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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…
BiographyDr. Hans Merensky
… Mines in East Prussia. In 1904 Dr Merensky came to South Africa on leave from his employers. He wanted to conduct some … money, but contributed hugely to the…
BiographySydney Sipho Sepamla
… apartheid. He has used the Black girl as a metaphor of Africa and has provided us again and again with surprising …
BiographyJeanie Noel
… high school she realized that all were not equal in South Africa. Her school that had only white teachers had employed …
BiographyDerek Andre Hanekom
… wife's release in 1978. In 1990 Hanekom returned to South Africa and worked on land policy issues at the ANC's …
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…
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…
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 …
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”…
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…
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…
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…
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 …
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], …
BiographyRooha Variava
… Rooha Variava was born in Pietersburg, South Africa on the 16 December 1958. She completed a BA degree in Philosophy and Arabic at the University of South…
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…
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 …
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…
BiographyVejaynand ‘Vejay’ Indurjith Ramlakan
… was born in Durban, Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal), South Africa in 1957. He matriculated at Naidoo Memorial High in … this period, he underwent military training…
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…
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…
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 …
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…
ArchiveThe South African Choir’s pathbreaking tour: 1891 – 1893 by Martin Plaut, 6 January 2017
… a technical school in Kimberley in the Cape Colony (South Africa). The trip was organised by James H. Balmer. … young Africans and campaigned for women’s…