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BiographySimon Nkoli
… joined his first resistance group; the Congress of South African Students or COSAS. He soon became the secretary for … would become one of the longest…
Albertina Sisulu, Freedom Fighter
… national President of the multi-racial Federation of South African Women. Born 70 years ago, in Cofimvaba in the … a member of the executive of the…
Resistance Photography and Mobilization of the Resistance, 1946-1976
… Man," compiled for the Museum of Modern Art in New York in 1955. Magubane says in an interview: In 1956 when the "Family … foreign influence on resistance…
BiographyNowongile Cynthia Molo
… Organisation, a structure which later evolved into the African National Congress (ANC) Women’s League in the …
BiographyDavid Patrick Russell
… Njongonkulu Ndungane, he was chairperson of the Southern African Anglican Theological Commission and Dean of the …
BiographyWinston Field
… His time in office also saw the dissolution of the Central African Federation on 31 December 1963, after which Northern …
BiographyBoas Moiloa
… He was accused of being a member and agent of the African National Congress (ANC) who mobilised funds for …
BiographyAlex Tikana
… held that Tikana’s banishment would erode the ‘Congress’ [ African National Congress (ANC)] influence in Cala. An order …
BiographyAbraham Mogale
… as a judicial officer.’ George Bizos’ (the famous South African advocate ) autobiography refers to a clerkin the NC’s …
Damon – The Malabar Slave (Historic Alleys)
… of his humble abode that he got caught by the Kaffers (African natives or Hottentots – they were termed Kaffers by … Summary of numbers -ES Reddy in his…
BiographyNongqawuse
… Colony and Its Frontier Zones, C. 1806-70”, The Journal of African History Volume 37, Issue 3 (1996): 365 ↵ [26] Ibid, … perspective” in Nomboniso Gasa (ed.)…
BiographyJudge Jan Hendrik Steyn
… Villiers had powerful credentials: he had led the South African legal team in the World Court case over Namibia in … iron structures outside Cape Town]…
BiographyMotlotlehi – His Majesty King Constantine Bereng Seeiso Moshoeshoe II of Lesotho
… 1966. His Majesty has addressed the then Organisation of African Unity (OAU – now known as the African Union - AU) and the United Nations Security Council ……
BiographyDr Somalingum (Leslie) Ponnusamy
… this time that Dr Ponnusamy encountered members of the African National Congress (ANC). This coupled with early … in India. He was active in promoting the…
Janet Burnside Soga
… College in Edinburgh and became the first ever South African to qualify as a veterinary surgeon. On his return to … Sonderling, N.E. (ed.) New Dictionary of…
BiographyDean Hutton
… media platform founded as a response to the South African media’s unchecked and unacknowledged race, gender and …
BiographyKrotoa (Eva)
… . In 1662 Krotoa became the first indigenous Southern African to be baptised a Christian, and the Dutch settlers …
BiographyDr Hoosen Mia Haffejee
… protect our destiny from the cruel injustice of the South African Security Police. I hope our prayers are answered …
ArticleCape Town Timeline 1300-1997
… São Rafael and São Gabriel . They sail along the southern African coast on the way to India. They put foot on South … (ordinance or statute) restricting the…
ArticleLiberation history Timeline 1960-1969
… Sweden and other countries and put pressure on the South African government to dismantle apartheid. With the … spun into the following decade, the 1970s…
ArticleAfrica Timeline
… markets and agriculture, most notably the domestication of African rice. The town is also known as being one of the … Settlers from southeast Asia and later,…
ArticleIndian South Africans timeline 1960-1969
… his people for thirty pieces of silver.' 24 March, South African Prime Minister H F Verwoerd banned public meetings. … and friend Chief Albert Luthuli joined…
History of Muslims in South Africa: 1960 - 1969 by Ebrahim Mahomed Mahida
… Mahomed Mahida 1960 Muslim Population According to South African Government statistics the Muslim population of South … Because of the Muslim News' stand…
Chapter VI - HEAR US!
… and was also there on behalf of the Federation of South African Women, though not as an official representative. That … usually themselves offshoots of the…
Address by President Nelson Mandela to the workshop for Human Rights Education Durban, 21 September 1994
… Mr. Chairman, Members of the African Commission on Human and Peoples Rights, Judges of the … the organisers of this conference. We note that this is an…
Johannesburg Timeline 1800-1991
… locomotive reverses into two railway trucks containing 1955 tons of dynamite on a siding in Braamfontein. The … in the General Strike of 1922. 1912 8 January…
Luke Mazwembe
… Western Province Workers Advice Bureau and of the South African Student Association,was detained under section 22 of … Behind Closed Doors. By Shireen Motala…
BiographyJohn Smith Moffat
… numerous concessions negotiated by Rhodes’ British South African Company (BSAC). After the Pioneer Column provoked …
Address to the Commonwealth Club, World Affairs Council and US/SA Business Council Conference, 24 May 2000
… the stock market and banking collapses that swept the East Asian economies, is one of the many illustrations of this … problems in some developing countries…
PlaceFairview Wine and Cheese Estate, near Paarl
… the wine all over the Country by means of the South African Railway Service! Upon his death in 1955, he bequeathed the wine Farm to each of his two sons, in …