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BiographyAllison Wessels George Champion
Allison George Champion was born on 4 December 1893 at Sans Souci School near the mouth of the Tugela River in Natal. His father had been adopted by American…
BiographyLawrence Folley
Born in Benoni in 1928, Lawrence started voice training with Alan Webster and music theory with Gillian Davies who trained the Benoni Orpheus Choir. Lawrence…
BiographyGeorge Naicker
George Naicker, was one of six sons. He was born on 1 June 1919. He joined the Natal Indian Congress in 1941 and became an executive member in 1956 until his…
BiographyDulcie Evonne September
… activist, and political prisoner who went into exile in London. She was later assassinated in Paris. …
ArticleMiriam Makeba: Activist on Two Fronts by Connor Kirkpatrick
… not attend her funeral. For the next 30 years she lived in exile from her home country (Makeba My Story). It was by this … a good cause. Makeba also said…
BiographyStephen Bantu Biko
… killed in January 1974 by a parcel bomb after he went into exile in Botswana , reflecting a new ruthlessness on the part … with securing a meeting with the…
EventManto Tshabalala - Msimang, controversial minister of health, is born
… (then Tanganyika). Manto spent twenty-eight years in exile and continued with her studies in Russia, where she …
ArticleHistory of ‘New Age’ Newspaper
… 1960, activists were being banned, jailed or had gone to exile, circulation was successfully stopped for about five …
ArticleCommunism in Russia 1900 to 1940
… Petersburg soviet in 1905. Lenin observed the events from exile and adapted his own revolutionary theory. Online …
Article1960-1966: The genesis of the armed struggle
… This was not the case. Some of the leaders went into exile overseas, while others stayed in South Africa to pursue … managed to escape South Africa and was…
EventSouth African Congress of Trade Unions (SACTU) is formed
… for ANC and MK activities. Those office bearers in exile re-established the organisation and used it to mobilise …
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1990s
… ANC Women's League. Geraldine Fraser-Moleketi returns from exile at request of CPSA. She resumes work as personal … Hogan released from prison. Gill Marcus…
Biography of Caiphus Semenya
… T., 2015. Caiphus Semenya turns 76, talks collaborations, exile & Miriam Makeba. BizNews.com. Available at: … on/2015/08/21/caiphus-semenya-turns-76-talks…
ArticleAfrican Resistance Movement (ARM)
… members of various organisations to leave the country for exile, including Dennis Brutus, the chairman of the South … months in prison. He later fled the…
The genesis of the armed struggle, 1960-1966
… This was not the case. Some of the leaders went into exile overseas, while others stayed in South Africa to pursue … managed to escape South Africa and was…
ArticleSouth African Communist Party (SACP)
… during the 1950s – and this bond extended into the exile years and persists today. In its involvement in mass … relationship as result of a strong bond built…
Speech by President Nelson Mandela at the Unveiling of the Tombstone of Oliver Tambo, 19 April 1998, Wattville, Benoni
… on a level it had never reached before. Through exile and imprisonment kept us apart for many years, Oliver … of Oliver`s return to South Africa after three…
Speech by President Nelson Mandela at the unveiling of the tombstone of Oliver Tambo
… on a level it had never reached before. Through exile and imprisonment kept us apart for many years, Oliver … of Oliver's return to South Africa after three…
ArticleLesotho Timeline
… (BCP, 36 seats); King Moshoeshoe II is sent into temporary exile and BCP leaders are imprisoned. Leabua rules until 1986 … in a coup. 1990 King Moshoeshoe II…
ArticleStates of Emergency in South Africa: the 1960s and 1980s
… a short space of time, and an exodus of some to a life in exile. In 1960, for the first time, the government was faced … from both movements skipped the…
The armed struggle and state repression of the 1960s
… in April 1960. Both the ANC and PAC decided to go into exile after they had been banned. The NP government thought … to reorganise themselves both inside…
Who was Khwezi? Here’s what we learnt during the Zuma rape trial by TMG Digital (Sowetan) ,10 October 2016
… Khwezi met Zuma as a child in Swaziland‚ where she was in exile with her parents. Zuma and her late father were good … by Khwezi “seeing her comrades die‚…
Thomas G. Karis
Obituary by his son, Aleck Karis. Thomas G. Karis, a former foreign service officer who was a critic of U. S. policy on South Africa and who became a leading…
BiographyPresident Seretse Khama
Seretse Khama was born on 1 July 1921 at Serowe, Bechuanaland (now Botswana). His grandfather was Kgosi (King) Khama III, known as Khama the Good, the ruler of…
BiographyAmy Thornton
Amy Rietstein (now Thornton) was born in 1932 in Cape Town, Cape Province (now Western Cape). Both her parents were actively involved in the struggle, and it…
ArticleWorkshop ‘71
… last show, and many of the cast remained in the USA in exile. Functioning in a hostile apartheid environment, the …
ArticleCurries Fountain events timeline
… prior to 1994. Many leaders were welcomed home from exile in the stadium. …
Four important figures in the South African Film Industry
… Holiness, the Dalai Lama, the Tibetan leader forced into exile by the Chinese occupation of his land. Singh is the …
Chapter 2 - THE RECONSTRUCTION PERIOD
… From: The South African Communist Party In Exile 1963 - 1990 The Bram Fischer era In the aftermath of … from the ANC, were forced to flee the country and go…
Abdullah Ibrahim and the Politics of Jazz in South Africa
… were forced underground, leading jazz musicians fled into exile and some jazz celebrities, like Kippie Moeketsi, died … But after the cancellation of his…