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James E. Kwegyir Aggrey
… South Africa as a member of the Phelps-Stokes Commission on African Education. Aggrey's thinking on race relations reflected patterns current in the United…
BiographyJohnson Ngwevela
… in the Western Cape, and in the late 1940s he served on the CPSA district committee for Cape Town. He was one of … Cape western region ofthe ANC. He defied…
Luvuyo Mgobhozi
… became known as the "Quarry Road" incident near Durban on September 7, 1986. The men were uMkhonto we Sizwe … Laurence Wasserman and Mathys Botha intercepted…
Clarence Lucky Payi
… Clarence Lucky Payi was hanged on 9 September 1986, along with Sipho Xulu and Andrew Zondo … at Pretoria Central Prison. In 1984, Payi and Xulu, acted on the…
ArticleThe San
… later (DF Bleek: 1956). South Africa's motto, written on the SA coat of arms is a /Xam phrase: !ke e: /xarra //ke, … patterns with symbolic meaning. As the…
BiographyJohn O’ Malley
… John O'Malley was born on 6 October 1922 in what was then called Robert Heights, … father was a colonel in the army and later an executive on the mines in…
BiographyDorothy Nomzansi Nyembe
… Dorothy Nomzansi Nyembe was born on the 31st of December 1931 near Dundee in northern … the Defiance Campaign in Durban and was imprisoned briefly on two…
BiographyStanley Huette Uys
… Stanley Huette Uys was born on 27 April 1922, in Coalbrook, Orange Free State (now Free … vegetarian and possibly a journalist, first as a reporter on the…
BiographyRay Alexander Simons
… Ray Alexander Simons née Alexandrowich was born on 12 January 1914 in Latvia. While at school, she displayed … Latvian Communist Party. She arrived in South…
BiographyMargaret Mary Smith
… Margaret Smith was born Margaret Mary MacDonald on 26 September 1916 in Indwe, a small village in the former … demonstrator in chemistry at Rhodes University…
BiographyManiben Sita
… Maniben Sita was born on 24 December 1926 in the Asiatic Bazaar, ( Marabastad , … and other differences, TIC meetings had become violent and on 4 June 1939,…
Address by President Jacob Zuma to the Military Veterans Medals Parade Waterkloof Airforce Base, 27 October 2012
… to honour the veterans of the Luthuli Detachment. It was on this day 95 years ago, that the longest serving President … Perhaps one amongst them that best…
Second National Consultative Conference Communiqué, 25 June 1985
… Conference of the ANC has taken place. It opened on June 16th, the ninth anniversary of the Soweto Uprising of … to a scale unknown in our experience. It is…
The Battle of Square Hill
… Army Council via the Union Government. This was adopted on 20 September 1915, at a time when it is argued there was a … treated; as Smuts was apparently …
BiographyJohn Langalibalele Dube
… station of the American Zulu Mission (AZM) in Natal on 22 February 1871 to James and Elizabeth Dube. … ‘native land’ later in his life. While he was at…
PlaceSada
… the entire Family comes up and smack wet lipped kisses on my mouth and forehead. My aunts and Grand-Mother are the … bred in Cape Town but the beauty and…
BiographyRoelof Frederik ‘Pik’ Botha
… Pik Botha was born on 27 April 1932 in Rustenburg, Transvaal.His father was a … Sweden, as third secretary, and in January 1960, he moved on to the South…
Siphiwe Nyanda
… BA degree. During this time he began working as a reporter on the World newspaper and joined the Union of Black … and making contacts, and then returned to…
Address by President Nelson Mandela at the South African freedom day celebrations Cape Town, 27 April 1998
… Cape Town;Friends and Compatriots. When we gathered here on the Grand Parade in February 1990, we knew that our march … and inequalities of our past and in…
Address by President Nelson Mandela at the South African freedom day celebrations Cape Town, 27 April 1998
… Cape Town;Friends and Compatriots. When we gathered here on the Grand Parade in February 1990, we knew that our march … and inequalities of our past and in…
The 1994 South African Election by Phyllis Jordan
… white minority regime that has ruled that country since 1948. Most black South Africans will be voting for the first … be a so-called “government of national…
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…
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…
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…
BiographyDumisani Shadrack Kumalo
… Dumisani Shadrack Kumalo was born on 16 September 1947 in Kwambunda village on the banks of the Blood River in Natal (now … 1973-1974. In 1997, he attended…
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…
BiographyAllina Ndebele
… Allina Ndebele (nee Khumalo) was born on 10 December 1939 in Ekuhlengeni mission, on the Swart Mfolozi near Vryheid, Natal. Ndebele attended … her Junior…