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BiographyMosima Gabriel (Tokyo) Sexwale
Tokyo Sexwale was born in Orlando West, Johannesburg as the third of six children of Godlieve and Frank Sexwale. He grew up amid the turmoil of the Black…
BiographyDr James Sebe Moroka
Dr. James Sebe Moroka was the great grandson of Chief Moroka I of the Barolong, from Thaba Nchu in the then Orange Free State. Moroka was born on 16 March…
Sandi Smit
Born in 1962, Sandy Smit was an ECC Media Committee member, Jodac member and Afrapix photographer. On the 15th of June, under the emergency regulations, Smit…
The new Labour Appeal Court delivers its first ruling, overriding an unfair labour practise ruling against Ergo in November 198
… South African Institute of Race Relations. (1989). Race Relations Survey 1988/89 , Johannesburg: South …
Extracts of a document written by Nelson Mandela in anticipation of a meeting with President P.W. Botha in the beginning of 198
BiographyA. B. Nogoya
Born 1925. Factory worker. Joined African National Congress in 1949 and during the Defiance Campaign led a batch of 40 volunteers to defy apartheid regulations…
BiographyNarainsamy Pillay
Narainsamy Pillay, the brother of Veerammal Naidoo, was jailed in November and December 1908 for brief terms with hard labour due to hawking without a…
BiographyGeorge Gangen Ponnen
Gangen George Ponnen was born on 1 June 1913 in the district of Rooikopjes near Durban, in the then Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal). His father Ponnen, born in…
BiographyAndries (General China) Chamile
Born in 1900, Johannesburg Chamile worked as a labourer. He was a member of the Newclare branch of African National Congress which he joined during the…
ArticleAfrica: Colonialism, Arts, Protest & Independence
… agreeing to end South African aid to rebels in Mozambique 1989 Ban on political activity lifted in Nigeria; two …
Bambatha Rebellion 1906 bibliography
… References Gillings, K.G. (1989). "The Bambata rebellion of 1906: Nkandla operations and …
BiographyGary Jim Player
Please note: This biography is a modified extract from the following source: Laubscher, L. (1999) “Gary Player” from They Shaped our Century: The Most…
ArticleRobert Mcbride timeline
1928 December 26, Derrick John McBride, Robert McBride's father, is born in his parent's home in Rockey Street, Johannesburg. He is the darkest complexioned…
EventSandra Smith is the last woman to be executed in South Africa
… at a time. Out of nearly 3 000 hangings between 1959 and 1989, only 14 were women. Of the 14, most were executed for … Smith-South Africa”, Capital…
EventThe Trojan Horse Massacre
… ended in the acquittal of the accused men in December 1989. …
BiographySamir Amin
Samir Amin was a prominent Egyptian-French Marxist thinker. His work on capitalism, colonialism and (under)development was one of the most important…
BiographyArthur William Blaxall
Arthur William Blaxall was born in 1891 in Britain. He was a clergyman who was convicted of aiding the African National Congress (ANC) and the Pan Africanist…
BiographyIzak de Villiers
Izak de Villiers was born in Paarl on 30 July 1936. He attended Paarl Gymnasium, a school for which he maintained a lifelong passion. He was also a dominee, a…
Dan Tloome
Born in the Orange Free State, Tloome became involved in trade union work in the 1930s and joined the Communist Party. In 1941 he was chosen vice-president of…
BiographyJonathan Neil Rhodes
Jonathan Neil Rhodes, better known as Jonty, was born in Pietermaritzburg, KwaZulu-Natal on 27 July 1969. He grew up in the picturesque Pietermaritzburg town…
Bennie Bethuel Albert RaKhoapa Khoapa
Bennie Bethuel Albert RaKhoapa Khoapa was born in 1937,he grew up in Matatiela in the Transkei,He graduated from Adama College in 1956,and attended Jan Hofmeyr…
BiographyGovan Mbeki
Govan Mbeki (Oom Gov) joined the South African Communist Party (SACP) in the 1950's and remained a communist and a firm believer in the superior morality of…
BiographyAlbert Nzula
Albert Nzula was born in Rouxville, in the Orange Free State in 1905. He received his formal education at Bensonvale in Herschel and at Lovedale, where he…
BiographyAdams Farid Ahmed
Born in 30 November 1933, in India he came to South Africa with his family in June 1935. Adams joined South African Indian Congress (SAIC) and the South…
BiographyBartholomew Hlapane
Bartholomew Moru Hlapane was born in 1918 in in the Ficksburg distric of the Orange Free State. Hlapane was a factory worker. A traitor to the African…
BiographyNicholas Hlobo
Born in 1975 in Cape Town, Nicholas Hlobo grew up in a Xhosa family and attended university at the former Technikon Witwatersrand. Though originally planning…
BiographyChris van Wyk
Chris van Wyk was born at Chris Hani Baragwanath Hospital, Soweto, Johannesburg in 1957 and grew up in Newclare, before moving to Riverlea, a poor suburb…
Chapter 2: The Nature and Character of Vigilantes in Kwazulu-Natal
… region. Between December 1988 and February 1989, incidents of politically linked violence by the IFP, … Plasket, Sub-contracting the dirty work, Acta…
BiographyPetros Sipho Sibusiso Mkhize (Mkize)
… in South Africa by the apartheid government 1961 - 1989," … political-executions-south-africa-apartheid-government-1961-1989 ("Between 1961 and 1989, about…
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…