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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…
ArticleCommunity histories in Port Elizabeth
… and Cape Town. This article will predominantly focus on the Xhosa communities in Port Elizabeth. However, the … the control of the Tshawe. Generally, the…
ArchiveGeorge Peake by David Hemson
… time. In 1962, arrested for sabotage, he was imprisoned on Robben Island. On his release he was placed under house arrest; in 1964 he … continued to…
The flight of the Gwala-Gwala bird: Essays by Ari Sitas, review essay by Linda Cooper
… their orations the undesirability of a social system based on capitalism, that is inqubo yogimhelakwesabo, that is … of essays emerged out of Ari’s deep…
Africa’s photojournalists: The wars are not over by Greg Marinovich (Daily Maverick), 25 June 2013
… in the 1930’s. The latest film adaption of a book on photojournalists is The Bang Bang Club, very loosely based … one is to believe the rather crass filmic…
Freedom In Our Life Time - Congress Youth League Activities
… of a set of conflicting living conditions and outlooks on life which seriously hamper South Africa's progress to … individuals in it are but tiny organisms…
ArticleWhen, why and where the first African farmers settled in Southern Africa
… crops for food or clothes. Human ancestors stopped relying on hunting and gathering for food and began farming about 10 … group, like trading extra food,…
The Indian People In South Africa: Facts: About The Ghetto Act
… land. There, the City Council spends £ 7. 3. 4 per head on housing schemes for Europeans, only 17/6 for Indians. In … tyranny, or the oppression of…
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…
BiographyHarry Themba Gwala
… Harry (Mphephethwa) Themba Gwala was born on 30 July in 1920 near Piettermarizburg.He was a politician … ever answered any questions without referring to…
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…
Article“Bantu Education or the Street” by Norman Levy
… and the liberation movement fought simultaneously on four fronts against a new wave of fascist measures that … had the effect of creating in the natives an…
ArticleThe African Union (AU)
… for the OAU to function at all it had to rely heavily on the political will of member states. The OAU’s limited … of institutions. The responsibility of…
Archive2004 - President Mbeki, State of the Nation Address, 6 February 2004 (Before National Elections)
… Address before the first democratically elected parliament on the 24th of May, 1994. In that Address he quoted from a … fact that we are barely ten years…
BiographyRowley Israel Arenstein
… Rowley Israel Arenstein was born on 7th of July in 1918. Arenstein was a prominent Durban … he withdrew from active politics in order to concentrate on his…
ArticleThe Padavatan Six and the 1917 Natal Floods
… On 28 October 1917 more than 400 market gardeners from the … released from their five years period of indenture on the sugar cane fields of Natal). By 1917,…
Speech by President Nelson Mandela at a banquet in honour of President Nujoma of Namibia Cape Town, 13 May 1996.
… On a winter's day in 1976 more than 20 000 pupils from the … was eventually put down - at a cost of hundreds of lives and millions of rands in damage, South…
ArticleHistory of the ‘Indian Opinion’ newspaper
… University of the Western Cape Address to Conference on the Alternate Media to Commemorate the Centenary of the Founding of Indian Opinion, 4 June 2003,…
Address by ANC Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa at Freedom Charter Forum, 29 September 2015, Pietermaritzburg City Hall
… the Youth League and its alliance partners for embarking on a dialogue process aimed at achieving the unity of purpose … decent working conditions and to…
ArchiveStaffrider Vol.7 No.3 and No.4 1988
… by Steve Jacobs; Go Away, We're Asleep by J. Makunga; The Spirit of Two Worlds Jayapraga Reddy. PHOTOGRAPHY: Staffrider … Loveknots by Cherry Clayton;…
PlaceRooigrond
… move Africans from Machaviestad, but this was not done. In 1948 the government issued the first notice of the state’s … community resisted by waging a long…
PlaceLookout, Uitenhage
… The Lookout stands on a high promontory overlooking a Valley noted for its … was declared a National Monument under old NMC legislation on 21 August 1953…