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BiographyMary Fitzgerald
… store armed with pick handles. She also led a sit-in on the tramlines during the same year. In 1921 Fitzgerald became the first woman on the City Council in…
BiographyGarth Erasmus
… Garth Erasmus was born on 12 April 1956 in Uitenhage, Eastern Cape. Erasmus was … prompted him to begin painting seriously. Erasmus worked on his art…
Jacob Abraham de Mist
… De Mist was born on 20 April 1749 in Voorburg near The Hague in the … Morre and he had no further children. His career took on new heights in 1795 when the…
BiographyTikkie Sibisi
… a welder at Union Carriage and did freelance photography on weekends. He attended Sizwesethu primary school and later … Freelance Photographer Club,…
BiographyLorna Peirson
… Africa and from 1951-1952 at the L.C.C. schools in London. On her return to South Africa in 1953 she taught art at the … Indumiso College of Education,…
BiographyVernom ‘Rogers’ Nkadimeng
… Gaborone Cemetery, Botswana. His remains were only exhumed on 13 January 2006 and repatriated to South Africa for … Nkadimeng was buried at West Park…
BiographyIlse Naude
… Ilse Naude was born in 1913 and grew up on the Moravian mission in Genadendal near Caledon . After … but she did not fully recuperate. Illse Naude passed…
BiographyRonnie Levitan
… to research people and their spaces. He then moved on to work at the urban problems research unit at UCT and … buildings, places. The special edition they…
BiographyHein du Plessis
… Born on the 13th February 1967, Hein matriculated at Sentraal High … Department of Technikon Free State whilst working on a number of personal documentary…
BiographyIssy Heymann
… Issy Heymann was born on the 24 December 1910 in Lithuania. At the age of nineteen, … Heymann was detained for 90 days. Heymann was arrested on 10 September…
ArticleuMkhonto weSizwe (MK)
… On 16 December, 1961, Umkhonto weSizwe (MK) was launched as … or 'MK' as it was more commonly known, was launched on the 16th December 1961. On the same day…
‘Wash Me Black Again’: African Nationalism, the Indian Diaspora, and Kwa-Zulu Natal, 1944-1960 by Jon Soske
… historians have often neglected those aspects of the pre-1948 city (and, more accurately, the city before the forced … give-and-take of urban bustle embodied…
ArchiveStaffrider Vol.10 No.4 1992
… For Mama Afrika, Thokozani Mthiyane; The Entrepreneurial Spirit, Kurt Donald; How Many More, Steven Brimelow; …
Conference: One Hundred Years of the ANC - Debating Liberation Histories and Democracy Today
… for public debate and democratic engagement. In this spirit, South African History Online, the History Workshop …
BiographyJeanette Eleanor Kasrils
… unit then moved to another safe house in Kloof. Eleanor, on her way back from Johannesburg, again on another errand for Ronnie’s unit, learnt of the arrest…
BiographyFrancois Pienaar
… Francois Pienaar was born on 1st January 1969 in Vereeniging into a working class … He featured 100 times for Transvaal and captained the team on 89…
BiographyMildred Lesiea
… Mandu Mildred Ramakaba-Lesiea was born on 28 January 1933 in Langa , Cape Town , Western Province … in Sea Point . The couple moved to an informal settlement…
Address by Jacob Zuma marking the Commemoration of the International Day of persons with disabilities, during the State visit by President Rupiah Banda of Zambia, 03 December 2010
… together towards the implementation of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities This theme offers … to enable them to take informed…
Address by the President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki at the Pan African Parliament, Gallagher Estate, Midrand, 16 September 2004
… Ambassadors and High Commissioners, Ladies and Gentlemen: On behalf of the government and peoples of South Africa, I … and cultural alienation that have…
BiographyWilliam Cock
… strong was the agitation that the Irish convict settlers “on board the Neptune were not allowed to land. The … somehow and rowed out to his vessel with them…
BiographyArchie Mafeje
… as ‘Archie’) Mafeje was born in Ngcobo in South Africa on 30 March 1936. Both of his parents were involved in … Mafeje wrote various texts. In 1963, he wrote…
BiographyDullah Mohamed Omar
… Dullah Mohamed Omar was born in Observatory, Cape Town on 26 May 1934 and grew up in District Six. He attended the … Movement and became involved in student…
EventANC and IFP joint peace rally is called off
… the two rival parties, which had claimed more than forty lives in the preceding weeks, a joint rally would pose a …
Biography: Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, Liberia's 'Iron Lady' by Alistair Boddy-Evans updated 08 August 2016
… of Liberia (ex-African slaves from America, who promptly on arrival set about enslaving the indigenous people using … and social integration." Gaining an…
Press Conference in Lusaka: Oliver Tambo, 25 June 1985
… Question: The ANC lays great emphasis on unity. How do you see the question of unity with such … because apartheid was war against the people anyway. From…
Press Conference by O. R. Tambo, Lusaka, 25 June 1985
… Question : The ANC lays great emphasis on unity. How do you see the question of unity with such … because apartheid was war against the people anyway. From…
Political revolution between 1820 and 1835
… historians argue that there is too much emphasis placed on the role of Shaka as the Mfecane began prior to the reign … Dingiswayo and became a soldier in the…
EventBophuthatswana decide not to publish report of Smith Commission
… commission of inquiry into the shootings at Winterveld on 26 March 1986 because, according to the homelands minister … course or have, by and large, been…
Trade unions and Popular Resistance in the 1980s and New Alliances and the Different Unions Traditions by Kaizer Thibedi
… that awakens a society from slumber and ignite a fired-up spirit of activism that bring about qualitative change. In … political perspective, is involved…
PlaceUmhlanga, Durban
… and tea and scones were served to passers-by in the true spirit of Umhlanga hospitality. This Beach Cottage had a … built in the 1920’s and The' Oysterbox'…