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BiographyChief Malebogo
Malebogo (Kgalusi Seketa Masilo Ratshatsha Malaboch) was chief of the Bahananwa chiefdom, a group of the Tswana peoples. Lebogo led the Bahananwa to the…
BiographyCecilia Makiwane
Cecilia Makiwane was born in 1880 at the MacFarlane Mission in the Victoria district of Alice in the Eastern Cape. Her father was a teacher and a minister and…
BiographyJoseph Engenas Matlhakanye Lekganyane
Joseph Lekganyane was born in 21 January 1931 in Moria. His father is the founder of the Zion Christian Church (ZCC) in 1910. He attended school up to standard…
BiographyMoses Kottler
Moses Kottler was born in Joniskis, Lithuania. Sources differ as to the date of his birth – some give it as 1892, others as 1896. As a child, his parents moved…
Sir Shafa’at Ahmad Khan
Born in Moradabad, Khan was, like Raza Ali, an unofficial Muslim appointment from U.P. After attending the Government High School in Moradabad, he studied at…
BiographyRosa Hope
Rosa Hope's The Old Miii was shown on the SASA 35th Annual Exhibition in 1937, and acquired by the SANG, as noted by critic Melvin Simmers (qv.), for its …
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…
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…
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…
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…
BiographyGodfrey Rosenbaum Zibuse Kuzwayo
Godfrey Rosenbaum Zibuse Kuzwayo was born in 1909, he grew up in Bloemfontein, graduated from Wilberforce Institute, and studied journalism through…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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,…
Say It out Loud - Address to Returned Soldiers of the Cape Corps, 1919
Address to Returned Soldiers of the Cape Corps, c. 1919 1 At the outbreak of World War I in 1914, Dr. Abdurahman and the A. P.O. supported the government 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…