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… close Document 6 Africans' claims in South Africa 16 December 1943 (Including 'The Atlantic Charter from … full citizenship. We desire them to realise once…
BiographyCythna Lindenberg Letty
… work she completed over 740 plates for Flowering plants of Africa together with some other work. She was regarded as a …
BiographyEsther Franks
… She was the first female ophthalmologist in South Africa. Blake became concerned about blindness and got … First female Ophthamologist in South Africa …
BiographyDenise Darvall
… went to 10 year old Jonathan van Wyk. In apartheid South Africa that gave rise to some controversy, as the boy was …
BiographyBaron Joachim van Plettenberg
… C. J. van de Graaff. Plettenberg Bay, on South Africa’s eastern coast, was named after the Baron in 1778 …
BiographyHenry Daniel Tyamzashe
… Kadalie he edited The Workers' Herald and later. New Africa, the paper of the Independent Industrial Commercial … the Transvaal, edited The Workers' Herald…
BiographyJopie (Josef Johannes) Fourie
… Louis Botha ’s decision to invade German South West Africa as part of the international war effort against …
BiographyMadie Hall-Xuma
… University. In 1940 she married Xuma and came to South Africa, where she was active in women's organisations and as … A documentary History of African…
BiographyPetrus Nzima Nyawose
… himself was forced into exile. As was the procedure, all exiles were renamed. He was now known as Nzima. Nyawose’s … the Mozambican government which was…
ArticleBlack Consciousness Movement of Azania (BCMA)
… in Soweto witnessed thousands of students leaving South Africa to join liberation organisations (primarily the ANC … for the Soul of Black Consciousness The…
EventFormer NP member Roelf Meyer is born
… politician and National Party (NP) negotiator at the Convention for a Democratic South Africa (CODESA) is born. Together with Cyril Ramaphosa, Roelf …
EventMuntu Myeza, SA anti-apartheid activist, is born.
… joined the first black consciousness organisation in South Africa; South African Students' Organisation (SASO). In 1974, … rally, leading to the arrest of…
EventDay of the African Child
… laid down their lives for the cause of freedom in South Africa. By adopting this day as the Day of the African … attention to the plight, not only of…
Address at the 8th Asean Summit, 5 November 2002
… strengthen the relations between our two regions of Africa and South East Asia. As the Current Chairperson of the … deep appreciation of the fact that early…
BiographySydney Alex Kumalo
… Kumalo was born in the middle of the colonial conquest of Africa, the same year that Benito Mussolini’s foreign armies … to work. During this time, the Black…
BiographyAnton Edward Rupert
… Rupert played a pivotal role in the development of South Africa's industrial and commercial sectors. Not only did he … and initiating significant…
BiographyAlan Stewart Paton
… a Scottish immigrant and civil servant, came to South Africa in 1895 and his mother, Eunice Warder James, was the … same year. His outlook on the political…
BiographyWilliam Frederick Nkomo
… also obtained his BA degree from the University of South Africa (UNISA) while furthering his medical studies. During … of the United Nations Organisation,…
BiographyAlfred Baphetuxolo Nzo
… ANC instructions to work for the movement outside South Africa. Nzo took up posts in various countries including … at the ANC July 1991 National Conference…
BiographyMmapula Mmakgoba “Helen” Sebidi
… techniques. In the celebrated collage pieces Tear of Africa and Where is My Home? The artist renders her subject … professionally, has become a recognized…
BiographyBasil Paul Petersen February
… it was decided that February should come back to South Africa to head a guerrilla unit. He was to re-enter the … as February and his guerrillas were in route…
BiographyJeffry Dumo Baqwa
… defeated by Jerry Modisane for the presindency of South Africa Students Organisation (SASO) but instead he became the … Baqwa was persuaded by Barney Pityana…
PlaceNigel, an East Rand Mining Town
… Area. It is also a designated Important Bird Area in South Africa. Blesbokspruit is the only Ramsar Wetland in the … that have been designated under the…
BiographyJohn Gomas
… of the Cape Town branch of the Communist Party of South Africa (CP) in the late 1920s and was elected to the CPSA …
BiographyPatrick Mosell Molaoa
… himself as a volunteer for military training, left South Africa, and was killed in action in 1968 while serving with a …
Opening address by Albert Luthuli to Conference on Unemployment, Low Wages and Poverty, 21 October 1961, Durban
… potential. The overall picture of the Republic of South Africa is one of colossal material development and … the abundant human resources of her muti-racial…
ArchiveInterview with Lybon Tiyani Mabasa
… School in Soweto, and joined the Black People’s Convention [BPC]. Following the outbreak of the student … Soweto Action Committee within days of the…
EventA Whites-only referendum in SWA gives a support on Black majority.
… A White-only referendum in South West Africa /Namibia gave an overwhelming support for plans for … but also directed more attention towards changes in South…
BiographyWilliam Mothipa (Willie) Madisha
… both in the private and public sectors. Madisha called on all workers to join "this new centre of labour". Madisha …
BiographyMakholeka Matthews Meyiwa
… Nxasana turned state witness and gave evidence they were all sentenced to life imprisonment on Robben Island. Meyiwa … Democracy Education Trust The Road to…