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BiographyNathaniel Impey Honono
Nathaniel Impey Honono (Tshutsha) was born on 21 October 1908, in the district of Qumbu, in the then Transkei (Eastern Cape). He graduated with a BA degree…
BiographyHarriette Emily Colenso
Harriette Emily Colenso was She was born in Norfolk, England, in 1847, the oldest child of Bishop John William Colenso of Natal. Until her father's death in…
BiographyMatsobane Morris Matsemela
Matsobane Morris Matsemela was born in 1931. He attended the Mashashane School up to Standard 6. Matsemela started working at his uncle’s dairy farm in Lady…
Annie Silinga
Annie Silinga was born in 1910 at Nqqamakwe in the Butterworth district of the Transkei where she completed only a few years of primary school. In 1937 she…
Robert Elias Mokxotho Matji
Robert Elias Mokxotho Matji was born on 22 August 1922 in Pretoria, Transvaal (now Gauteng). He later moved to the Eastern Cape, settling in Port Elizabeth,…
BiographyBokwe James Mafuna
Bokwe James Mafuna was born in January 14,1937 in Mafikeng.He dropped out of school at 15,was a manual laborer,then spent four years studying for the Catholic…
BiographyLutchmee Marie
Lutchmee Marie (popularly known as Aunty Doris) was born in 1923 in Mooi River but grew up in Clairwood. Her mother worked as a domestic worker, washing…
BiographySonia Beryl Bunting
Born Sonia Isaacman in 1922, she joined the Communist Party in 1942 and gave up her university studies to do full-time political work. After the banning of the…
BiographyFanie Jason
Fanie Jason was born on the 15 May 1953, Heathfield, Cape Town. Under the South African Group Areas Act, Jason's family was forced to move to the black…
Durban 1973, a National Breakthrough, in the Context of a Globally Developing Socialism? But what if the reality was actually an emergent 50-year international capitalist 'counterrevolution' of 1973-2022? by David Cooper
… of techno-economically less-competitive Soviet Union after 1989? This has all resulted, the paper argues, in essentially …
Chapter 7 - SANSCO:The Ideology and Politics of Non-Racialism, the Freedom Charter and National Liberation
My concerns in this chapter are two-fold. The first is to sketch the formation of SANSCO in late 1979. The second is to analyse SANSCO's ideology and politics…
PlaceAll Saints Anglican Church, Durbanville
… languages and representing many cultures and races. In 1989 the Church produced its new Anglican Prayer Book, 1989 which was simultaneously published in 6…
BiographyBilly Lesedi Masetlha
Billy Masetlha was born on 21 November 1954 in Alexandra, Johannesburg, Transvaal (now Gauteng). He is a founder member of the Congress of South African…
Pretoria the Segregated city
Contents Pretoria the Segregated city The Tomlinson Report Atteridgeville and Saulsville Hammanskraal Mamelodi Mabopane Laudium Eersterus …
BiographyGopal Krishna Gokhale
Mr GK Gokhale was the Founder of the Servants of India Society in Poona. On Ghandi's invitiation, he Toured South Africa in October of 1912. He was associated…
ArticleOrganization of African Unity Timeline 1884-2000
… agreeing to end South African aid to rebels in Mozambique 1989 Ban on political activity lifted in Nigeria; two …
ArchiveSA Air Force operation, 20 May 1983, Bomb damage runs into millions, Natal Witness, 23 May 1983
ArticleUnited Women’s Congress (UWCO)
As a result of parent's reactions to the 1976 uprisings and their aftermath, ex-Federation of South African Women (FEDSAW) members in the Western Cape began…
Nelson Mandela and the last Afrikaner leaders by Hermann Giliomee (Politics Web), 12 May 2015
… finally agreed. The meeting finally took place on 5 June 1989 in the president’s office Prior to the meeting Mandela … if both parties are willing to…
ArticleCensus in South Africa
From 10 to 31 October 2011, South Africa will be conducting its third census since the advent of democracy in 1994. Undertaking a census is a massive exercise…
BiographyKing Sarhili kaHintsa
King Sarhili was the last King to rule over Xhosaland before it was fragmented by the consequences of the ‘Cattle Killing Movement’ of 1856-7. The movement was…
BiographyPetrus Linda Jabane (Lion of Chiawelo)
Petrus Linda Jabane (Lion of Chiawelo) was born in 1958 in Soweto, Transvaal (now Gauteng). After his father's death, his mother could only afford to keep him…
BiographyNontetha Nkwenkwe
Nontetha Nkwenkwe is one of the most remarkable female religious leaders associated with independent churches in the 1920s. Born in King Williamstown in 1875,…
BiographyGilbert R Tsikalanga
Gilbert R Tsikalanga was headman in the Mphaphuli Tribal area, Sibasa District, [Northern] Transvaal, [now Tshivhase, Limpopo Province] He was relieved of…
BiographyKenneth Mfiki
Kenneth Mfiki was from Mooiplaats, East London, Eastern Province [now Eastern Cape]. He allegedly “stirred up factions in the location” and ”insulted and…
Speech on the Occasion of the Award of an Honorary Doctorate to Nelson Mandela by The Karl Marx University of the German Democratic Republic by O. R. Tambo, Leipzig, 11 November 1987
Comrade Professor Doctor Rathmann, esteemed rector of Karl Marx University, Members of the Central Committee of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany, …
EventNine members of the ANC are officially banned in Dakawa, Tanzania
… On 28 December 1989, a document officially banning nine members of the … and Stanley Mabizela at Mazimbu and Dakawa on 24 December 1989. During the meetings,…
Chapter 1 - Interpreting the Character, Role and Significance of SASO AND SANSCO
… specific forms of collective mobilisation (Melucci, 1989:49-50). For example, until 1990 the denial of full and … recognition that they are part of a single…
BiographyAlexander P. Maduna
Little is known of his background except that he spoke Xhosa. When Clements Kadalie began to build the Industrial Commercial Workers Union (ICU) in Natal in…
BiographyStephen William Black
Stephen Black was the son of Henry and Sarah Black. He was born in September 1879 in Claremont, Cape Town and was brought up and educated under extremely poor…