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BiographyMary Goitsemang Ranta
Ranta was born in 1922 and grew up in the Pretoria area. After leaving school, she worked as a ‘tea girl’ at the Pretoria mint, and later took employment as a…
EventA UN report estimates the number of people who have HIV/AIDS in Africa at 50,000
… in patients with weakened immune systems. Later in the 1980s, a blood sample taken in the Democratic Republic of …
A Place of Freedom
… and humiliated at any moment. In the 1960s through to the 1980s through states of emergencies and repression Phoenix …
ArticleJohannesburg the Segregated city
… redevelopments only began to take place during the late 1980s. A third peripheral segment was the site of a small … or ‘Fietas’, prior to the demolition of…
ArticlePopular resistance and police brutality in democratic South Africa
… current wave of protests stretches back to the 1970s and 1980s, the rate of protests rose dramatically and most of the … the government’s pass laws , 1976…
BiographyGeorge Hallett
George Hallett was born in 1942 District Six, Cape Town. He then moved to Hout Bay, Cape Town to live with his grandparents. Thereafter he moved to live in…
BiographyPeter Becker
Peter Loubser Were Becker was born in Rivonia South Africa the youngest of the three sons of Harold Paley Becker and his wife, Anna Petronella Louw. Becker's…
BiographyRichard Granville Baloyi
Richard Granville Baloyi was born on 1897 and lived in Alexandra north of Johannesburg in 1922. His first job was that of a taxi driver but in 1925 he became a…
BiographyZweledinga Pallo Jordan
Pallo Zweledinga Jordan was born on 22 May 1942 in B Location, Kroonstad, in the Orange Free State. His father, Dr Archibald Campbell Jordan, was an African…