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BiographyNokutela (nee Mdima) Dube
… Langalibalele Dube , the first President General of the South African Native National Congress (SANNC- later renamed … everything that we know today as the…
BiographyGovin Reddy
… 11 children. His father Narain Chengal Reddy had come to South Africa with his mother as a 12-year-old from Andhra Pradesh … agency Inter Press Service,…
Address of the President of South Africa and Commander-in-Chief of the SANDF, Thabo Mbeki, on the occasion of the Presidential Fleet Review, 5 September 2008, Simonstown
… "Presidential Order of the Day - we wish you and the South African Navy every success in ensuring the maritime … which comprises some of the very best…
BiographyJames Kantor
… resistance movement, someone whom Ivan Schermbrucker , a South African Communist Party (SACP) member””a neighbour and … not do so. Hilda Bernstein wrote…
‘Ubuqaba’ and ‘UbuGqobhoka’: Reading Zakes Mda’s Heart of Redness through a Post-Developmental lens by Rachel Fenton
… 2015 Building upon the emerging critique of the Post-World War II ‘Development Project’ advanced by several … stance. Within the context of Post-Apartheid…
BiographyProfessor Bernard Magubane
… newspapers run mainly by members of the Communist Party of South Africa (CPSA). When Bantu Education was introduced, … to raise the consciousness of the…
ArchiveAppendix 7 South Africa, the transition to democracy and the banning of torture, by Denis Goldberg
… the use of torture by the United States in its so-called ‘war on terror.’ Security forces say there is no future … of social violence that goes with it…
ArticlePaper abstracts and biographies of speakers
… shrines of liberalism and radicalism in mainstream South African historical writing and education, studying … Haptics of belonging in the life narratives of…
ArticleCouncil of Non-European trade unions (CNETU)
… The formation of the Council of Non-European Trade Unions. World War II In 1941 African workers continued to maximise their … However, these trade unions…
BiographyJudge Jan Hendrik Steyn
… mother, Zerilda Steyn, was a pioneer of social welfare in South Africa, founding the Urban Housing League. His father, … he had led the South African legal…
Address by President Nelson Mandela at the Johannesburg opening of the Anne Frank Exhibition at the Museum Africa Johannesburg, 15 August 1994
… future. In this sense, it is particularly relevant for the South Africa of today, as we emerge from the treacherous era … of Nazism and fascism, like the…
BiographyAnne-Marie Wolpe
… 1930 in Johannesburg , Transvaal (now Gauteng ), South Africa. She was the daughter of Abraham and Pauline (Braude) … acquitted in the Rivonia trial. She was…
BiographyJeanette Eleanor Kasrils
… Jacqueline Arenstein , a member of the Communist Party of South Africa , when he first met Eleanor. Eleanor joined the … By now, Eleanor was the unit’s only…
BiographyThabo Mvuyelwa Mbeki
… teachers, activists and members of the Communist Party of South Africa (CPSA later renamed the SACP). His father, Govan Mbeki … The YSS took an active role…
ArticleChanging Perceptions of Nelson Mandela
… who has undergone many transformations in the eye of the South African public as well as in the global imagination. He … on the public stage, both in South…
BiographyPatrick Chamusso
… the spearhead of Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK) and leader of the South African Communist Party. Slovo wanted to know why he … network of the ANC and managed to re…
BiographyChief Albert John Mvumbi Luthuli
… Chief Albert John Mvumbi Luthuli, Africa’s first Nobel Peace Prize Laureate in 1960, was … memories of Adams College, once commenting that it “was a world of…
BiographyTheo Mthembu
… at Dube. He was handsomely rewarded when he produced the world-rated Anthony “Blue Jaguar” Morodi, the S.A Bantam, … in professional boxing - is a legend who…
ArticleHistory Grade 11 - Topic 4 Essay Questions
… An image of bold, selfless youth in late 1970s South Africa inspired by the black radical consciousness … Britain had defeated Boer Republics in the South…
First Raymond Mhlaba Annual Memorial Lecture delivered by the President of South Africa Thabo Mbeki, 22 August 2008, Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University
… live, and have been urged to describe ourselves as proudly South African, answer the questions - who are we? and what … we? Wherever he may now be, given…
BiographyGertrude Hope (nee Posthumus) Cooper
… grew up Worcester where her father, an engineer for the South African Railways, was stationed. She attended Girls … studying for his LLB degree at the…
Known as Black Tuesday’, the New York Stock exchange collapsed sending economic shockwaves throughout the world and throwing the global economy into depression
… Tuesday, 29th October 1929, saw the world's economy go into recession as the New York Stock … saw one in three people unemployed in the United States In…
BiographyStephen Zelwane Nkadimeng
… said that soon (together with communists) they would enter South Africa and take over. He had not overstepped the rules of the …
ArticleSS Mendi
… the greatest wartime maritime disaster ever suffered in South Africa. During the First World War , there was a shortage of labourers, which despite the …
Olof Palme and the liberation of Southern Africa by Oliver Tambo, 01 March 1988
… When the terrible news was announced to the world on 1 March 1986 that Olof Palme had fallen to an … in which the forces of racism, colonialism, fascism, and…
BiographyFlorence Barbara Ribeiro
… and enrolled for a BCom degree through University of South Africa (UNISA). However, she had to give up her studies to … the shop, leaving it behind. In the…
BiographyPhilemon Masinga
… his team, Jomo Midas Cosmos. In 1992 Masinga represented South Africa in the first international game against Cameroon in … proved decisive as it took Bafana…
EventAfrikaner nationalists rebel against a Union Jack in new South African flag
… of a bill to provide a national flag for the Union of South Africa in 1925 by D.F. Malan. The introduction of the … from the defeat by British settlers in…
BiographyJohn Xavier Merriman
… Cape Colony before the four provinces became the Union of South Africa in 1910. He was considered a liberal in the South … as well his Disarmament Act, which…
BiographyMarimuthu Pragalathan “MP” Naicker
… for bringing militant leadership into control in the South African Indian Congress and was Vice-President of the … no charges were brought against him. He…