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EventIOC extends South Africa’s ban from Olympic games
South Africa suffered heavily in the international sports arena as result of its apartheid policy. Prior to the Tokyo Olympic games in 1964, South Africa was…
BiographyCharles Du Val
Charles Du Val was born in Manchester, England in 1810 of Irish parents. Du Val and his business manager and long-time associate, Arthur Fry, arrived in Cape…
ArchiveStaffrider Vol.2 No.2 Apr-May 1979
Content and Contributors CONTENTS Two letters on the banning of Staffrider Vol 2 No. 1 March 1979, Soweto Speaking to Miriam Tlali,Khauleza Creative…
BiographyKing Sekhukhune
Sekhukhune was King of the Marota people (commonly called Bapedi) who originated from the Bakgatla of the Western Transvaal. Sekhukhune, like Moshoeshoe King…
BiographyJunaid Ahmed
International award winning filmmaker Junaid Ahmed was born in Durban, Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal) South Africa in 1959. He attended Southlands Secondary School…
Mxolisi Moyo
Mxolisi Moyo studied photography at the Open School, Johannesburg. He has worked for Post, World and the Tembisa Times. He works mostly in Alexandra and…
ArticleAfrica, Portugal
… Dutch East India Company (known by the Dutch abbreviation VOC) was established in 1602 to conduct Dutch trade with the … the Khoikhoi to use the guns against…
ArticleHistory of slavery and early colonisation in South Africa
… of Cape Town. From within the walls of the Castle, the VOC administered and governed the expanding colony. At first, … as much as three to one. Another…
BiographyGeorge Hallett
George Hallett was born in 1942 District Six, Cape Town. He then moved to Hout Bay, Cape Town to live with his grandparents. Thereafter he moved to live in…
Zephania Mothopeng - Searchlight South Africa, Vol 1, No. 2, February 1989
[We have been given the following document, together with an introductory account. When this was received there was no news of an impending release, although…
EventSimon Hendrik Freykenius and Sebastiaan Cornelis Nederburgh arrive at the Cape to assist dissatisfied burghers
… Commissioner-Generals of the Dutch East India Company (VOC), and were sent to assist dissatisfied free burghers, or farmers who had been given land…
BiographyPeter Rudolf Gisela Horn
Peter Rudolf Gisela Horn was born 7 December 1934 in Teplice, Czechoslovakia (currently in Czech Republic). At the end of World War II he had to flee his home…
BiographyVernon Celliers Berrange
Advocate Vernon Celliers Berrangé was born on 25 November 1900 in the Transvaal (now Gauteng). His lived and worked all his life in Johannesburg, having been…
ArticleBritain takes control of the Cape
… of labour, especially on the wheat and wine farms. But the VOC did not want to spend its money on the expensive wages that European labourers demanded. Nor…
ArticleCape Town Timeline 1300-1997
… Landsche Ge-Oktroyeerde Oost-Indische Compagnie (VOC) trading company receives a charter from the States … Jan van Riebeeck, who is subsequently appointed by…
ArchiveStaffrider Vol.9 No.3 1991
ArchiveStaffrider Vol.9 No.2 1990
Contents and Contributors Comment, A. W. Oliphant; STORIES: Grandpa's Rooster, Fred Khumalo; Whose Triomf?, Maureen Isaacson; Leaf-Mould, Liz Gunner; Water…
ArchiveStaffrider Vol.9 No.1 1990
Contents and Contributors Comment: A.W. Oliphant, STORIES: From the Roof, the Sky, Peter Esterhuysen; The Coon, M. Cassiem D'Arcy; He Needs Milk, Karren…
ArchiveStaffrider Vol.8 No.2 1989
Contents and Contributors CONTENTS: Comment, A.W. Oliphant. STORIES: The Shadow of Socrates, Kaizer M. Nyatsumba; A Condition of Service, Michael…
ArchiveStaffrider Vol.8 No.1 1989
Contents and Contributors CONTENTS: Comment, A.W. Oliphant STORIES: The Prophets, Bheki Maseko; Happiness is a Punch in the Eye, Lawrence Maimane; A Day in…
ArchiveStaffrider Vol.7 No.2 1988
Contents and Contributors Contents: Comment: A W Oliphant; Short Stories: The Concrete Fountain. Ahmed Essop; To Speak the Truth, Laughing by Rose Zwi; Two…
ArchiveStaffrider Vol.7 No.1 1988
Contents and Contributors Comment: A.W. Oliphant, Short stories: Mr.Shabangu by Mark Glaser; Siyayinyova by Zakhele Charles Ndaba; Tsafendas’s Diary by…
ArchiveStaffrider Vol.6 No.4 1987
Contents and Contributors Stories: The Spirit of Two Worlds by Jayapraga Reddy; From the Backseat by Greg Latter; Blind Justice by Stanley Loba Mabena; The…
ArchiveStaffrider Vol.6 No.3 1986
Contents and Contributors Stories: The Masquerade Ball by Temba Makunga; Weak of Faith by J.V. Pillay; Coffee for the Road by Alex La Guma; Hide Them…
ArchiveStaffrider Vol.6 No.2 1985
Contents and Contributors Those were the days by Bheki Maseko Runaway recollections by Michael Goldberg The life and adventure of Matthew Pavilichenko by…
ArchiveStaffrider Vol.5 No.3 1983
Contents and Contributors VOLUMES NUMBER 3,1983, Stories: The Night of the Long Knives by Bheki Maseko; Jericho Again by Ahmed Essop; Running Away by Steve…
ArchiveStaffrider Vol.5 No.2 1982
Contents and ContributorsStories: To Fly by Steve Jacobs ; Pikinini’s Adventure by Walt Oyi Sipho kwa Mthetwa; Don’t Leave Me by Joseph Moladira; Japie and…
ArchiveStaffrider Vol.5 No.1 1982
BiographyWilfrid Edward Cooper
Wilfrid Edward Cooper was born on 22 May 1926 in Observatory, a suburb of Cape Town, Cape Province (now Western Cape Province) and lived in Mowbray until he…
EventGerman Lieutenant-General Lothar von Trotha lands in Swakopmund, South West Africa
The scorched earth campaign conducted by Germany against the Herero people in South West Africa (now known as Namibia) is considered among the first genocides…