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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 …
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…
BiographyNavanethem (Navi) Pillay
… (NEUM – now known as the New Unity Movement of South Africa). After completing her university degrees, Pillay … for Mr Liu to be released ‘as soon as…
ArticleRustenburg Timeline 1850-2001
… the English is ratified to avert civil war. The Sand River Convention. 1853 Rustenburg’s first shop opens, an event … 1910 The colonies and Republics become…
BiographyArthur William Blaxall
… Congress (PAC) in the early 1960s. He came to South Africa in 1923 to work with the deaf and in the 1930s headed … he opened the first workshop for blind…
BiographyErnest Methuen Mancoba
… works for different churches. In 1938, he left South Africa to study art in Paris. In Paris he met Danish artist … and in 1994 after an absence of 56 years,…
BiographyKaizer Motaung
… After a few years abroad, Motaung returned to South Africa and immediately started proceedings to form his own … Leadership Award by Henly Managenment…
BiographyAlbert Nzula
… and came into contact with the Communist Party of South Africa (CPSA) , which he joined in August 1928. His striking … Trade Unions. Shortly thereafter he…
BiographyNicholas Hlobo
… as many as ten exhibitions every year, at venues in South Africa, the United States and several European countries. … National Gallery in Cape Town and the…
BiographyCaesarina Kona Makhoere
… the authorities decreed that classes throughout South Africa were to be conducted in Afrikaans. With several of her … , of the long history of women's…
Statement by Oliver Tambo at a press conference in Addis Ababa, 11 July 1973
… Nations General Assembly, by 106 votes to one (South Africa only voted against) requested the South African … of this leadership and to "grant unconditional…
Prisoners of Apartheid - Statement at a Press Conference in Addis Ababa by O. R. Tambo, 11 July 1973
… Nations General Assembly, by 106 votes to one (South Africa only voted against) requested the South African … of this leadership and to "grant unconditional…
South African Student Organisation Leaders
… Drake Koka the first secretary of the Black People's Convention Winnie Kgware First President of BPC 1972 Sath …
BiographyDawid Kruiper
… to Kagga Kamma and led the way for land claims in South Africa for the San people. About 40 000ha of land were handed … death was a great loss to the Khoi…
BiographyJ B Marks
… employed, J. B. Marks joined the Communist Party of South Africa (CPSA) in 1928 and devoted himself to the fight for … a co-conspirator in the Rivonia Trial …
BiographyJabulani Sam Nhlengethwa
… Nhlengethwa was neither the first nor only artist in South Africa to use collage but it is the way that he uses the … and lithographs. He has exhibited…
BiographyRev. Aldin Grout
… Grout was appointed one of six missionaries to South Africa by the American Board for Foreign Missions (ABCFM) in … 1834 and one month later they sailed from…
BiographyJohann Christiaan Kriegler
… the Masters course in Human Rights and Democratisation in Africa programme. He has also served as a judge in the final … the United Kingdom (2002), Hong Kong…
BiographyIsmail Ahmed Cachalia
… born in the then Transvaal Province (now Gauteng) of South Africa on 5 December 1908. At the time Cachalia’s father, who … the outlawed South African…
Political changes from 1750 to 1820
… slaves and march to Cape Town and forcibly demand that all slaves are granted freedom. However, news of the revolt … due to the introduction of the merino…
BiographyJoseph Hugo Saliwa
… Committee was said to be self-government, ‘to oppose all laws which the Natives find irksome and to administer the …
ArticleMahatma Karamchand Gandhi Timeline 1900-1909
… set up joint action group supporting Indians in South Africa against racism. October 15, Prepares to leave for … Indian Opinion. November 10, Europeans hold…
BiographyLele Jacob Motaung
… List of political prisoners and banned persons in South Africa .p.68 Lele Motaung was tried with eleven others under … the most important political trial to…
BiographyCanodoise (Can) Themba
… in Marabastad, Pretoria, Transvaal (now Gauteng),South Africa. He attended the University of Fort Hare, where he … and striving for a just and democratic…
BiographyBarry “Anderson” Richards
… batsman. His blossoming career coincided with South Africa on the verge of international isolation due to … of Sheffield. Richards played in four tests…
Frances Baard Launch of the ANC Volunteer Corps, 11 July 2013
… as the "Mandela Children" at Jim Summers Hall at 14h00. All volunteers will be engaged in a programme at the arena … by the actual launch at 15h00, at the…
BiographyWilliam Andrew ‘Willie’ Hofmeyr
… Hofmeyr, was born on 22 November 1954 in Cape Town, South Africa [i] . After matriculating from Nassau High School, … and passed the attorneys’ admission…
Professor Sir Raymond Hoffenberg
… South African Defence Force (SADF) and saw action in North Africa and Italy as a lance corporal. After the war, he … He was an active supporter of the…
Article#Am I Next? A Global Question
… As a result of her death and the rise in femicide in South Africa, hundreds of protestors took to the streets with #Am I Next posters to emphasize that all…
BiographyJane Alexander
… collections and biennales around the world including Africa Africa, Tobu Museum of Art, Tokyo, curated by Toshio Shimizu … Short Century: Independence and…