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BiographyJ B Marks
… John Beaver (JB) Marks was born on 21 March 1903, Ventersdorp, Western Transvaal (now North … assassination in 1929 when a fascist opened fire on the…
Prehistory of the Rustenburg area
… the region, and Mokgatle unified the Bafokeng and embarked on what would today be called a development programme. He … and the Voortrekkers. He sent men to…
BiographySolwandle Looksmart Khulile Ngudle
… Looksmart Khulile Ngudle was born on 22 May 1922 in KwaZali village, near Alice in the Eastern … local high school, until Standard Six when he left to work…
BiographyMary Agnes Stainbank
… Mary Agnes Stainbank was born in 1899 on the farm Coedmore in Bellair, Durban. She was educated at … discrimination. In spite of such difficulties, she went…
BiographyEvelina de Bruin
… Evelina de Bruin was born on 25 December 1933, and she grew up in the small town of … common purpose . De Bruin appeared in court amongst others on 13…
BiographyEdwin Cameron
… Edwin Cameron was born on 15 February 1953 in Pretoria. He completed his schooling … and Classical Studies before he left for Oxford in 1976, on a coveted…
BiographyDevikarani Priscilla Jana
… Devikarani Priscilla Jana was born on 5 December 1943, in Westville, Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal ), … the University of South Africa (Unisa) [vii] , but went…
BiographyBenny (!Khoisan X) Alexander
… of Estelle and Johann Alexander, a labourer, was born on 4th of March 1955 in Kimberley, where he also grew up. … was released from prison in 1988 ,after a…
BiographyNontsizi (Cizama, Imbongikazi yakwaCizama) Mgqwetho
… wa Bantu between 1920 and 1929. In a poem published on 2 December 1922, lamenting the death of her mother, she … to the King William's Town newspaper Imvo…
BiographyZainab Ebrahim Asvat
… to Durban to be part of the Passive Resistance Campaign . On 13 June 1946, resistance group members set up camp on the plot at the corner of Umbilo Road and…
BiographyNavanethem (Navi) Pillay
… Navanethem (Navi) Pillay was born on 23 September 1941 in Clairwood, Durban, Natal (now … practice and effects of torture and solitary confinement on…
PlaceAlbertynhof, Kimberley
… written a multitude of articles for various journals. In 1948, the University of Pretoria awarded Albertyn with a …
BiographyDr Kwame Nkrumah
… Osagyefo Dr Kwame Nkrumah, born Francis Nwia Kofi Nkrumah on 21 September 1909, was raised in a rural village, Nkoful, … a Catholic mission school in Half…
BiographyKing Sekhukhune
… the Bapedi people were forced to seek employment on white farms, in factories and mines as migrant labourers. … by the simple tactic of establishing his…
First Raymond Mhlaba Annual Memorial Lecture delivered by the President of South Africa Thabo Mbeki, 22 August 2008, Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University
… and Workers, Distinguished Guests, Ladies and Gentlemen: On the day we buried Oom Ray, Raymond Mhlaba, on February 27, … to celebrate a great hero of our…
Book 5: People, Places and Apartheid - Chapter 2 - The Soweto Uprising of June 1976: A Turning Points Event by Phil Bonner
… of race. It was government policy in South Africa from 1948 to 1991. grand apartheid ”” the principles and policies … among pupils and contributing to the…
Chapter 2 - The Soweto Uprising of June 1976: A Turning Points Event
… of race. It was government policy in South Africa from 1948 to 1991. grand apartheid — the principles and policies … among pupils and contributing to the…
BiographyMafolisi Mabiya
… the Eastern Cape. He started working for Lonmin in 2007. On 16 August 2012 Mafolisi was killed at scene 2 after being … death. According to his wife, Phumeza…
PlaceRiviersonderend, Cape Overberg
… farming Village with a peaceful rural atmosphere, situated on the main Garden Route between Cape Town and Mossel Bay on the N2 - 160 km from Cape Town, and…
BiographyJulius Sello Malema
… and Political involvement Julius Sello Malema was born on 3 March 1981, in Seshego, Limpopo, and raised by a single … was officially accepted. He mentioned…
EventFirst enslaved people arrive in Cape Town
… On 28 March 1658 the Dutch East India Company (VOC) ship the … Amersfoort was not a slaver but a merchant vessel. She was on a journey from the Netherlands…
EventSA author, Nadine Gordimer, is born
… most prolific novelists she has written non-fiction on various South African subjects and made TV documentaries, collaborating with her son Hugo Cassirer on…
Document 71 - National Committee for Liberation, Announcement [20 December 1961]
… [20 December 1961] The National Committee announces that on 20 December 1961 it destroyed power lines in Johannesburg. … at the Bantu Administration Tax…
EventA plan designed to fight Italian forces, Operation ‘Agreement’ is executed in Libya
… raid by British, Rhodesian and New Zealand troops on Tobruk, Barce, and Benghazi was planned to destroy … was made up of four simultaneous raids – Agreement…
BiographyTeboho “Tsietsi” Mashinini
… Tsietsi Mashinini was born on 27 January 1957 in Central Western Jabavu, Soweto. … education started at the Amajeli crèche in 1963. He went on to Seoding…
William Nomodi Tshwane
… reported to have been detained with other Soweto students on 25 July 1976 and held at Modderbee prison in … escape.The family was only informed of their son…
BiographyJames “Jobe” Hadebe
… James “Jobe” John Hadebe was born on 29 October 1923 in Frankfort in the Orange Free State. The … of the ANC, in the Transvaal, in the 1950s. Arrested on 5…
PlaceNyanga Township
… a township during the same year. The township is located on the Cape Flats, sixteen kilometres south of Bellville, … one of an additional location at Nyanga…
Message by Albert Luthuli to the Seventh Provincial Conference of the Natal Indian Congress, 5 February 1954, Durban
… to Freedom, "Mayibuye i Afrika" . I am happy and proud on my behalf and on behalf of the African people I have the honour and … successful prosecution of our…
BiographyZweledinga Pallo Jordan
… Pallo Zweledinga Jordan was born on 22 May 1942 in B Location, Kroonstad, in the Orange Free … newspaper produced by the NEUM. He was a diligent scholar. On…