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The War
… Towards the end of the war there were more than 40 camps housing 116 000 white women and children, with another 60 camps housing 115 000 black people. These…
Address To The Nation On National Women’s Day, 9 August 1999
… of women in our country, particularly in the rural areas and the townships, have borne the brunt of poverty and … of literacy and inequitable access to…
Archive2010 - President Zuma, State of the Nation Address, 11 February 2010
… international Guests especially the Chairperson of the African Union Commission, Mr Jean Ping; Former political … freedom. We extend a special welcome to the…
PlaceFramesby, Port Elizabeth
… species of bony fish, as well as two larger tanks housing sharks and stingrays. SNAKE PARK A wide variety of … such as many which was enjoyed by English…
EventEllen Phyllis Hellmann, social anthropologist and executive member of the SAIRR, dies in Johannesburg
… degree Hellman decided to do research into the lives of urban African slum dwellers and it was this exposure to their … depicted as the incubator of early…
BiographyDr Mamphela Aletta Ramphele
… Mandela Medical School). Ramphele won the 1968 South African Jewish Women’s Association Scholarship and the Sir … her studies at medical school She worked…
BiographyDr. Walter Benson Rubusana
… of religion lent their moral authority to enlisting African labourers, wagon drivers, scouts and hundreds of … and actively involved in proselytising its…
BiographyElza Miles (Botha)
… may account for her subsequent research into the lives of African artists in South Africa. When the late Sipho Sepamla … norms and Art History. Ever since…
BiographyMazisi Raymond Kunene
… he taught for 19 years. He eventually became Professor of African Languages and Literature at that campus, a, post that … Tambo and Robert Resha . After…
BiographyAntjie Krog
… Heinemann and a book, Country of my Skull , on the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission published by … journalism, the Allan Paton award for…
BiographyThelma Gutsche
… 1950 Gutsche also wrote a series of articles on the South African film industry for the Cape Times. While living in … During World War II , Gutsche was hired…
BiographyEphraim Mojalefa Ngatane
… work epitomizes the period where the first professional African Artists, mainly concerned with the social conditions … with tuberculosis at the Charles…
BiographyJohnstone Mfanafuthi Makhathini
… his time to organizing the people as an activist of the African National Congress (ANC). He became a key youth … against apartheid in the UN and the…
Nozizwe Charlotte Madlala-Routledge
… literate adults. In 1979, Madlala-Routledge joined the African National Congress (ANC) underground. In 1983, she … for a year. In 1984, Madlala-Routledge…
BiographyMalcolm Payne
… Payne has attained status as an influential South African artist, and has won several awards. These include … First Prize at New Signatures Competition of…
Document 31 - S.O.Y.A. National Executive Committee, The Maritzburg Conferences and the Tasks of the Immediate Future, 31 May 1959
… demand no "free right to buy the land", where the African peasantry kraaled off in the Land Reserves, is so … both the system of Land Reserves and the so…
Archive2003 - President Mbeki, State of the Nation Address, 14 February 2003
… wrong when we said that this, the 21st century, will be an African Century. However, for us to realise this objective, … which includes hundreds of thousands…
George Montsioa
… of the Supreme Court of South Africa. He is third African Barrister in South Africa. Mr. Montsioa commenced his … black. In 1912 he was appointed recording…
BiographyNkosinathi Christopher ‘Nko’ Mbuyabo
… organizations, Mbuyabo established a branch of the African Congress Youth League (ANCYL) in Welcomewood. He was … his involvement with progressive…
BiographyDaniel Moabi (Dan) Mohapi
… workers under the banner of the Congress of South African Congress of Trade Unions (COSATU). In the late … the Gauteng Provincial Executive Committee of the …
BiographyAri Sitas
… the RDP, ANC, KZN Economic Council, Chris Hani Institute, African Renaissance Development Trust and a plethora of … a significant "southern theorist" and…
BiographyYusuf Cachalia
… on 15 January 1915. A leading figure in the South African Indian Congress (SAIC) in the 1940s and 1950s, who was instrumental in bringing about African…
BiographyWim Botha
… Heaven, purgatory and hell revisited by contemporary African artists at the MMK (Museum für Moderne Kunst), … Donaueschingen, Germany (2014); Imaginary Fact:…
BiographyMohammed Valli Moosa
… and in 1977 was an executive member of the South African Students Organisation (SASO) when it was banned. … role in protests around the formation of the…
BiographyThenjiwe Mtintso
… Gana Makabeni was a trade unionist and a member of the African National Congress (ANC). Mtintso faced financial … At university she became a student…
PlaceBronberg Conservancy, Pretoria
… The Bronberg Conservancy is situated close to the Major Urban Settlements of Gauteng, which forms one of the … Bronberg, make it worthy of protection from…
ArticleDevelopments leading to the New Dispensation
… of the policy of influx control. Besides these, ‘grey areas’ were beginning to emerge, where African, Indian and Coloured people took up residence in…
PlaceCompensation, Settlement near Durban
… of 1969 for the relocation of people from black freehold areas in the Underberg/Himeville Area. That year, 1 400 … were resettled in this Area from black…
BiographyNadine Gordimer
… sent me falling, falling through the surface of the South African way of life,’ Gordimer has said. In the 1980s … being a founder member and patron of the…
Document 50 - Socialist League of Africa , “South Africa: Ten Years of the Stay-at-Home”, International Socialism, 5, Summer 1961
… 5, Summer 1961 [....] In March and April 1960, the African population staged a series of demonstrations, marches … there was an equally remarkable…