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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…
BiographyHerbert Hayton Castens
… first rugby captain, and also captain of the first South African cricket team to tour overseas. After completing his … distinction of being the first played…
BiographyPepsi Mahlangu
… Pepsi Mahlangu was the chairperson of the Congress of South African Students (COSAS) in KwaThema, Springs. A member of the African National Congress (ANC)…
BiographyAbdul Samad Minty
… was instrumental in securing the suspension of the South African Olympic Committee from the Olympic movement. In 1969 … Committee of the first United Nations…
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 …
PlaceChatsworth, Suburb of Durban
… to Durban’s identity, and a direct result of the Group Areas Act . View Larger Map Chatsworth comprises an area that … Minister of the Interior. Due to an…
PlaceVictorian dwellings, 135-137 Hatfield Street, Gardens
… to have been erected in 1881 as part of a speculative Housing Development scheme. The land was originally part of …
ArchiveCourt Transcript of statement from the Dock of Nelson Mandela, Pretoria Supreme Court, 20 April 1964
… of my experience in South Africa and my own proudly felt African background, and not because of what any outsider … this person, and consequently I had to…
BiographyS. Mac Lepolesa
… the Orange Free State in the 1940s, he organized for the African National Congress (ANC) and served as the national … From Protest to challenge: A…
ArchiveProgramme of action for the ANC
… campaigns: Violence, Constituent Assembly, Land and Housing, Building organs of people's power, Gangsterism, …
ArticleHighlights for 2013
… South African History Online believes that history is made every … SANDF soldiers. South Africa April 2 2013 Jacob Zuma South African troops to pool out of…
BiographyLionel Mxolisi Majombozi
… One of the group of African medical students at the University of the Witwatersrand who participated in the founding of the African National Congress Youth…
BiographyPeter Kaya Selepe
… , Selepe was born in 1919 and served in the South African army in World War II , attaining the rank of … He was a member of the Springbok Legion and of the …
EventPower Struggle in Zulu hierarchy
… Zulu, a member of the National Executive Council in the African National Congress (ANC). Matters came to head when … the Shaka Day, which is the prerogative…
ArticleThe Padavatan Six and the 1917 Natal Floods
… in 1898. His mother worked as a cook for the Stainbank family. When he was twelve, his mother passed away and the two young brothers were adopted by a seine…
BiographyWilliam George Ballinger
… to the Non-European Conferences, and in 1943 he aided the African National Congress (ANC) in preparing evidence for a …
BiographyMichael Davis
… Davis served his compulsory one-year call-up in the South African Air Force as a medical orderly. Thereafter he studied … South African photographer and…
BiographyAnton van Wouw
… on 20 November 1862. He is regarded as the father of South African sculpture. He decided to move to the developing city …
BiographyDavid Lurie
… & Arts Council of Great Britain awards. Exhibitions 'South African Photographs': 1990 [toured UK] 'Working the Surface …
BiographyKim Ludbrook
… in one day. He has also gained awards at the Fuji South African Press Photographer of the year and had his Biker …
BiographyThys Dullaart
… document the state of negligence by the families of South African elderly people and has sustained a solid personal …
BiographyJameson Gilbert Coka
… In 1935 he launched his own newspaper, the short-lived African Liberator. In 1946 he was among 52 people charged …
BiographyJohn Maxwell Coetzee
… Western Cape town northeast of the famous South African harbour city. Supporters of the liberal South African party of General Jan Smuts , his parents…
The Freedom struggle: Political mobilisation in Port Elizabeth
… which put the Eastern Cape at the forefront of pioneering African political organisations. The first was the emergence a class of black African farmers who…
Archive2008 - President Mbeki, State of the Nation Address, 8 February 2008
… Deputy President of the Republic and President of the African National Congress; Our esteemed Chief Justice and … and geyser load management in households,…
ArchiveCommission of Inquiry into the riots at Soweto and other places in South Africa held on 11 November 1976, Volume 51
… of the Education Department; Dan Meletsi, Chairman of the Urban Bantu Council in Bloemfontein; Stephen Tsatsinyana, … member of a school Board; Koko Matsumi,…
BiographyWessel Johannes “Hansie” Cronje
… was selected as a representative for the all schools South African cricket team in both 1986 and 1987. His made his … the Free State. Cronje made his Test…