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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…
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 Freedom struggle in Rustenburg
… Today' and Drum published it. In 1954, the farmer Snyman, on whose farm he had worked, was found guilty of killing a … though for us blacks it is only the…
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…
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…
Article by Oliver Tambo in World Marxist Review, 06 March 1980
… than their total investment in similar enterprises on the entire African continent. Nowhere is the political … have often spearheaded this militancy, have…
Racism in Isolation by O. R. Tambo, World Marxist Review, March 1980
… than their total investment in similar enterprises on the entire African continent. Nowhere is the political … have often spearheaded this militancy, have…
ArchiveHow history will judge FW de Klerk by RW Johnson, politicsweb (28 November 2021)
… to democracy as soon as he became President. To dwell on his preceding career as an apartheid apparatchik seems … worked: the ANC has simply disregarded the…
ArchiveUrban crisis and the apartheid state response: South African housing policy in the 1980s
… squatter settlement - once the symbol of the African spirit of resistance and no surrender to apartheid strategies …
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…
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…
BiographyTheophilus Dymond Field
… and settled in Fish Hoek. Between 1917 and 1918, he was on active service in both South West Africa/ Namibia and the … Prior to his departure to war in 1917,…
BiographyCharles Du Val
… Lt.-Col. G. F. Gildea of the Royal Scots Fusiliers. On 25 December 1880, a news-sheet called News of the Camp … distributed thrice weekly and the last…
Letter to U Thant, Secretary-General of the United Nations by O. R. Tambo, 29 June 1968
… of my address to the session of the Special Committee on Apartheid in Stockholm, I asked the Chairman, Ambassador … explosion will have the effect of a…
Indian Opinion
… in 1903 in the Natal Province. The newspaper focused on Indian rights, poor living conditions of indentured … an important historical record of the social…
EventJ.M. Coetzee wins the Booker Prize
… completing a degree in English and Mathematics, he went on to complete a PhD in English, Linguistics and German … of prominent positions at the University of…
EventSuppression of Communism Act 44 of 1950 severely limits what the media could report
… Party of South Africa (CPSA). was banned in 1950. On 20 June 1950, only a few days before the Suppression of … disbanded. The decision to voluntarily…
ArticleSouth African Coloured Peoples Organisation (SACPO)
… The National Party (NP) , after its ascendance to power in 1948, radicalised it, however. These legislations took away … by the NP. Legislations that had an…
BiographyJoe Slovo
… of Democrats in 1953 and represented the organisation on the national consultative committee of the Congress … handling of the examination, but was acquitted…
PlaceVoortrekker Monument
… This massive granite Structure is prominently located on a Hilltop, and was Built to commemorate the Voortrekkers … ray of Light is said to symbolise God's…