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BiographyDawood Seedat
Dawood Seedat (1916-1976) was the grandson of a Ladysmith, Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal) trader M.E. Seedat, who had nine children, one of whom, Ahmed, moved to…
ArticleChieftaincy and Kingship in South Africa
… and downward accountability. [i] As its authority places community before individuals, it constitutes a … support base largely from Zulu ethnic groups. The…
BiographyIsaiah Stein
Isaiah Stein was born to a Coloured family in Durban in 1931, the son of a pastor and property developer. After both his parents died, during his teens, he…
BiographyKalushi Drake Koka
Kalushi Drake Koka was bornin Pietersburg on the 9th of June,1927. He enrolled for teacher training after completing his matric. In 1960, he became actively…
BiographyBarbara Anne Hogan
Barbara Hogan was born on 28 February 1952 and grew up in Benoni. After completing her primary school education, Hogan enrolled and completed her matric at St…
BiographyEvelina de Bruin
Evelina de Bruin was born on 25 December 1933, and she grew up in the small town of Postmasburg, Northern Cape. In the early days of her life, her parents…
BiographyLeon Levy
Leon Levy was born on 7 August 1929 in Johannesburg, Transvaal (now Gauteng Province), South Africa, to Mary and Mark Levy, immigrants from Lithuania. Levy and…
BiographyKing Goodwill Zwelithini kaBhekuzulu
King Goodwill Zwelithini kaBhekuzulu was born in July 1948 at Nongoma, Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal - KZN). He is the eldest son of King Cyprian Bhekuzulu…
BiographyAaron Mosibudi Mangena
Aaron Mosibudi Mangena was born on 7th of August 1947 in Tzaneen, in the Northern Province (now Limpopo) to Tlodipyane Makwela and Tebele Rephard Mangena.The…
PlaceUmlazi
… would be exorbitantly high, far more than their previous places of residence. In response, opposition and rioting … was established as a Black township and…
BiographyAnthony Sampson
Anthony Sampson was educated at Westminster School and Christ Church in Oxford, and served on the Royal Navy from 1944-7. In 1951, due in part to his…
BiographyHugh Masekela
Hugh Ramopolo Masekela was born on 4 April 1939 in Witbank, near Johannesburg. Masekela showed musical ability from a young age, and began to play piano as a…
BiographyWilliam Frederick Nkomo
Frederick Nkomo was born in Makapanstad near Pretoria in 1915. He was the son of a Methodist minister, Abraham Nkomo, and attended primary school in Mafikeng…
BiographyLetsau Nelson Diale
Nelson Diale was born on 1st January 1936 at Ga-Masemola in Limpopo where he spent most of his childhood years. He attended school in Sekobetlane Maphutha. In…
BiographyAndries Hendrik Potgieter
Andries Hendrik Potgieter was born in the Graaff Reinet district in the Cape Colony on the 19th of December 1792. He was the second child of Petronella…
BiographyJob Patja Kekana
Jon Patja Kekana was born on 1 January 1916. He grew up on a rural homestead outside of Potgietersrus, now known as Mokopane, in Limpopo province. Kekana’s…
BiographyEdward 'Eddie' John Daniels
Eddie Daniels was born on 25 October 1928 in District 6, Cape Town where also grew up and attended Sydney Street School. District 6 was one of the so-called …
Henry Mutile Fazzie
Henry Mutile Fazzie was born on 3rd of January in 1924 in Stutterheim. Fazzie went into exile in the early 1960s. He joined Umkhonto weSizwe (MK) and underwent…
BiographyHilda Bernstein
Hilda Bernstein (nee Watts) was born in London in 1915. She was educated at state schools. Her father was a committed Bolshevik and non-religious jew,that had…
ArticleA Culture of Survival
… working in the mines or the factories. Shebeens were also places to relax and escape from the harsh realities of urban …
EventPortuguese navigator Bartholomew Dias erects the first stone cross on the South African coast
… down the African coast again, landing in among other places present-day Angola and Walvis Bay, Namibia. During …
ArticleDutch settlement, the Indian Ocean slave trade and slavery at the Cape - seventeenth and eighteenth centuries
… where slaves came from. Image source Activity 4 Name 6 places from which slaves were captured and brought to the … the Afrikaans language The slaves came…
Archaeology: A Way of Rediscovering the Past
… the people they are interested in. This means looking for places or sites where people lived and left behind traces of …
Pledging to Debate History: Values and education
… a legacy it should not be freedom monuments, but rather places of learning that will embody all that is good and …
ArticleA history of prison labour in South Africa
… Africa operated on the understanding that prisons were places of punishment which was mainly executed through forced …
ArticleLearning about history through people: oral history
… pools. We played table tennis and badminton at various places where social activities were held. We also played so …
ArchiveFighting retrenchment
… Retrenchment Is cAused by the free market system that places profit before people. But with organisation we can …
Extract from a speech made in the House of Assembly on 21 May 1962 during the second reading of the General Law Amendment Bill
… who said that South Africa is one of the most peaceful places in the whole of Africa. I should like to keep it so. … at practically the same time in seven or…
BiographyCecil John Rhodes
… University to establish the Rhodes scholarships to provide places at Oxford for students from the United States, the …
BiographyHorst Gerhard Hermann Kleinschmidt
Horst Gerhard Hermann Kleinschmidt was born on 17 October 1945 in Swakopmund, Namibia. At the age of four his family moved to Johannesburg where he grew up…