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EventSouth African Springbok rugby tour in UK is disrupted by anti-apartheid demonstration.
The South African Springbok rugby tour in the United Kingdom (UK) was disrupted by an anti-Apartheid demonstration. The team was made up entirely of Afrikaners…
Address delivered by Nelson Mandela, Deputy President of the African National Congress to the graduation ceremony at MEDUNSA 23 March 1991
… to hold the view that we are already in the new South Africa. Changes are said to be so irreversible and … are black. We, in the ANC, believe that a…
Extract of an address given to the Transvaal United African Teachers Association by CF Beyers Naude during May, 1997
… ranging influence of christianity in the history of South Africa and christianity in South Africa. …
BiographyDavid Rabkin
… David Rabkin was born in South Africa, but emigrated to Britain with his family. He holds a …
BiographyMoses Mbheki Mncane Mabhida
… who had died the previous year. In his travels across Africa, Mabhida came into contact with Frelimo leader Samora … one day it would be transferred to the…
ArchiveOpening address at the 59th Annual Congress of the National Union of South African Students, University of Cape Town, 1981.
… of students. Discusses political events in South Africa, in particular, the emergence of a Broad Democratic …
EventGeneral Christiaan de Wet attacks Rooiwal railway station during the South African War
During the South African War 1899-1902, General Christiaan de Wet attacked Rooiwal railway station at Koppies, Northern Free State. At this point he was the…
BiographySparrow Mkonto
… his life in fighting for a free and democratic South Africa. …
BiographyPetros Sipho Sibusiso Mkhize (Mkize)
… Act, limiting African land ownership to just 7% of South Africa's territory and creating the conditions that would … of African workers who formed the…
BiographyJohn James Issel
… the Western Cape. On 24 April 2007, the President of South Africa Thabo Mbeki conferred the Companion of the Order of … 2011] |Anon, (2006), History of…
Address of the Deputy President of the African National Congress, Nelson Mandela, to the Parliament of Canada Ottawa, 18 June 1990
… Like young people everywhere, as we grew up in South Africa, we embarked on an exciting voyage to discover the … have suffered so much, is indeed simple. It…
BiographyMary Fitzgerald
… Fitzgerald was born in Ireland in 1882, and came to South Africa as a typist for the British Army. She worked in the …
BiographyGarth Erasmus
… art at a high school. Also see Garth Erasmus at South Africa Art Initiative …
BiographyAndrew Clement Verster
… University. He taught at Fine Art institutions in South Africa for a number of years before becoming a full-time …
BiographyRosalie van der Gucht
… Van der Gucht moved to South Africa in 1939 and took up a position at the Grahamstown …
BiographyGaus Shikomba
… and subsequently Swapo in 1960. He joined the South West Africa Liberation Army (Swala) in 1966 and received military …
BiographyMary Susan Malahlela-Xakana
… first Black woman to register as a medical doctor in South Africa in 1947, after becoming the first recipient of the … first Black woman to register as a…
BiographyPieter Dirk-Uys
… whom he describes as ‘the most famous white woman in South Africa’, and about whom he has written a biography. Uys, …
EventSenzo Mfundo Vilakazi, the South African hip hop artist and lyricist is born
Senzo Mfundo Vilakazi, stage name Kwesta was born in Katlehong, Gauteng on 11 February 1997.[i] Kwesta debut studio album was “Special ReKwest”, which was…
Message by Oliver Tambo of the National Executive Committee of the African National Congress on the 71st anniversary of ANC, 08 January 1983
… to the apartheid system and stand for a democratic South Africa, should unite in action and act in unity, thereby to … our confidence that they, the army of…
EventSouth African War: Thousands of Black men and women forced to walk home
With the outbreak of the Second Anglo-Boer War (or South African War) imminent, thousands of Black men and women were left stranded in Johannesburg. The mines…
Document 97 - “Advisory Board Elections: Communist Patty calls on Location Residents to support All-African Convention for Better Conditions”, South African worker. 26 September 1936
EventThe Cape Town Gazette and African Advertiser, a bilingual newspaper and the first to publish news and advertisements, is published for the first time.
… Advertiser was the first newspaper to be published in Africa. It was started by two slave dealers, Alexander Walker … as the paper that paved the way for the…
Nicholaas Frederic de Waal
… travelled to Europe and America before settling in South Africa in 1880. He met JH Hofmeyr and formed a friendship …
BiographySaul Msane
… League (a precursor of the Communist Party of South Africa), sometimes even acting as speaker, but in essence he …
Jafta Kgalabi Masemola
… for the ideals of a free, just and democratic South Africa. * Some sources give Masemola’s date of birth as …