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PlaceCape Town City Hall, Darling Street
… Town, Thomas Ball, laid the cornerstone of the City Hall on 29 August 1900, but the Hall was only opened in 1905. It … history, and an important moment for…
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…
ArticleSouth Africa’s Academic and Cultural Boycott
… Introduction In 1948 with the election of the National Party and the … been the first international country to appeal to the UN on the basis of how South…
Chapter I - Twenty thousand strong we marched
… justice and security. I shall never forget what I saw on 9 August 1956 ”” thousands of women standing in silence … again. Yet not really empty, for I think…
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…
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…
BiographyKgalema Petrus Motlanthe
… Kgalema Petrus Motlanthe was born on 19 July 1949 at the Boksburg-Benoni Hospital. He grew up … Louisa Mmope Sehole lived in Apex, a squatter camp on Benoni …
BiographyKing Dinuzulu
… of Natal, had imposed a different political arrangement on the Zulu people. He banished Cetshwayo and divided … supporters raiding the homesteads of their…
BiographyProfessor Bernard Magubane
… Professor Bernard Makhosezwe Magubane was born on 26 August 1930 on a farm near Colenso in Natal (now kwaZulu-Natal). He was the son of labour tenants on a…
BiographyPius Nkonzo Langa
… in the eastern Transvaal (now Mpumalanga), South Africa, on 25 March 1939, the second of seven children. In 1957, he … the Supreme Court in Natal. During…
PlaceKruger National Park
… The Kruger National Park was proclaimed on 31 May 1926 under the newly formed National Parks Board of … Albasini most probably inherited his adventurous…
BiographyLetsau Nelson Diale
… Nelson Diale was born on 1st January 1936 at Ga-Masemola in Limpopo where he spent … ANC. Whilst in Parliament he served as a Committee Member on the…
BiographySuliman “Babla” Saloojee
… Suliman "Babla" Saloojee was born on 5 February 1931 in the small town of Belfast in the then … launched by the security police. Babla was detained on the…
BiographyJeffrey Thamsanqa Radebe
… Jeffrey Thamsanqa Radebe was born on 18 February 1953 in Cato Manor, Durban, Natal (now … He enrolled at the University of Zululand to study law. On…
BiographyHilda Bernstein
… the South African Communist Party (CPSA), she was serving on its committee until 1946. Hilda met Lionel (Rusty) … 1946 - the only Communist to be elected to…
The Story of PR Pather, the grand old man of Indian politics in South Africa: Bibliography
… Indian Organisation. To Members of the United Nations on the Treatment of Indians in South Africa. 10 October 1947 … Sources Books and Articles Bagwandeen. D…
BiographyLindiwe Mazibuko
… Lindiwe Mazibuko was born on 9 April 1980 in Swaziland . At the age of six she moved to … of Music at the University of KwaZulu-Natal and then moved on to…
BiographyDavid Perumal
… was the Victoria Street Bridge, which the unit blew up on the evening of 21 March 1962. They prepared the explosives at Babenia’s house. Perumal and Singh…
BiographyZondeni Veronica Sobukwe
… Zondeni Veronica Sobukwe was born on 27 of July 1927 in Hlobane, Natal (now Kwazulu-Natal ), … Sisulu to bring to his attention the plight of the nurses on…
BiographyDJ Ready D (Deon Daniels)
… aka DJ Ready D, was born in District Six, Cape Town on 11 December 1968, before the residents there were forcibly … forced removal. He would hear hip hop for…
Jacob Zungwane Mashabane
… On the 5th of October 1976 Mr Jacob Mashabane, aged 22, a … parents said that he had disappeared from his home on 1st October.They were unaware of his death…
BiographyGertrud Theiler
… and his wife, Emma Sophie Jegge. She was born in Pretoria on 11 September 1897. After matriculating at Pretoria Girls’ … under Prof. R.I. Leiper. She wrote…
Chapter 16. Coloured and Indian Members - Garment Workers in Action by E. S. Sachs
… employed in six factories-the largest being in Pretoria-on the manufacture of garments of the cheapest type. The … Coloured workers soon developed a true and…
ArticleThe 1913 Women’s anti-pass campaign in the Orange Free State
… one requiring women to carry residential passes remained. On 2 October 1898, women were so frustrated by the carrying … domestic servants to carry a Service…
BiographyGertrude Hope (nee Posthumus) Cooper
… and becoming an influential social arbiter, much in demand on the diplomatic social network during parliamentary … in her over forty years career with the…
BiographyMolly Fischer
… Susanna Johanna Fischer (nee Krige) was born on the 23rd of February, 1908 on the family’s smallholding in Silverton , near Pretoria . … Bram Fischer , in…
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…