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BiographyMaria Laubser
… On 14 April 1886 Maggie Laubser was born on Bloublommetjieskloof farm in the district of Malmesbury in … became a noted modernist. Her first recorded…
BiographyRaymond Francis (Ray) Budd
… Raymond Francis (Ray) Budd was born on 9 June 1910 in Mowbray, Cape Town. He was the only child … Town branch of the Amalgamated Engineering Union (AEU) on…
BiographyJackson Mthembu
… leader at Elukhanyisweni Secondary School in Witbank. On many occasions during school he was "chucked out for not … of the United Democratic Front from 1988…
BiographyJeremy Patrick Cronin
… Jeremy Patrick Cronin was born on 12 September 1949 in Durban, Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal). He … was tried in the Cape Town Supreme Court in September 1976 on…
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…
BiographyProfessor Kader Abdul Asmal
… Kader Abdul Asmal was born on 8th of October in 1934, in the small rural town of … camp victims was shown to him, and he decided on a career in law in order…
BiographySurinarayan ‘Sonny’ Kala Venkatrathnam
… Surinarayan ‘Sonny’ Kala Venkatrathnam was born on 27 July 1935 in Sea View, Durban, Natal (now … peddlers. Later his parents farmed in Cliffdale an area on…
BiographyPatricia De Lille
… her way up as SACWU's regional secretary. She then went on to form part of the National Executive Committee of SACWU … the chief whip for the PAC in…
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 …
First Raymond Mhlaba Annual Memorial Lecture delivered by the President of South Africa Thabo Mbeki, 22 August 2008, Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University
… and Workers, Distinguished Guests, Ladies and Gentlemen: On the day we buried Oom Ray, Raymond Mhlaba, on February 27, … to celebrate a great hero of our…
BiographyJohannes Jane Tane Kekana
… the area of the present-day Potgietersrus. Sources differ on the reasons for this move. According to … moved southward from Moletlane and settled at…
BiographyBasil Lewis (Dolly) D’Oliveira
… Basil D’Oliveira (Dolly) was born on 4 October 1931, in Signal Hill, Cape Town of … he played cricket for his father’s club, St Augustine’s on an open field…
BiographyJohn Kgwana Nkadimeng
… (SACTU), which was formed in March 1955. Nkadimeng served on SACTU's 19-person executive committee and in October was … their family and lived in very…
BiographyAhmed Timol
… Ahmed Timol was born in Breyton, Transvaal on 3 November 1941 to Haji Yusuf Ahmed Timol and Hawa Ismail … paper, but Timol refused to cooperate with the…
BiographyMapetla Frank Mohapi
… Sterkspruit in the former Transkei (now Eastern Province) on 2 September 1947. He studied at the University of the … activists, Mapetla was again detained…
BiographyJohanna Catharina Cornelius
… Johanna was born in Licthtenburg on 27 February 1912 to an Afrikaner family where she grew up. … in the Union and was arrested in 1932 during a strike. On…
Samuel Malinga
… care unit of the Edendale Hospital in Pietermaritzberg on 22 February 1977.He had been detained at his home in Soweto on 31 January 1977 and taken to…
Elias Monare
… Town, Benoni’ in the Transvaal [now Gauteng], was banished on 25 April 1955 at the age of 31 to ‘Glen Red [Glen Road]’ … an association, ‘Leihlo la Motse’ …
BiographyNorman Catherine
… 1969. This exhibition consisted of oil paintings on wood, bone, wire and an assortment of found objects. The … in 1969, Catherine began collaborating with…
PlaceNyanga Township
… a township during the same year. The township is located on the Cape Flats, sixteen kilometres south of Bellville, … one of an additional location at Nyanga…
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…
Edward Mzolo
… Mr Edward Mzolo,aged 40, who died on 9th October 1976,was the third person to die at the Johannesburg Fort in 2 weeks. No details are available on the date…
BiographyJean van der Poel
… Jean van der Poel was born in Cape Town in 1904, and went on to become a prominent historian. Her studies began at the … by the Donald Currie Memorial…
BiographyCharles Makhohliso
… the official leader when they sung Nkosi Sikelel’ iAfrika. On 5 December 1956, Makhohliso was arrested on charges of treason and flown in a military aircraft…
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…
Chapter 2 - The Soweto Uprising of June 1976: A Turning Points Event
… of race. It was government policy in South Africa from 1948 to 1991. grand apartheid — the principles and policies … among pupils and contributing to the…
Book 5: People, Places and Apartheid - Chapter 2 - The Soweto Uprising of June 1976: A Turning Points Event by Phil Bonner
… of race. It was government policy in South Africa from 1948 to 1991. grand apartheid ”” the principles and policies … among pupils and contributing to the…