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BiographyPatrice Émery Lumumba
… Patrice Emery Lumumba was born on 2 July 1925, at Onalua village near the Katako-Kombe Town … Lumumba had left Stanleyville , he was briefly detained on…
BiographyMargaret Roach Killie Campbell
… Campbell (Killie Campbell) was born at Mount Edgecombe on 9 September 1881, the second of four children of the Natal … about southern Africa, with particular…
BiographyGordon Sprigg
… which was hugely expensive, was the cause of his fall on 16 July 1890. Sprigg then served as treasurer in the … and he was forced to revoke his offer to the…
BiographyAhmed Gora Ebrahim
… Ahmed Gora Ebrahim was born in Durban on 29 May 1936. Ebrahim cut his political teeth in … Front it had formed with the ANC and Azapo, and its on-off-on…
BiographyMarimuthu Pragalathan “MP” Naicker
… Journalism, for example, was simply another front on which to fight the enemy. When he was editor/manager of … up the pen and the sword the he dropped, and…
ArchiveChapter 17 Affairs of the heart and Community H.E.A.R.T.
… Nelson Mandela was sworn in as President on 10 May 1994. All over the world the ANC closed the offices … in South Africa to take command of some aspects of…
Political changes from 1750 to 1820
… western part of the country. Dutch control affected the lives of the indigenous San hunter-gatherers and Khoi … the children and women as cheap labour…
BiographyMohamed Ismail Dinat
… and Politicisation Mohamed Ismail (‘Issy’) Dinat was born on 14 October 1937 in Krugersdorp. As a child, Dinat would … political activity led to his…
Virgile Joseph Bonhomme
… Virgile Joseph Bonhomme was born in Durban on 15 March 1944 and his parents were Patricia and Francoise … unemployed, he lost his trade union membership…
BiographySydney Alex Kumalo
… Haile Silassie . The sculptor and painter, was born on 13 April 1935 in Sophiatown , Johannesburg. He often … Street Art Centre. He was subsequently…
BiographyAnton Edward Rupert
… Anton Edward Rupert was born on 4 October 1916 in Graaff-Reinet in the south-central … the direction his main undertakings would concentrate on, though he…
BiographyJohn Koenakeefe Mohl
… John Koenakeefe Mohl was born on 29 September 1903 in Dinokana, Zeerust in the North-West … mealie stampers. During his youth, Mohl drew with 'pepa' on rocks…
BiographyMpumelelo Paul “Cosmo” Grootboom
… He was a year old when the student riots broke out on 16 June 1976. Grootboom was a pupil at MorutaThutho … and television director and producer. Langa took…
BiographySewsunker ‘Papwa’ Sewgolum
… boy, Sewgolum took to imitating the golfers he had seen on a nearby golf course by hitting a golf ball with a Syringa … At the club where he was a caddie, he…
BiographyJoseph Johannes Marks
… Joseph Johannes Marks was born on 22 April 1936 in Mossel Bay, where his father, a … in a construction company for staying away from work on 16 and 17 June,…
BiographyBasil Paul Petersen February
… the special branch had the authority to arrest any citizen on suspicion that the citizen could be involved in any act … military training in 1964. He left…
BiographyJosie Palmer
… 1960 State of Emergency following the Sharpeville Massacre on 21 March 1960. Mpama’s militancy was noted in a letter … did not think that the time was right…
BiographyVirginia Engel
… Virginia Engel was born on 27 April 1950 in Cape Town . She married Desmond Engel and … Organisation (SASO) . This organisation had a major impact on her…
BiographyBaruch Hirson
… Baruch Hirson, named after his late grandfather, was born on 10 December 1921 at Doomfontein near Johannesburg in the … he came for a short visit to…
BiographyGreg Marinovich
… Angola, Bosnia, Chechnya, India, Israel, Rwanda and Zaire on news and feature assignments. In 1996 he took up the post … Guardian, Der Spiegel , et al; but…
BiographyRita Alice Ndzanga
… Rita Ndzanga was born on 17 October 1933, the third child of Isaac and Alina More … had to report to the Moroka Police Station every Monday. On 12 May 1969,…
BiographyRefiloe Jackie Phelile Sedibe
… South Africa and Zambia . From 1969 to 1976, Sedibe served on the ANC’s Revolutionary Council. She attended a historic … the office of inspector general,…
PlaceOld Fort and Cemetery, Durban
… Smith to reoccupy Port Natal. The force reached the Bay on 4 May 1842 and pitched camp on the site now occupied by the Old Fort. In response, a … military…
How I have cooperated with the Hawks by Pravin Gordhan (Times Live), 01 September 2016
… scrupulously acted in accordance with the law”. It went on to provide “the timeline and facts”‚ which follows below in full and unedited: On February 19…
EventThe Soweto Uprising leaves 174 blacks and two whites dead following 10 days of rioting
… Soweto in 1976 known as the Soweto Uprising claimed many lives and left many injured. The protests began in Soweto … Available at: https://africanhistory…
”A House in Harrington Street”, photographic exhibition by Nicholas Eppel
… ruins. The exhibition consists of 30 photographs - still lives, portraits and intimate moments of the household prior …
ArticleList of people banned under Apartheid
… Name Act/Section/Issued up to: (delivery date) Date on which notice expires: Other: (address, occupation etc.) … and others banned in Nov. '76 (see Albertyn)…
A.I. Kajee His Work for the Southern African Indian Community - Chapter 12
… Community by C. H. Calpin And so indeed it was. Kajee was on the way out. His hair was already grey. Now his face was … his friends made their pilgrimage…
73. The Congress of the People, June 1955
… and the S.A. Congress of Democrats, gathered at Kliptown on 25 and 26 June 1955, resolved to unite 'all democratic … elements around a common programme and…
Reginald Mabuza
… Died of natural causes in Angola on 11 November 1983 …