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Biographyde Villiers Graaff
Sir de Villiers Graaff (Div) was born on 8 December 1913 in Cape Town, Western Cape. He attended Western Province Preparatory School, Claremont, Cape Town from…
BiographyBaden Powell
Baden Powell or BP was born Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden Powell was born on the 22 February 1857, the son of Professor Baden Powell, of Oxford University. His…
BiographyWilliam “Bloke” Modisane
William 'Bloke' Modisane was born on 28 August 1923. He grew up in Sophiatown, a multiracial suburb in Johannesburg. His father was murdered and sister died…
BiographyRicardo Rangel
… Nightly Bread , Marimbique, Maputo. Available on Google Books . [Accessed 18 May 2015]| R. (2002) Foto-jornalismo ou … , Imprensa Universitária, UEM, Maputo…
ArticleStaffrider magazine (1978-1993)
… Press and founding Staffrider. He was also a poet. His books include Whitewashes (1971), written with Christopher … Staffrider Series, low cost (maximum R3)…
BiographyAlbertina Nontsikelelo Sisulu
… to the government’s attempts to extend pass laws and pass books to women and a demonstration was organized at … she had been when others had applied for…
BiographyJacobus du Toit
Du Toit, a prolific author, wrote the first Afrikaans history book and as an Afrikaner nationalist he became one of the founders of the Afrikaans language…
Breyton Paulse makes history by playing in his fiftieth Test for the Boks, a record for a Springbok wing in the Test against Ir
Anglo-Boer War 2: Gen. Ben Viljoen and seven men are ambushed and captured by the British. His pocket book saves his life b
ArticleAnti-pass campaigns, 1910s
… special entry permits, permits to seek work and reference books all fell into the general category of the ‘pass'. Until … rural areas and reserves were…
BiographyFrank Chikane
Frank Chikane, the son of James and Erenia Chikane, was born on 3 January 1951 in Johannesburg. His father was a preacher in the Apostolic Faith Mission (AFM)…
ArticleDistrict Six is Declared a ‘White Area’
… for District Six: Past and Present (Cape Town: Buchu Books, 1990) p.36. ↵ [iii] Crain Soudien, The struggle for District Six: Past and Present (Cape Town:…
Alfred ‘Tough’ Hutchinson
Alfred ‘Tough’ Hutchinson was born of coloured and Swazi parents in 1924 in the Hectorspruit district of the Eastern Transvaal, he graduated from St. Peter's…
BiographyJean Bernadt (nee Alkin)
Jean Alkin was born on 19 May 1914 in Panevezys, Lithuania. She was the eldest of four children. Jean’s family moved to South Africa when she was about six…
BiographyLionel Forman
Born in 1926 in Rosettenville Forman was a barrister and a journalist. He was author of the first book on the trial, 'You Can Hang For Treason'. Forman headed…
BiographyIsmail Jacob Mohamed
… Every free time he got, he used feverishly, reading his books. The White staff in the dining car resented this. They tore up his books. He fought back. They…
BiographyGavin Jantjes
Gavin Jantjes was born in Cape Town in 1948. He studied at the University of Cape Town's Michaelis School of Fine Art until 1969. On 1970, he received a DAAD…
BiographyLeo Marquard
Leopold ‘Leo’ Marquard was born on 15 June 1897 in Winburg in the Orange Free State. His father was Reverend J. J. T. Marquard of the Dutch Reformed Church and…
European Societies in the Middle Ages
… university. Very few people in Europe could read or write. Books were very expensive and scarce. Most books were written in Latin, a language not spoken by…
BiographyLesley Lawson
One of the founding members of Afrapix, Lesley Lawson was born in Durban in 1952. She matriculated from Durban Girls College and attended the University of…
BiographyTiyo Soga
Tiyo Soga was born in 1829. He was the most famous pupil of the Lovedale missionaries. On a visit to Scotland in 1857, he became the first black South…
ArticlePeter Henry Abrahams timeline 1919 - 1985
… the smithy. 1930 At the age of 11 Abrahams is exposed to books for the first time prompting him to begin to attend … African press and radio choose it as one…
BiographyJaydew Nasib Singh
Jaydew Nasib Singh was born in South Africa about 1920 and graduated in the mid-1940s with a law degree from the University of the Witwatersrand, where he was…
BiographyPatrick Chamusso
Patrick Chamusso will be remembered for his role in the bombing of Sasol’s Secunda power plant in the 1980s as a protest against the apartheid regime. But his…
BiographyJackson Mphikwa Mthembu
… out for not being able to afford school fees, uniforms, books", but this did not deter Mthembu who never lost sight …
Lindiwe Charity Nyembezi Mthembu
… it over to him who would then record it in the official books and put it in a safe. No weapons were handed to him. …
BiographyTim Bruwer
… having been in town without a valid entry in their "pass books" authorising them to be there. As they did not … For the first time in my life I was able to…
BiographyMyron Peter
Myron Peter was born in 1954 in Durban, Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal - KZN). He studied at the University of Durban-Westville (UDW) [now University of KwaZulu…
ArticleSharpeville Timeline
… the PAC calls on Black South Africans to leave their pass books at home and give themselves up at the nearest police … in their mail box instructing them to…
This item by Oliver Tambo was published as the introduction to the book "No Easy Walk to Freedom" by Ruth First, 01 June 1965
MANDELA AND TAMBO said the brass plate on our office door. We practised as attorneys-at-law in Johannesburg in a shabby building across the street from the…