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Biography of Bessie Emery by Elizabeth Venditti
ABSTRACT: Bessie Emery was the first black South African woman to publish a collection of short stories.[i] She was also described as a passionate and…
BiographyLesetja Kganyago
Lesetja kganyago was born in Alexandra Township, Johannesburg, in Gauteng Province in 1965. At the age of five, he moved to Northern Province, now known as…
BiographyWilliam Mothipa (Willie) Madisha
Willie Madisha grew up in the Atteridgeville Township of Pretoria. He completed his high school education in Attridgeville and then studied to become a teacher…
BiographyLeonard Tebogo Tume
Leonard Tebogo Tume, known as Norman Nkosi, was born on 10 April 1957 in Galeshewe, Kimberly. He attended Barkly Road High School and after he left school in…
BiographySiphiwe Tshabalala
Siphiwe Tshabalala was born on 25 September 1984 in Soweto and went on to become one of the most well-loved and best soccer players in South Africa. After…
ArticleJohannesburg the Segregated city
Contents Town & regional planning in Johannesburg Residential development in Johannesburg <a data-cke-saved-href="#Black residential development in…
BiographyPatrick Chamusso
Patrick Chamusso will be remembered for his role in the bombing of Sasol’s Secunda power plant in the 1980s as a protest against the apartheid regime. But his…
BiographyKerr Alexander
Early Life: Alexander Kerr was the first of six children born to William and Elizabeth Findlay Kerr. When he was six years old the Kerr family moved to…
BiographyAnton Muziwakhe Lembede
On 21 March 1914, Lembede was born into a peasant family living on the farm in Eston in Natal. He was baptised as an Anglican. His father, Mbazwana Martin was…
BiographyBettie du Toit
Bettie Du Toit was born on 15 July in 1910, on a farm in the former Transvaal Province. She was orphaned at three when her father died. Her mother had passed…
BiographyMannie Manim
Mannie Manim was born in June 1941, in Cape Town. With more than 50 years’ involvement in theatre, Manim has left indelible imprints in the arts and…
BiographyJohanna (Joey) Hendrina Scheepers
Trade union leader and organizer Johanna Hendrina (Joey) Scheepers was one of the four daughters of Sarel Gerhardus Breitenbach and his wife, Johanna Hendrina…
BiographyHeidi Holland
Heidi Holland was born on 6 October 1947 in Johannesburg, South Africa, the daughter of a British father and a Swiss mother. When she was three years old, the…
BiographyHarry Snitcher
Harry Snitcher was born on 10 May 1911 in Uniondale. His early schooling was in Uniondale and then in Gouda. After the premature death of his father in 1924,…
BiographyHarriet Bolton
Harriet Bolton was born in 1927 in Makwassie in Southern Transvaal, the eldest of four children – a younger brother and two sisters. Her family moved around…
BiographyEnoch Mgijima
When government police ordered Mgijima's followers to remove their settlement from crown lands, they resisted and police opened fire, killing approximately 200…
BiographyPoomoney Moodley
Poomoney Moodley was born in Mooi River, Natal on 28 June 1926 to Ramsamy Dharamalingam Moodley and Kanniamah Moodley; who themselves were children of Indian…
BiographyBlanche la Guma
Blance la Guma (nee Blanche Herman) was born on 30 November 1927 in Athlone, Cape Town, Western Cape, the youngest of five children. Her parents were actively…
ArticleHistory Grade 11 - Topic 4 Contextual Overview
Figure 1.1. With his call to put “America First”, Donald Trump is the latest recruit to a dangerous nationalism. Flagrantly authoritarian figures like Donald…
EventBreyten Breytenbach was born on this day
Breyten Breytenbach was a South African writer, poet, and painter. He became internationally well-known as a dissident poet and vocal critic of South Africa…
ArchiveMeeting between a South African delegation led by the Minister of Foreign Affairs, the Honourable R F Botha and a United States delegation led by Dr C Crocker, Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs: Santa Maria, Sal Island, 31 October 1984, Af
Minutes of an afternoon session of a meeting between a South African delegation and a United States delegation to discuss the situation in Mozambique and Angola
EventPeter Lindenberg, South Africa’s powerboat champion
… 1981.[ii] He won the British Powerboat Grand Prix in the 1989 World Powerboat Series.[iii] Peter won the Maccabi …
ArticlePass Laws and Sharpeville Massacre
Pass laws in South Africa were met with fierce resistance during the 20th century. But earlier forms of passes, had in fact been used in various instances…
Poonoosamy Ruthnam Pather
Poonoosamy Ruthnam Pather (PR) was born in Mauritius in 1895. His grandfather settled in that country after emigrating from Tanjore in India in the 1840s. PR…
EventSA artist Vincent Baloyi is born
South African Artist Vincent Baloyi was born in Newclare, Johannesburg. He joined the National Arts Society and the SAAA, taught art at the Open School (1981…
ArticleBureau of State Security (BOSS)
The telling of the history of South African Intelligence Agencies is somewhat hamstrung by the fact that people from these agencies do not want their stories…
Citation for Saleem Badat by Professor Paul Maylam, 10 April 2015, Rhodes University
CITATION FOR SALEEM BADAT (Honorary graduand, Rhodes University, 10 April 2015) By Professor Paul Maylam Eight years ago, in 2007, Dr Saleem Badat stood on…
EventGambian Government overthrown in military coup
… to accept a monetary and economic union with Senegal in 1989. A military council headed by four lieutenants, Jammeh, …
BiographyTim Bruwer
Odd one out Over the years many people have asked me how it came about that I, amongst all the Afrikaners that I grew up with or knew, as a young man in the…
ArchiveGetting to know Omar from the inside out by Robyn Sassen, February 19, 2019
… on the speaker, who is out of your line of sight. In this 1989 photograph of a trade union meeting at the University of …