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Some remarkable women who helped Gandhiji in South Africa by E. S. Reddy
… errors and many omissions. Little is said, for instance, on how these women helped the Indian cause. Not a single … of Boer leaders like General Louis Botha…
ArticleDebating Stellenbosch University’s Language Policy
… a student movement, namely #Rhodes Must Fall which focused on the decolonization of education and tertiary institutions … changes to the University’s…
ArchiveFrom Lithuania to a false start in Johannesburg and settling in Cape Town, Carmel Schrire and Gwynne Schrire (The Heritage Portal), 21 September 2016
… of Jewish settlement in South Africa and throws light on Cape Town social history in the two decades before World … signals. These are personal stories of…
Address at the Opening of The XIII Summit Conference of the Non Aligned Movement 24 February 2003
… relation to the G8 countries, at Cologne, we concentrated on the issue of debt eradication. In Tokyo, our leadership … apart by merciless conflicts that have…
13 notable women in Cape Town’s history, 6 August 2015
… are so often overlooked. In the light of Women’s Day, on the 59th anniversary of the 9 August 1956 march of some 20 … the Khoi Krotoa(c 1643 – 29 July 1674)…
PlaceThe Simon's Town Mosque
… later, the School was officially opened amid great fanfare on Thursday 12 July 1923 at 1.00pm, by Mr Runciman. It was a … be subjected to such disintegration…
BiographyBreyten Breytenbach
… translated into Dutch, English, French and German. Born on 16 September 1939 in Bonnievale, near Robertson in the … autobiographical Return to Paradise…
BiographyChief Bhambatha kaMancinza Zondi
… the meeting; instead he sent his elders to meet with him on his behalf. In the meantime, his headman Nhlonhlo openly … Natal Police and 170 Natal Mounted…
BiographyLauretta Ngcobo
… their husbands work in the mines and cities. In her focus on the struggles and complexities faced by her female … suffered the most. They had to take care of…
BiographyDr Ansuyah Ratipul Singh
… Singh was born in Durban , Natal (now kwaZulu-Natal) on 12 June 1917. She was the eldest daughter of Latchmee and … Dr. Singh also lectured widely to…
PlaceSt Louis Catholic Church, 22 Jacobs Road, Clairwood, Durban
… On 10 February 1884, Bishop Jolivet purchased a plot in … was declared a National Monument under old NMC legislation on 10 February 1989. This once vibrant,…
ArticleHIV/Aids in South Africa timeline 1940s-2009
… an infectious agent that was sexually transmitted. Later on in the same month, Aids is reported among hemophiliacs and … responsible for the deaths of 600…
BiographyNelson “Nana” Mahomo
… representatives abroad after 1960. he left South Africa on March 20, 1960. He later represented the PAC in the United Front and traveled extensively on…
BiographySir. Julius Jeppe
… in the Johannesburg town council from 1889, and served on various executive boards, including the Chamber of Mines … knighted in 1922. Sir Julius Jeppe…
BiographyCyprian Mpho Shilakoe
… Cyprian Mpho Shilakoe was born on 3rd August 1946 in Barberton, Eastern Transvaal. Shilakoe spent his childhood on an isolated mission station at…
BiographyElijah Thomas Zondi
… Elijah Thomas Zondi was born on 22 October 1917 in Pietermaritzburg to Thomas Zondi, an … box camera that he had dug out of a Dundee dumping lot. On his…
BiographySister Bernard Ncube
… a member of Parliament where she chaired the committee on Arts and Culture Science and Technology. She was elected … for the Abortion Bill. Sister Ncube…
South Africa in the 1900s (1900-1917)
… prior to the birth of Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela , Jan Van Riebeeck and his expedition of Dutch Calvinist settlers landed at the Cape on 6 April 1652 . Van…
ArchiveBirth of a reggae superstar 3 August 1964 by Sam Mathe
… the shebeens and music festivals of South Africa. Based on the artist's name and song title, everybody was convinced … was from Bosmont or neighbouring…
EventJohannesburg Magistrate court is bombed
… that it was a decoy. The second explosion claimed the lives of three policemen including Duvenhage and injured four … , [Online], Available at: www.justice…
EventFormer Tennis player, Kevin Curren, is born in Durban
… worked closely with the Minister of Sport. He currently lives in Durban with his wife, with whom he has two daughters. …
ArchiveChapter 19 Last thoughts – for now by Denis Goldberg
… of his Presidency, have been very successful. Having on various occasions persuaded African Presidents not to … we are to achieve real and sustainable…
BiographyAnton Muziwakhe Lembede
… On 21 March 1914, Lembede was born into a peasant family living on the farm in Eston in Natal. He was baptised as an … to the present day” UNISA conferred an…
BiographyArthur Maimane
… Arthur Maimane was born on 5 October 1932 in Pietersburg. He completed his matric at … Kenya and Uganda as foreign correspondent to report on movement…
BiographyBettie du Toit
… Bettie Du Toit was born on 15 July in 1910, on a farm in the former Transvaal Province. She was orphaned … and Du Toit met South African textile workers were…
BiographyThomas Patrick Murray
… Council for the same industrial council. He also served on the industrial councils for the explosives industry and … he unsuccessfully petitioned to address…
BiographyHoratio (Bud) Isaiah Mbelle
… Budlwana (Bud) Mbelle was born in Burgersdorp, Cape Colony on 24 June 1870. He grew up in the Herschel district in the … local Africa schools,sport…
BiographyKeorapetse William Kgositsile
… with the new spoken-word poets to whom he has been passing on the baton. His influence and inspiration is also … is evident by the presentations of his…
BiographyMosima Gabriel (Tokyo) Sexwale
… to eighteen years imprisonment. While he was jailed on Robben Island, he served on the prisoners’ recreation committee and enrolled to complete his BCom. His…
BiographyPiet Retief
… Piet Retief was born on 12 November 1780 in the Wagenmakersvallei, (known as … "righteousness." He published a manifesto to this effect on 22 January 1837 in…