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BiographyConan Doyle Modiakgotla
… the 1920s he served as secretary of the Orange Free State African National Congress (ANC) and was secretary of the … was elected vice-president of the…
BiographyPhilemon Mathole
… Johannesburg Mathole was a miner and an organiser for the African Mineworkers' Union. He was active in the 1946 … a member of the Moroka Advisory Board. He…
BiographyRobert Cedric Wilcox
… Movement (Non-European Unity Movement), APDUSA (the African People’s Democratic Union of Southern Africa), … build APDUSA. He was also actively involved in…
EventHerero people of South West Africa, now Namibia, begin uprising
… Germans who had escaped several farm attacks flocked to urban areas for protection. By 14 January the violence had spread … out during the 1904 revolt…
Passive Resistance in South Africa by O. R. Tambo - Extract from "Southern Africa in Transition by Davis, John A. and James K. Baker"(Pall Mall Press), London, 1966
… resistance inspired a change of heart in the rulers. The African National Congress (ANC), on the other hand, expressly … reserves were subjected to heavy…
Township Uprising, 1984-1985
… June 1976, Soweto Youth Riots. Picture: Bailey's African History Archives. The UDF took little notice of … by looting and vandalism. Police presence in the…
BiographyLetta Mbulu
… Letta on several world tours. She married a fellow South African musician, Caiphus Semenya , whom she met while … She has been a member of the prestigious…
BiographyFrederick John Harris
… 1962 in the Transvaal, as well as a chairman of the South African Non-Racial Olympic Committee. He was also one of the members of the nearly all-white…
Chapter Two - The year with the ICU: 1921 - 1926
… According to some authors it became "defiantly African." The ICU, on the other hand, had close ties with the … revolution Indeed he was in his element,…
BiographyRaymond (Ray) Chikapa Enock Phiri
… known, was restricted for broadcast by the old South African Broadcasting Corporation. Contrary to the desired … for liberation, for better living standards…
BiographyLeo Marquard
… Union of Students in Britain. On his return to South African, Marquard found work at Grey College in Bloemfontein … college that he established the National…
BiographyBarney Simon
… Barney Simon, South African theatre director (born April 13, 1932, Johannesburg … a long-time force behind the growth of indigenous South African black…
BiographyElias Mathope Motsoaledi
… Party of South Africa (CPSA) in 1945 and then the African National Congress (ANC) in 1948, and the Leather … the CPSA and was replaced by the underground…
BiographyM. N. Bhola
… . She was an organizer of the women's section of the African National Congress (ANC) from the mid-1920s onward in … 1931 Non-European Conference, and was…
BiographyPetrus (Fanie) Stephanus De Villiers
… 1992/93 cricket season he started his career for the South African team, playing in One Day Internationals. In the next … fast-medium bowler. In 1989 and…
BiographySam P. Sesedi
… butcher in Kimberley. An executive member of both the All African Convention and the African National Congress (ANC) in the 1940s, Sesedi … Teacher,…
BiographyJohn S. P. Motloheloa
… in 1938. In the mid-1950s he was acting secretary of the African National Congress (ANC) in the Western Cape. He … chief sales agent for New Age in Cape…
BiographyTiyo Soga
… visit to Scotland in 1857, he became the first black South African to be ordained in an established church. His journal … (as yet unpublished) is an…
ArticleZion Christian Church (ZCC)
… The largest and fastest-growing of the African independent churches in the 1990s is the Zion … 6 million in more than 4,000 parishes, live primarily in urban…
2007 ANC National Policy Conference: Report of the Commission on Economic Transformation, 30 June 2007, Gallagher Estate
… from vibrant and balanced trade with our neighbours, the African continent and the world. A sustainable economy, where … strategic role, by directly…
BiographyFikile Magadledla
… Fikile Magadledla, South African artist and co-founder of the Soweto Art Association, … the late 1970s he explored more mystical topics like African…
BiographyZubeida Jaffer
… Zubeida Jaffer is a journalist who was active in the South African anti-apartheid and the trade union movements. She … from Rhodes University in Grahamstown…
BiographyVictor Mhleli Ntoni
… Abdullah Ibrahim, Ringo Madlingozi, Dondo, the South African Freedom Singers and the Victor Ntoni Big Band, … and was a musical director for productions by…
BiographyEphraim Nkwe
… In the midst of the State of Emergency , the South African Youth Congress (SAYCO) was formed in March 1987 at a … Nkwe was part of a SAYCO delegation that…
BiographySonia Beryl Bunting
… the World Youth Congress in Berlin as a member of a South African delegation that was lead by Ahmed Kathrada . In 1955 … organiser of the World Campaign for…
EventSouth Africa signs agreement with Switzerland to support the Reconstruction and Development Programme (RDP)
… socio-economic inequality. In order to address this, the African National Congress (ANC) along with the Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU) and…
BiographyDilizantaba Mji
… the Transvaal Youth League. In 1952 he was elected to the African National Congress (ANC) national executive committee … internship in the Cape. In 1953 he…
BiographyTrineke Weijdema
… was established in 1976, and decided to focus on the South African, Zimbabwean and Namibian freedom movements. The KZA provided the African National Congress…
BiographyProfessor Raymond Suttner
… 1988 but defied these and travelled to the Organisation of African Unity meeting in 1989 and returned in 1990. Suttner … for South Africa and overseas…
Yusaf Ahmed Cachalia
… by the apartheid government. A leading figure in the South African Indian Congress in the 1940s and 1950s; he was instrumental in bringing about African…