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BiographyChristopher Nceba Faku
… the Port Elizabeth Transitional Local Council. After South Africa’s first democratic local elections he was elected as … of Britain whilst she was on her…
BiographyKhotso Seatlholo
… exile. In 1981, during one of his secret visits to South Africa, the Security Police arrested Seatlholo and charged … in prison. Seatlholo was released in…
January 8th Statements - Statement of the National Executive Committee on the occasion of the 69th Anniversary of the ANC - 8 January 1981
… of the national liberation movement throughout Southern Africa, the Pretoria regime continued during the past year to … the Botha regime decided not to have…
ArticleThe Youth Struggle
… that students were aware of the racist politics of South Africa and attempts by the government to reproduce these … that was easily crushed by government…
BiographySir Sydney Kentridge
… lawyers for the defence in political trials in South Africa such as the Treason Trial (1958 – 1961) and the … with the establishment than that of his time in…
BiographyJoe “Sdumo” Mafela
… by Peter Hunt, In 1974 Mafela co-starred in South Africa’s first Black feature film, “Udeliwe” with Cynthia … “I did not take note of that”. At that stage…
BiographyAbdulla Ismail Kajee
… the leadership. He had only elementary schooling in South Africa but studied for a short time in India. He became … interest in the political affairs of the…
BiographyIshwarlal Laloo Isu Chiba
… 1930 in Johannesburg, Transvaal (now Gauteng), South Africa where he was also raised. His parents emigrated to South Africa from Gujarat. Chiba abandoned…
ArticleDr Alfred Bitini Xuma Timeline 1893-1998
… the certificates granted to Europeans and Africans almost all the Clarkebury boarders walk out in protest against the … and Surgeons. November: Xuma sets…
BiographyKevin Dowling
… Bishop Dowling has ministered in various parts of South Africa, in townships in Cape Town and Pretoria. In … strategically placed at a site on the border of…
BiographyBarney Simon
… director (born April 13, 1932, Johannesburg , South Africa—died June 30, 1995, Johannesburg), was a long-time … Simon co-founded Johannesburg ’s Market…
BiographyPortia Modise
… in the Elitedivisionen, before returning to South Africa in 2009 to play for the Palace Super Falcons. In 2008, … by new coach Joseph Mkhonza in 2012 and…
BiographyZondeni Veronica Sobukwe
… July 1927 in Hlobane, Natal (now Kwazulu-Natal ), South Africa. Mrs Sobukwe (then Miss Mathe) was a trainee nurse at … grant her husband and her family…
The Durban Moment: Revisiting politics, labour, youth and resistance in the 1970s
… 22-24 February, 2013 Rhodes University Grahamstown, South Africa The ´Durban Moment´ popularly refers to the period … 30 September 2012 Due date for all…
The Segregation Fallacy and Other Papers - The Disfranchisement of the Cape Native
… They were founded on a system of unimpeachable equity to all human beings regardless of colour, race or creed. … voters. We know that in the deliberations of…
EventPolitical activist and lawyer A. P. Mda is born
… (PAC). Mda made his debut in politics when he attended the All-African Convention in Bloemfontein in mid-1936. …
BiographyZweledinga Pallo Jordan
… his schooling, he attended various universities in South Africa, the United States of America and Britain. He left the … of NAFCOC (1984).Between 1985 and…
BiographyBerni Searle
… to language, race, colour, gender and the History of South Africa. Searle also produces work about land and rituals of … local inhabitants and slaves brought…
BiographyJonas Dinous Matlou
… for exiles going north to escape arrest in South Africa or to train as members of Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK), the … law until returning to Botswana in 1985, then…
BiographyHector Pieterson
… image of the 1976 Soweto uprising in apartheid South Africa when a newspaper photograph by Sam Nzima - of the … June 16 has been observed as a public holiday…
BiographyYazeed Kamaldien
… and photographer living and working in Cape Town, South Africa. In 1998 he embarked on a four-year journalism BTech … published in various magazines and…
BiographyHarold Strachan
… Art Gallery collection and in private collections in South Africa. Strachan published a book called ‘Way Up, Way Out’ in … of an autobiographical trilogy…
BiographyT W Thibedi
… Before joining the Communist Party of South Africa (CPSA) in the 1920s, Thibedi was a member of the … Roux, for some years the only African Communist in…
Re-Emergence of Congress Activity 1980s
… came to an end on 7 July 1986, when she became free of all restrictions for the first time in two decades. On 1 May … kicking off a sustained financial…
ArticleDefiance Campaign timeline 1948-1952
… and the Group Areas Act (Ghetto Act), to classify all areas by function and race, are passed. January 6 - … the Johannesburg Branch of the Communist Party of…
Toast Remarks of the President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki, in honour of the Prime Minister of the Republic of India, Manmohan Singh, on the occasion of the Official Dinner, Presidential Guest House, Pretoria, 2 October 2006.
… Toast Remarks of the President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki, in honour of the Prime Minister of the …
Reply of the President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki to the Toast by her Excellency, the Governor-General of the Commonwealth of the Bahamas, Dame Ivy Dumont, Atlantis Resort Hotel: Paradise Island, Bahamas, 29 December 2003
… Reply of the President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki to the Toast by her Excellency, the …
Excerpts from discussions between a South African delegation led by Minister R F Botha and a United States delegation led by Deputy Secretary of State, Frank Wisner, on questions affecting South West Africa and Angola: Cape Town, 13 March 1986
… of State, Frank Wisner, on questions affecting South West Africa and Angola: Cape Town, 13 March 1986 …
ArticleThe Crackdown on the Black Consciousness Movement in 1973
… African, Coloured and Indian students into one body, with all of them defining themselves as ‘Black’. The students’ … founding of SASO in 1969, students…
In Conclusion: The Decline and Fall of the Tricameral Parliament
… taking place in Kempton Park under the rubric of CODESA (Convention for a Democratic South Africa). In the tricameral parliament, the NP began to woo …