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ArchiveIn defence of the African image and heritage
ANC booklet issued as a reply to the Central Committee of the South African Communist Party statement entitled The enemy under the same colour. From an African…
BiographyDonald James Woods
… Woods remained in Britain but made regular visits to South Africa. In 1997 he attended the ceremony of the unveiling of …
BiographyBrian Percy Bunting
… thesis. In 1942 he joined the army and served in North Africa and Italy as an air mechanic and information officer …
BiographyLillian Masediba Ngoyi
… Ngoyi known as "Mother of the Black resistance" in South Africa. Image source She was first issued her banning orders … Every Step of the Way: The Journey to…
EventSouth African Defence Force (SADF) attacks a Namibian refugee camp in Cassinga, Angola
… of Cassinga. The airborne troops bombed the South West Africa People’s Organisation (SWAPO) refugee camp and … on 4 May 2015]|Mike, M (2011). Battle for…
EventSouth African Air Force bombs ANC in Maputo
Following an African National Congress's 20 May 1983 car bombing of headquarters of the South African Defence Force in Pretoria, ANC bases in a suburb of…
Address by President Nelson Mandela at the book launch of the series on Southern African leaders
Address of the Deputy President of the African National Congress Nelson Mandela, at the European parliament
The impact of the collapse of the USSR on re-imagining African nations in the 1990s
A.I. Kajee His Work for the Southern African Indian Community - Chapter 2
… surprising that once the Indian delegation had left South Africa, and once the promise of the Cape Town Agreement was … in the community between those who…
EventThe first Non-White South African Table Tennis team participates at the World Championship
… 33 countries were divided into four sections and South Africa was competing in the section that included defending … (FIFA) executive lifts the Football…
EventSouth African cricketer, AB de Villiers is born
… 10 February 2014]|Cricket News, A.B de Villiers(South Africa) , from Cricket 365, [online], Available at …
ArchiveRadio Freedom: A History of South African Underground Radio by Chris A. Smith
… did their best to keep forbidden ideas out of South Africa, and the airwaves were a crucial front in this battle. … was absent from most of the legal media…
EventRiaad Moosa, the South African comedian is born
Riaad Moosa was born in Cape Town on 18 June 1977. He has won numerous awards as a comedian, presenter, writer and actor. Riaad is known as the “Comedy Doctor”…
EventNational Heritage Day celebrates South African cultural diversity
National Heritage Day is one of the newly created South African public holidays. The day was previously known as Shaka Day, and was celebrated in kwazulu/Natal…
BiographyDumisani Abraham Mabaso
… studio in Soweto. He exhibited extensively in South Africa and abroad (including 5 group shows in the USA). …
BiographyBarend Jacobus (Ben) Erasmus
… led to the formation of the Trade Union Council of South Africa (TUCSA). When TUCSA was formed in Durban in October …
BiographyJohn Ndevasia Muafangejo
… to die Anglican mission station at Epinga in South West Africa/Namibia. He started receiving formal education at the …
EventThe South African Industrial Federation riot in the Rand Gold mining district
… anthem of early socialists and communists in South Africa). … Boddy-Evans, A., ‘This Day in Africa History: 11 March’ , from About.com, [online], …
ArchiveStrategic priorities for building the African National Congress
Speech delivered by Popo Molefe at the African National Congress Organizing Committee National Workshop 6 - 9 November 1990. The paper discusses strategic…
BiographyCharles Du Val
… arrived in Cape Town at the end of 1879. They toured South Africa until 1881, when they were interrupted by the siege of … Town on the war. He wrote With a…
BiographyJanub Gool
… to found the African People's Democratic Union of Southern Africa, she fled South Africa in 1963 with I. B. Tabata and lived in Zambia. In …
EventNathaniel Nakasa, South African journalist and writer, dies in exile
… manner meant he would never be allowed to return to South Africa. Nakasa was part of a group of journalists, many …
A.I. Kajee His Work for the Southern African Indian Community - Chapter 9
… Rau's successor, Sir Shafa'at Ahmed Khan arrived in South Africa, Kajee had several talks with him on the general … had failed to achieve, the unity of…
EventJudas Mahlangu, South African graphic artist, is born
Judas Mahlangu, a South African graphic artist, was born in Brakpan, on the East Rand (now Gauteng). In 1982 Mahlangu started working at the South African…
BiographyWinnie Madikizela-Mandela
… and injustices of racism and apartheid meant in South Africa. News had just arrived in Bizana that the Second World … and pursue her dream of becoming a…
A.I. Kajee His Work for the Southern African Indian Community - Chapter 4
… almost every direction. Indians felt they secure in South Africa for the first time. The Government had promised to … which dictated the character of Indian…
EventChristoffel Coetzee de Villiers (37), compiler of South African genealogical registers, dies
… the founding members of the Genealogical Society of South Africa. De Villiers was married to Sara Susanna Celliers, … D.J et al. (eds) (1971) Standard…
BiographyAchmat Dangor
… Johannesburg, Transvaal (now known as Gauteng), South Africa in 1948. He lived with his grandmother in Fordsburg, … as the representative of the Ford…
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BiographyMatsie Angelina Motshekga [Angie Motshekga]
… valuable insights into the challenges facing South Africa's education system. Transitioning into educational … of the United Democratic Front (UDF) (Republic…