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EventFake versions of the new South African banknotes hit the streets
On 7 February 2005, reports were issued of the use of fake versions of the then new South African banknotes. These came hardly a week after the latest currency…
EventSouth African man walks from England to France through Channel Tunnel
A 38 year old South African man, Lance Dyer, was arrested by French police on 09 October 2005 after he walked through the Channel Tunnel between Folkenstone in…
BiographyNorman Catherine
… Norman Catherine was born in East London, South Africa in September 1949. He studied at the East London … L’Histoire du Soldat. He has represented South…
BiographyDr Somalingum (Leslie) Ponnusamy
… with people of all races, affirmed his belief that South Africa required radical transformation from an apartheid state into a non-racial South Africa. Due…
Millicent Fawcett
… but was not part of the committee that came to South Africa. … Davenport, T.R.H, South Africa …
BiographyJeanne Zaidel-Rudolph
… Goldie Zaidel, Philip Levy and Adolph Hallis in South Africa and John Lill in London) she won many prizes and …
BiographyAudrey ‘Bobbie’ Cobden
… Cobden worked for the multiracial Liberal Party of South Africa (LPSA) alongside people like Jack Unterhalter, Alan … in Canada, although she was not too…
EventThe South African War: The lifting of the siege of Mafeking
The Siege of Mafeking (now known as Mafikeng) was an important battle in the South African War (Second Anglo-Boer War). The war began in late 1899; President…
BiographyAlpheus Madaba Madiba
… night school. He joined the Communist Party of South Africa (CPSA) in 1936 and from 1939 to 1950 served 11 years … men who were charged with acts of…
BiographySamson Ratshilumela Mudzunga
… the book 10 Years 100 Artists: Art in a Democratic South Africa. … S. (2004) 10 Years 100 Artists: Art in a Democratic South Africa , Struik House, Cape…
BiographyMpumelelo Paul “Cosmo” Grootboom
… makes Grootboom the most controversial playwright in South Africa, a society still largely “conservative”. His …
BiographyVictoria Nonyamezelo Mxenge
… made in the fight against apartheid oppression in South Africa. …
ArchiveNotes of the meeting between a South African and an American delegation on 8 February 1985 at the Ou Presidensie in Pretoria
… regarding the polictical and military situation in Africa, in general, and southern Africa in particular …
BiographyBetty Radford
… against the newspaper for publishing extracts from the Africa Mineworkers’ Union’s evidence to the Lansdown …
BiographyRev. Theo Kotze
… 14 July 1978, Theo and Helen Kotze reluctantly left South Africa for exile. He departed on a dangerous trip out of the … Town in the early 1990s.In 2008,…
EventInauguration ceremony of the South African College School (SACS) takes place
The South African College School (SACS) was inaugurated at the Groote Kerk, giving impetus to the formation of the first school in Cape Town. The idea of…
Message by Albert Luthuli to the National Conference of the African National Congress Women`s League, 1 August 1959
… Fortunately, the oppressed people, here and elsewhere in Africa, are becoming increasingly aware of their plight, and …
BiographyJohannes Nkosi
… A martyr for the Communist Party of South Africa (CPSA and SACP after 1953), was the son of Jacobina … one of the few overt proofs of communist activity in…
BiographyPhillip Qipu Vundla
… and Cultural Advancement of African People of South Africa (ASSECA). He died in 1969. … A documentary History of African Politics in South Africa: 1882-1964,…
BiographyThemba Godi
… 2000. While working he enrolled the University of South Africa (UNISA) and completed a B.A. Honours in History. Godi … a book by Tom Lodge entitled, “Black…
Uncovering Josina Machel from obscurity: African women hidden in his-story by Ama Biney, 3 April 2014
… numbers in a few African parliaments such as in South Africa, Rwanda, Mozambique and Uganda, out of 55 African … London based Black Action for the Liberation…
BiographySonja Schlesin
… Schloss). The Schlesin family later immigrated to South Africa, and arrived at the Cape of Good Hope in June 1892. … In 1903, M.K Gandhi , who had decided…
Gender and deviance in South African industrial schools and reformatories for girls, 1911-1934 by Linda Chisholm
… From the book: Women and Gender in Southern Africa to 1945 edited by Cherryl Walker Between 1926 and 1934 … female crime and deviance in early-twentieth…
BiographyDoc Bikitsha
… assaulting a fellow student, and came back to South Africa where he continued his studies at the Normal College …
BiographyPhathekile Holomisa
… the nationalist future that the ANC foresaw for South Africa, at the time. In 1989, he became an advocate for the High Court of South Africa, a position that…
BiographyAllan Kirkland Soga
… the youngest son of Tiyo Soga, the first African in South Africa to be ordained a minister. His mother was a Scot, and …
Presidential address by Alberth Luthuli to the Annual Provincial Conference of the Natal Branch of the African National Congress, 5 July 1956
… otherwise we would be so untrue so disloyal to our dear Africa for too long despised and called a dark continent: A … than our willingness to die for…
EventSouth African President Charles Roberts Swart opens the first session of the Transkei Legislative Assembly
… government. The President added that the Republic of South Africa would continue to assist the Transkei and would train …