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Diana (Di) Bishop
… Council for the Progressive Federal Party . She was asked by the Cape administrator to leave her position in the Black …
BiographyThembekile Enoch kaTshunungwa
… secretary and was formally elected to that office in 1955. By this time he was a Queenstown businessman. Co-opted onto …
PlacePhiphidi Falls, Limpopo Province
… today, including initiation rites for their adolescents, rich artistic traditions, and custodial responsibility for … of laws and rituals, some of which are…
BiographyMiriam Makeba
… the movie. The film was a documentary on South Africa made by an American film director, Lionel Togosin.Makeba was soon … on her Farewell Tour and appeared…
Address of the President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki, at the High Diamond Council, Antwerp, Belgium: 15th November 2004
… and conflict, corruption and unhealthy interference by those from the rest of the world interested in laying … that diamonds are an important part of Africa…
ArchiveEstablishing the Constitutional Assembly
… produced through extensive public involvement facilitated by the first democratic parliament and led by Cyril Ramaphosa. Here, we look at the nitty-gritty of…
PlaceOlifants River, Limpopo
… The rich natural Heritage of the Lowveld includes the …
PlaceLesotho
… fine-grained igneous rock and are shallow but rich.)The soils of the Lowlands derive mainly from the … station at Morija . They were followed in October 1834…
BiographyMohamed Ismail Dinat
… for Blacks in the gallery were all taken, including many by the police. Shortly after the four months spent in … His gravesite is at Newclare Cemetery. Dinat…
BiographyAthol Edwin Thorne
… the initial weeks in Roeland Street jail. As described by Bernard Gosschalk , in a letter to Colette Thorne “we 14 … to trial without delay, or be released…
BiographyHendrik Jacobus (Kobie) Coetsee
… of Justice on 7 October 1980. He changed the legal system by introducing the small claims court and pioneering the … of Govan Mbeki after which he was…
BiographyFholisani Sydney Mufamadi
… he was refused re-admission and was briefly prevented by the apartheid state from completing his schooling. He … the removal of Thabo Mbeki as President …
BiographyPrince Senzangakhona James Mahlangu
… problems with the King. When his father was approached by the Pretoria government to discuss the establishment of … before the secret ballot voting and lost…
BiographySolomon Tshekisho Plaatje
… interests as a representative of the ANC. Influenced by his experiences in the United States, he became involved … In 1972 his Mafeking diary, discovered in…
BiographyZainab Ebrahim Asvat
… from medical stuidies in Edinburgh and was also inspired by him to became a doctor. At the time she was studying … Smuts, ”had provided the stimulus for…
BiographyIsaac ‘Ike’ Osler Horvitch
… he was on bail, the massacre of 69 Black people shot down by the police at Sharpeville in 1960 brought world … during their lunchtime breaks, and was…
PlaceGansbaai, Overberg
… (Ga-leorhinus galeus) , which had before been regarded by local fishermen as a nuisance, was turned into a lucrative … of income! This is because the liver…
January 8th Statements -Statement of the National Executive Committee on the occasion of the 99th Anniversary of the ANC - 8 January 2011
… Fifty Years of the receiving of the Nobel Peace Prize by ANC President-General Chief Albert Luthuli. Thirty-Five … SOCIETY The ANC pursues the NDR, which as…
BiographyPercy Ndithembile Konqobe
… began creating works of art in the early 1970s, encouraged by the sculptor Sydney Khumalo . Konqobe credited Khumalo …
BiographyHenry Bathurst
… his father as Earl in August 1794. Perhaps influenced by his friendship with William Pitt, Prime Minister of Great …
BiographyHyman Meir Basner
… In 1937 he campaigned as a CPSA Act but he was defeated by the conservative Rheinalt Jones .He often defended …
BiographyChief Malebogo
… not wanting to be imprisoned, he twice attempted suicide by jumping into a fire, but each time he was saved. A council …
BiographyNathaniel Impey Honono
… conference in Cape Town in June 1952, which was attended by 1 200 teachers from all over the Cape Province. The …
BiographyHarriette Emily Colenso
… of educated Africans in Natal. In 1899 she was consulted by Martin Lutuli, Saul Msane, and J. T. Gumede at a time …
BiographyLuli Callinicos
… articles for Fighting Talk , a journal which was edited by Ruth First . During the 1960s, Callinicos taught English … Biographical contribution by Gail…
BiographyBafana Cyril Dlamini
… 2011 aged 75 after a long illness and is survived by his wife, one son, three daughters, as well as two sisters …
BiographyMargaret Singana
… this time Margaret also starred in Sponono, a production by Alan Paton , which showed in New York. The recordings that …
BiographyFlorence Louise Zerffi
… exhibits reveal a great versatility of interests united by a very subtle sense of colour values. In her art …
BiographyRobert Moffat
… who was also a missionary and later imperial agent used by Cecil John Rhodes to negotiate what became known as the … of Rhodesia . London: Eyre Methuen…