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BiographyMiriam Tlali
… by Pandora Press. As an author Tlali has travelled the world and represented South Africa in several countries. In 1978 she was invited to an … ,[Accessed:…
BiographyGraham Goddard
… 1987, Stevens and Appolis invited him to a meeting of some South African photographers. This meeting was to discuss … works to be exhibited at the Culture in…
BiographyEdward Arthur Roworth
… Edward Roworth was a British born South African artist. Roworth came to South Africa in 1902 with the British forces during the Anglo-Boer war. At the end of…
BiographyErnest Cole
… by his lack of matriculation and by the laws governing South Africa at that time. In terms of these laws Cole was defined … Africa was nurtured. After Drum ,…
ArticleNational Party (NP)
… PACT government in 1924. The NP was the governing party of South Africa from 1948 until 1994, and was disbanded in 2005. … Afrikaners were against South…
BiographyWilfrid Edward Cooper
… of the University of Cape Town National Union of South Africa Students (NUSAS) executive members and in the face of … – and that was what I greatly liked…
BiographySonia Beryl Bunting
… work. After the banning of the Communist Party of South Africa (CPSA) in 1950, she joined the staff of the Guardian … of the Cape Town Peace Council. In 1951…
Article1910-1924: African nationalism and working-class and popular protests
… Botha headed the first government of the new Union of South Africa, with General Jan Smuts as his deputy. Their … against the Land Act but the outbreak of…
Siphiwe Nyanda
… to pursue his science studies through the University of South Africa, but found this difficult through correspondence and … During this time he began working…
ArchiveAppendix 1: Time Line of South African history by Denis Goldberg
… In pre-colonial times South Africa was occupied by Khoisan people in the west and … of the Dutch colony at the Cape during the Napoleonic War. 1834 Britain…
ArticleHeritage and identity of Provinces
… After the Anglo-Boer War, there were six British colonies in South Africa. They were all separate, with their own … gold was discovered in the ZAR. People…
Africa’s photojournalists: The wars are not over by Greg Marinovich (Daily Maverick), 25 June 2013
… War photographers are either sleazy and glamorous, or noble … Silva and Greg Marinovich’s book of the same name about South Africa’s bloody transition to…
BiographyJean Clarice Middleton
… on the door of Jean Middleton's flat in Johannesburg , South Africa, in July 1964, she shredded a document and flushed it … South African Communist Party …
BiographyBhekumuzi Hyacinth Mseleku
… Rejoi ce. Feeling restricted by the apartheid system in South Africa, Mseleku left the country in 1977 and settled in … it. Mseleku used to think of himself…
Capture the Citadel. Broadcast to South Africa on the eighth Anniversary of the Formation of Umkhonto we Sizwe by O. R. Tambo, 16 December 1969
… which meant the birth of a new united African nation in South Africa. The third is the emergence of Umkhonto we Sizwe … people of Mozambique, Angola,…
BiographyLesley Lawson
… grew. After the 1976 student revolt, upon her return to South Africa, she resolved to become actively engaged in the … youth. People’s College was a…
Address by the President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki, to The Joint Sitting of Parliament, Palais Du Parliament, Brazzaville, Republic of Congo, 1 December 2005
… and for the contribution you made to ensure that as South Africans we have the possibility to build a democratic … Ranulf Higden, a Benedictine monk who…
BiographyDr. Percy Yutar
… originally spelled his surname as Yuter before arriving in South Africa. Yutar was South Africa’s first Jewish … South Africa might have found itself in a…
Basetsana Julia, aka “Bassie” Kumalo
… Basetsana Makgalemele, former Miss Soweto and Miss Black South Africa, was crowned Miss SA in 1994. The event is memorable … she was crowned she was already…
BiographyMatthew Nkoana
… 1952 he came to Johannesburg and got a job on the Bantu World, working his way up to political columnist, in which … Dawn"). Threatened with a new prison…
BiographyReverend Allan Aubrey Boesak
… Boesak had expressed increasing dissatisfaction with South Africa's apartheid, a strict form of segregation, … international attention in August of 1982…
Statement at the International Conference on the EEC and South Africa by O. R. Tambo, Dublin, 27 January 1979
… and social emancipation of the oppressed black majority in South Africa, and indeed southern Africa as a whole. This is … that there were only two choices -…
To fully reconcile The Boer War is to fully understand the ‘Black’ Concentration Camps by Peter Dickens (The Observation Post),
… refugeesTo many Afrikaans speaking white people in South Africa the narrative of what in South Africa is called ‘The 2nd Anglo Boer War’ (or just shortened…
BiographyDr Mamphela Aletta Ramphele
… school after she demonstrated against the celebrations of South Africa’s becoming a Republic in 1961. Ramphele also remembers … United States of America (USA…
BiographyMohamed Ismail Dinat
… Transvaal Indian Congress (TIC) and the Communist Party of South Africa (CPSA) . In 1953, at the age of 16, Dinat left school … marrying Ramnie, Dinat was…
BiographyEnver Hassim
… His social contacts included people of the professional world and those of the working class, and he interacted … member of the head committee and the…
ArticleRand Rebellion 1922
… occurred during a period of economic depression following World War I, when mining companies were faced with rising costs and … price of gold.... Build-up to…
To Change the World ! Is Reason Enough ?, London, August, 1995
… Read here how equipment and weapons were smuggled into South Africa and how the movement's 'Technical Committee' … Africa at that time History ended at the…
BiographyIsmail Mahomed
… Street Pretoria on 25 July 1931, a second generation South African of Indian descent and first born child of … of inferiority’ [iii] Mahomed forged ahead to…
BiographyJabulani “Mzala” Nxumalo
… (Ngoye), where he studied law and he was active in the South African Student Organisation (SASO). At university, he … him a marked person. With a number of…