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ArchiveCHAPTER 3 - Unprepared by Howard Barrell
… it was able to re-register as a significant actor in South African politics, primarily by sporadic armed activity inside … resistance. 26 The RC elaborated…
BiographyEthel Ruth Prowse
… Prowse is known for her significant contribution to South African Art. She spent her childhood on the slopes of Devil … a year later she was elected to be a…
BiographyBernard Lazarus Sigamoney
… promoter in Durban. Sigamoney took a break from South African politics in December 1922 and travelled abroad to … continued throughout his life. In 1940 he…
BiographyIsmail Ahmed Cachalia
… with other militant political organisations amongst African, Coloured and White in the fight for equal rights. In … Indian passive resistance campaign . This…
ArticleThe role of traditional leaders during Apartheid
… an important role in the everyday administration of their areas and the lives of traditional people. Traditional … leader was accountable to his people. The…
ArticleGertrude Fester Biography by Nehal Patel
… and cultures. If each race is separated, all South African peoples can learn, live, and die, as they liked. From … Coloured, and Indian South Africans to…
PlaceClarendon Circle, Johannesburg
… Africa. George Villiers came from an Aristocratic English Family, with Ancient Roots. His full Name was; George Herbert … Over time “traffic” took precedence…
Address of the President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki on the Occasion of the Freedom Day Celebrations at the ABSA Stadium, Durban 27 April 2005
… prevailed, through among others, land restitution, housing delivery, provisio!ial grants, better access to … being neglected, being hungry and destitute when…
BiographyWilliam Philip Schreiner
… of Gottlob and Rebekah Schreiner. He studied at the South African College, Cape Town and furthered his studies at … and against the Second Anglo Boer War, or…
BiographyDr Gomolemo Mokae
… on to Ga-Rankuwa. He is an ardent and active promoter of African langauges. Author, medical doctor and political … and The secret in my bosom were…
PlacePiketberg
… by the then Governor of the Cape Colony, Sir Benjamin D’Urban. Khoisan origins Adam Kok III - Griqua Captain - 1848" by Anon. - South African Archives…
BiographyAdvocate Israel “Isie” Aaron Maisels
… Africa in 1930. In May 1940 he volunteered for the South African Armed Forces and was assigned to the Air Force … and Acting-Chair of the General Council of…
BiographyMadie Hall-Xuma
… figure in middle-class social circles, she headed the African National Congress Women's League (ANCWL) from 1943 … in women's organisations and as a…
BiographyC. J. Mayekiso
… was a textile worker and later became president of the African Textile Workers' Union. He was a trade unionist and a leader of the African National Congress…
BiographyMary Goitsemang Ranta
… mint, and later took employment as a typist for the African Iron and Steel Workers’ Union. By the early 1950s she … steward for the Garment Workers’ Union …
BiographyZanele Muholi
… that which is systematically erased from both South African and international narratives: lesbian weddings, trans … project to commodity the black female…
BiographyKenneth Kaunda
… who had left Malawi in 1904 and his mother was the first African woman to teach in colonial Zambia. Initially, the … for Northern Rhodesia of the: 'Northern…
BiographyDolly Rathebe
… role in Jim Comes to Joburg , one of the earliest South African films made for a primarily black audience. Although … called, was in great public demand and…
BiographySaleem Badat
… South Africa, Uganda, Ghana, Egypt, and Lebanon and to pan-African and pan-Arab institutions working in higher … Council on Higher Education, which advises…
BiographyHilda Bernstein
… of Distributive Workers. She was a member of the South African Labour Party League of Youth until 1940. After her … the Labour Party. In 1937 she became a…
BiographyEric Mtshali
… workers. In 1955 he assisted in established Southern African Clothing and Textile Workers’ Union (SACTWU). In the … he assisted in collecting ‘freedom…
BiographyMampe Mosia Makhaya
… UK, Norway, Germany and Russia. In 1976, Makhaya join the African National Congress (ANC) and in 1992 became its Chief … on 1 August 1994, after which he…
BiographyNathaniel Impey Honono
… collegues to build a spirit resistance to the government's African education policies. In the 1940s Honono was a member … on 16 December 1943. He was an…
BiographyLuli Callinicos
… as part of a concerted campaign after the banning of the African National Congress (ANC). Callinicos wrote articles … Callinicos taught English literacy to…
PlaceStrandfontein
Strandfontein is a pretty little coastal village situated on the West Coast at the mouth of the Olifants River. Strandfontein’s high cliffs provide excellent…
BiographySonja Schlesin
… and his wife Helena Dorothy (nee Schloss). The Schlesin family later immigrated to South Africa, and arrived at the … Paxton, G (2006) Sonja Schlesin,…
PlaceMooi River, a Town of the Midlands Meander- Natal
… the necessary link between the Villages and surrounding Areas and it also assists the local communities by providing … farm livestock and general amenities…
PlaceBathurst, Eastern Cape
… conflict between White settlers moving Northwards and African pastoralists and refugees from the Mfecane moving … military relief arrived. The Wesleyan…
ArchiveCHAPTER 5 - Armed Propaganda and Non-Colaborattion, Rationalising weakness, August 1979 - December 1980 by Howard Barell
… Reconstruction, January 1978 - August 1979 The South African state's banning of black consciousness organisations … 300 to 500 individuals working mainly in…
PlaceGroot Brakrivier, Mossel Bay Local Municipality
… of the new Municipal dispensation introduced by the South African Government, in December 2000. This Municipal Area now … and Little Brak River." It was…