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BiographyBenjamin Magson Kies
… Introduction Benjamin Magson Kies was an important South African political activist and theorist from about the middle … Africa. His father, a factory worker…
Archive2002 - President Mbeki, State of the Nation Address, 8 February 2002
… behind those in Europe. Remarkable new finds by South African archaeologists at Blombos Cave in the southern Cape … frontiers of poverty, the Integrated…
ArticleIndenture: A new system of slavery?
… and another for the Indian." Polak singles out the family of T.B. Robinson of Cato Manor as being of "evil … back to India, prospective repatriates from up…
BiographyReggie Williams
… sanctions against South Africa was initiated at the All-African Peoples ’ Conference in Accra, Ghana 1958. The … racial policies at the time. At the same…
BiographyNgila Micheal Muendane
… founder and Executive Member of SOULTALK, as well as the African Institute for Personal Excellence and Leadership … Non-aligned Movement, Anti-Apartheid…
WE HAVE THE KEY TO FREEDOM NOT THE OPPRESSOR, December 16, 1957
… Address to the Forty-fifth Annual Conference of the African National Congress, Orlando, Johannesburg, December … the movement of whites in the so-called…
History of Muslims in South Africa: 1804 - 1899 by Ebrahim Mahomed Mahida
… present" to Paay Schaapie [Tuan Nuruman] "for him and his family as a burial ground" by General Janssen who was the … obstacles in the spread of Islam in the…
Safety and security issues
… domestic violence is not limited to female members of the family, statistics show that women are most affected by this … father is the only source of income,…
ArticleThabo Mbeki (1942 - ) Timeline
… Taylor Street Secondary School. 1935 Govan Mbeki joins the African National Congress (ANC) 1938 Govan Mbeki receives a … child Jama. 1953 Fire destroys Thabo…
PlacePhilippi
… The city wants to develop this land for industry and housing. With the ever-increasing number of people moving into Philippi, the demand for housing is…
Message of the National Executive Committee of the ANC, delivered by Mr. Tambo, at the funeral of Dr. Yusuf M. Dadoo, 01 September 1983, London
… here to pay homage to an outstanding leader of the African liberatory struggle, a comrade and friend who devoted … Mohamed Dadoo was a first-born in a…
Appendix II: About Dr. Dadoo, delivered by Oliver Tambo
… here to pay homage to an outstanding leader of the African liberatory struggle, a comrade and friend who devoted … Mohamed Dadoo was a first-born in a…
The melody of freedom
… of apartheid. Fear of revolutionary songs, fear of South African jazz, fear of mbaqanga, fear of guma, fear of all those kinds of non-biased and authentic…
ArticlePartial State of Emergency, July 1985
… districts in the Eastern Cape and PWV (now Gauteng ) areas. This was the first State of Emergency since 1960, and … schools and colleges. The UDF and…
BiographyNicolaas Cornelius Carstens
… Nico Carstens was a popular South African composer of accordion music. He got his first …
BiographyAndrew Michael Boraine
… 1976.In the 1980s he became the underground member of the African National Congress (ANC) and in 1978 he was elected … Gastrow, S. (1987). Who\'s Who in…
BiographyLeng Dixon
… enough to be included on the large exhibition of South African art held at London's Tate Gallery in 1948. His work …
BiographyIsaac Zakes Nkosi
… bread”) developed to become an important genre of South African music. It is a blend of various styles, of which …
BiographyAidan Walsh
… outles where he displayed and promoted the work of South African artists. He was Curator of the NSA Gallery, Durban … South African Art Times, (2009), The…
BiographyKhotso Seatlholo
… the country to recruit and garner support for the South African Youth Revolutionary Council (SAYCRO, the military …
BiographyEdward “Eddie” Webster
… curriculum and staff development (particularly of young, African scholars). Webster transformed it into the leading …
BiographyJerry Dibanhlele Khumalo
… in Germiston and Wolmaransstad. He was active in the African National Congress (ANC) as a Freedom Volunteer in …
EventBevil Rudd, the Olympic gold, silver and bronze medalist
… Bevil Gordon d’Urban Rudd was born on 5 October 1894 in Kimberley, Northern … College in Grahamstown.[iii] He became the first South African to win a full…
EventArrival of Chinese labourers in South Africa
… in part, was the result of the Anglo-Boer War (South African War) of 1899-1902, that had displaced large numbers … strengthening ties between Portugal and…
Glossary: Transport through time
… ourselves. Rural In or of the countryside. The opposite is urban, which means in or of the town or city. Steam boiler A …
BiographyDarius Segatle
… for the burning of passes, being a member of the ANC [ African National Congress ], and having said: ‘Being an African, I am a member of all African…
BiographyAbdool Kader Hassim
… arrest and again in 1980. By 1964, he was a member of African Peoples Democratic Union of South Africa (APDUSA) . … APDUSA and thereby to win funding from…
BiographyJustice Gizenga Mpanza
… were held at Beatrice Street. As a result, he joined the African National Congress (ANC). Inspired by the Mpondoland … Revolutionary Army (ZIPRA), an armed…
BiographyJohn O’ Malley
… in the army and later an executive on the mines in South African and Northern Rhodesia, currently called (Zambia). … II had been broken out. O'Malley thus…
BiographyMargaret Mary Smith
… and in 1939 he was the leading authority on South African Marine Fisheries. While accompanying her husband on … academic also received two silver medals from…