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BiographyMartin Plaut
… Plaut. His father was a furniture designer who had a shop on the Cape Town Foreshore [Plaut Interior Design] and his … from the University of the…
BiographyPaul Stopforth
… was continued by a series of 20 drawings based on the death of Biko. His works around this time give … a control that was hidden behind the benefits bestowed…
BiographyDr. Leander Starr Jameson
… uprising in Johannesburg. He assembled a private army on the Pitsani Strip which was now under the control of the … superior Boer forces forced him and his…
BiographyNandisile Thoko Mpumlwana
… (NGOs) in the 1980s, with her primary focus being on issues that affected Black communities and women in … of America (USA). Although her career has largely…
BiographyPoomoney Moodley
… Poomoney Moodley was born in Mooi River , Natal on 28 June 1926 to Ramsamy Dharamalingam Moodley and … at the Fosa in 1945 at the age of 19. She then went on…
EventFreak storms create havoc in the Eastern Cape and President Mandela narrowly escaped injury
… impossible for officials to issue appropriate warnings. On 15 December 1998 storms in the Eastern Cape unleashed … hailstorms, rainsqualls and lightning,…
Address at the National Youth Day Celebrations, 16 June 2002
… youth of South Africa marched in all parts of the country on a lonely journey for a better education, a transformed … day, we salute them, the children of…
BiographyRashid Lombard
… (now Gqeberha), Eastern Province (now Eastern Cape) on 10 April 1951. In 1962, his family relocated to Cape Town … dedication to promoting jazz music, which…
BiographyDr Nomava Eslinah Shangase
… Nomava Eslinah Shangase was born in Pondoland on 9 May 1931. Shangase qualified as a nurse at King Edward … and the Solomon Mahlangu Freedom College (SOMAFCO…
BiographyMichael Sedgwick
… Michael Sedgwick was born on the 20th February 1958 in Claremont in the Western Cape. He grew up in Hanover Park on the Cape Flats. His school career started…
BiographyPhilemon Masinga
… known by thousands of soccer lovers was born on 28 June 1969 in Klerksdorp, Western Transvaal (North-West … him for using the media for launching a personal…
BiographyManfred Zylla
… adding to his works. More than 200 people came and painted on the artworks while they danced to reggae and ate. Zylla … his queue from the media, and as a…
BiographyJim Bailey
… James Richard Abe Bailey was born in London on 23 October 1919. Bailey was the son of Randlord Sir Abe Bailey and Lady Mary Bailey. He grew up on a country…
BiographyJean Bernadt (nee Alkin)
… Jean Alkin was born on 19 May 1914 in Panevezys, Lithuania. She was the eldest of … the Soviet Union, a communist front organisation founded on the…
ArticleThe Khoisan
… the mid-eighteenth century. Other leaders were Piet Rooi, Jan Kupido, Klaas Lukas and Pofadder. Klaas Lukas, who had … close made it easy for Korana 'raider'…
Address by President Nelson Mandela to the annual conference of the Methodist Church Umtata, 18 September 1994
… their academic and moral teachings could not be trampled on. We who passed through them will not forget the excellent … that our transition achieves the…
ArticlePretoria Timeline 1800-2009
… the seat of government of ZAR 1864 First Raadsaal erected on the corner of Market and Church streets. Pretorius elected … commissioned for use. Prior to this…
Address by the President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki, to The Joint Sitting of Parliament, Palais Du Parliament, Brazzaville, Republic of Congo, 1 December 2005
… and the neighbourhood because this is one of the regions on our continent where we are faced with the major task of … we have an army of millions of…
John Alfons Pandeni
… (Plan) SWAPO fighters who were captured and imprisoned on Robben Island. After his release in 1985, he became the … and Rehabilitation in March 2005. Pandeni…
ArticleArt South Africa Today exhibitions
… and arts patron Vernon Shearer specified his perspective on the larger social implications of the show in his opening … class.’ (Francois 1971) East London…
Siziwe Nosimo Balindlela
… Balindlela was born on 28 November 1949 in the Western Cape at Hermanus , after … of Education. In 1992 Balindlela completed a short course on Distance…
BiographyEric Molobi
… Eric Molobi was born on June 5, 1947. Molobi was imprisoned on Robben Island during the apartheid era. While in prison he … Steffen Robertson and Kirsten …
BiographyIzak de Villiers
… Izak de Villiers was born in Paarl on 30 July 1936. He attended Paarl Gymnasium, a school for … He wrote 54 books, including five of poetry and one on…
BiographyMandla Nkosi
… Mandla Nkosi was born on 13 June 1962 in Pimville, Soweto, the third child of Joyce … in large collages of charcoal and pencil drawings. On 26 June 1987…
Sizakele Sigxashe
… Sizakele Sigxashe was born on 21 June 1937. Sigxashe joined the African National … then worked as Chair of the Intelligence Services Council on Conditions of…
BiographyAlbert Nzula
… abortive efforts of J. T. Gumede to put the organisation on a more radical course. Alcoholism undermined Nzula's … to work for the Communist International as…
ArchiveThe Way History is taught in South Africa is ahistorical, – and that’s a problem by Natasha Robinson (theconversation.com), 7 June 2018
… historian. The second is to develop identity, with a focus on pan-Africanism and nation building. The third is about … own social reality. One Xhosa-speaking…
BiographyDr Gurunathen (Guru) Kistnasamy
… Guru Kistnasamy was born on 28 December 1947 in Felixton, Zululand, Natal (now … led to his involvement in political activism as a student. On 6 September…
BiographyAubrey Levin
… Aubrey Levin was born in Johannesburg on 18 December 1938 to Jewish parents. Despite the National … a letter, asking to appear before the Select Committee on…
Francis Zaccharius Santiago Peregrino
… the first Pan African Congress in London in 1900, and, on the strength of experiences there, he chose to go to Cape Town to propagate Pan African views on…