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BiographyNgila Micheal Muendane
… the Middle East, and Western Europe. He returned to South Africa after liberation and served as a member of parliament … is one of the consulting editor of…
EventSouth African Parliament repeals The Separate Amenities Act of 1953
… of the apartheid system of racial segregation in South Africa. The Act enforced segregation of all public … to limit contact between the different races in…
A.I. Kajee His Work for the Southern African Indian Community - Chapter 8
… delegates from India upon the Indian questions in South Africa and to inform delegates of other nations of the … the authorities sought to bring Abdulhaq…
EventSouth African poet Vincent Oliphant is born
Vincent Oliphant, acclaimed South African poet, mathematician and educationist was born in 1954 in Alicedale, a small town near Port Elizabeth in the Eastern…
BiographyPregaluxmi (Pregs) Govender
… held in Beijing, China (for which she co-edited South Africa’s report), Govender argued in a national forum for the … for the human rights of the…
EventSouth African invention lands on the moon
Krugersdorp was the hometown of engineer George Pratley who founded the Pratley research group (PTY) and went on to invent Pratley Putty in the early 1960's…
BiographyWalter Battiss
… English Methodist family in 1906, and became one of South Africa’s first and most important abstract painters. He first …
BiographyRosa Hope
… RA. She was then elected an ARE. In 1935 she visited South Africa, and her former teacher at the Slade, Professor John …
BiographyFrancois Roux
… held at the Rhodes Gallery. In 1967, he moved to South Africa with his wife Margaret and sons Paul and Theunis. They …
BiographyAndreas Vlachakis
… portrait of the country. In 2001 he returned to South Africa and Joined South Photographs as a contributor. He is …
BiographyJohn Nyathi Pokela
… time was the bishop of the Methodist church of Southern Africa. … A documentary History of African Politics in South Africa: 1882-1964, Vol.4 Political…
EventThe African National Congress is found guilty
According to a report published by The Star on this date , the report of the Motsuenyane Commission, published the previous day, confirmed the findings of the…
BiographyLorna Peirson
… born in Beckenham, London. The family emigrated to South Africa in 1927. She obtained a BA(FA) in 1950 from UN(P). From 1941 to 1950 she taught at schools in…
EventSipho Gumede, South African jazz legend, dies
Born in the predominantly Indian community of Cato Manor near Durban, Sipho Gumede started playing music on a homemade guitar. He joined his first band at the…
BiographyJacqueline Daane-van Rensburg
… that he intended to reverse the sporting ties with South Africa. On 18 November 1982 an article appeared in a South … after 44 years. She now lives in Gordon…
The South African Congress of Trade Unions
From the book: My Spirit Is Not Banned by Frances Baard and Barbie Schreiner Anyway all this time I was still working with the Food and Canning Workers'…
BiographyJeanette Carlson
… where she was raised. Carlson did not question the South Africa of her youth, given that she grew up in a privileged … 37 Namibians from the death sentence…
ArchiveSouth African Labour Bulletin Volume 8 Number 8 and Volume 9 Number 1 September/October 1983
… which supports the democratic labour movement in South Africa. It is a forum for analysing, debating and recording …
Statement by Oliver Tambo on South African Raid on Matola, 05 February 1981
… against the people of Mozambique and the people of South Africa, members of the ANC in this city has a lesson for us. … household, every residence occupied…
BiographyKate O’Regan
… served as an honorary professor at the University of South Africa and is currently an honorary professor at the …
BiographyJohannes Henricus Brand
… London in 1875 to consider a federal plan to unify South Africa, he was advised to redress the injury inflicted by the … OFS was regarded as the best…
BiographyStephanie Urdang
… began to feel as if she did not have a place in then-South Africa. At the age of 23, Urdang and her then-fiancé decided … return some time in the future to a…
A.I. Kajee His Work for the Southern African Indian Community - Chapter 6
… to frontier societies. The Indian community in South Africa is remarkably free from them. There are very rare … The Bill aimed at preventing the mixture of…
ArchiveMemorandum of the African National Congress ot the UN Special Committee on Colonialism
… Colonialism, compiled by Tennyson Makiwane. Covers South Africa's colonialist policy, repression, South Africa's new expansionist plan. …
BiographyEric Ngcobo
… in 1961; his work was shown on the 1963 Art - South Africa - Today exhibition at the DAG. He was on the Organising Committee of the 1963 and 1965 Art - South…
BiographyBheki Cele
… in the founding of the National Education Union of South Africa (NEUSA), which sought to reform the educational needs … prisoners. Political Career 1994 -…
EventThe 4th Pan-African Congress is held in New York City, USA
… West Indies, Western Europe, Asia, South America, and from Africa there was Nana Amoah III of the Gold Coast, Thorgie … States' control of Haiti and White…
BiographyMolefi Nathanael Oliphant
… the Treasurer of the then Soccer Association of South Africa (one of the four soccer governing units that later … including the National Olympic Committee of…
EventExtracts from one of South African President Thabo Mbeki’s most stirring speeches
… an African. I am born of the peoples of the continent of Africa ... The dismal shame of poverty, suffering and human … nothing can stop us now! Whatever the…
BiographyYusuf Joe Jacobs
… paternal grandfather was Manan Jamie, who came to South Africa from Indonesia around the 1870s, who worked in the … among others. He was invited to join the…