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“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…
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…
EventOver 60 people are killed by RENAMO in Mozambique
… On 28 November 1987 more than 60 people were killed, and … Resistance Movement (RENAMO). The ambush happened on a Saturday on the main road, 32 kilometres…
BiographyCurtis Nkondo
… Curtis Nkondo was born on 1st February 1928 in Louis Trichardt, Northern Transvaal … father, completed high school at La Maria and went on to qualify as a…
BiographyJacob Gedleyihlekisa Zuma
… Gedleyihlekisa Zuma (Msholozi – his praise name) was born on 12 April 1942 at Nkandla in northern Natal (now … to arrest the group. In June 1963, as the…
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…
BiographyAntjie Krog
… Antjie was born on 23 October 1952 on a farm in the Free State . She completed her BA degree … the University of the Orange Freestate and then she went on to…
BiographyThelma Gutsche
… Philosophy and Psychology. After graduating she went on to complete her Master of Arts (M.A.) in Ethics, Logic and … 1937 and 1950 Gutsche also wrote a…
BiographyEric Mtshali
… Republics (USSR) and Cuba to receive military training. On his return Mtshali became Chief of Personnel in MK in … The group crossed the river in three…
BiographySamuel Alfred (Taffy) Long
… with the 29th Division which moved to the Dardanelles on active service. He was transferred to the Arabian desert … Because of his injuries he was discharged…
III - Black Consciousness
… were sent to Robben Island for the rest of their natural lives. Trials in many different parts of the country … the ANC, but sought to generate among the…
BiographyMkhuseli Joseph Kettledas
… the Pan African Congress ( PAC ) in 1961. He was arrested on 8 April 1963 for sabotage and sentenced to ten years in prison. He served his sentence on Robben…
BiographyIsaac ‘Ike’ Osler Horvitch
… Isaac 'Ike' Osler Horvitch was born on 9 October 1920, in Cape Town, South Africa. Ike Horvitch's … and sold the left-wing independent newspaper The Guardian…
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…
BiographyReverend Walker Stanley Gawe
… Walker Stanley Gawe was born in 1899 on 30 November in the Herschel district of the Cape, where … in the Defiance of Unjust Laws Campaign in 1952, and went…
BiographyYetta Barenblatt
… Yetta Barenblatt was born on 24 September 1913, in Dublin, Ireland, to Basna and … to prepare for the Congress of the People, in June 1955. On 5 December…
BiographyJohannes Maisha (Stanza) Bopape
… Stanza Bopape was born on 26 April 1961 in Mamelodi East. He began high school … being a communist and a dangerous influence. Despite being on the run, he…
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…
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…
ArticleYusuf Dadoo Timeline: 1940-1949
… Parliament to hand an Anti-Pass Petition. Acting Premier, Jan Hofmeyr, refuses to see them August, The radicals are … others not only speak about unity but…
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…
A tribute to Indres Naidoo by Glen Moss
… Author: Island In Chains By Prisoner 885/63. Ten Years on Robben Island Although banned and house arrested after his … to Indres, the committee … was set up…
Document 7 - ‘White South Africa.’ Two Voices.” The International, 27 January 1922
… or the black taking his place alongside the white: first on the industrial field, to be followed by the vote and by … capitalists - THE ONLY REAL BLACK MEN?…
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…
ArchiveThe exilic geographies of the South by Benjamin N. Lawrance and Vusumuzi R. Kumalo
… Africa and entered Bechuanaland (present day Botswana) on foot. He was part of a flow of “discontented young men” … London 1959. The formidable list of…
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…
Say It out Loud - Protest against the Women’s Enfranchisement Act, and the Franchise Amendment Bill, 1931
… 2,000 Coloured citizens held in the Cape Town City Hall on the night of April 27 1931, the following resolutions were … enfranchised citizens. JUDGING THE…
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…