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BiographyBerney Perez
… working mainly in and around the Karoo area in South Africa. He contributed to the Staffrider exhibition of 1985. His photographs included in South Africa:…
EventFormer South African Prime Minister JG Strijdom dies
Johannes Gerhardus (JG) Strijdom was born in 1893 in the Cape Colony. He trained as a lawyer at the Victoria College (now Stellenbosch University). Strijdom…
BiographyPixie Benjamin
… political activist and prisoner banned from South Africa during Apartheid. She endured harsh punishment under … up political supporters. [1] Upon her return…
BiographyAzhar Cachalia
… there and then later in Benoni, Gauteng province, South Africa. He matriculated at Damelin College in Johannesburg in …
BiographyFeroza Adam
… 9th August 1994 shortly after becoming a member of South Africa's first democratically elected government. In a …
BiographyMaria Laubser
… impact. In 1924, she returned permanently to South Africa to live near Klipheuvel in the Cape. She lived in …
BiographyNnoseng Ellen Kate Khuzwayo
… me Woman (1985) and Sit and Listen: Stories from South Africa (1996). In 1979 the Star named Ellen Woman of the …
Presidential Address to the Twenty-Third Conference of the South African Indian Congress, Durban, September 3, 1961
… Congress meets at a time when the Indian people of South Africa have completed a hundred years of their stay in this … role in solving the gigantic problems…
Mahomed “Chota” Motala
… in 1947 and doing his internship, he returned to South Africa to set up a medical practice in Pietermaritzburg. He …
BiographyStephen Vukile Tshwete
… in 1990. In May of the same year he retuned to South Africa and took up the position of chairperson of the …
BiographyDevikarani Priscilla Jana
… commenced her law degree through the University of South Africa (Unisa) [vii] , but went on to become a full-time …
BiographyGeorge Naicker
… Nations. With the return of ANC exiles back to South Africa in 1990, Naicker was charged with taking care of the …
BiographyJulius Louis Saks
… of Sidney and Deborah Saks. His family emigrated to South Africa from England in 1905. Sidney Saks became a farm and … as he came to be known later in life,…
BiographyStephanus Johannes Paulus Kruger
… they founded Ohrigstad, near the border of Portuguese East Africa (now Mozambique). In 1846, he returned to the … the western parts of the Transvaal as the …
BiographyEthel Walt
… an article advocating a Bill of Rights for South Africa which was published in the Black Sash magazine in … remaining resolute in her belief that an equal…
Hettie Du Preez
… struggle against political and economic injustice in South Africa. She was a prominent figure in the trade union … patriotism and dedication to the oppressed…
EventThe South African Astronomical Observatory celebrates 200 years of its existence
… ‘Beyond 200 years of Astronomy’. The event will include an Africa-centred astronomy symposium and a virtual astronomy …
BiographyNthato Harrison Motlana
… internal resistance that led to the liberation of South Africa, and then co-founded and built up the black empowerment company New Africa Investments (Nail),…
BiographyHumphrey Phakade “Pax” Magwaza
… and any say in the government of their own country, South Africa. JORAC had been formed to resist the twin evils of … Montagu/Capulet divide to the black…
BiographySiphiwe Tshabalala
… of the most well-loved and best soccer players in South Africa. After spells with Phiri Arsenal and Phiri Movers, he … Turkish side BB Erzurumspor,…
ArchiveHugh Masekela - what I'm thinking about ... a crisis for African culture (The Guardian)12 March 2013
… that 11 of the world's 20 fastest growing economies are in Africa, but when you talk about the economy, who are you … who own it, are the ones who benefit…
educating African youth and provision of large scale scholarships tenable in various
… the creation of a non-racial, unitary and non-sexist South Africa. 2. Conference supports and endorses the negotiations …
BiographyLeo Linda Sihlali
… a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of South Africa (UNISA). In the 1940s Sihlali contributed to the regeneration of the All Africa Convention …
BiographyGerrit Viljoen
… In 1978 he was appointed administrator of South West Africa (Namibia), a position he held until appointed Minister … National Party delegates Convention for…
BiographyGerrit Van Niekerk Viljoen
… In 1978 he was appointed administrator of South West Africa (Namibia), a position he held until appointed Minister … National Party delegates Convention for…
BiographyThinus Mathee
… organiser of the Picture Essay Documentary Award in South Africa. He documented widely in South Africa. Whilst lecturing at the Vaal Triangle Technikon, he ……
Negotiations, the ANC Vision of a New South African and the Indian Community Keynote Address by the President of the African National Congress, Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela
… Evening. We are gathered here today at a time when South Africa is at the threshold of some of the most momentous … for me to place before you the ANC vision…
BiographyLeonard (Len) Lee-Warden
… was born in 1913. A linotype operator, he came to South Africa in 1936 from England after serving a five year apprenticeship in London. In South Africa, he…
BiographyBaldwin ‘Ben’ Sipho Ngubane
… 1992, he served on the Convention for a Democratic South Africa (CODESA) working group which dealt with constitutional … Science and Technology in the new…
ArchiveTribute to Anti-apartheid campaigner, Helen Suzman, by African National Congress, 1 January 2009
… Suzman used Parliament to fight injustices in South Africa. Suzman became a thorn in the flesh of apartheid by …