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BiographyHannah Margaret Stanton
… Hannah Margaret Stanton was born on 30 November 1913, Teddington, Middlesex, England. In 1956 … mission in Lady Selborne, then a mixed black township on the…
Chapter 12 - Blind alley of guerrillaism
… people to make sure that this campaign is conducted in a spirit of absolute non-violence," stated Sobukwe at the start … taken place on the Rand. Many…
BiographyValiamma Munuswami Mudaliar
… in the last phases of Gandhi ’s Satyagraha in 1913. On 29 October Mudaliar and her mother joined other women who went on a march to inform others of the…
BiographyGraça Simbine Machel
… Graça Simbine Machel was born on 17 October 1945, in Gaza, Mozambique , the last in a … world. Following President Machel’s death in a plane crash on 19…
BiographyMewa Ramgobin
… Mewalal “Mewa” Ramgobin was born on 10 November 1932 in Inanda, Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal). His … establishment of a clinic, museum, the running of a school…
Passive Resistance in South Africa by O. R. Tambo - Extract from "Southern Africa in Transition by Davis, John A. and James K. Baker"(Pall Mall Press), London, 1966
… heart in the rulers. The African National Congress (ANC), on the other hand, expressly rejected any concepts and … Malan's Nationalist Party seized…
EventSipho Malaza allegedly dies in detention
… A Black high school student, Sipho Malaza, presumably died on this day thirty years ago while in Security Police … suicide by hanging in the Krugersdorp…
Bibliographical note and further reading
… Natal (Cape Town, 1957). Published and unpublished works on the indentured Indians are not numerous. The researcher … Evolution of the Policy Towards the…
“Message to Those Staying At Home”: Joint Statement by Dr G. M. Naicker and Chief Albert J. Luthuli, April 1958
… to work, they should offer no resistance, in the true spirit of non-violence. 3. People must stay at their homes … Nurses, doctors and those employed in…
ArchiveApartheid Super Spy, Craig Williamson’s Trails of Death and Destruction: The Scandinavian Connection, (Responses to recent exposures in Jyllands Posten) by Prithiraj Dullay
… October 1977 morning that they came. Ironically, they came on the morning of the Hindu festival of lights called Diwali, … to ask if Erikssen placed value on…
56. The Cape Town Agreement is welcomed
… it was prepared 'to meet this friendly and tolerant spirit' of the Government. In the following document, … with our Congress resolution a deputation waited…
BiographySamir Amin
… was a prominent Egyptian-French Marxist thinker. His work on capitalism, colonialism and (under)development was one of … politically. He joined the French…
ArticleSita’s story
… IV when the war really came to North Africa and in our lives. My teacher looked very sad. One teacher’s husband had … Sanskrit, the Gita and to develop an…
BiographyChristopher Ndodebandla Dlamini
… Chris Dlamini was born in Benoni, Transvaal, on 10 October 1944, one of the five children of Anna and … Dlamini's 16-year-old brother to return to Swaziland…
Freedom In Our Life Time - Religion and Churches
… But today there is a great danger looming large on the far-off horizon. A hundred and one political parties … past. It may be stated also that an attack on…
BiographyMartha Helena Cillie
… Martha Helena Cillié was born on 22 April 1866 in Wellington (SA). She was the daughter of … of fruit cultivation in South Africa. Cillié grew up on the farm…
PlaceStellenberg, Stellenberg Avenue, Kenilworth
… transferred to his youngest son, Frans van der Stel, on extremely favourable terms. Senior Officials of the Dutch … Women, made in 1996. She lived in the…
BiographyJean Powell
… UN(D) and at the Technikon Natal. She has given workshops on art in Mozambique and in KZN. From 1972 she worked in … enamel and in stained glass and acid…
ArticleThe National Coat of Arms
… endorsed by the Coat of Arms. Your smallest coin has it on one of its sides. When away from the country seeing a plaque of it on the embassy signals a home…
ArchiveOmar Badsha: Recording the roles of the ordinary by Niren Tolsi (Mail and Guardian), 17 September 2020
… by the familiar sense of Badsha’s effervescent activist spirit; one that embraces struggles that are continuously … challenged. But the news is not good: …
EventMaude Francis Eyston Sumner, SA painter, is born
… On 16 September 1902 Maude Francis Eyston Sumner, SA painter, … She is well known as a painter of landscapes and still lives. Her paintings are sought after…
EventDavid Malebane, a student at the Tompi Seleka Agricultural College in the Limpopo, shoots three lecturers before shooting himself
… results showing that he had failed again he was enraged. On 15 January 1999, he stormed into the school with a gun … Police later caught up with him near…
BiographyRobert Cedric Wilcox
… Africa), political prisoner, incarcerated for terrorism on Robben Island for six years. After his release from Robben … He was also actively involved in the…
BiographyMizream Maseko
… (also documented as Mizraim, Mizriam, Mizram) was born on 10 June 1927. Maseko began his career as a house painter … he painted and took up painting designs…
BiographyEbrahim Ismail Asvat
… (BIA) and Secretary of its Johannesburg branch. On 1 February 1909, he was elected Acting Chairman of BIA … in November 1908 for hawking without licence;…
BiographyAndries Wilhelmus Jacobus Pretorius
… Andries Wilhelmus Jacobus Pretorius was born on 27 November 1798 near Graaff-Reinet in the Cape Colony. … interested in the planning of the Great Trek and…
BiographyMokgadi Caster Semenya
… Mokgadi Caster Semenya was born on 7 January 1991 to her parents Dorus and Jacob Semenya. She … Semenya attended Nthema Secondary School and later went on to…
BiographyJoseph Masobila Mdluli
… in the Natal midlands. After obtaining information on the Durban network they added Mdluli as a co-conspirator moved to arrest him. On 18 March 1976, members…
BiographyElijah Barayi
… Barayi was born in Lingelihle, (Cradock ) Eastern Cape, on 15th of June in 1930. He was one of eight children of … Carltonville and in 1976 he became a…
ArchiveAll That Glitters - What is industrialisation? by Emilia Potenza
… of the last century, industrialisation has affected the lives of everybody living in Southern Africa shaping the … in 1867 followed in 1886 by the discovery…