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Biography of Lefifi Tladi by Paul Linck
… jazz singer that went into exile in South Africa because of apartheid. This is the biographical portion of the paper. At the end of the paper there is a…
ArticleOrganization of African Unity Timeline 1884-2000
… Liberia are recognized as independent entities. Partition of West Africa and East Africa 1896 Ethiopia, under Emperor … South Africa, is expelled from Fort…
CONFERMENT OF THE DEGREE OF DOCTOR OF SOCIAL SCIENCE HONORIS CAUSA UPON FATIMA MEER
… CONFERMENT OF THE DEGREE OF DOCTOR OF SOCIAL SCIENCE HONORIS CAUSA UPON FATIMA MEER …
ArticleTimeline 20 years of Democracy 1994 to 2014
… elections and shifted the country towards the construction of a new political, social and economic order. 27 April, The … on the evening of 31 May 2002 16…
Biography of Lionel Ngakane by Rod Reyna
… outside the country, by contributing to the advancement of Black filmmaking, and after apartheid he continued that … During his life Ngakane sought to expose…
Address by President Nelson Mandela on the occasion of his acceptance of an honorary doctorate of the University of Stellenbosch
… Address by President Nelson Mandela on the occasion of his acceptance of an honorary doctorate of the University of Stellenbosch …
ArticleBiography of Lindiwe Mabuza by Kayla Johansen
… Congress Chief Representative to Sweden and United States of America, South African Ambassador to Germany Abstract … Mabuza had a childhood no different from…
EventThabo Mbeki is elected 2nd President of a democratic South Africa
… Africa's second democratically elected president in front of a vast crowd of dancing and cheering supporters. The inauguration came … the day, Mandela placed…
ArticleThe History of Separate Development in South Africa
… segregation and white supremacy had become central aspects of South African policy long before Apartheid started. The … South Africa gained its independence,…
ArticleGrade 7 - Term 1: The Kingdom of Mali and the City of Timbuktu in the 14th Century
… Tombouctou, is a city in the western African country of Mali. Often used as a popular term to describe a distant … without water. They can also survive large…
ArticleThe effects of WW2 in Africa
… themselves against European conquest. As a result, most of Africa was colonized by 1900. Only Ethiopia and Liberia … After the First and Second World Wars…
ArticleThe History of Education: 1658 to present
… is among the Dutch settlers as they encounter a number of different groups of black people who are occupying the … Slaves in South Africa are also freed,…
Eyewitness accounts of the Sharpeville massacre 1960
… The day of the Massacre, mourning the dead and getting over the shock of the event © Baileys African History Archive (BAHA) Tom … threatened that we would be…
ArticleThe death of Samora Machel
… and her Independence. Machel was a revolutionary leader of the Mozambican liberation movement FRELIMO and Independent … the controversy surrounding his death…
ArticleA History of Lückhoff High School, 1932-1969
… secondary school for the town’s ‘Coloured’ population of Stellenbosch. To date no publication exists that focuses solely on the history of the school. The…
David Anderson
… for the Natal Witness . He went on to do work for most of the big newspapers in the country, including The Rand … cartoons were politically loaded, and…
ArticlePre-colonial history of Southern Africa
… South Africa has one of the longest sequences of human development in the world. It begins with two million … addition, the widespread use of red ochre,…
ArticleKingdom of Kongo 1390–1914
… The Kingdom of Kongo was a large kingdom in the western part of central Africa. The name comes from the fact that the … were mostly successful in preventing…
EventThe General Assembly of the League of Nations meets in Geneva for the first time
… On 15 November 1920, the General Assembly of the League of the Nationsmet in Geneva, Switzerland for the first time. The League was an international body…
BiographyRichard Steele
… in 1956. His father emigrated to South Africa at the end of the Second World War. Steele‘s parents were very … volunteer in township soup kitchens at the…
BiographyGeorge Edward Peake
… Peake was a founding member and national Chairperson of the South African Coloured People's Organisation (SACPO) … He was born in the Cape in 1922. He…
BiographyAchmat Dangor
… High School. He joined the Labour Party Youth, a group of radical young people who were opposed to the sectarian politics of the Coloured Labour Party…
BiographyJulius Louis Saks
… Optometrist Julius Louis Saks was the first son of Sidney and Deborah Saks. His family emigrated to South … a farm and trading manager on the farm…
BiographySaul Sibusiso “Minus Khosing” Mashinini
… when Mashinini was three, a dentist commented that his set of teeth told of his remarkable brilliance. At the age of about 11, he … as a representative for…
BiographyLeonard Tebogo Tume
… cadre. He underwent military training in Botswana as part of MK G5 detachment unit whose primary mission was to attack … later and operated underground in…
BiographySylvia Neame
… (also known as Sylvia Neame-Jahn) was born in 1937, one of four children. She had two older brothers, Peter and … the Liberal Party (LP) , Neame, supporting…
BiographyMohamed (Bob) Suleman Asmal
… treason trialists. In June 1957, Judge Kuper acquitted him of charges when the Treason Trial adjourned. However, charges … Bob was detained for five months,…
BiographyPius Nkonzo Langa
… Mpumalanga), South Africa, on 25 March 1939, the second of seven children. In 1957, he went to work at a shirtmaking … in 1960. Langa then found employment…
Address to a Joint Session of the Parliament of Pakistan
… Address to a Joint Session of the Parliament of Pakistan …
ArticleBanishment under the Suppression of Communism Act of 1950
… Banishment under the Suppression of Communism Act of 1950 …