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BiographyRuth Mompati
… an International Day of Solidarity with Women in South Africa. In 1994, she was elected a member of parliament in … (2006) Life and soul: portraits of women…
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…
Colonial history of Polokwane
… In 1852 Potgieter was a delegate at the Sand River Convention, where the Transvaal was granted independence as … and State, it was a High Dutch spoken…
BiographyBernard Mafiyeka
… A National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa shop steward. Mafiyeka was gunned down by one of a …
EventKing Sekhukhune is defeated by the British in war
… 1 in 1881, he was freed under article 23 of the Pretoria Convention signed between Britain and the Boers, and he was …
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…
Chris Hani Memorial Lecture delivered by President Jacob Zuma, 26 April 2013, Queenstown
… abhor social inequality in later years. Despite all these difficult circumstances under which he grew up, his … in our country. His opening statement to the…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
BiographyTsepo Tiisetso Letlaka
… (PAC) in exile but in the 1970s returned to South Africa. Convicted and given a suspended sentence with other … In 1975 he accepted an invitation to return…
BiographyStanislaus Skumbuzo Mzilankatha Sangweni
… would take him in, since his he couldn’t return to South Africa. After 30 years as an exile living in Holland, … Director of the United Nations Economic…
BiographyMark Shinners
… the Pretoria branch of the African Students Union of South Africa (ASUSA). The aim of ASUSA was to bring African … played a pivotal role in the talks that…
BiographyTiego Moseneke
… passion for law. Moseneke attended the University of South Africa (UNISA) after being released from prison in 1986, … added. Moseneke was the founding…
BiographyNancy Graham Dick
… Nancy Dick was born in Durban , South Africa and was brought up in Cape Town . She was one of four … in the sugar cane industry. Olive Schreiner , one of…
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…
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…
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…
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…
ArticleHIV/Aids Origins
… not yet have a name, but it quickly became obvious that all the men were suffering from a common syndrome. The … of HIV infection probably occurred around…
Work and education
… inherited from the apartheid system. In January 1995, all government-run primary and secondary schools were … had begun. Eleven years into the new democratic…