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BiographySuzanne ‘Zan’ Louw
… group exhibitions including About Time: Images of South Africa (Towards a Peoples Culture Festival), Hiddingh Hall …
BiographyHonorine Margaret Withers
… at the RCA and exhibited in London before coming to South Africa in 1910. A tireless traveller, she lived in Australia …
Statement by Oliver Tambo of acceptance of the Ho Chi Minh award bestowed on the African National Congress by the World Peace Council, 15 December 1986, Luanda
… most serious challenge to the ANC and the people of South Africa to relentlessly pursue their struggle for the … forces inspired and encouraged the oppressed…
Address by President Nelson Mandela to the South African Chamber of Business Banquet Johannesburg, 30 August 1994
… will. We can and must help each other. If we don't, South Africa will not succeed. The Government visualises the …
EventDr Max Theiler, first South African to receive the Nobel Prize, is born in Pretoria
Dr Max Theiler was born on 30 January 1899 in Pretoria. He studied medicine at the University of Cape Town Medical School from 1916 to 1918. He graduated at…
Statement Issued by Joint Meeting of African and Indian Leaders for Closer Co-operation, February 6, 1949
This historic joint meeting of the representatives of the national organisations of the African and Indian people, representing the Executives of the African…
EventEdgar D. Ngoyi, South African ANC leader who spent seventeen years on Robben Island, is born.
Edgar Dumile Ngoyi was born on 26 December 1926 in the Eastern Cape. Ngoyi became politically active in the African National Congress (ANC) as a member of the…
BiographyEllen Elmendorp
… and is a freelance documentary photographer based in South Africa.She has lived in Poland, Spain, Argentina, Finland, … projects in rural areas and townships…
BiographyKgalabi Jafta Masemola
… PAC prisoners accepted.As part of a move to improve South Africa international image,however,Masemola was released … list of political prisoners and banned…
BiographyAudrey Coleman
… Kennedy and the Ambassador to the United States in South Africa to get her permission to attend her son’s wedding in … Community and Conscience: The Jews in…
EventSouth African Students Movement leaders meet to plan protest action against the implementation of Afrikaans
The Naledi High School branch of the South African Students Movement (SASM) held a meeting, which was attended by representatives of all Soweto high schools,…
EventPolicewomen are enlisted as full members of South African Police Force for the first time.
… et al. (eds)(1970). Standard Encyclopaedia of Southern Africa, Cape Town: NASOU, v. 8, p. 1972.) …
Event11 die when the South African Defence Force (SADF) opens fire on negotiators in Sebokeng
The unbanning of the South African liberation movements on 2 February 1990 was an important milestone, which signalled a shift from being covert underground…
BiographyGlynn Griffiths
… mining town of Jagersfontein in the Free State in South Africa,though he was a British citizen by birth through his … photographing the monks of Mount Athos…
Event“Maberete” strike ends more than a decade of labour broking at the South African Post Office
On 4 April 2012 casual workers employed through labour brokers reached an agreement with management at the South African Post Office (SAPO) to be employed…
ArchiveMeeting between a South African delegation led by the Minister of Foreign Affairs, the Honourable R F Botha and a United States delegation led by Dr C Crocker, Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs: Pretoria, 16 November 1984
Minutes of a meeting between a South African delegation and a United States delegation to discuss the situation in Mozambique and Angola
BiographyStephen Joel Chifunyise
… radio and television in Zambia, Zimbabwe, Sweden, South Africa, Malawi, India and the United Kingdom (UK). Several of … Chifunyise. [v] The UNESCO Regional…
Political report by Oliver Tambo on the National Executive Committee to the National Consultative Conference of the African National Congress, 17 June 1985, Kabwe, Zambia
… a turning point in the history of all the people of South Africa. Our Conference itself will be remembered by our … fighters from Czechoslovakia who fled to…
BiographyDavid Wilcox Bopape
… his politics, Bopape joined the Communist Party of South Africa ( CPSA ) in 1940 under General Secretary Moses …
Thoko Phillip Mamogobo
… Sekhukhune region during the first free elections in South Africa. In 2000 Thoko Phillip Mamagobo became the first …
BiographyMarcus Solomon
… became the African People’s Democratic Union of Southern Africa (APDUSA) – to include Namibia (then South West Africa). Although he soon became critical of…
ArchiveDiscussion towards the drafting of a document on a strategy on the South African struggle for the OAU
Guidelines to the National Executive Committee for the drafting of a document on the South African Struggle for the Organisation of African Unity.
BiographySylvester Stein
… life under apartheid. In the late 1950s, Stein left South Africa, and settled in London, where he launched The London …
BiographyTheophilus Dymond Field
… 1917 and 1918, he was on active service in both South West Africa/ Namibia and the main theatre of the War in Europe. …
BiographyFrank Wiles
… Prime Ministers of Southern Rhodesia (Zimbabwe) and South Africa. Since he limited himself to portrait work he did not …
BiographySheila Cussons
… of stories and poems. In 1983, Cussons returned to South Africa after 25 years in Spain where she was living in …
BiographyZainab Ebrahim Asvat
… years she met Yusuf Dadoo , after he returned to South Africa from medical stuidies in Edinburgh and was also …
BiographyDr Essop Essak Jassat
… representative at the Convention for a Democratic South Africa (CODESA) negotiations. In 1994 he was elected as a …
Letter delivered to the Secretary of State, Dr. H. Kissinger, from the South African Council of Churches
Letter, published as an article in a journal, from South African Council of Churches to US Secretary of State Dr. Henry Kissinger to request him to remember…
ArchiveLetter delivered to the Secretary of State, Dr. H. Kissinger, from the South African Council of Churches
Letter, published as an article in a journal, from South African Council of Churches to US Secretary of State Dr. Henry Kissinger to request him to remember…