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BiographyNtwaesele “Fish” Keitseng
… a mineworker and became one of the original members of the African Mineworkers' Union led by J.B. Marks .In 1949, he … where he became a factory worker. He…
PlaceInxuba Yethemba Local Municipality, Eastern Cape
… with the Kwanonzame Lusaka and Midros Communities. The two Urban centres of Cradock and Middelburg are fairly similar, … former previously disadvantaged…
Archive2009 - President Zuma, State of the Nation Address, 3 June 2009 (After National Elections)
… other leaders of the public service; President of the Pan African Parliament, Honourable Idriss Endele Moussa, Your … public transport including the bus…
BiographyKippie Jeremiah Moeketsi
… in the jazz industry by playing with other great South African jazz musicians such as Abdullah Ibrahim, Jonas … that is, drowning his talent in drinking…
BiographyCyprian Mpho Shilakoe
… Denmark; Italy; USA 1972: University of California, USA (African Art). Goodman Gallery (SA Graphics 1972). 1973: … Drawings). Awards: 1972: University of…
BiographyNyiko Floyd Shivambu
… elected to the Student Representative body and joined the African National Congress Youth League . He is currently a … University of the Witwatersrand…
Article1994 Cabinet
… Home Affairs Chief Mangosuthu Buthelezi Penuel Maduna Housing Joe Slovo Justice Dullah Omar Chris Fismer ; from …
ArticleSS Mendi
… Parliament that Britain had requested that the South African Native Labour Contingent provide 10 000 men to work … built in Glasgow and in 1905 registered to…
BiographyPresident Seretse Khama
… economy, administration and relations with other Black African states were repaired and developed. During his time … In his last years he played an important…
BiographyMannie Manim
… Since then he has lit and produced all the first South African productions of Fugard's plays in South Africa. He … Contribution to Theatre in South Africa,…
BiographyFreda Levson
… In 1952, Freda became involved in the launch of the African National Congress (ANC) and the South African Indian Congress's "defiance campaign against…
BiographyReginald (Reggie) September
… 1953 he became one of the principal founders of the South African Coloured Peoples Organisation (SACPO), which became … while on bail, he was ordered by the…
ArticleuMkhonto weSizwe (MK)
… Umkhonto weSizwe (MK) was launched as an armed wing of the African National Congress (ANC). The formation of the MK … successes of the Defiance Campaign of…
Address to the Botswana National Assembly, Gaborone, 11 March 2003
… period of our common history. In January 1985, a South African journal, "Indicator South Africa", carried a story of … ideological spectrum, and the role of…
Contact, conflict and dispossession on the Cape eastern or northern frontiers in the nineteenth century
… ships carrying these settlers landed at Algoa Bay. Each family was given a small piece of farm land to grow crops. … they are now known, left the Cape and…
State of the Nation Address by His Excellency Jacob G Zuma on the occasion of the Joint Sitting of Parliament, Cape Town, 12 February 2015
… members of the judiciary, The Vice President of the Pan African Parliament, HE Mr Roger Nkondo Dang, The Speaker of … (32) settlements are being upgraded and…
Archive2015 - President Zuma, State of the Nation Address, 12 February 2015
… members of the judiciary, The Vice President of the Pan African Parliament, HE Mr Roger Nkondo Dang, The Speaker of … (32) settlements are being upgraded and…
Article2016 in Review
… Summit of the Heads of State and Government of the African Union (AU) in Addis Ababa takes place. - FEBRUARY - … Finance Minister Mcebisi Jonas claims that…
Our Souls dwelt in the House of Tomorrow: The student Committee of 81 by Nicky van Driel
… on 19 April 1980, high school and tertiary students in the African, Coloured and Indian areas of the Western Cape embarked on a class boycott. This ……
ArchiveResisting apartheid through pen and paper by Richard Rive, 05 March 2018
… that yielded the liberation of the non-White South African population. Someone that has heard of Nelson Mandela … was marked by marginalization both in…
BiographyJohn Watt (Jack) Grossert
… he was Organiser of Arts and Crafts in Natal for the African Schools of the Natal Education Department; from 1954-62 he was an Inspector of Arts and Crafts…
BiographyHeinrich Egersdorfer
… at his trade in England. In 1884 he founded The South African Illustrated News in Cape Town with a few partners. … T he Cape Argus Weekly Edition supplement…
BiographyBonakele Milner Ntsangani
… He was an accomplished musician. Ntsangani joined the African National Congress (ANC) in the mid-1940s and joined the South African Communist Party at an…
BiographyJonas Mosa Gwangwa
… become a composer of note and became the first black South African to release an album. Gwangwa gained popularity in … Music. Gwangwa spent ten years as…
BiographyZachius Botlhoko Molete
… 1949 he met A. P. Mda at the annual conference of the African National Congress (ANC), and throughout the rest of … the PAC at the December 1960…
BiographyOscar Mpetha
… worker. In the late 1940s he helped to organise the African Food and Canning Workers' Union and in 1951 became its general secretary. He joined the African…
BiographyAlbert Nzula
… secretary, with Edward Roux , of the short-lived League of African Rights, a Communist initiated organisation aimed in part at eclipsing the more…
BiographyBartholomew Hlapane
… Free State. Hlapane was a factory worker. A traitor to the African National Congress (ANC)and the South … in Johannesburg in 1948. He played an active part…
BiographyElize Botha
… matters to the Afrikaans programme series for the South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) through the years. … woman to take up the vice-chair position…
BiographyArthur David Bensusan
… at Witwatersrand University (Wits). He joined the South African Air Force at the outbreak of World War II and served … the SA College of Medicine), and…