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BiographyPhila Portia Ndwandwe
Phila Portia Ndwandwe (also known as Zandile or Zandi) became part of the Natal Machinery of uMkhonto weSizwe (MK) in 1985 under the leadership of Muzi Ngwenya…
ArticleSophiatown Timeline
… protests the 1952 resettlement plans in a memorandum. This document targets the non-consultation of the Government with …
ArticleThe Congress of the People, Kliptown 1955
… drawing on material prepared by the sub-committees. The document that emerged had a rather distinctive poetic style, …
ArticleCongress of the People and the Freedom Charter
… demands so that they could be incorporated in a common document. The document would be accepted at the Congress of the People and …
BiographyNaboth Monyandioe Moreleba Mokgatle
Naboth Monyandioe Moreleba Mokgatle was the eighth and youngest child of Setlhare Hebron Mokgatle, a skilled builder and carpenter, and Salome Mororo-Mokgatle…
BiographyNdazana Nathaniel Nakasa (Nat Nakasa)
Ndazana Nathaniel (Nat) Nakasa was born on 12 May 1937 in Lusikisiki, Eastern Cape. Nakasa was the second of three children of Joseph Nakasa and his wife,…
EventDurban Declaration is published denouncing Thabo Mbeki’s AIDS denialism
… AIDS Conference being held in Durban that year. The document was signed by people with doctorate level … qualifications including 11 Nobel Laureates. Despite…
ArticleGrade 4 - Term 3: Transport through time
… that it is not listed as a requirement in the CAPS document. …
Cecile Mella
… offered her more latitude and independence to travel document and tell people’s stories. Through correspondence …
ArticleNational Initiative for Reconciliation (NIR)
… in 1985 by Michael Cassidy in the wake of the Kairos document which justified armed resistance under the umbrella …
The adoption of the Freedom Charter
… of August 1955 and agreed to recommend the adoption of the document by each respective Congress. A ‘million signature’ …
BiographyMartin Plaut
Martin Plaut was born in Cape Town, South Africa in May 1950. His parents were Erwin Plaut and Faith Plaut. His father was a furniture designer who had a shop…
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…
Vella Pillay
… by adult African males to carry a pass, an official document which designated whether or not they were entitled …
ArticleBalfour Declaration
… of South Africa, but the declaration was not a law, only a document. …
ArticleAfrican Peoples Democratic Union of Southern Africa (APDUSA)
… (NEUM) in January in which, according to the founding document of APDUSA, the national situation was frankly and … Africa became a republic in May 1961. In…
Sadecque Variava
Early life and schooling Sadecque Variava was born on 8 July 1949 in Pietersburg (now Polokwane), Northern Transvaal (now Limpopo), the fourth of seven…
BiographyBheki Cele
Life and Early Career Bhekokwakhe (Bheki) Hamilton Cele was born on 22 April 1952 to Albertina Mtshali and Gillford Cele at uMuzumbe Mission Hospital near…
BiographyWilfrid Edward Cooper
Wilfrid Edward Cooper was born on 22 May 1926 in Observatory, a suburb of Cape Town, Cape Province (now Western Cape Province) and lived in Mowbray until he…
ArchiveSouth Africa’s Radical Tradition, a documentary history, Volume One 1907 - 1950, by Allison Drew
… African Socialists and the radically-divided working class Document 1 - Keir Hardie, "Stoned in South Africa", 1907 Document 2 - Letter from the Cape Labour…
ArchiveSouth Africa’s Radical Tradition, a documentary history, Volume Two 1943 - 1964, by Allison Drew
… Introduction Part 1 - Building The National Movement Document 1 - Harry Snitcher , Unite Against Segregation! Condemn the C.A.C. [1943] Document 2 - Against…
BiographyMoses Jongizizwe Mayekiso
Moses Jongizizwe Mayekiso was born on 21 October 1948 in Askeaton, Cala district, Transkei. He was the eldest of 12 children to Ellen and Betwell Mayekiso. He…
BiographyWolf Kibel
Wolf Kibel was born in Grodzisk, near Warsaw, Poland on 16 December 1903. As a young boy Kibel was preoccupied with carving. His father’s death in 1911 brought…
BiographyJohannes Jane Tane Kekana
Johannes Jane Tane Kekana was born in 1840 in Moletlane, near Zebediela. A chief of the Lebelo clan of the Ndebele and the son of Lebelo Seroto and his wife…
10 YEARS PROJECT
… close Document 18 The Pretoria Minute 6 August 1990 The government … and officials. At the conclusion of the meeting a document, called the Groote Schuur…
South African Constitution 1996
… were first articulated in the ANC's African Claims document of 1943, the Non-European Unity Movements 10 point …
ArticleThe Freedom Charter by Norman Levy
… should effectively participate in the drafting of such a document, the contents of which “will emerge from countless … in “The Call to the Congress of the…
ArticleFederation of Transvaal Women (FEDTRAW)
… Charter. The Women's charter was adopted as a working document for FEDTRAW as the demands of women at the time were …
Cedric Nunn
… Durban in the early eighties, my initial impetus being to document the realities of apartheid that I thought were being …
BiographyDr Hoosen Mia Haffejee
Hoosen Mia Haffejee was born on 6 November 1950. Haffejee grew up in Pietermaritzburg and completed his primary schooling at St. Paul’s School and Marion…