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BiographyEdson Sithole
… in 1935. He was the first black person in Southern Africa to obtain a Doctor of Laws degree. He was the second … work toward a Doctor of Laws from the…
”Opening Address” at Annual Conference of the South African Indian Congress, by Dr. S. M. Molema, January 25, 1952
… and sorrow, Nor flatter the rank breath of white South Africa, Nor bow our knee to their idolatries, Nor coin our … are, among the unprivileged and oppressed…
BiographyGcinisizwe Sylvester Khwezi Kondile
… Kondile between June 30 and July 1, 2016 [16] . At South Africa's freedom park in Pretoria , a symbolic burial was … Posthumous of bravery for Sizwe Kondile,…
EventANC President, Oliver Tambo, denies that the ANC is in secret negotiations with the South African government
… by the Institute for a Democratic Alternative for South Africa (Idasa) in Dakar, Senegal in July, 1987 under strong …
BiographyDavid Hepburn Craighead
… the Rhodes scholarship. Craighead returned to South Africa and joined the South African Air Force and served … and engineering, with service in the war zone…
EventThe South African Police Services (SAPS) celebrates its 10th anniversary
The South African Police Services (SAPS) celebrated its 10th anniversary for providing a service to South African democracy on 27 January 2005. Since this…
BiographyLetlapa Mphahlele
… a group of PAC members for Guinea, on the West Coast of Africa to undergo military training. They arrived in Conakry … ties with the PAC underground across…
EventRichard Horatio Edgar Wallace, South African author and newspaper editor, is born in Greenwich, England.
… by the music hall comedians. In 1896, he came to South Africa, during the Boer War, where he met with Rudyard …
BiographyNoria Mabasa
… May 10, 1938 in Xigalo in the Limpopo Province in South Africa. She received formal education for only one year, … the first black woman, and the only Venda…
EventDavid Frost wins the South African Open golf championship in Stellenbosch
David Frost is a South African golfer who turned professional in 1981. In 1983, he had his first professional win. He has won several tournaments throughout…
EventSouth African football legend Steve Mokone is born 23 March 1923
… player. He is regarded as the greatest footballer South Africa has ever produced, often being compared with the …
BiographyHenry Selby Msimang
… a founder member of the multiracial Liberal Party of South Africa. From 1956-1968 he served on the executive committee …
Alan Wieder on the Rivonia Raids & South African Non-Violent Struggle
Alan Wieder remembers the Rivonia Raid 50 years after it happened. The South African government in the early 1960s attacked the Rovonia farm, then occupied by…
BiographyNithianandan ‘Elvis' Ganese Govender
… KwaZulu-Natal – KZN), on the eastern seaboard of South Africa. The second of four children, he was the son of … need for political and social change within…
Address by Oliver Tambo at the 75th anniversary meeting of the African National Congress, 08 January 1987, Lusaka
… exponent and defender of the cause of liberation in South Africa and Namibia, an unrelenting freedom fighter who has … as a great pillar of strength for the…
BiographyTsepo Tiisetso Letlaka
… (PAC) in exile but in the 1970s returned to South Africa. Convicted and given a suspended sentence with other … In 1975 he accepted an invitation to return…
BiographyStanislaus Skumbuzo Mzilankatha Sangweni
… would take him in, since his he couldn’t return to South Africa. After 30 years as an exile living in Holland, … Director of the United Nations Economic…
BiographyRay E. Phillips
… Ray E. Phillips was born in 1889 and active in South Africa for four decades following World War I . He … A documentary History of African Politics in South…
BiographyRay Harmel (nee Adler)
… entry into that country. In 1928, Ray arrived in South Africa, with little formal education and no English, although … socialist organisation, and the …
Document 59 - Letter from Ruth First to The Secretary, South African Institute of Race Relations’, 17 August 1944
… From: South Africa's Radical Tradition, a documentary history, Volume Two … Relations', 17 August 1944 Young Communist League of South Africa Box …
EventThe South African security police bombed two houses in Manzini, Swaziland
In response to attacks on the Sasol oil refinery in Secunda, the South African security police bombed two houses in Manzini, Swaziland. The attacks claimed the…
BiographyDr Morris Zwi
… what was happening around him as he grew up in South Africa, under the abhorrent Apartheid political system. Zwi … magazine, featuring Afrapix’s first…
Address by President Nelson Mandela at the book launch of the series on Southern African leaders 1 August 1994
… both categories. It is at one a reclamation of South Africa's history in its true and complete form and a tribute to some of the giants who have made South…
The Changing Nature of the African Working Class: Migrant Workers, Identity and Struggles by Sithembiso Bhengu
… growth of industrial and manufacturing factories in South Africa, characterised by the massive movement of men, women, …
BiographyHenry “Black Cat” Cele
… was born on 30 January 1949 in KwaMashu, Durban, South Africa. As a member of the Cele family he was referred to by … 7 June 2011]| Anon, Henry Cele, from…
Minutes of the Third General Students Council, South African Students Movement
Minutes of the Third General Students Council of the South African Students Movement, held at St Ansgars Conference Centre, Roodepoort, 28 to 30 May 1976…
ArchiveMinutes of the Third General Students Council, South African Students Movement
Minutes of the Third General Students Council of the South African Students Movement, held at St Ansgars Conference Centre, Roodepoort, 28 to 30 May 1976…
BiographyHenry Burton
… was born on 2 June 1866 in Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa and went to school at St Andrews in Grahamstown, … ) and the Germans in South West Africa …
Dr Piet Koornhof, one of the most controversial figures in South African history, dies
… Koornhof, one of the most controversial figures from South Africa's apartheid era, died in a Stellenbosch frail care …
Winifred Seqwana
… first African woman member of the Communist Party of South Africa (CPSA) in Langa in 1930. She became increasingly … First African woman member of the…