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BiographySimon Nkoli
… “If you are Black and gay in South Africa, then it really is all the same closet…inside is … for South Africa to become the first country in the world to…
ArticleAfrican nationalism and working-class & popular protests, 1910-1924
… Botha headed the first government of the new Union of South Africa, with General Jan Smuts as his deputy. Their … against the Land Act but the outbreak of…
EventRudolph Lewis, South African road racing cyclist is born
… Lewis was born on 12 July 1887 in Pretoria.[i] Rudolph was South Africa’s second world class athlete after Laurens S Meintjes.[ii] He … racing in Germany in…
Address to Extraordinary Summit of the World Economic Forum 21 June 2003
… for me to be able to share with this august gathering, the South African success story and our approach to lasting peace … rendered the country ungovernable…
BiographyMiriam Makeba
… , Xhosa , Ndebele and Swazi (Nguni) societies of Southern Africa. Her father died when she was five years old, Miriam … in 1954 that she began to build a…
BiographyTimothy Peter Jenkin
… After leaving school, he avoided conscription into the South African Defence Force (SADF), and worked at a variety … Congress (ANC), which was a banned…
Nozizwe Charlotte Madlala-Routledge
… for a year. In 1984, Madlala-Routledge joined the South African Communist Party (SACP) and served as the … , which was published in 1995. She also co…
EventAfrica Women's Peace Train leaves Kampala for Johannesburg
… The Africa Women's Peace Train was launched in Kampala, Uganda, … Malawi, Zambia, Mozambique, Botswana and finally to South Africa - Johannesburg, in time…
BiographyBongiwe (Bongi) Dhlomo-Mautloa
… Member on several selection committees, including the South African National Art Gallery and the Johannesburg Art … I always wondered what happens to…
BiographyManiben Sita
… and the greater struggle for democracy and justice in South Africa. He would become known throughout South Africa and the rest of the world for his…
Book 2: The Impact and Limitations of Colonialism - Chapter 1 - The Uneven Development of Colonialism in South Africa by Jeff Peires
… of Education To understand the complexities of modern South Africa and, more especially, to account for some of the … countries of Western Europe on many…
ArticleThe Influenza epidemic
… last months of 1918 and the beginning of 1919. The First World War, while not the direct cause of its outbreak, contributed … globe they spread the virus to…
BiographyLefifi Tladi
… bought legally in what the government considered as White South Africa. People who lived in Black spots were told to leave … who had a similar goatee. His…
BiographyDr. Neville Edward Alexander
… learned that his grandmother was not originally from South Africa, but it was only later that he discovered how she … were living; total disinformation of…
Document 62 - Minutes of the meeting of the Workers’ Party of South Africa. Johannesburg Branch, held at 90 President Street, Johannesburg, 3 April 1936 at 8.20 p.m.
… From: South Africa's Radical Tradition, a documentary history, … It was decided that Dunbar be invited to lecture on "War", also Findlay, Danchen, B. Sachs …
The National Question in Post 1994 South Africa. A discussion paper in preparation for the ANC`s 50th National Conference by Z. Pallo Jordan
… Could that admonition not also be directed at the South African national liberation movement (NLM) and the ANC? … with them probably were the central…
BiographyJeremy Vearey
… it as a ‘formidable structure’ and was a forerunner to the South African Democratic Teachers Union (SADTU). A number of … unit. As a result, Vearey travelled…
BiographyKalushi Drake Koka
… as Transvaal vice-chairperson of the Liberal Party of South Africa (LPSA). He later left the LPSA and worked alongside … Koka called for the appointment of…
ArticleThe Establishment of the Afrikaner Broederbond in May 1918.
… policemen formed an organization, Jong Suid-Afrika (Young South Africa). A month later, it was renamed the Afrikaner … population found themselves in the…
EventThousands are killed after terrorists crashed hijacked airliners into the World Trade Centre in New York and the Pentagon in Washington
… after terrorists crashed hijacked airliners into the World Trade Centre in New York and the Pentagon in … of the attacks, the Bush administration declared a …
BiographyEdward 'Eddie' John Daniels
… Shoe Factory. In 1955 he worked in what was known as South West Africa (now Namibia) in the Consolidated Diamond Mines a … the only Coloured sentenced with a…
BiographyArchbishop Emeritus Desmond Mpilo Tutu
… four children, three girls and a boy. This was a period in South African history that predated formal apartheid but was … a Bachelor of Arts degree from the…
Present Stage of the Struggle against Apartheid in South Africa. Paper prepared at the request of the United Nations Special Committee against Apartheid by O. R. Tambo, Stockholm, 1 June 1968
… years ago last month, a minority of the white minority in South Africa, steeped in the doctrines Hitler sought to … Later that year, the accredited…
ArticleUnion, Segregation, apartheid and Democracy: From Union to non racial democracy
… The Union of SA The first election that created the modern South African state, held in accordance with the provisions … interests still bitter about the…
BiographyDr. Abu Baker Asvat
… 1943, Abu Baker Asvat was born in Vrededorp(Fietas), South Africa.He spent his youth in Fietas, playing football and … which are on the same level with most…
BiographyDenise Darvall
… when on 3 December 1967, she became the donor in the world’s first successful human heart transplant, performed by … kidneys went to 10 year old Jonathan van…
Address by the President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki, to the Hellenic Foundation for European and Foreign Policy (ELIAMEP), King George Hotel, Athens, 24 February 2005.
… it spread widely and rapidly to many parts of the world, including Africa. Many Africans are proud that the … was accentuated by the legacy of colonialism,…
BiographyPravin Jamnadas Gordhan
… never be truly understood and appreciated by millions of South Africans. For those of us who have had the privilege to … was born in Durban , Natal (now…
BiographyRay Berman
… Born and bred in Johannesburg, Ray Berman left South Africa in 1966 to go into voluntary exile in Swaziland and … in 1990 as well as the Pioneer television…
The Industrial Workers of Africa, 1917-1921 by Bikisha Media Collective
… of four years of the revolutionary multi-racial union in South Africa, the Industrial Workers of Africa, and the … of the vast new Witwatersrand complex from…