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BiographyLouis Luyt
… Louis Luyt was born on 18 June 1932, and grew up in modest circumstances in the … Adri and they had four children. Louis Luyt passed away on 1 February 2013…
BiographyClements Kadalie
… most propagandistic part, that of the secretary general. On 20 November 1924, Kadalie was arrested and issued with a … the ICU. He later formed an…
BiographyIsmail "Tatamkhulu Afrika" Joubert
… Mohamed Faud Nasif to an Arab father and a Turkish mother on 7 December 1920. His parents relocated to South Africa in … an Islamic centre in Guguletu and to…
BiographyKenneth Hlaku Rachidi
… Kenneth Hlaku Rachidi was born on 11 April 1944 at Ga-Nchabeleng in Sekhukhuneland, Northern … he held until the 1977 banning of the organisation. On 27 June…
BiographyBhekumuzi Hyacinth Mseleku
… to Mseleku being signed by the label Verve . He would go on to produce five more albums before his death. One of these … in his home country also led to…
ArchiveWebinar Programme: Socialism, Culture and Networks. Convenor: Omar Badsha
… realism, Brecht, and “worker culture”. Political debates on the National Question played out in South African … had two of the historic figures that appeared…
BiographyRuth Elizabeth Arndt
… In South Africa, Arndt set about informing the government on the importance of pre-school education. She served as …
BiographyRichard Rive
… Richard Rive was born on 1 March 1931 in Cape Town, and grew up in District Six, …
BiographyFrancis William Reitz
… Orange Free State in 1889. He was a journalist who worked on the Cape Argus . He wrote topical and satirical poems in …
BiographyAnele Mdizeni
… the Eastern Cape. He started working for Lonmin in 2005. On 16 August 2012 he was killed at scene 2 after being shot …
BiographyJohn Moshoeu
… John “Shoes” Moshoeu was born on 18 December 1965 in Diepkloof, Soweto, Transvaal (now …
The first martyrs of Satyagraha by E. S. Reddy
… to India and pressure was exerted by European creditors on Indian merchants to force them into insolvency. At the … Edgecombe, on November 27, 1913. Those…
Archive2000 - President Mbeki, State of the Nation Address, 4 February 2000
… degradation were the only things that were certain in the lives of millions of our people, we have created the … of a non-racial society, as well as impact…
ArchiveWomen and the Satyagraha Campaign
… of Satyagrahis. In the two or three years that they lived on the farm, the families developed strong bonds and a determined spirit of dedication to the cause…
ArchiveAppendix 2 The Political Landscape of Cape Town, by Dr Z. Pallo Jordan
… from the national parliament. Black councillors had served on the municipal council since the turn of the 20th century. … Party(NP), with its platform of…
ArticleThabo Mbeki (1942 - ) Timeline
… for victims injured after a heavy crackdown by the police. 1948 Govan Mbeki and Ma Mofokeng have their fourth child … football team are spotted by the South…
ArticleGhallywood: An Evolution of Ghana’s Film Industry
… to use local actors as it would have a greater influence on the colonies and minimize costs. However, in 1937 Notcutt … centralize its control from London. …
BiographyMathews ‘’Loop-en-val’’ Motshwarateu
… Mathews Motshwarateu was born on 2 November 1958 in Soweto. His talent for athletics …
BiographyEugene Marais
… in Transvaal politics. He withdrew to a lonely life on a Waterberg farm, north of Pretoria and created some of …
BiographyGail Johnson
… gatherings ”” including the United Nations conference on Aids ”” about his life and the government’s unwillingness …
BiographyConnie September
… was born 26 June 1959 in the Western Cape and grew up on the West Coast where her mother would send her for …
ArchiveStaffrider Vol.10 No.3 1992
… Banner, Visual Arts Group. Review: The Art of Poise: Nine Lives by T. Afrika, Dirk Klopper …
Working Life - Factories, Township and Popular Culture 1886 - 1940 - New Workers, New Unions
… power. (For example, in 1926 white women were starting on two-rand a week, which was the same wage as black men in … unregistered unions in the sweet…
ArchiveRootedness and Openness in The Life and Works of Véronique Tadjo (b. 1955) by Tim Steckler
… with a simple phrase, “Rootedness and openness.” She went on to explain that this means being rooted in a home culture, … illustrated children’s books. Her…
BiographyGordon Mbatha
… form to decorate with figures and animals. His work shown on the 1970 exhibition entitled ELC Art and Craft Centre, …
BiographyNelson Mukhuba
… and ironical. For example, his Sammy Davis Junior placed on a radio achieved critical acclaim after the Tributaries …
BiographyLucky Philip Dube
… Lucky Dube was born on a small farm near Ermelo in the eastern Transvaal (now …
BiographyLawrence Nkosi
… place. In 1956, 156 Congress leaders were arrested and put on trial for high treason. The accused faced charges which … • Information from an exhibition on…
BiographyDr. Pholile Mpofu
… working at the Chris-Hani Baragwanath Hospital, and went on to become the first black woman to qualify as a …
BiographyPhilemon Mathole
… secretary of the Transvaal ANC in 1955, he also served on the national executive committee in the mid-1950s and was … of 1952. Elected secretary of the…