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PlacePofadder, Northern Cape
Pofadder is a small town situated in the Northern Cape of South Africa. While pofadder means: 'Puff Adder'-(a type of snake). This town was named not for a…
BiographyMokgadi Caster Semenya
Mokgadi Caster Semenya was born on 7 January 1991 to her parents Dorus and Jacob Semenya. She was born in Ga-Masehlong, a village near Polokwane. As a child,…
ArticleNamibian Timeline
… Fighter (London: Kliptown Books, 1990). ↵ [86] Ibid., Back cover. ↵ [87] Helmut Pau Kangulohi Angula, The Two Thousand … (Windhoek: Gamsberg Macmillan…
ArchiveStaffrider Vol.3 No.1 Feb 1980
… Barber, David Scannel, Leonard Maseko, Chester Maharaj. Cover Photographs: Front: Abe Cindi by Alf Kumalo Back: …
EventBeatles records are banned by the South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC), due to John Lennon’s previous ‘Jesus’ comments
… called Datebook reprinted part of the quote on its front cover did controversy erupt. In the piously conservative …
EventWinston Churchill, is captured by Boer forces during the Anglo-Boer War
… war correspondent for The Morning Post, in which he was to cover the occurrences of the Anglo-Boer War in South Africa. …
A growing urban African population
… that the rates paid by the residents were not enough to cover the costs of installing a proper water and electricity …
BiographyGünther Komnick
Günther Komnick was born in Insterburg in the former German province of East Prussia in 1929 into a cultured family of artists. He lived through the monumental…
BiographyFred Carneson
Fred Carneson was born on 13th January 1920 in Goodwood, Cape Town to Anthony and Annie Carneson, a poor Catholic working class family, the sixth of nine…
BiographyNomkhitha Virginia Mashinini (née Boto)
Nomkhitha Virginia Mashinini was born on the 9th of May, 1935, in the rural Bengu village of Lady Frere in the former Transkei. After the death of his first…
BiographyJohanna Catharina Cornelius
Johanna was born in Licthtenburg on 27 February 1912 to an Afrikaner family where she grew up. Their family was very nationalistic, with both their father and…
BiographyMassabalala (Bonnie) Yengwa
Massabalala Yengwa, was the son of the Zulu labourer who had been jailed during the African National Congress (ANC) anti-pass campaign of 1919. Yengwa was born…
BiographyPhaswane Mpe
Phaswane Mpe was born and brought up in Pietersburg, Northern Transvaal (now Polokwane, Limpopo). At the age of 19, he left for Johannesburg to study African…
BiographyNkosinathi Benson Fihla
Nkosinathi Benson Fihla was born on 13th June of 1932 in Port Elizabeth, Eastern Province (now Eastern Cape). Fihla grew up in PE from 1945, after his parents…
BiographyIan Berry
Born in Lancashire in 1934 Ian Berry moved to South Africa in 1952. Roger Madden, a South African photographer who had worked as an assistant to Ansel Adams,…
BiographyJuda Ngwenya
Juda Ngwenya began his career with The Star newspaper in Johannesburg, Transvaal (now Gauteng). Before he was even two years in the employ of the newspaper, he…
Elias Monare
Elias Monare, from ‘Dube Street 1935, Wattville Natives Town, Benoni’ in the Transvaal [now Gauteng], was banished on 25 April 1955 at the age of 31 to ‘Glen…
BiographyNorman Catherine
Norman Catherine was born in East London, South Africa in September 1949. He studied at the East London Technical School of Art and held his first solo…
BiographyWilliam Kentridge
"I am interested in a political art, that is to say an art of ambiguity, contradiction, uncompleted gestures and uncertain ending - an art (and a politics) in…
BiographySorabjee Rustomjee
Sorabji Rustomjee, son of Parsee Rustomjee, was born in Durban on 25 December 1895. He went to India to study and soon after returning to South Africa, crossed…
EventMichael “Muis” Roberts, South Africa’s best jockey is born
… the first South Africa, jockey or horse to appear on the cover of the elite magazine called, “The Blood-Horse”. End …
PlacePolokwane Game Reserve
… main attraction must be the amount of ground one can cover on foot - there are a number of walks, including a …
EventVanessa Brereton, former human rights lawyer, admits that she was an Apartheid spy
… political activists, had become successful, making her cover as a spy more effective. She was eventually promoted to …
BiographyPeter Hlaole Molotsi
Peter Hlaole Molotsi was born in Steinsrust, a municipal location, in the district of Kroonstad, (then Orange Free State) on July 18, 1929. His father was a…
ArchiveStaffrider Vol.1 No.2 May-Jun 1978
… Staffrider column Reviews : Jonathan Paton, Xolile Mavuso Cover photographs: Ralph Ndawo. Photographs by: Mark …
EventSA judge jails former state assassin Eugene de Kock for more than 200 years
… was accused of many crimes, one of which was attempting to cover up the involvement of the security police in the murder …
EventFawcett Commission into Concentration Camps in South Africa
… The appointment of Waterson was seen as an attempt to cover up the ill treatment in the camps. The commission was …
BiographyBenjamin Ulenga
Benjamin (Ben) Ulenga was born in Owamboland. His father was a labourer, who from age 16 or 17 had to leave Owamboland to work on various English, Dutch,…
Chief Dingiswayo
Paramount Chief of the Mthethwa and leader of various northern Nguni groups who lived in the Zululand area before Shaka brought them under his rule. Little…
BiographyMarimuthu Pragalathan “MP” Naicker
He was born in Natal in 1920, and although his family was poor he managed to complete high school. He worked as a truck driver, a union organiser for sugar…