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BiographyJune Rose Nala
… the Frame Group textile plant. She described her first day on the job in The Road to Democracy in South Africa : We were … going to be about R6 to 8...The…
BiographyFrederick John Harris
… Olympic Committee (SANROC) started by Dennis Brutus. On July 24, 1964, he planted a bomb in the Johannesburg … amongst the white population.Harris was caught…
BiographyFatima Seedat
… Fatima Seedat was born in the Strand, Cape Town on 14 October 1922. She attended Trafalgar High school up to … Rahima Moosa she became politically active as…
Address by President Thabo Mbeki at the 40th anniversary of Inkosi Albert Luthuli`s passing away, 4 November 2007, Thembeni, Ilembe District Municipality, Kwazulu-Natal
… the government fully realises that the award was not made on merit". Obviously, to John Vorster it would have been … In the millions of huts of corrugated…
PlaceFree State Province
… with agriculture central to its economy, while mining on the rich goldfields reefs is its largest employer. In May … ancient drawing speaks of the animals…
Say It out Loud - The 1906 Presidential Address, Cape Town, 2nd January, 1906
… The President extended a cordial welcome to the delegates on behalf of the local branch of the organisation, who, he … actions, and the actions of a small…
BiographyViolet Sarah Matlou (née Phiri)
… Violet Sarah Matlou (nee Phiri) was born on 4 April 1920 in Rustenburg . She started her schooling in … Matlou to Tanganyika ( Tanzania ) in 1963, she had to…
BiographyBen Baartman
… in the Eastern Province (now Eastern Cape) town of Molteno on 1 March 1924. He worked on the mines around Johannesburg, joined the African … in Worcester…
BiographyBaleka Mbete-Kgositsile
… Baleka Kgositsile was born on the 24 September 1949 in Claremont, Durban . She spent her … lost his position when the government imposed a crackdown on all…
PlacePhilippolis, Free State
… an immediate sense of stillness overtakes, of slow, quiet lives untroubled by the outside world. On Voortrekker Road, the town’s main street, Victorian…
Working Life - Factories, Township and Popular Culture 1886 - 1940 - Introduction
… Today, just over a century after the discovery of gold on the Rand, the nature of South Africa’s future is in the … life in the past, and allow us to judge…
BiographyDr. Neil Hudson Aggett
… Neil Hudson Aggett was born in Nanyuki, Kenya on 6th October 1953, the first-born child of Aubrey and Joy … for 62 hours before his death. He died in…
BiographySamora Machel
… The new revolutionary government, led by Machel, took over on June 25, 1975. Machel became independent Mozambique's … was strangled by these depredations and…
BiographySheila Lapinsky (nee Barsel)
… no interaction with Black people, therefore, her opinions on Black people were largely based on what she had been taught. It was at the liberal Wits … from…
BiographyBhawani Sannyassi Dayal
… from 1929 to 1932, when in 1931/32 he worked as an editor on the staff of the Aryavarta in Bihar. Dayal represented … to be admitted to the Order of…
BiographySadie Forman
… – five days after the birth of their third child, Sara – on the operating table of heart transplant pioneer Christiaan … her the job. Although the police…
BiographyReverend Mcebisi Osman Xundu
… The Reverend Mcebisi Osman Xundu was born on the 11 June 1934, at Engcobo, Transkei, one of seven … the late Rev. James Calata, an Anglican priest who served…
ArchiveEulogy at funeral of Dr Mantombazana Tshabalala-Msimang, by Jacob Zuma, 22 December 2009, The Cathedral of Sacred Heart, Pretoria
… leadership, Father Phumlani Masuku, Fellow South Africans, On the 16th of December, we paid a special tribute to the … South Africans, who have experienced…
ArchiveANC 2019 Election Manifesto
… and grow South Africa. Over the past 25 years, the lives of the people of South Africa have changed for the … In the past five years the number of HIV…
BiographyPeter Engblom
… a century and a half ago. Of Lapp descent he was born on a sugar plantation and, after matriculating in Zululand, … the Zulu people entitled A Land called…
BiographyJoel Sibisi
… was born at Rorke's Drift. After leaving school he worked on farms in the Dundee area. In 1970-71 he attended the ELC … of his pots. He exhibited at the…
ArticleA History of the South African Film Industry timeline 1895-2003
… Kinetescopes in South Africa were opened to the public on 19 April 1895 in Herwoods Arcade on Pritchard and … church-funded CARFO/KARFO film company was…
PlaceUniversity of the Witwatersrand, (Wits)
… as the University of the Witwatersrand and took effect on 1 March. Seven months later the inauguration of the … became the University's first Chancellor, and…
BiographyBonisile John Kani
… Bonisile John Kani was born on 30 August 1943 in New Brighton, Port Elizabeth. He … and internationally. In 1974 Kani and Winston went on tour with Sizwe…
BiographyNöel Robb
… N ö el Robb (nee Barrow) was born on 25 December 1913, in Plymouth, England. She was the third … she accepted, remaining at this school for four years. On 28…
"What I would do if I were Prime Minister" by Albert Luthuli, 5 February 1962, Chicago
… Nothing but such a democratic form of government, based on the parliamentary system, will satisfy. Land reform There … The aim will be to build this welfare…
BiographyCecilia Makiwane
… enrolled, even though she had her teacher’s certificate. On completion, she and the other student she enrolled with … for general nurses of the Colonial…
BiographyLaduma Ncwaba Mikaeli Madela
… his autobiographical writings and illustrations, from 1951 on. He worked briefly on the railways in 1927, which he does not mention in his … revelations in…
BiographyLulu Dube
… read. “Today we can see far primarily because we stand on the shoulders of giants, heroes and heroines for which … She passed away in Durban’s Inkosi Albert…
BiographyYusuf Joe Jacobs
… Yusuf (Joe) Jacobs was born in District Six, Cape Town on 17 September 1940. His father was Ismail Jacobs, a … field, in the Transkei, southern Natal and…