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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…
BiographyJohannes Maisha (Stanza) Bopape
… Komati River on the border of Mozambique and South Africa. On 4 July 1988, police told his parents that he had … died in 1996. Today his contribution to…
BiographyEsme Bodenstein
… which attracted many former Communist Party of South Africa (CPSA) members. The Society organised lectures, youth … the United Kingdom. Bodenstein refused to…
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…
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…
BiographyJack Monamudi Matsepe
… Fourteen people, including women, were charged, but were all acquitted. Scott apparently ‘played a major part in …
BiographyAlfred Toto Metele
… days, he vowed to fight the oppresive Apartheid system at all cost. He was detained again in the 1980s along with Dlaki …
BiographyPaul Stopforth
… lithography. He was born in 1945 in Johannesburg, South Africa. From the age of 19 he studied at the NATD, … the continuous build up of tension and…
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 …
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…
ArchiveSA Air Force operation, 20 December 1983, Fourth party congress-Cabinet reshuffle-Relations with South Africa-MNRM actions, Keesing_s Record of World Events, Vol 29, December 1983
… party congress-Cabinet reshuffle-Relations with South Africa-MNRM actions, Keesing_s Record of World Events, Vol …
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
May Day
… On 1 May, South Africa will enjoy Worker's Day (effectively a May Day … is more than enough for any man to perform." At the 1863 convention of the Machinists…
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…
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…