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Coloured by History, Shaped by Place - New perspectives on Coloured Identities in Cape Town
… : Kwela books and SAHO Edited : Zimitri Erasmus Soft cover : ISBN 0-7957-0136-5 Who is black in South Africa …
After Apartheid – Culture in the New South Africa Vol. 2
… book and SAHO Edited : Robert Kriger & Adebe Zegeye Soft cover : ISBN 0-7957-0134-9 …
After Apartheid - Social Identities in the New South Africa Vol. 1
… and Abebe Zegeye. Publishers : Kwela book and SAHO Soft cover : ISBN 0-7957-0133-0 …
EventMakapane’s Cave is under siege
… and bullets. Paul Kruger slipped into the cave under cover of darkness and urged them to leave the cave, assuring …
BiographyHannah Margaret Stanton
Hannah Margaret Stanton was born on 30 November 1913, Teddington, Middlesex, England. In 1956 she went out to visit her brother, Fr Tom Stanton CR, in South…
BiographyMeshach Pelem
Meshach Pelem was born in Mxumbu near King William's Town in 1859 and studied at Healdtown, where he qualified as a primary school teacher. After teaching in…
BiographyJohn Hodgkiss
John Hodgkiss was born on 25 September 1966 in Johannesburg. He studied fine art Rhodes University. Here he also studied under the renowned photographer Obie…
BiographyHonorine Margaret Withers
Honorine Margaret (Mabel) Withers was born in 1870 in London, England. Mabel Withers studied at the RCA and exhibited in London before coming to South Africa…
BiographyJames “Sofasonke” Mpanza
James "Sofasonke" Mpanza was born in 1889. Mpanza was founder and leader from the mid-1940s of the Sofasonke Party of Orlando township, Johannesburg, and a…
BiographyHenry Burton
Early Life Henry Burton was born on 2 June 1866 in Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa and went to school at St Andrews in Grahamstown, Eastern Cape. He…
ArticleTransport on land
… to transport people. About 4 000 years ago people began to cover their wagons with leather or cloth. This protected the … grapnel, wheel chains, tins of…
BiographyAnton Muziwakhe Lembede
On 21 March 1914, Lembede was born into a peasant family living on the farm in Eston in Natal. He was baptised as an Anglican. His father, Mbazwana Martin was…
BiographyOupa Joshua Gqozo
Joshua Oupa Gqozo was born in Kroonstad on 10 March 1952. He is the son of Anna and Fikile Joel Gqozo. His father was a skilled labourer and religious minister…
BiographyFreda Levson
Freda Levson was born on 21 November 1911 in Pretoria, South Africa. Her father was a prominent physician in Johannesburg. She was educated in England from the…
BiographyJürgen Schadeberg
Jurgen Schadeberg was born in Berlin, Germany on 18 March 1931. He was raised by his mother, Rosemarie, the only child in a single-parent family of limited…
BiographyEnoch Mgijima
When government police ordered Mgijima's followers to remove their settlement from crown lands, they resisted and police opened fire, killing approximately 200…
BiographyJohnson Phillip Mlambo
Johnson Mlambo was born in Johannesburg on 22 February 1940. He did his secondary school education at Kilnerton. After completing his studies, he worked at…
ArchiveStaffrider Vol.5 No.2 1982
… Lesley Lawson; Kevin Humphrey; Paul Weinberg. Front cover photograph: Jeeva Rajgopaul …
EventWalter Sisulu and others are arrested for attending a party
… were arrested after attending a party that was used as a cover up for a political meeting at the house of Lillian …
EventPoqo members arrested
… returned to their homes with the police, after taking cover in the hills for fear of being attacked by Poqo …
EventPretoria disputes compensation for Gaborone raid
… Botswana demanded that the South Africa government should cover the cost of reconstructing destroyed buildings and pay …
BiographyHerbert Isaac Ernest Dhlomo
Herbert Isaac Ernest Dhlomo was born in Edendale, Natal on February 26th, 1903. He was the second son to Ezra and Sardinia Dhlomo. Ezra came from a line of…
ArticleHistory Grade 10 - Topic 6 Glossary
A map representing the ‘new’ Union of South Africa of 1956 (The British Cape Colony and the two Boer Republics: The Transvaal and the Orange Free State). …
EventThe Harms Commission officially restricts investigations into South African security force
… it was perceived as a classic example of a controlled cover-up, particularly by powerless victims who had had bad …
BiographySamir Amin
Samir Amin was a prominent Egyptian-French Marxist thinker. His work on capitalism, colonialism and (under)development was one of the most important…
BiographyVuyani “The Beast” Bungu
Vuyani Bungu was born on 26 February 1967 in Mdantsane, Eastern Cape, South Africa. He attended the local primary and high school before dropping out at grade…
BiographyArthur William Blaxall
Arthur William Blaxall was born in 1891 in Britain. He was a clergyman who was convicted of aiding the African National Congress (ANC) and the Pan Africanist…
BiographyJonathan Neil Rhodes
Jonathan Neil Rhodes, better known as Jonty, was born in Pietermaritzburg, KwaZulu-Natal on 27 July 1969. He grew up in the picturesque Pietermaritzburg town…
BiographyChris van Wyk
Chris van Wyk was born at Chris Hani Baragwanath Hospital, Soweto, Johannesburg in 1957 and grew up in Newclare, before moving to Riverlea, a poor suburb…
BiographyZainunnisa “Cissie” Gool
Zainunnisa “Cissie” Gool was born in Cape Town in 1897. One of South Africa's most popular and renowned female political leaders, her father was the prominent…