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Lecture by the President of the ANC, President Jacob Zuma, on the occasion of celebrating the life and times of the tenth President of the ANC President Nelson Mandela, 10 July 2012, Limpopo
… and friends, Before going through some highlights in the life of this accomplished revolutionary, allow me first to … with these timeless words; "The time…
BiographyKippie Jeremiah Moeketsi
… instruments, thus, influencing his musical taste later in life. Kippie's first musical instrument was the clarinet … audience. This, and other personal…
BiographyDavid Bruce
… clerk, served in the British air force in World War II. His mother was a pre-war refugee from Nazi Germany. In …
BiographyManiben Sita
… contracting covid-19 and spending a week at the Steve Biko Academic Hospital in Pretoria. She was 94 years old. …
BiographyFrank Alexander Landman
… and a washerwoman, Lena Landman nee Fortune. In later life Frank recalled that the family were so ashamed of their … for TLSA to align with the politics [i]…
BiographyChristopher “Dali” Daluxolo Mpofu
… of one of the political activists he admired, Steve Biko , the founder of the national Black Consciousness … home from her workplace and was a couple of days…
BiographyBartolomeu Dias
… the wind system for those who sailed after him. King João II of Portugal financed Dias’s expedition. Dias took part in … around Africa in search of India…
BiographyDavid Lurie
… full time in 1995 following the publication of his book "Life in the Liberated Zone" (Corner house Books, UK). His … London with Omar Badsha & David…
BiographyThys Dullaart
… situation, resulting in a delicate work in progress on the life of pensioners in old age homes. He is Johannesburg … Star Portraits", Johannesburg 1997. …
BiographyFrederik Bester Laubscher
… stage. Moving to the Ecole de Paris, France changed his life. He fell in love with a young French artist, Claude … for 25 years. In 2009, his oil painting …
ArchiveEdward Webster: South African intellectual, teacher, activist, a man of great energy and integrity, and the life and soul of any party
… activist, a man of great energy and integrity, and the life and soul of any party , The Conversation, 8 March 2024 … activist, a man of great energy and…
ArchiveSA Air Force operation, Pretoria - a bleak return to life and order, Rand Daily Mail, 23 May 1983
… SA Air Force operation, Pretoria - a bleak return to life and order, Rand Daily Mail, 23 May 1983 …
BiographyColin Wells Eglin
… Government conferred the Order of the Baobab, Category II (Silver) on Eglin for serving the country with excellence …
BiographyJoe Slovo
… volunteered for the South African forces during World War II and was subsequently active in the Springbok Legion , a …
BiographyNorman Stewart Middleton
… up to join the army. He was a soldier during World War II in North Africa and Italy and was wounded by shrapnel in …
BiographySimon Moroke Lekgetho
… He painted portraits, still-lifes, landscapes and wild-life as well as Bushman rock-painting inspired compositions. … objects silently predict what is to…
BiographyEugene Marais
… in Transvaal politics. He withdrew to a lonely life on a Waterberg farm, north of Pretoria and created some … which was posthumously published after he had…
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BiographyB J Vorster [John Vorster]
… He was a passionate Afrikaner Nationalist who early in his life became a member of the Nationalist Party as well as of … it had been. In March 1973 the…
BiographyAlbertina Nontsikelelo Sisulu
… the African National Congress (ANC), Walter Sisulu . Early Life In September 1918 the Spanish Flu , a strain of the … maintained a policy of non-racialism…
ArticleConclusion: Black Consciousness Movement
… It can be concluded that the death of Biko left a vacuum similar to the one created by the banning … Contrary to expectation in White circles that the death…
BiographySolomon Kalushi Mahlangu
… Mendi for Bravery in Gold for bravery and sacrificing his life for freedom and democracy in South Africa” posthumously … sources state he was born in…
BiographyGerard Bhengu
… for Dr Max Kohler as documentation of rural tribal life in Centecow. Kohler used some of these drawings to … From 1940 to 1949 he painted scenes of everyday…
BiographyTim Bruwer
… lives of others, regardless of their colour or station in life. I was conscripted to undergo military training at the … life and death of the Black South…
BiographyAlan Robert Lipman
… he served in the South African Air Force during World War II, Lipman studied Architecture at the University of …
BiographyGertrud Theiler
… forms of nature she also served on the Council of the Wild Life Protection and Conservation Society of South Africa for … the editorial committee for their…
BiographyHarry Heinz Schwarz
… Returning to South Africa after the end of World War II, he studied law at the University of Witwatersrand (Wits) … people in South Africa. Its members…
BiographyWilliam “Bloke” Modisane
… means. Modisane wrote that: My mother accepted her life, and I suppose, so did the other shebeen queens; they chose this life and accommodated the hazards…
Move from Condemnation to Confrontation of Apartheid and Colonialism - Statement in Committee II of the International Conference of Experts for the Support of Victims of Colonialism and Apartheid in Southern Africa, Oslo by O. R. Tambo, 11 April 1973
… of Apartheid and Colonialism - Statement in Committee II of the International Conference of Experts for the Support …
BiographySamuel Makoanyane
… born in 1909, Parys, Orange Free State. For most of his life Makoanyane lived in the village of Koalabata, in the … aid of book illustrations. He later began…
BiographyErnest Cole
… to expose to the world the stark realities of life under the apartheid regime. In 1968, Cole was banned … on Saturday 17 December 1990. A documentary about…