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BiographyAllerley Glossop
… that she would one day become "the Rosa Bonheur of South Africa" (The Cape Argus, 10.11.1906). She died Lion's River, …
BiographyRicardo Rangel
… Netherlands, Portugal, Sweden, Switzerland, Mali, South Africa and Zimbabwe as well as Mozambique. At age 85, Rangel … A Bigger Picture: A Manual of…
BiographyEthel Ruth Prowse
… the next 3 years there. She then returned again to South Africa and in 1928 she was selected as the keeper of the …
BiographyFrances Baard
… of her experiences of oppression and exploitation in South Africa. As a budding activist she drew her influence from … [Accessed 24 July 2009]|Who’s Who in…
BiographyFaith Nonhlanhla Mazibuko
… this, she enrolled at the University of South Africa (UNISA) majoring in Education, English and History. …
Rustenburg the Segregated city
… to the 1916 edition of The Guide to South and East Africa , stood at 900 whites and 960 blacks. When WWI broke … Apartheid city A history of Pass Laws in…
Chronology
… T. Jabavu and Dr. Pixley ka I. Seme call meetÂing of the All African Convention (AAC) 1936 February , AAC deputation meets with … JPC December 20 , First…
ArticleCongress of South African Students (COSAS)
… the ANC was the authentic liberation movement of South Africa. In its first two years COSAS took up two … be achieved in a democratic society based on the…
EventMembers of SASO and BPC held under Terrorism Act
… Students Organisation (SASO) and the Black People's Convention (BPC) are arrested and held under the Terrorism …
BiographyJulius Louis Saks
… of Sidney and Deborah Saks. His family emigrated to South Africa from England in 1905. Sidney Saks became a farm and … as he came to be known later in life,…
BiographyMhlabunzima Maphumulo
… President of Congress of Traditional Leaders of South Africa (CONTRALESA). He led CONTRALESA to align itself with … the ANC. He was a very strong believer in…
BiographyAlan McLeod Cormack
… and his mother a teacher. His parents moved to South Africa from the north of Scotland shortly before the outbreak … Crystallography at the same university…
BiographyZindziswa “Zindzi” Nobutho Mandela
… refusal speech directed at then Prime Minister of South Africa P.W. Botha in relation to his early conditional … for over a year. Zindzi was currently…
EventInternational Day for the Abolition of Slavery
… Nations General Assembly (UNGA,GA), of the United Nations Convention for the Suppression of the Traffic in Persons and …
"Future of the Africanist Movement" Questions and Answers Y R. M. Sobukwe, in The Africanist, January 1959
… Q: What are your differences with the A.N.C. A. First of all we differ radically in our conception of the struggle. We … the result of a mentality that…
ArticleThe Linton Panel & the San language
… Very little is known about the languages of South Africa's San people, as most of these beautiful, ancient … has made the Linton panel one of the best…
ArticleThe history of labour movements in Namibia
… workers organisations in Namibia (then known as South West Africa). However, there were a number of workers’ strikes … 1971 to January 1972, 15 000 to 20 000…
ArticleThe “Wind of Change” speech
… of national consciousness is a political fact. We must all accept it as a fact, and our national policies must take … century is whether the uncommitted…
20 Years of Democracy - Profiles of the Presidents
… South Africa’s advent to democracy was ushered through the 1993 … in the country’s first non-racial election in 1994. All legally eligible South Africans…
The South African Human Rights Commission
… South Africa's Constitution (1996) enshrines the supremacy of the … Everyone in South Africa, including the government, and all laws are subject to and must…
PlaceAndries Pretorius Monument , Graaf Reniet
… 1838. He also took the lead in concluding the Sand River Convention of 1852, which recognized the independence of the …
EventFormer IFP chairman Jiyane register Nadeco with IEC
… registerd a new political party, the National Democratic Convention (Nadeco), with the Independent Electoral …
ArticleThe Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) and the Anti-Apartheid Struggle
… Relations between Russia and South Africa In the late-19th century, Russia was engaged in … Friends of the USSR. Josiah Gumede Gumede, a guest of the All…
Documents, speeches, Awards, and articles relating to Desmond Tutu
… , first Black Archbishop of the Anglican Church in South Africa , Archbishop Emeritus of Cape Town, and chair of the … as the Archbishop of Cape Town. 1987…
The oldest forms of human communication
… information about their past. This infographic highlights all forms of communication through ages, click here to view … taught, inaccurately, that Africans…
'Presidential Address' by the Rev. J. A. Calata, ANC (Cape), July 1948
… Ladies and Gentlemen, I welcome you all to this thirty-sixth annual session of the Provincial … Congress (Cape). I know what personal sacrifices each and all…
ArticleSouth African Police Services (SAPS)
… up. A conference between the police commissioners from all 4 provinces was called in August 1910, and a Draft Police … D. J. (ed)(1974). Standard…
ArticleA History of the South African Film Industry timeline 1895-2003
… could see a moving image. The first Kinetescopes in South Africa were opened to the public on 19 April 1895 in Herwoods … in the Warwick Trading Company's…
PlaceSprings
… an independent republic with the signing of the Sand River Convention in 1852. These initial Farms were large, but the … by the land surveyor James Brooks,…
Rejuvenation of the ANC and intensification of the struggle 1940s
… Xuma was still moderate, and called for the unity of all African people. He managed to streamline the running of … during the war, bad living conditions and…