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BiographyEllen Lambert
… Ellen Lambert was born on the 5th of March 1934 at Mount Frere in the Eastern Cape … people. After the banning of the ANC, Lambert carried on her anti…
BiographyNomkhosi Mary Mini
… a politically active family, says her sister Xolile Mini on the 26 th day of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) Trails on September 7,2000. Their…
Josias Madzunya
… in the Alexandra bus boycott of 1957. The press seized on the flamboyant Madzunya and portrayed him as a leading … to run him for the Transvaal Congress…
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…
ArticleThe People’s Liberation Army of Namibia (PLAN)
… major attack. In 1978-1979 they launched surprise attacks on the South African Defence Force. The warfare escalated … place in 1981. An estimated 10,000…
ArticleBlack South African literature
… into Xhosa - an event that had an important influence on subsequent writers whether they wrote in English or Xhosa. … cause in France during World War I,…
BiographyDiana Mary Mitchell
… , or what was then known as Salisbury, Southern Rhodesia, on 16 November 1932 [i] . She was famous for many things, but … and Elliot obtained a divorce in…
BiographyIndres Naidoo
… joined the South African Communist Party (SACP) in 1961. On 17 April 1963, he was arrested with two other Indians - … in the shoulder before capture and…
BiographyJabulani “Mzala” Nxumalo
… Jabulani Nxumalo, better known as Comrade Mzala, was born on 27 October 1955, in Dundee, Northern Natal. His parents … disguised as a reporter (“Jabulani…
BiographyLeo Rbc Francois
… painting in Rome and London. He first came to SA in 1891 on the advice of Cecil Rhodes, but left in 1896. Eighteen … In 1914 he moved to Durban, where he was…
BiographyVice Admiral Refiloe Johannes Mudimu
… Vice Admiral J. Mudimu was born on 6 March 1954 in Sophiatown (Johannesburg). He joined the … in 1975. A student leader in 1976, he left South Africa on 14…
BiographyLennox Sebe
… Lennox Sebe was born on 26 June 1926. He completed his matric at the Lovedale … This independence was endorsed by the referendum on 4 December 1980. On 05…
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…
BiographyJohannes (Joe) Modise
… and comrades, was born in Doornfontein, Johannesburg, on 23 May 1929. He was the only child of Miriam and Ezekiel … income. His parents impressed the…
BiographyDr. Walter Benson Rubusana
… Walter Benson Rubusana was born on 21 February 1858 at Mnandi in the Somerset East district … to Lovedale, the Free Church of Scotland mission school on the…
A Farewell To Madiba! National Assembly, Cape Town, March 26,1999.
… to look too much into the future is to impose a burden on bones that have grown old. You leave us here not because … home. You have not asked - who indeed…
PlaceSimon's Town, Cape Peninsula
… place in an Annexure of the Naval Museum in Simon’s Town on Saturday 20 July. Naval Base- Simon’s Town is also South … Town. Simon’s Town blaze:…
PlaceDiamond Hill Battle, Garden of Remembrance
… The site of the Battle of Diamond Hill, which took place on the 11th and 12th June 1900, in which 14000 British … Nineteen British soldiers and three Boers…
PlaceuMnambithi was called Ladysmith
… fell under siege from October 1899 to March 1900. Set on the banks of the Klip River, and named after: 'Sir Harry … in 1850 and served as a staging-post for…
EventP.W. Botha becomes Prime Minister
… been an article of faith for the National Party (NP) since 1948. The new prime minister told his fellow Whites that they …
ANC Youth League Manifesto 1944
… of a set of conflicting living conditions and outlooks on life which seriously hamper South Africa's progress to … individuals in it are but tiny organisms…
ArticleWomen’s Workplace Oppression in 1970s South Africa by Cait Chapman
… burden of disabilities. They are discriminated against on the grounds of both sex and race. The two kinds of … who had once tended to their farms and lived…
BiographyJanet Mary Cherry
… with its worker advice office. She played a central role on the support committees of the 1980 Meat Workers strike and … a State of Emergency in 1985 , which…
Chapter 3
… false than this ridiculous picture of heroic resistance on the part of the English to the irresistible tide of … and suggestions provided they are made in…
BiographyPeter Becker
… he spent a great deal of time with the black workers on his father's farm. It was in their company that his … at the FD Roosevelt Primary School in…
BiographyCyril Matamela Ramaphosa
… was born in Johannesburg , Transvaal (now Gauteng) on 17 November 1952. He is the second of the three children … for 11 months under section 6 of the…
BiographyEsther Barsel
… Born in Raguva, Lithuania on 17 October 1924, Esther Barsel (nee Levin) came to South … of the Soviet Union in the 1940s. Their romance blossomed on the long…
BiographyFather Trevor Huddleston
… Father Trevor Huddleston was born on 15 June 1913 in Chaucer Road, Bedford, England to Ernest … gave Hugh Masekela his first trumpet, passing it on from…
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…