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Address by the Chairperson of the Non-Aligned Movement, President Thabo Mbeki of South Africa, to the NAM Ministerial Meeting United Nations, New York, 23 September 1999
Madame Chair, Distinguished Ministers, Excellencies and Distinguished Guests, In my capacity as the Chair of the Non-Aligned Movement, it is indeed an honour…
BiographyMaxwell Mduduzi Malinga
Maxwell Mduduzi Malinga, was one of South Africa’s most gifted and beloved fighters in the 1970s and 80s. He was born on 09 November 1947 at Steadville,…
BiographyJock Leyden
He was born in Grangemouth, Scotland. He settled in Durban which was to be his home for the rest of his life. He attended part-time art classes at the Natal…
BiographyIsmail Vadi
Ismail Vadi was born in 1960 in Kliptown where the historic Congress of the Congress was held in 1955. He matriculated at the Trinity Secondary School in…
BiographyDirk Johannes Coetzee
Dirk Johannes Coetzee was born in 1945. The son of a postmaster, he grew up in the Northern Cape. Coetzee and Generals Jan Viktor and Jac Buchner started…
PlaceBokoni, Mpumalanga
If you drive through Mpumalanga with an eye on the landscape flashing by, you may see, near the sides of the road and further away on the hills above and in…
BiographyJohn Stephen Gomas
John Stephen Gomas was born on 8th April 1901 near Malmesbury in the Western Cape.He was the only child of divorced mother,he completed most of his school…
BiographyArthur Butelezi
Butelezi was educated at the Wesleyan Methodist School, Volks rust where he received drawing lessons. He then attended Kinlinton Training School in Pretoria…
Out of the Fire to Find New Fetters: The Violence of Poverty in a Shack Settlement: Paper Presented at the Black Sash National Conference 1991
Out of the Fire to Find New Fetters: The Violence of Poverty in a Shack Settlement: Paper Presented at the Black Sash National Conference on 3 March 1991…
The First South African side to play in the sub-continent: Boer Prisoners of War in 1901 (Part 1 of 2) by Arunabha Sengupta (Cricket Country), 12 October 2015
The Colts from Colombo and the Boer prisoners-of-war who played a two-day match in July 1901. Back (left to right): Phillipus Ooosthuizen (scorer – Boers),…
Blessing Mabaso
In 2000, amnesty was granted to Mathys Botha, Johannes Steyn and Laurence Wasserman for killing of Blessing Mabaso, Brian Memela, Luvuyo Mgobozi and…
Extract from a speech made in the House of Assembly on 4 February 1974 in reply to a motion of no confidence in the Government by the Leader of the Opposition
The beginning of 1974 was characterised by confusion and uncertainly in international relations. There was the Watergate scandal in which President Nixon of…
BiographyIsmail Chota Meer
Ismail Chota Meer (known as IC) was born September 5, 1918 in the small town of Waschbank in Northern Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal). His father was a trader. He…
BiographyMargaret Singana
Margaret Singana was born Margaret Mcingana on 1st January in 1938 in Queenstown in the Eastern Cape. In the 1950s Margaret moved to Johannesburg in search of…