic and he founded the City of Pretoria . The … President Pretorius Museum tells the…
BiographyPhilemon Masinga
… In 1996 Masinga was in the Bafana Bafana side (South African National Soccer Team) when it won the African Cup of Nations final. He had also been in the…
ArticleConstructing heritage and heritage resources
… ordinary South Africans were deliberately forgotten. South African museums focused on the heritage of white people, and … and not enjoyed by the majority as…
Dance For All (DFA)
… in Athlone, which was bought and donated by the Ackerman Family Foundation. DFA continued to expand its programmes to areas such as McGregor and Bonnievale…
PlaceMali
… language of Mali, but languages of the Niger-Congo family dominate. The Bambara (Bamana) ethnic group and … as well as some Malinke and Bambara, practice…
BiographyRichard Granville Baloyi
… of legislation to entrench the position of South African Railways and competition from the better funded … Committee, a committee trying to protect the…
EventThe SA department of foreign affairs announces that the bodies of two South Africans have been found in Thailand
… were on holiday in Thailand when disaster broke out. South African authorities and the Department of Foreign Affairs in … remains of victims. A call centre…
BiographyArchibald Campbell Jordan
… where he mastered seSotho and was elected President of the African Teachers' Association. During this period, he … In 1945 Jordan began teaching in the…
BiographyJodi Bieber
… elections in South Africa winning numerous South African Press Awards. After attending the World Press … after the floods, Bangladesh, 2001 "Soweto - A South…
BiographyMalusi Nkanyezi Gigaba
… student and youth organisations such as Congress of South African Students (COSAS) , the South African Youth Congress (SAYCO) , the South African Student…
EventJoe Slovo is born
… Joe Slovo , the former South African Communist Party (SACP) and African National Congress (ANC) leader and Minister of Housing was born in Lithuania. From…
BiographyLionel Forman
… trial, 'You Can Hang For Treason'. Forman headed the South African Student delegation to international conferences. He … of Advance and New Age and a co…