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BiographyRefiloe Jackie Phelile Sedibe
… with processing the entry of new recruits from South Africa and Zambia . From 1969 to 1976, Sedibe served on the …
Biography of Mtutuzeli Dudu Pukwana by Nick Mencia
… with every day life within the black community in South Africa. Musical resistance gained most of its popularity … sentiment or the disapproval of a white…
Mary Matilda Brown
… was born in Sea Point , Cape Town , Western Cape, South Africa on 20 July 1847. She advocated for social and moral … skills and was a speaker and…
BiographyVuyani Goniwe
… Location, Alice in the Eastern Cape, left South Africa in 1977 together with Bandile Ketelo and Mgcini Mali … a MK reconnaissance unit. The unit infiltrated…
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1920s
… July, Industrial and Commercial Workers Union of South Africa (ICU) is established as national Black trade union in … land and defiance of white authority…
Chapter 3 - SASO: The Ideology and Politics of Black Consciousness
… the suppression of the ANC and PAC and the repression of all radical political activity, a period of intensified … 1960s: Most students had common…
BiographyAnna Johanna Dorothea De Villiers
… a dissertation on The Dutch Language Movement in South Africa Title of her MA thesis: Die plaas van Guido Gezelle in … - the first woman to hold such a…
BiographyZwelinzima Joseph Vavi
… Directors for the 2010 FIFA Soccer World Cup held in South Africa. As the Secretary General of Cosatu, Vavi expressed … Vavi also argued that under Jacob…
BiographyJob Shimankana Tabane
… known as Komsomol. As scores of young people left South Africa after the Soweto Uprising to join the armed struggle, … the setting up of dead letter boxes …
BiographyBenson Tsele
… political and physical training to return to South Africa, train recruits and help revive the underground … the ever alert patrolling Rhodesian army – to…
BiographyHarriet Ngubane
… the third eldest in a family of six that included South Africa's former ambassador to Japan and senior Inkatha … fellow. She was also the first African woman…
ArticleKhoisan herder society in the Later Stone Age
… herders? The first herders, or pastoralists, in southern Africa were the Khoikhoi. They were also called Hottentots, … a few weeks. This meant that they had…
ArticleThe Jameson Raid
… was getting more confident about taking action in South Africa. Joseph Chamberlain was appointed Colonial Secretary. … and turn it into a British colony that…
Sierra Leone’s Pre-colonial and Colonial era military and security forces
… The study of armed forces in Africa tend focus on the contemporary peculiarities with … the available evidence suggests that nearly everywhere, "all free…
Indian Community
… workers and the birth of this community in South Africa. Durban is home to the largest Indian population in … the government introduced in 1910, a 3 pound…
EventPaul Kruger is elected president
… Republiek after the signing of the Pretoria Convention on 3 August 1881) for the first time. He won the … et al. (eds)(1970). Standard Encyclopaedia of…
BiographyFanele Mbali
… to follow to slip out of the country. Mbali left South Africa on 8 Jnaury 1962 through Botswana , then into Southern … and the mission was aborted. On his…
ArchiveCelebrating and commemorating twenty-years of the Harare declaration by Kgolane Alfred Rudolph PHALA
… Introduction This year, 2009, the people of South Africa celebrate the 20th Anniversary of the Harare … interests which makes up South Africa's capitalist…
ArticleElizabeth Davenport: A teacher and member of the Black Sash by Cole Morgan
… to today, when she continues to promote equality in South Africa. She does this through both as a teacher and a member … It was part of an intentional…
ArticleNational Union of South African Students (NUSAS)
… and college students. NUSAS was open to students of all races. At the organisation first inaugural conference in … in Commonwealth countries to follow suit…
January 8th Statements -Statement of the National Executive Committee on the occasion of the 99th Anniversary of the ANC - 8 January 2011
… benefits of our political liberation are shared amongst all our people. Our people have struggled selflessly for … Years since the formation of the Communist…
BiographyRaymond Arthur Dart
… which he was subsequently offered. Dart moved to South Africa in 1922 and later made enormous contributions globally … to be where humans originated, this…
BiographyDavid Hepburn Craighead
… the Rhodes scholarship. Craighead returned to South Africa and joined the South African Air Force and served … and engineering, with service in the war zone…
BiographyMduduzi Richard Shabalala
… in the township, Shabalala and his friends left South Africa in March 1984 via Lesotho to join the ANC in exile. … that Lesotho was in on good footing with…
BiographyMahomed Dawood Barmania
… in Economics. Soon after graduating he returned to South Africa to assist his brother in the management of his … high by the standards of the time for…
BiographyGladys Thomas
… Rage” was the first book of poetry to be banned in South Africa. She has written six plays, four of which were staged … Women Writers 1925-1989. University…
PlaceBaavianskloof Pass
This spectacular Kloof (which is part of the R332 route) links the Western section of the Baavianskloof with the higher Karoo hinterland, and more specifically…
BiographyRaymond Hoffenberg
… South African Defence Force (SADF) and saw action in North Africa and Italy as a lance corporal. After the war, he … He was an active supporter of the…
ArticleEskom Energy Crisis: Will there be a “just transition” to renewable energy? by Kyla Jade Mc Nulty
… caused by cyclone Idai that swept through Southern Africa and left the Mozambican city of Beira under water. The … for disadvantaged people and communities…
From Segregation to Apartheid
… of the reserve economies. Full proletarianisation in South Africa, would threaten the migrant labour system upon which … system had been abolished and we had…