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BiographyDaniel William
Daniel William Alexander was born in 1880 in Port Elizabeth, the son of a West Indian father and an African mother. Ordained as an Anglican minister, he later…
BiographyElizabeth Mbatha
Elizabeth Mbatha was born in 1950 near Rorke's Drift. Mbatha did not attend school. In 1974 she married Eric Mbatha, a potter at Rorke's Drift. In the early…
BiographyJeremiah W Dunjwa
Jeremiah W Dunjwa was born in Cape Town. An organiser of the 1919 passive resistance campaign against passes in the Transvaal, secretary of the Transvaal…
BiographyDeputy Chief Msizwana Mbata
Documentation related to Deputy Chief Msizwana Mbata’s banishment alleges that 10 years of community conflict in the districts of Estcourt and Weenen, Natal …
Summary Minutes of exploratory discussions held in London on 3 May and 4 May 1988 between a South African Delegation and an Angolan Delegation, facilitated by a Delegation from the United States
Meeting between representatives from South Africa, Angola, Cuba and United States to negotiate a peaceful solution for southern Africa and to develop political…
EventBus drivers strike because of lack of protection
… Source: South African Institute of Race Relations. (1989). Race Relations Survey 1988/89, Johannesburg: South …
BiographyAnna Johanna Dorthea De Villiers
De Villiers was an educator and author. She was an editor of the Dictionary of the Afrikaans language, the first and only female principal of the Huguenot…
Sabata Manaka
Sabata Manaka, also known as Tsepo Nkosi, was born in 1951. He lived in Phiri, Soweto, Johannesburg. Manaka left the country in 1978. His brother, Ezekiel…
BiographyLucky Shabalala
Lucky Shabalala was born in 1962 in Inanda, Natal. He first developed an interest in art at school. From an early age he started carving heads. Shabalala…
ArchiveCelebrating and commemorating twenty-years of the Harare declaration by Kgolane Alfred Rudolph PHALA
… Africa in its summit in Harare, Zimbabwe, on 21st August 1989. It poetically, but also prophetically, stated that: "We … to the Work in progress no. 60 of…
The Polly Street Era
… South Africans (proposed title), Johannesburg: Ad. Donker, 1989. (Draft chapter for a book to be published in 1989.) 7. Cecil Skotnes, interview with Steven…
ArticleGrade 9 - Term 2: The Nuclear Age and the Cold War
… Superpowers in the Cold War and The end of the Cold War in 1989. Increasing tension between the Allies after the end of … the Second World War. Image source…
ArticleA tribute to a great struggle stalwart Paul David by Siva Naidoo
I first came into contact with Comrade Devadas Paul David in 1977, soon after a few of us established the Tongaat Youth Club. We were struck by his youthful…
January 8th Statements - Statement of the National Executive Committee on the occasion of the 74th Anniversary of the ANC - 8 January 1986
Compatriots, As the New Year begins, and on the occasion of the 74th anniversary of your vanguard movement, the African National Congress, we extend to you…
BiographyRuth Elizabeth Arndt
Arndt was born in Canada in 1890 and died in South Africa in 1982. In South Africa, Arndt set about informing the government on the importance of pre-school…
BiographyRichard Rive
Richard Rive was born on 1 March 1931 in Cape Town, and grew up in District Six, which was a Coloured, or “mixed race”, area under apartheid. With the aid of…
John Alfons Pandeni
Namibian John Pandeni was one of hundreds of People’s Liberation Army of Namibia (Plan) SWAPO fighters who were captured and imprisoned on Robben Island. After…
BiographyPhillmon Velangetshe Sangweni
Sangweni was born in Vryheid, Natal in 1947. He worked for many years for a carpet company in Durban, but left during the workers’ strikes of 1976. Sangweni…
BiographyFrancis William Reitz
Francis William Reitz was born in Swellendam in 1844. He became an advocate and from 1874 was the President of the Orange Free State Appeal Court. He became…
"Future of the Africanist Movement" Questions and Answers Y R. M. Sobukwe, in The Africanist, January 1959
Q: Who are the Africanists? A. A simple answer would be that they are the members of the Africanist Movement. But, if one wishes to go deeper into the…
ArticleRustenburg Timeline 1850-2001
1850 The Nederduitsch Hervormde Church (Nederduitsch Reformed Church) establishes a congregation in Rustenburg. 16 November, A Hervormde congregation is…
BiographyEugene Marais
Marais was one of the most innovative Afrikaans writers and a pioneer of the usage of free verse in Afrikaans. He was an editor of the newspaper, Land en Volk…
BiographyGodfrey I. M. Mzamane
Godfrey I.M. Mzamane was born near Matatiele in the Transkei in 1909 and obtained B.A. and M.A. degrees from Fort Hare. He taught at St. Peter's Secondary…
Statement at the Launch of the "Nelson Mandela: Freedom at 70" Campaign by O. R. Tambo, Wembley Stadium, London, 11 June 1988
Archbishop Trevor Huddleston, Dear friends of the British Anti-Apartheid Movement, Esteemed cultural workers and artists, Dear friends, youth and…
Message from Oliver Tambo to the United Nations Special Committee against apartheid on its 20th anniversary, 02 April 1983
We take the opportunity to extend to the Committee the most cordial fraternal greetings on occasion of the twentieth anniversary of the Special Committee. The…
Communique of the Second National Consultative Conference of the ANC, presented by O. R. Tambo at a Press Conference, Lusaka 25 June, 1985
The Second National Consultative Conference of the ANC has taken place. It opened on June 16th, the ninth anniversary of the Soweto uprising of 1976 and closed…
ArchiveCommission of Inquiry into the South African Council of Churches held at Pretoria on 7 September 1982, Volume 9 and Volume 10
Transcript. Continuing evidence from Eugene Lesley Roelofse to the Commission of Inquiry into the South African Council of Churches (SACC), chaired by the…
ArchiveConference Programme: Five Freedoms Forum and African National Congress - The role of Whites in a changing society, June 29 - July 2, 1980,
Conference Programme of the Five Freedoms Forum and African National Congress: The role of whites in a changing society, June 29-July 2.
ArchiveJoint Press Conference, Department of State, 14 May 1981 with Secretary of State Haig and Minister of Foreign Affairs Botha
Press Conference in the United States, with US Secretary Haig and Minister of Foreign Affairs Botha, regarding the independence of Nambia.
Samesprekings: Staatspresident met die Kabinet van die Oorgangsregering van Nasionale Eenheid (Orne) van SWA, 21 Mei 1986, Kabinetskamer, Tuynhuys, Kaapstad
Report from a meeting held between representatives of the South African Government, including the State President, and representatives from South West Africa…