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BiographyNjabulo Simakahle Ndebele
… Witwatersrand. Ndebele joined the English Academy of South Africa in 1991 and has remained a member since then. Ndebele … a Board Member and Chair of the…
ArticleThabo Mbeki (1942 - ) Timeline
… an interest in politics and joins the Society of Young Africa , which is part of the Non-European Unity Movement … in South Africa. It calls for the…
Say It out Loud - The Coloured People and the Franchise, 1906
… consider that the universal use of language in South Africa makes a clear distinction between the two, and I have … Africans an interpretation that will be…
ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 1940-1949
… urban population. 7 July, The Executive Committees of the All African Convention (AAC) and the ANC meet and pass a resolution … growing relationship between…
EventPixley Seme, lawyer, journalist and co-founder of SANNC is born
… formed as a result of Black dissatisfaction with the South Africa Act of 1909, their treatment after the South African … His effort to re-launch his…
BiographyYvonne Mokgoro
… Mokgoro was a judge of the Constitutional Court of South Africa from its inception in 1994 until the end of her 15 … Law and Customary Law at a number of…
ArchivePress release to the Rand Daily Mail
… The Black People's Convention press release, signed by Nkwenkwe Nkomo, National Organiser, states that the convention has been mandated by Black people to…
BiographyPaul Landau
… the publication Popular Politics in the History of South Africa, 1400–1948. The Africa Edition (available in South Africa) is a paperback edition: ISBN 978…
BiographyNoni Jabavu
… and journalists. In 1955 Noni Jabavu returned to South Africa for a three-month stay. She visited her father, … a European, tracing her origins in both…
BiographyMolly Wolton
… Molly Selikowitz in Lithuania in 1906, she came to South Africa as an immigrant in 1919. Petite, excitable, forceful, … they became prime movers in the…
BiographyJacob “Dancing Shoes” Morake
… on his idol, Muhammad Ali. According to reports, he won all but one of his 42 amateur bouts. He became known as … for Mitchell. Chip Wilson, the boxing…
BiographyDieter 'Felix' Gerhardt
… claims direct involvement in aspects of Israeli and South Africa’s military cooperation, using this position in 1975 to … naval dockyard. In this position,…
BiographyJotello Festiri Soga
… , who was from Scotland, and Reverend Tiyo Soga , South Africa’s first Black ordained Presbyterian clergyman and an … medal for his studies in botany. Upon…
BiographyFort Calata
… Four) drove to Port Elizabeth to attend a UDF meeting. All of them did not return to Cradock. The police set up a … funeral attended by thousands of people…
BiographyGerald Patrick Kearney
… Committee meeting in Durban in the early 1980s. With all the violence associated with the conflict in Natal (now … And these guys were really laying it on…
BiographyTito Mboweni
… and professional appointments Mboweni returned to South Africa in the 1990s and was the was Deputy Head of the … in the first democratic cabinet of the…
Statement at the Freedom Rally Organised by the Irish Anti-Apartheid Movement by O. R. Tambo, Dublin, 26 January 1979
… Sizwe (Spear of the Nation), inside and outside of South Africa, the workers, peasants, students and indeed all of the struggling people of our country. We…
BiographyCynthia Shange
… Miss Natal, which qualified her to enter the Miss South Africa competition for Black beauty queens. Shange won the Miss Black South Africa title and that…
ArticleYouth and the National Liberation Struggle
… Black people. In the 1920s, the Communist Party of South Africa (CPSA) already had a youth wing. Young people took … and early in the 20th century were made…
BiographyKerr Alexander
… College (now the University of Fort Hare) in Alice, South Africa. Kerr and his new bride, Mary Robertson McBride, left for South Africa on 2 October 1915…
BiographySelloane Ethel Leisa
… (FEDSAW) , an organisation which aimed to unite women from all walks of life regardless of race or political … Desmond and Leah Tutu Legacy Foundation in…
Say It out Loud - The 1909 Presidential Address, Cape Town, 13th April 1909
… that he meant everyone who was a British subject in South Africa, and who was not a European. (Cheers). He must ask … movement towards a Union of British…
BiographyZola Budd
… was born on 26 May 1966 in Bloemfontein, Free State, South Africa. Budd burst into national prominence in 1983. In 1984 … record. As this performance took…
Louis Charles George 'Loet' Douwes-Dekker
… concentration camp as a child before moving to South Africa.He attended Durban High School,graduated from the … in 1961,completed an honors degree at…
BiographyJeevenundhan (Jeeva) Rajgopaul
… on Chatsworth, the largest Indian township in South Africa. Rajgopaul was also a member of Afrapix. He … has given photographic workshops in many centres in…
BiographyEnos Molapo Makhubedu
… From 1991 to 1998 Makhubedu headed Unisa’s Arts for All in Skinner Street, Pretoria. Prior to Makhubedu’s first …
BiographyKuben Naidoo
… court in Johannesburg calling for the release of all detainees. It quoted him as proclaiming: “I feel proud to …
BiographyBreyten Breytenbach
… in 1958. His opposition to apartheid saw him leave South Africa for Paris in 1960. In 1962 he married Yolande Ngo Thi … writers. When Breytenbach returned…
BiographyJunaid Ahmed
… was born in Durban , Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal ) South Africa in 1959. He attended Southlands Secondary School in … (now UKZN), he began acting and producing…
BiographyNthato Harrison Motlana
… internal resistance that led to the liberation of South Africa, and then co-founded and built up the black empowerment company New Africa Investments (Nail),…