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Patric Tariq “de Goede” Mellet
… Mellet, Patric Tariq. Date of Birth: 1956 Place of Birth: Areas of Woodstock and District six, Cape Town, South Africa … Khoi parents, married two French…
PlaceCape Town, Western Province
… South Africa —which also marked the beginning of the South African slave trade . It was Home to perhaps the World’s most … already been established as…
ArchiveApartheid Super Spy, Craig Williamson’s Trails of Death and Destruction: The Scandinavian Connection, (Responses to recent exposures in Jyllands Posten) by Prithiraj Dullay
… two assassination attempts on my life and that of my family. I had been beaten up, my telephone tapped and mail … out to neighbouring Botswana for a meeting…
ArchivePhotography pundit David Goldblatt takes ex-offender portrait series to British jails by Matsepo, 2 June 2017
… South African photographer David Goldblatt (87) has installed … Goldblatt’s work is also in a display of Jean Pigozzi’s African art collection, on view at…
Chief Albert Luthuli Centenary Lecture by President Jacob Zuma, 7 September 2012, Kimberley, Northern Cape
… Members, Leaders of the Tripartite Alliance, The Luthuli Family, I am greatly honoured to deliver this centenary … humility, given the stature of this…
BiographyEdson Sithole
… in 1980) to qualify as a lawyer, and co-founded Rhodesia’s African Bar Association in 1973. Sithole was an anti-colonial … 50 years ago. He was one of the…
BiographyCarol Moses
… Tricameral parliament (a name that was given to South African Parliament from 1984 to 1994, which included Coloured … She was also an active member of the…
BiographyVivienne Ncakeni
… became one of the most outspoken members of the Transvaal African Teachers\' Association, serving on the TATA executive … and speaker at some of the…
EventCommunity leader James Sofasonke Mpanza is born
… founder of the Sofasonke Party and a champion for better housing for Johannesburg's Blacks, was born in Georgedale, … Verwey, E.J. (ed)(1995). New Dictionary…
BiographyDan Sleigh
… South African novelist and historian Daniel (Dan) Sleigh was born … path to his grandfathers, when he enrolled in the South African Navy after matriculating…
BiographyArthur Butelezi
… Butelezi wanted to abolish notions that: ‘”¦ no African – not even a culturally Europeanised one – was …
BiographyVuyani “The Beast” Bungu
… to avenge his defeat in May 1990 to capture the South African title and went on to defend it successfully five … Former South African & IBF Junior…
BiographyT. J. Lemon
… editor and contributor "Review" journalism Awards 2001 CNN African Journalist of the year, Mohamed Amin photographic …
BiographySimon Moroke Lekgetho
… shells, knuckle bones and stones give a significantly African dimension to still-life painting. He died in …
BiographyBarend Jacobus Du Plessis
… Technical College. Eventually he was employed by the South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) as administrative … Gastrow, S. (1987). Who’s Who in South…
BiographyMandla Nkosi
… art in South Africa’ and ‘Eleven contemporary Black South African Artists’. Better known works of his include Cry the …
BiographyJonathan Neil Rhodes
… February 2003, Rhodes announced his resignation from South African class A cricket to play in Gloucestershire, England … Former South African Test and One…
BiographySokhaya Charles Nkosi
… prize for painting). Collections: KC; Munich Museum of African Art, West Germany; UFH; UZ. …
Sizakele Sigxashe
… Sigxashe was born on 21 June 1937. Sigxashe joined the African National Congress (ANC) in 1959 and became involved …
ArchiveAppendix 2 The Political Landscape of Cape Town, by Dr Z. Pallo Jordan
… character from its earliest days. Though undoubtedly African, like the other historic African port cities: Cairo, … the Union in 1909, weighted rural at the…
Archive2012 - President Zuma, State of the Nation, 9 February 2012
… of our country, the centenary of the ruling party, the African National Congress. In marking this occasion we are … The mid-term review indicated steady…
ArchiveThe Little Freedom Fighter with the Ponytail by Greg Ardé
… a personal student loan of R3 000 he has made to "an African student" and "R4 000 for fireworks during Diwali" … celebrations. He says there is "extreme"…
EventA bomb blast rocks the ANC London office
… On this day the African National Congress (ANC) headquarters in London, … bombed. General Johann Coetzee, former head of the South African security police,…
EventWalter Sisulu acts against Sophiatown forced removals
… African National Congress (ANC) member Walter Sisulu acted as … not to allow themselves to be removed from the Western areas. This came after a series of…
EventIEC extends election dates
… Electoral Commission (IEC) to extend polling by one day in areas plagued by voting problems. These included KwaZulu, … and Ciskei. This meant that voting in…
Mashwabada Victor ''Castro'' Mayatula
… in the Transkei,attended Lovedale and was a member of the African National Congress Youth League (ANCYL) in the late … independent sect that later became an…
ArticleThe Grey Street Mosque, 1880-1930
… males met. Mosques also dominated the skyline in most urban centres and became the most visible symbol of the … were co-heirs of Aboobaker’s estate and took…
ArticleSouthern Methodist University Partnership Project - 2012 submissions
… fashion design, fiction writing, drawing, and African/African-American history and culture. Project: The Failure … things are traveling, enjoying friends,…
PlaceHermanus
… site in the Country; as the official photographer to South African Railways . In 1919, he retired to Hermanus, which he … in the World. It was during this…
BiographyJanub Gool
… Unity Movement (NEUM) and an active figure in the All African Convention and the Anti-CAD (anti-Coloured Affairs … Banned in October 1961 after helping to…