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BiographyHugh Masekela
… Hugh Ramopolo Masekela was born on 4 April 1939 in Witbank, near Johannesburg . Masekela … first youth orchestra. In his early days as a teenager on the…
BiographyPandelani Jeremia Nefolovhodwe
… Pandelani Jeremia Nefolovhodwe was born on 2 February 1947 in Folovhodwe village in the Northern … African Student Organisation (SASO). After SASO was banned…
Henry Mutile Fazzie
… Henry Mutile Fazzie was born on 3rd of January in 1924 in Stutterheim. Fazzie went into … weSizwe (MK) and underwent military training in Ethiopia. On his…
BiographyHilary Mutch
… Hilary Mutch (née Hilary Claire) was born on 4 November 1941 in Erith, south-east London into a Jewish … Mutch joined the African Resistance Movement (ARM)…
BiographyCarl Niehaus
… Carl Niehaus was born on 25 December 1959 and grew up in Zeerust, North West … for the ANC, and from 1992 until the General Election on 27 April 1994 he was…
BiographySheena Duncan
… Sheena Duncan was born in Johannesburg on 7th of December in 1932 and was the eldest of the five … (then Rhodesia) and she lived there for eight years. On…
BiographyMaggie Mikula
… Maggie Mikula was born in Durban on 19 August 1941. She attended St Mary’s School in Durban and matriculated in 1959. She then went on to study for a…
BiographyHugh Lewin
… apartheid. Upon his release in 1971, he left the country on a "permanent departure permit". He spent 10 years in exile … of the Truth and Reconciliation…
BiographyThomas Maclear
… Thomas Maclear was born on 17 March 1794 in Newton Steward, Ireland. He trained to be … Society of astronomers. Maclear arrived in South Africa on 5 January…
BiographyChristopher Nceba Faku
… Christopher Nceba Faku was born on 11 February 1956 in New Brighton, Port Elizabeth. Faku … matric in 1978 while serving a thirteen years’ prison term on …
BiographyEdward “Eddie” Webster
… Edward Webster was born on 29 March 1942 and educated at Selborne College. He … award for the best scholarly monograph published on labour in 2008. He…
BiographyLeoni Marinovich
… Village of the Spirits, for SABC2 (2001), a 52 minute film on the Eritreain liberation struggle (yet to be broadcast, … possibly Canadian Broadcasting Corp.)…
Mooroogiah Dhanapathy Naidoo
… lawyer who was an active opponent of apartheid, died on June 1 in his birthplace, Durban, South Africa. He was 75. His death was reported on Saturday by the…
Communique of the Second National Consultative Conference of the ANC, presented by O. R. Tambo at a Press Conference, Lusaka 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…
BiographyEugène Ney Terre’Blanche
… in Ventersdorp to staunchly Afrikaner nationalist parents on January 31, 1944. The progenitor of the Terre'Blanche name … public persona. He would often…
Archive2015 - President Zuma, Response to the State of the Nation Address, 19 February 2015
… Delivered by President Jacob Zuma on Thursday in response to the State of the Nation Address … system of colonialism and apartheid. They devoted their lives…
EventThe Algerian War of Independence begins
… On the 1 November 1954, small units of Algerians organized by … and Algerian citizens as their relationship was based on racial violence. The Algerian war…
EventWW2: A German bomb fired off Algeria’s coast sinks British transport ship (HMT Rohna) carrying US soldiers.
… to various war-zone destinations during World War II. On that fateful day the Rohna carried 2388 souls on board, including 195 crewmembers. The ship was…
EventWW2: Italy invades Ethiopia
… Abyssinia (now Ethiopia) the African country situated on the horn of Africa. Mussolini claimed that his policies of … between Italian and Abyssinian troops…
Cutting Through The Mountain
… being Jewish has meant to them, and how it was impacted on their unfolding lives. The Interviews are honest and compelling. They reveal … events,…
BiographyEli Weinberg
… Weinberg was born in 1908 in the port of Libau, in Latvia on the Baltic Sea. He experienced the First World War and the … developments in his home country,…
BiographyPeter McKenzie
… Peter Michael McKenzie was born on 10 February 1955, in Durban, Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal). He … for various publications, travelling widely and went on to…
BiographyBilly Paddock
… became involved in student politics, as Projects Officer on the Students Representative Council (SRC), becoming one of … and the urgent need for the world to…
BiographyDr. Zacharias “Zac” Johannes De Beer
… Zac de Beer was born on 11 October 1928. He was the second of four children of … Party (PP). He sold his practice in order to concentrate on politics full…
BiographyKing Dingane ka Senzangakhona
… or early career. Instead, Dingane enters the record when on the 22 of September 1828 he, with the assistance of his … which formed the kraal, but were also…
Joint Communique of the Meeting of the National African Federated Chambers of Commerce and the ANC by O. R. Tambo, Lusaka, 27 May 1986
… to continuing these efforts. For that reason - and acting on the decisions and spirit of its national council, which were endorsed by its …
PlaceThe Mead and Meadway, Pinelands-Cape Town
… is served by two Railway Stations: Pinelands Station on the Western edge of the suburb and Mutual Station on the Northern edge. The suburb is bisected from…
BiographyDora Tamana
… the eldest of seven children. Her childhood centred mainly on the many tasks demanded of a young girl growing up in … South Africa. Tamana and her four…
Jail
… From the book: My Spirit Is Not Banned by Frances Baard and Barbie Schreiner … skirt, and they give you a mat and blankets for sleeping on. There's a bell,…
BiographyYazeed Kamaldien
… working in Cape Town, South Africa. In 1998 he embarked on a four-year journalism BTech degree at Peninsula … he completed in 2001. Part of the course was a…